Another good week in Lilongwe! Christmas is coming fast!
This week once again I realized I just love this place more and more. We did a lot of finding and many many times I truly saw how we were led to people that were ready to hear our message.
I want to share one experience we had though that really taught me how precious and special baptism truly is. So we have been teaching these two girls named Unity and Prisca. When I got to the area everyone thought they were members cause they had been coming to church for so long, but we found out they were not and turns out no one had even taught them in two years! I don’t get it haha but anyways we have been teaching them and the one girl, Unity, is so good. She is a 15-year-old going to high school. She just always loves learning and loves the church so much and every time we go the sister and the mom always say they are busy but her, she is always free. They were going to be baptized the week before Christmas, but this week we went to keep teaching them and Unity told us her mom is trying to find her a boarding school in a village where there is no church. So she will be leaving on the exact day she was supposed to get baptized! We asked her then what day she would want to be baptized? We told her she could wait until when she finished school next year but when I said that my heart hurt a bit, and I knew it would make her sad. Then her face showed it. The poor girl, she looked so sad. She was so excited that day we invited her before and you can tell she has been looking forward to it and even after going to church for that long like its her church and now she was gonna have to wait even longer. And she started to tear up. We sat there with her and my comps said, "You want to be baptized next week before you go?" and she said yes. In between tears that she was trying to hide. Baptism is truly a special thing and this girl knows that. She will come back after school closes for breaks and things. So this week our plan is to finish teaching her and help her but we will see if it will work. I know by faith it will be ok. I am grateful for the knowledge I’ve had my WHOLE life of the restored gospel, AND of the opportunity I had to be baptized when I was a little 8 year old.
Let me also include some pics of my fav kids lately. This little boy. . . he is the nephew to one of the members and she brings him on Saturday during cleaning and he is always so much fun. We have become good friends and his laugh is the cutest thing ever.
And the three little girls. . . the one on the left is Favor and the one on the right is Miracle, the one in the middle just popped in, but I saw them sitting there after we were finished with a lesson and I had to take a pic. I love how their faces are all so different too. Also note the Christmas stickers they have on their hands! ;)
Hope everyone has a good week!
with lots and lots of love,
Sister Moulton
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