Unity!

Well this week the rainy season really started and we had some good times with it too. Haha! Let me say my driving skills are getting better in the rain so that’s a good thing. But the best experience was Unity’s interview before she got baptized... we went to go walk with her to the interview to make sure she was there on time but it started to POUR RAIN, like POUR, but we needed to get to the church so we pressed forward. Our small umbrella could only fit Sister George and Unity so I just used my raincoat! We walked the ten-minute walk to the church in the mud, walked though some running water, and made it! Soaking wet, but Unity was able to be interviewed and WAS SO EXCITED FOR HER BAPTISM! FINALLY! 

The next day she came two hours early to the church with all her siblings ready to be baptized. I was sad her mom and dad couldn’t come but they said they were busy. We had lots of ward members come and it was a great service. My favorite was right after she came up out of the water she was smiling so BIG! SO HAPPY! Being a missionary is the best. She told Sister George she wants to be baptized again next week! She bore a powerful testimony about how all of us need to follow Jesus Christ by being baptized and that the commandments are really from God. I am so happy for her and I pray she will continue to have that great light in her and continue to help others too. 

One of the highlights from this week as well was a lesson we had with one of our investigators. This man has been struggling with addiction to alcohol for a long time.  A serious addiction. His blood was almost completely alcohol. He had come up to us saying he was a sinner and wanted to change so we had started to teach him. To be honest I didn’t really have high expectations for what would happen with him. I set my faith to low in what could really happen.... well we have been teaching him since December and little by little he gave up alcohol and even just this past week he was down to drinking no alcohol at all.... for over a week and he came to church a completely different person. As we went and saw him this week it was truly amazing to see the change in this man. He looked and talked and acted different and was so happy too. We were so proud of him and I saw how true the gospel is. It has the power to change people and really change their life while they learn. All of these feelings of repentance filled my heart as I thought about the negative feelings and discouraging thoughts I had when I first met him and his addiction. I was filled with so much emotion and love for this man who had truly change him life for the better. We were teaching about the Book of Mormon that day. I had studied that morning to prepare for what we would teach, making sure I could answer questions and was able to really know what we were teaching. But more importantly I realized how the Book of Mormon had strengthened my faith in Jesus Christ. As we went through the lesson I saw how powerful the Book of Mormon was, and I felt the sprit so strong as I testified of its truthfulness and divinity. I looked at this man who was doing something so hard and I thought of our Savior who suffered and died for all of us and our sins. I know He lives and it is though him that repentance is possible and those truths are found in the Book of Mormon! We invited him that day to follow Jesus Christ by being baptized. He was so ready to say yes. How grateful I was that day and everyday to be a missionary. I don’t have very much time left and that filled me with even more emotions during that lesson and I teared up as I bore my testimony. I know that repentance is real and its for everyone. AND IT IS POSSIBLE! No matter how low we are we can always come back up and be on the right path again. So no matter where we are as we turn to the Savior and learn of him and his gospel we can become the people our Father in heaven would have us be. 

I hope you all have a great week. 

with lots and lots of love,

Sister Moulton 

The Only Name Given

Hello fam and friends, 

Hope all is well on that side. The work continues to move forward and things are good. 

I saw so many times this week how we were truly led by the spirit. Almost everyday there was a person we ran into on the road that we needed to see or that we had been worried about and we were able to stop and talk to them. And so many times we happened to be at the chapel at the right time to meet someone who had been looking for us. So many times were we prompted to go to a certain house when we had a fall through and it happened to be the perfect time. 

But we had a powerful experience with a lady we met this week. We met her long time ago but just this week were able to visit with her. As we started the lesson she told us that she was Muslim. Her husband is a Catholic and they have one kid and one more on the way and she is trying to decided what to do. If they should become a Catholic family or a Muslim family. So she was open to listening but honestly for me I have never taught a Muslim and I struggled thinking of what to say and what to share but as we went the words came. She ended up sharing some of her STRONG beliefs about her religion and especially about her belief in Jesus Christ as just a prophet. She has great faith in God and I was truly inspired by the testimony she shared that God is really ALWAYS there for her. It was powerful. But as she was sharing the beliefs about Jesus Christ I realized how much I am blessed to know about him as our Savior. Even this week in the Book of Mormon I read a verse in Mosiah chapter 3 verse 17, "And moreover, I say unto you, that there shall be no other name given nor any other way nor means whereby salvation can come unto the children of me, only in and though the name of Christ, the Lord Omnipotent." ONLY THOUGH JESUS CHRIST IS SALVATION POSSIBLE, and how great it is to know we have a Savior. We make a lot of mistakes in life and we face a lot of trials. I have seen that in the people I teach for sure. But we have a Savior and we have an example to follow and Jesus Christ showed us all that we will live again and that we can overcome to world. I know that Jesus Christ is the only begotten son, and our Savior and Redeemer. I know he lives and because of him everything is possible. Even though I am truly grateful or the things I learned from our friend that day, I’m grateful even more for the testimony I have of the Savior.  

