feel the VERN

Last week serving with cute Sister Bourgeous. So sad!

Ok, ok. I know all of you are wondering, what is a Vern? Why are we feelin' it? How did Sister Mod come up with such a solid email subject? What does it even mean? And why is she asking so many rhetorical questions right now? Well, I have the answers to all of those questions. No worries guys. Transfer calls came on Saturday and I am training in Mt. Vernon!!! (and I stole my email subject from my STL who served there already. Oops #notoriginal lol.) I'm super excited but WOWZA extra prayers for us cuz I'm coming from the backwoods and she's coming from missionary heaven which means there's gonna be a whole lot of culture shock. Also, I am so sad to be leaving Ham/Cat and cute Sister B, but adventure is out there, am I right?

This week we went on exchanges to the area that's known as little El Salvador in the mission, so naturally everyone spoke Spanish except for little (big) Sister Mod. We went to go teach a pass off lesson with the Spanish-speaking elders and Sister Merritt and I would talk to everyone along the way in English. We'd say "hey" in English and they'd say "IDK what you are talking about, cya," in Spanish, so we'd say, "K cya" in English, and then the elders would pounce from behind and say, "Heyo what's up! Here's the gospel" in Spanish and the people were shook. We were the dream team for sure. Not weird at all. 

Last night we were able to go to a fireside and hear some people who recently joined the church speak! One of the brothers who got up bore his testimony that God knows him and I thought it was just beautiful. It was so simple but you could tell that he knew that with his whole heart. There's a quote in Preach My Gospel that says, "Powerful testimony is not dependent on eloquence or the volume of your voice but on the conviction of your heart." What matters to the Lord is the conviction of our hearts and I am so grateful for that because I'm for sure not eloquent, haha! Love you all!!

Love,

Sister Mod

The crew

The crew pt. 2