February 9, 2015

GUESS WHAT! 

EVERYONE JUST GUESS WHAT I GOT TO DO ON SATURDAY! 

Elder Holland, myself and our companions drove down with our Bishop to Billings to go through the temple with Rhenon! Sister Bonn is serving in Rhenon's stake and got to come up as well.  When we got there and got to go behind the desk at the temple Rhenon and Sister Bonn were dressed in white waiting for us. I immediately burst into tears when I saw the two of them.  Good friends from the ward in Bozeman came with Rhenon as well and we all got to be apart of her going through the temple for the first time in 11 years.  I cannot explain the love that filled my heart and the spirit that I felt as I got to see her enter into the temple.  Words cannot describe.  And to top it off my ward mission leader's wife was the ordinance worker for our session.  She saw me and gave me a big hug. Her son is working with Saryn at the creamery. Small world! OH HOW I LOVE THESE PEOPLE! Rhenon's son was shot and killed by a cop about a month ago.  Elder Holland and I got permission to skype her.  It was incredible to see how the Lord has prepared her for these things coming her life for a long time.  I was thinking about last year, if her son had died, there would have been no way that she would have been able to cope and to deal with it.  But The moment she got out of jail, the missionaries were there and have helped her in the gospel to prepare her for that moment.  And the fact that so soon after her son's death she was able to go through the temple again.  Incredible.  Such a special moment.  

Earlier this week Sister Storrs and i had a meeting with Kandace. Which by the way Dad! She was so excited to text you a picture and your response was SO LAME! Text her back something cooler. Haha, but she lives in a locked apartment building and we were waiting for her to come let us in when a guy smoking outside asked if we needed to be let in.  We said yes, and he asked if we were the missionaries that come around every once in awhile.  We said yes and he let us in.  I got the feeling that we needed to talk to him but by the time he let us in it was too late.  LAME excuse. I know.  But we go inside and there was a table of checkers and Sister Storrs challenged me to a game while we waited for Kandace.  So we played and I  got demolished.  But the man outside came in and approached us and asked if we teach classes or something and if he could join them.  DO WE TEACH CLASSES!?  We jumped on the sucker. Gave him our number a Book of Mormon testified and set up an appointment.  He told us that his parents were going through a divorce and it was really effecting him and felt like he needed to find a church to be apart of.  COME my friend. Come.  hahaha But it really hit me after he left that never again will I have random strangers approach me and ask me about baptism, or about God and ask me what they can do to find him.  Never again.  It gave me perspective of how I want to leave my mission. Knowing I gave everyone an opportunity to learn about the Restored gospel of Jesus Christ.

Okay, I know Dana sounds crazy! But he is great! We taught a lesson with the elders this week to transition him over and it went really really well. Although he loves sister missionaries he does have a pure heart and has a desire to do good. 

Dion is another investigator and guess what! HE BROUGHT HIS GIRLFRIEND TO CHURCH! WOOT! We are starting to teach her this Friday :)

Also some more exciting news! A less active family we have been trying to work with FOR AGES invited us over for dinner this week! NEVER HAS THAT HAPPENED.  They want to be sealed in the temple and know they have to come to church in order for that to happen.  But we had a really good discussion with them about the gospel blessing our families and they loved it. I finally feel like our relationship is getting somewhere with them.  

I was reading back in my old MTC notebook and something that one of our teachers said was that we don't teach.  The Spirit does, it is our job to love them.  And I have definitely seen that take place here. You say what the Spirit leads you to say and you just love the heck out of them....maybe that's where things went sour with Dana...BUT! it is good advice nonetheless. 

LARRRRYYYYYYY! I know you all were waiting on an update with the Lar Bear! We had two solid lessons with him this week.  And he put his fist on the table and looked me right in the eye and said, I am doing this Moline.  And I can't promise I will get the Priesthood before you go, but if I do, I want you to be there with me.  He also said that even when we as missionaries leave, he will never forget what we have done for him and that we will always have a special place in his heart.  I almost started crying right then and there.  he kept comparing the person her was now compared to the person he was before. He kept saying that he has not made any progression for months and months and months and the gospel has helped him get somewhere in his life and make some sort of progression toward becoming something.  The Gospel gives meaning to our lives.  It does.  It gives us a reasons to live and to become.  This life is for us to become something greater than what we were before and the gospel allows us to become that.  

I LOVE the gospel. I LOVE the church.  I am who I am today because of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is all that I am and all I that I hope to become.  The gospel is the good life.  I know that it doesn't matter what others say or do, as long as I can look in the mirror each night and know I am straight with my Savior, nothing else matters.  My Savior means everything to me.  I owe him all that I am.  I love you all! Talk to you soon!


Sister Moly Moly