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| The Branch's Christmas Tree |
Hello Hello!!! :)
Happy 1st anniversary to Jonathan and Courtney on
the 15th!!! :)
I hope that you all had a wonderful past week! I
know I did! :) It has been a wonderful week and I just love being a missionary
so much! It is the best thing in the world!! :)
Here are some highlights from this week:
So, when you walk into the church there is a
wall and at the top of the wall is a window into the president's office. The
elders were in a lesson and I needed to get their attention, but I didn't want
to knock on the door or anything, so I decided to climb onto the table and put
my face against the window to try and get their attention..yeah, it didn't work
too well. As I was up on the table, the other elder's came in with their
investigators and I was so embarassed... so I pretended like I was fixing the
christmas lights...improv, right?
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| Elders MkGrath & Eliason and Motra Favero |
We had such an amazing lesson with a 15 year old
girl. Her mom had died when she was younger and we taught her about the
restoration. The member who was helping us with the lesson, the same thing had
happened to her, but her mom had died about a year ago. In the middle of the
lesson we asked what the girl is feeling. She just said "i don't know. so
good...i want to cry." then she started to cry. and as she was crying I
just got the strongest feeling that that is what her mom was doing right now on
the other side of the veil, because she is learnign the same things that she is
learning right now. I told her that just a couple minutes after she had started
crying... and she started crying more and she said "i started to cry
because I could feel my mom next to me." It was such a tender and sweet
moment.
Today for p-day we played a game of Basketball
horse. and I won, I am the granny master. and I played in a skirt.
:)
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| Elders Clawson, Jorgenson and MkGrath |
We played soccer this week. That was a lot of
fun..except I kept on talking to myself while playing and I would be like
"ooohhh no no no" and a lot of the members just ended up laughing at
me. haha, but what do ya do?
Yesterday for lunch I made brownies and I thought if
you put marshmallows on the brownies right out of the oven that the
marshmallows would get hot and melt and made a frosting. Well, it doesn't work
like that. So the brownies randomly had some marshmallows on top....but it
still tasted good, which is a good thing. :) haha.
I scared myself. Like literally. It was night and we
were walking to an appointment. I thought that I could see someone out of the
corner of my eye walking by, so I moved over, but they didn't move...it was
like they followed me. And the person looked taller and they were darker, and I
looked over and jumped. I screamed and then just stood there and for some
reason went into a semi squat position... ha. It was my shadow. Yep, I got
scared so bad by my shadow.
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| Elders Clawson and Jorgenson |
Elders Clawson and Jorgenson cut us down a Christmas
tree. I was so happy!!!
Sometimes when you are talking to people on the
street, you do not always talk to the nicest people. and sometimes you talk to
people who only want to argue. That happened to me earlier this week. I was
talking to this guy and he would ask me questions and I would answer them. And
then I started to testify about the gospel, and he interrupted me and said
"no, no. You don't know this, you think this." Gabime. I looked at
him straight in the eye and said "No. I don't know a lot of things about
life, I am only 19 years old. But I KNOW that this is true." It felt so
good for me to be able to testify and to be able to say without a doubt that I
know that this is true. and I know that every single person can know for themselves
of the truthfulness of this Gospel and that it is through prayer. Anyone can
talk about the Restoration, Plan of Salvation, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and
any other principles of the gospel. It can even be the prophet. Yes, we will be
able to feel something as they talk, but we need to pray. Like it says in
Moroni 10:5 "through the power of the Holy Ghost you can know the truth of
all things." It is true. and I testify of that.
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| Oreo cookies Motra Z made for Elder Jorgenson's birthday |
Yesterday, we watched this video for a devotional. I
loved this video so much. It was so short, simple, and yet so powerful! For a
little boy to be able to do such an amazing and loving act of service for a
complete stranger. It touched my heart. I loved this video so much
because service is the best gift that we can give this Christmas season. When
we help others it is like we are helping God. Mathew 25:40. Our best example of
service is our Savoir Jesus Christ. He served, everyone. Because he loved us
all. I hope that this Christmas season we are able to try to become more like our
Savoir by serving others. http://www.mormonchannel.org/more-videos?v=1318641007001 #SharetheGift
Have a wonderful week! Smile lots and Serve lots!! I
love you all!!
Love,
Motra Zollinger
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