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