WHAT A GREAT WEEK!!! I am just SO SO SO SOOOOOOOO HAPPY!! Things
are going SO well!! On Tuesday we had our zone conference and I swear President
Shumway is the most inspired man I've ever met. He gave the BEST talk on how to
use the Atonement I've ever hear and it was EXACTLY what I needed to hear.
Plus! My zone leaders picked me and another elder to be the competitors for our
scripture bee....thanks to Sister Barrett haha. When they asked who was good at
memorizing scriptures she's like "Ooh! Sister Moreno is!" Well we get
up there and my teammate got out in the first round! Ya, haha I ended up making
it to the final 3 and it was hilarious because I had to sing some of my
scriptures cause that's how I memorized a lot of them and even though I got out
on D&C 135:3 I still won a prize cause I rapped it and President said I won
the best actress award haha it was a blast :) I got a super cute red leather
journal! And the rest of the week was just awesome. We've done SO much service
and it's really paying off. First of all you just feel SO much better when you
serve and second of all we're meeting a TON of new people through it. Friday we
started at the recycling center....let me just say. I have SO much respect for
the man who's worked there for 3 YEARS....PLEASE everyone. Separate you're
recycling into their proper place. On the bottom of the item you're going to
recycle you'll see a little recycling symbol with a number in it. Sort based on
number if plastic. :) Thank you. Gross work my friends lemme tell you. HOWEVER!
We do have 4 new potential priesthood holders in our midst who know how to work
hard! :) Also, we had a GREAT lesson with one of our investigators and his mom.
He's 14 and friends with the Greens, that's how we met him but apparently his
mom took the lessons 40 years ago...ya. She sat in on our lesson with him and
she's agreed to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it too!! :) AND! Dallin
(my old ward mission leader) had given me this referral way back in November to
go and see a couple of his friends that had just gotten married and
we finally went to go see them Monday and oh. My. Goodness. I LOVE THEM!
They're SO awesome! They're like 22 and we shared the temple video and
taught the restoration and they're reading the book of Mormon now! WHAT?! Ya.
Plus Dallin is down from School for spring break and he's gonna come with
us to teach them the plan of salvation! I'm SO EXCITED!! Things are just going
really well and I have truly come to love Talihina, no matter how many ulcers
it has given me. I've learned SO much from serving here and I don't know how
much longer I'll be here because we have transfer calls this Saturday but I
know that I am a better person because of my experiences here and I love
it. I love it a lot. :) Have a great week! Also, the joys of a small
branch, I was called up in sacrament meeting to speak on Scripture study cause
the speaker didn’t' show up haha...ya. It was fun though :) I realize I
love LOVE LOVE the scriptures SOOOOO much! I love the Bible so much and the
Book of Mormon and modern revelation!!! It's just SO good! :) One
more thing. In branch council this week I shared a little message by
talking about Alma 49-52. I talked about how important it is fortify our cities
and how Satan wants nothing more for us than all of us on the same team to turn
against each other and how we may have weak spots but we can work together to
make our city strong. Also in there it mentions how things started as
"warm contentions" and "warm dissentions" and I thought that
was such an interesting word to use, but really the little feelings of
irritations and annoyance start off small and seemingly harmless but they later
grow into big problems. SO! Hopefully we can all remember who the real enemy is
and pull together as Christians and stand up for Christ. There’s a great talk
in this month’s ensign by Dallin H. Oaks that talks about ALL believers
standing strong in the faith against the real enemy. Have a great week!
Love you forever,
Sister Moreno
