Happy Week Before Christmas!

Time flies too fast! But finally for the first time this month it felt like Christmas haha. So, happy week before Christmas! 

So update on our dear Unity....... on mission I have learned to just accept what comes and this was another example. We were all prepped and ready to help her be baptized and then she just left to the village. We go to see her family and they all said her family had called her to the village... so yeah we didn’t get to see her all week. The mom left with her so there isn’t a lot of communication as to when she will come home! Sorry if I got anyone’s hopes up but makes sure you know that it will work out. That’s another thing I’ve learned. I can’t get down or sad because in the end, I know it will be okay she will come back! Faith is the first principal of the gospel and a very important one in missionary work too. 

Fun experience of the week was eating bugs for my first time! Because its been raining, these special bugs they come out of the ground and the kids they catch them. So while we were waiting for an appointment at the Mitambo’s house (its Peace’s family), Peace cooked for us some nice bugs. We meet and teach a lot of people at their house. I forgot what the bugs are called but they were not that bad! Crunchy and nice! The Malawian eat them as snacks for the rain time. They cook them with salt and a little water. 

Let me share a little about why i love Malawians so much. 

1. They have nothing but they give everything.

2. They love to listen to the message.

3. They are the humblest people I have ever met. 

1. This week Sister Joanna just decided randomly to give me this nice nice skirt. It has little elephants on it she said that, "White people like these things." haha Joanna is the best she loves to give missionaries things and I am grateful for her. 

2. We found so many people this week. People are ready to hear our message. Now we just have to wait and see if they will ACT upon it! But I seriously love it so much and we met some real fun ones this week too. We went in to teach these two boys that were interested and when we sit down we realized they spoke NO English and could not read. When I would say something- I guess with my American accent, which I though was gone haha - the one boy would say "WAHHHATT?" I would repeat what I said and he still didn’t get anything. We would have our member talk haha.  But they wanted to learn SO badly, so in our broken Chichewa we taught them some small things and invited them to church. I love the desire to learn. 

It truly humbles me and makes me feel so grateful for the gospel I know. 

3. We are teaching this single dad named Hillary. He just showed up to church without being invited because he said he needed a church close to his house, so its perfect!  But since then he has come every week and enjoys it every time. He knows A LOT but when we teach him he listens and asks very inspired questions. He is so humble despite us being young sisters and not knowing as much as him, he is still learning and being taught, Humility is a Malawian trait I truly love. 

I hope you all have a great week before Christmas and even though this Christmas is going to be a lot different than it is back home, just like last year, I’m grateful for the time I still have to spend here in wonderful Malawi. 

Love you all. Thanks for the support. 

with lots and lots of love, 

Sister Moulton