Oh what a
beautiful morning!!!! Oh what A BEAUTIFUL DAY!!! It has been so beautiful these
past few days! It's about 62 degrees out right now and I’m LOVIN it! :) We have
had a great week. Tuesday was a little rough. Sister Gee and I were missing the
Vendels and Charleston pretty bad and we kind were in a funk all day and that
was awful...longest day of my life. I've been really blessed to only have had a
few of those days my whole mission, but truly they're a choice. I NEVER want to
have another one of those days again! I was really feeling bad about my life
cause I have had a few of those days on my mission but this morning during my
personal study I really came to an understanding of exactly how the lord feels
about those days. I was reading about patience haha and I read about the sons
of Mosiah and how they had this really wicked past but after they repented they
wanted to share the gospel with everyone and the Lord allowed them to. Then
later when they had hard times the first thing he told them was to be
comforted. And for the New Year’s we've been sharing D&C 6:33-37? And it's
all about having faith in the lord and fearing not to do good. "Fear not
little flock" is my FAVORITE part of those scriptures. The Savior and our
Heavenly father don't ever want us to feel inadequate or unworthy. They LOVE us
SO much! They' realize we're weak and they'll pick us up and guide us back to
safety if we let them. The highlight of my studies this morning was reading the
talk in January's ensign about the prodigal son. READ IT EVERYONE! It's SO
good. It truly helped me realize just how much our Father in heaven loves us,
even when we do mess up every once in a while. :) YAY for modern revaluation!
I'm SO grateful for it. As for the rest of the week, it was great! The weekends
are for sure the BEST! We get to go stay with the Cooks in the Veteran's colony
and oh my goodness. Those grumpy old men are really loving us. It was the
SWEETEST thing ever!! This week they sent out a message in their newsletter
that said "We just wanted to recognize the Cooks' sister missionaries.
They've done so much to help us lately and just so everyone knows, we've
adopted them " :) ISN'T THAT SWEET??? :') Dah! Heavenly Father knows I
have a soft spot for grandpas. THEN! At our colony breakfast on Saturday,
George, one of the veteran's asked me if I'd still be around in the summer to
help him with his garden cause I told him I can and whatnot and when I told him
I was going home in June he got all teary eyed and said: "Really? I'm
gonna miss you." ...wahhhh I hate loving people when I have to leave them
haha!!!! He told me that we'd start the garden earlier than usual and that he'd
send me some of them later :) HOW ADORABLE CAN HE GET??? Not to mention that
Roger is ALWAYS taking care of us. He sends us texts to make sure we're safe
and he is always trying to buy us food haha. AND! The veteran's asked us to
perform some songs on the piano/violin (sis.gee plays violin) for Valentine’s
Day haha! We got permission to do worldly songs :) It's gonna be a blast. ALSO!
On Saturday night. There was a stake youth activity where they should
"Meet the Mormons" and they were all told to invite their friends.
Well we live like an hour and a half away from our stake center, Fort Smith,
but we got permission to go to this because we've been working with one of our
young women (who looks like case sometimes so much it freaks me out! I actually
screamed at her in the car 'oh my goodness your face freaks me out"
hahahah cause she looked JUST LIKE CASS!!) on teaching some of her friends and
she invited one of them to go with us. We were able to talk a lot about the
church and she had a bunch of questions after the movie so that was AWESOME!!!
Youth are SO key! They're friends are just waiting to hear the gospel!!! And as
far as our youth missionary challenge. Things are going great! The boys we just
baptized are so fantastic. One of the things we challenged the youth to do this
past week was to start gospel conversations using "Mormon" words.
President Ingle shared a story his grandson had this past week. He was laying
his head down on his desk and his teacher asked why he was so tired and he said
it was cause he goes to early morning SEMINARY. His teacher asked what Seminary
was and then invited him to stay after class to talk more. Well as it turns out
his teacher was at a low point in his life and his 16 year old grandson asked
if he'd like to learn more. His family invited him over to dinner to meet with
the missionaries and after just 2 lessons he's excepted the invitation to be
baptized.......WE DON'T KNOW WHO THE LORD IS PREPARING, BUT WE KNOW HE IS
PREPARING THEM AND THAT WE'RE TO DO OUR PART TO HELP HIS WORK ALONG. Just
try it out. Instead of skipping over those words that are unfamiliar to people
not of our faith USE them! Let a conversation form and then testify and invite.
It's so simple and you'll be so blessed. Send me the experiences you have! Pray
for those opportunities! :) I love LOVE this work and I can't wait to ...oh
wait! I forgot! We're also teaching this fantastic lady named Connor and her
sister Dolly. We've taught them twice now and they want to be baptized! They're
reading the Book of Mormon and I LOVE THEM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH! They're
a HUGE blessing! HUGE BLESSING! I just am blown away at those who are prepared.
They're out there you guys. Just talk to them and invite them! I love you all
so much! Have a great missionary week! :)
Love you forever,
Sister Moreno
