Bring It on!

Hey family and friends!  

So this week we were called by President Kupu and  told that Sister Kivlau and I have been reassigned and will now cover both the Lusaka and Woodlands zone as STLs (Sister Training Leader). That means we will be exchanging with 4 different companionships during the next transfer and some of the sisters live over 30 min away. Being an STL too means that the sisters come to you when there are problems in the companionship, when they have questions, when they are discouraged and also it’s our job to train them and help them become better missionaries. We are excited for the new assignment but we are learning it’s a lot of work! Sister Kupu, our mission president’s wife, was explaining to us more direction about how be more effective as Sister Training Leaders. She told us how she knows we will be able to do it cause we both have creative skills and we work well together. We can do it! BRING IT ON! It’s so true though. Sister Kivlau and I have lived together our whole mission and so we have really learned how to work together and despite our differences we have grown to love and help each other so much. So yes, there will be more driving and more planning and less time in our area as we help these other sisters BUT I know that Heavenly Father has assigned it this way for a reason and I’m grateful for the opportunity to serve. 

Also this week KELVIN FINALLY GOT BAPTIZED!!!! Okay but how he got there is crazy! This poor guy haha! So earlier this week his boss gave him a promotion. He is now in charge of the weekend shifts. He doesn’t have to work them every time but he has to make sure people are not skipping for no reason cause I guess its a common problem. Well, you see, he was scheduled to work on Sunday and he tried asking his boss for it off and she basically said no... and so we left the decision up to Kelvin what he would do and he told us he was willing to miss work for it. So Sunday morning came and he tells us there is something holding him back and he has to report for work but he thinks he can still make it but wants us to stop by his work before we go. The baptism was going to start at ten hours, our bishop suggested we do it before church so that they could get confirmed that day. Oh yes!  I forgot to mention... Kelvin’s friend, another one of our investigators, was also getting baptized that day his name is Lloyd. Okay but Lloyd was fine and was gonna make it there. So we get all ready to go to church and then we go to Kelvin’s work on the way and he tells us that his supervisor is making him stay... then while we are standing there talking to him he says, “Wait I have an idea!” AND THEN HE BRINGS THE SUPERVISOR (this young adult) OVER TO OUR CAR AND WE HAVE TO TALK TO HIM. So we tell him how important this day is and how Kelvin has been preparing for this day for a long time and that all he needs to miss is two hours of work to get baptized and confirmed and then he can come back. And the supervisor is still not convinced. So it’s quiet for a good minute and then I ask, "Have you been baptized? What was that day like for you?" He tells us that it was awesome. So we say, "Alex (his name) we want this day to be awesome for Kelvin too so will you please allow him to leave for two hours and then we will bring him back?" And he agrees.....so Kelvin starts to prepare and then meets us at the church. Meanwhile we have to call Lloyd to grab Kelvin a towel and a change of clothes so that Kelvin doesn’t have to go home! Once everyone arrived at the church, the baptism started! It was such a nice service. Kivalu and I even sang a musical number and we had many members there to support. Bishop baptized Kelvin and our ward mission leader Brother Jean Jaque baptized Lloyd. It was so cold, the water, but they were smiling so wide as soon as they came up. It was the best. 

I haven’t really talked much about Lloyd. He is Kelvin’s friend, and we have been teaching him for a while and he is honestly one of my favorite people EVER to teach. He asks the best questions and loves the Book of Mormon and when he comes to church he talks to EVERYONE! He will just go up and start being friends with them and he even helps our other investigators. 

Okay but back to the Sunday so after the baptism it was time for church. Bishop confirmed Kelvin and gave him such a powerful blessing that he would be able to be an example to his family and one day bring them to the truth and even one day serve a mission and marry in the temple to a worthy sister. Lloyd was confirmed by another member of the bishopric and he was blessed with strength to overcome temptation and one day serve a mission and get married in the temple too! They were some of the most powerful blessings I have heard and I hope that these two brothers can live up to them. 

Okay but after the confirmation Kelvin and Lloyd got to bear their testimonies. Ah man! That was the greatest feeling ever! I have seen these two grow so much and learn so much and to see them stand up there and bear witness of it was the best. Right after the testimonies we took Kelvin back to work. Because he was a member now we can drive him in our car and so we took another member sister in the ward (that’s also the rule) and drove him back to work and then went back to Sacrament Meeting. It was crazy cause we barely got him back in time, but now we can say both Kelvin and Lloyd are baptized! FINALLY! 

Also this week there was a huge tender mercy. So on Friday we were working with a member. And things weren’t going so good because all our appointments fell through and our back up was finding and so my companion feels we should go to this one part of what we think is our area and so we go and we are talking to this guy and trying to understand him because he doesn’t speak English and we are about to just keep going and try to talk to people when all of the sudden two dudes popped up that Kivalu knew back in our area. They had never been taught before and they said they wanted to learn. We said,  “Well where do you stay?” and they said, "RIGHT THERE!" Literally two houses down, so guess what? We finally got to teach someone. Two people in fact. I know Heavenly Father put those two there at the right moment just when we were getting discouraged and wanting to give up he showed once again he is always there.

I am so grateful for mission. There are hard times. Good times. Fun times. Boring times but at the end of the day it will be the best. Kivalu and I were saying yesterday we aren’t going to remember the number of people we had on date or the number of people we found in week two of transfer 8. Those are just numbers we report to our president but we will remember the baptisms and the people we came to love and the spiritual moments that seem to happen everyday. 

I hope you all have a good week! Shout out to my best and favorite brother who leaves on mission this week to El Salvador! Good luck!!!!

with lots and lots of love ,

Sister Moulton 

ps. Kelvin gave us Lungu T-shirts (He is the president of Zambia and we love collecting stuff with him on it cause we feel Zambian haha)