Anyways not much to say this week but next week I hope I will have some good goood news! We got some big plans in the works ;-) 

Have a good week everyone! 

with lots and lots of love ,

Sister Moulton 

Being Sincere Here

Hello! 

What a week we had. Finally got to spend more time in our area!

On Wednesday we went on exchanges so it was Sister Matangi and I together. We had some powerful lessons that day with some of my fav people that we teach. There was this one young man named Luckson. Super smart guy. We have been teaching him for not very long but he has really become interested and we taught him that day about the Book of Mormon and the Restoration and he told us how he had been praying and he knew that everything we were sharing was true. He was so sure and had received an answer so fast it seemed. But he couldn’t deny he knew it, and he knew that it was really God answering his prayers. However, when Sister Matangi invited him to follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized he said he still wanted to go to his church. But he knows it is true with all his heart he told us that. But you see agency is real and so we helped him know why we invited him, and helped him know that being baptized is a way he can act on his faith. But despite that, no. The next time we went back I was with Sister George and again he had read the Book of Mormon and had a solid testimony that it was true but he still was scared to act by even just coming to church. We told him to pray to know if he should come to church that Sunday. As Sunday came we didn’t have that many people come, but towards the end guess who showed up? LUCKSON! After we went and asked him if he had prayed and he said, "That’s why I am here." Never in my mission have I met someone that is so readily able to receive answers to prayers. He knows without a doubt the answers to his prayers and he showed his faith by making the walk to church on Sunday. I don’t know what else will happen to our dear brother Luckson but I do know that my testimony of prayers was strengthened, and truly I learned that if we are SINCERE in our prayers, He will answer. IF WE ARE SINCERE in our desires He will help us find a way. 

Okay but another story from exchanges that led to more great things. A LONG time ago we met this wonderful mom and sister named Sophie and Pascalina. Now that was a long time ago and at first Sophie was always too busy to meet with us and didn’t seem like she wanted us to come. Well the time came when we decided to follow up again and this time you could tell she was truly interested. And little by little as we have been teaching her we have learned that we aren’t the first missionaries to teach her and her family but that her husband was a drinking man and wasn’t really interested. That was a long time ago though and the coolest part is that turns out she has three copies of the Book of Mormon from those days long ago. But every time we teach her she really gets it and has her kids come and listen. She has really acted upon what we shared and just this week we were finally able to teach her husband too and you don’t know how happy she was to have her WHOLE FAMILY THERE with her. And he told us how he really felt good as he learned and I know he truly felt the spirit. FAMILIES ARE THE BEST.  During our exchange day though we put her on date to be baptized and she was so excited. She marked her calendar and was committed to it. Sophie really taught me that never should I give up on a person and that when the time is right the gospel will make sense. What we share is SO TRUE and I’m so blessed to get to share it everyday. And to even share it with Sophie and her family is a great great blessing because I can truly see how when the gospel is taught in a home it changes everything. 

Anyway, I just wanted to share two small experiences and leave it there but Lilongwe is good and the gospel is true no matter where you are! 

Hope you all have a good week!

with lots and lots of love,

Sister Moulton 

(pictured above: Sister George, Sister Palmer, Sister Moulton)

Elder Palmer of the Seventy

Editors Note: Sister Moulton sent her email and then was unable to upload her pictures so you will have to wait for next week to see the pictures she is referring to. She sends her love. 

Hello family and friends, 

This was quite the week! We flew to Lusaka on Wednesday and got to meet up with all the leaders in the mission for MLC (Mission Leader Conference). I missed everyone! When you are in Malawi you forget what things are on the other side haha but I still love Malawi more for sure! 

At MLC Elder Palmer, who is a member of the quorum of the seventy, taught us. He was sent under the direction of Elder Andersen, one of the 12 apostles! To some of you maybe its not that cool, but to me it was, and I learned so much from the teachings his wife gave to us. One of my favorite quote he said was, "Its not WHO is right but WHAT is right," in regards to leadership. We should always just do what is right not focus on who did this and that but helping us be obedient to WHAT is right.  But the most important thing that hit me was how short my time is left. It has gone too fast and now the end is coming! The whole MLC just motivated me to work even harder and especially to be a better leader and love as CHRIST loved. So even though I don’t have MUCH left I want to make these ones count. 

After we came back from MLC we went back to work, and man it was good to be back! Our people had even missed us! 

While we were gone it was little favorite Mitambo’s bday so we brought her a small small gift. That family is still the best haha. Another favorite little girl of the week was Emaunaule’s (our recent convert) sister. He brought her to church and she came with a Book of Mormon so of course I had to take a pic with her! 

And yesterday the Palmers came and visited Lilongwe for our zone conference. It was so powerful. There are so many things I realized that I could improve on. I’m excited to do it! 

Anyways not much to share today but I hope you all have a good week!!!!!

with lots and lots of love, 

Sister Moulton  

(I did find this picture on facebook of her mission president, local leaders in Malawi and Elder Palmer and his wife)