Is There a God?

Good afternoon brothers and sisters,

I forgot to write a group email until like 10 minutes before pday was over, so I will use my usual weekly email template. 

- chick-fil-a count for the week: 0

- height: I had a growing pain in my knee 2 days ago #prayforsismod2k19

- animal story: one day we found a cricket in our apt and thought it was kind of sweet so we named it JJ. Then the next day we looked on our wall and thought we saw JJ but no. Nope. It was a centipede. Lesson learned. When you find a cricket in your house don't name it JJ. Just escort it out or else it will bring friends. 

MIRACLE: we started meeting with our friend Sahid!!! He is SO prepared. Literally when we were teaching him about how God's power has been restored through Joseph Smith he looked at us with such amazement and said, "I had no idea. Thank you so much for telling me sisters." His story is unreal. He grew up in a non-Christian home, but through his aunt (who is a member of our church) he developed a faith in Christ and he has been going to our church for the past couple of weeks with her. When we met Sahid we had 1 last pass along card to give out so we ran up and gave it to him. The card said "Is there a God?" and he looked at it and said, "I wake up and ask myself this question every day." GOD IS IN THE DETAILS. He knows you perfectly and if you try to listen with new ears and see with new eyes you will be able to recognize His hand divinely orchestrating every aspect of your life. I know I've seen that in mine. Love you all!! Have a good week.

Love,

Sister Mod

The One with the Cliff Hanger...

The Lone Peak duo at zone conference

My journal writing game is getting WEAK. Like I was looking in there to see what happened this week and one of my best entries says, "Awesome day. We had an insane miracle: " and then the rest of the page is blank. You'll just have to discern by the spirit what the miracle was cuz obviously I couldn't tell ya. I'm just trying to leave some cliff hangers for my posterity ya know? I do it for the children. HOWEVER, I will give you a running total of bug bites on my legs: 41. God is on our side but Mother Nature, not so much. 

Majority of those bug bites have come as a small sacrifice though because I get them while teaching our friend that I've been talking about! He is doing so so well. The man seriously teaches himself the doctrine of the gospel and we are just there to answer any further questions. I have a testimony that the Lord is preparing so many people and as we try to follow the spirit and be in the right place at the right time he will use us as instruments in His hands. 

Love,

Sister Mod

Live action in the McDonald's parking lot ft a YSA member's car, lol.

BFF Sister Clark

Pretty Centreville

Weekly car selfie

Sister Withers dying (not really)

Our fav mission nurse, Sister Downs <3

A tomato stand that we found :')

Garage Tours

An experience we had this week helped me remember how important it is to always be in tune with the spirit so that we can understand what Heavenly Father is telling us. We were out street contacting and we saw a man carrying things from his car into his garage, so we went up and asked if we could help him. He didn't speak English very well, so he looked at me with a blank stare and said, "Garage?" I was like "Ya? Can we help carry things into your garage?" And again he said, "Garage." And I was like "Ya.."  Then he motioned to us to come to his garage and when we got there he gave us a tour of it, hahah, so about 7 minutes into him pointing at all of his belongings I was like, "Okay, what can we help with?" And he said "Help?? Oh no. Thank you." Hahah! Not only does misunderstanding create confusion, it gives garage tours as well.    

Our friends are doing wonderfullllll. Remember the friend that we were able to teach last week? He hasn't read from the scriptures in around 20 years and we have been studying the Book of Mormon with him every other day. He will pick a topic that he wants to learn about and he has started to bring study material to our lessons! He is reading from the Book of Mormon as well as the Bible, printing out scriptures that go along with the topic, and coming with so many questions and insights!! It's amazing how the influence of the gospel can immediately change our habits and desires. He had no desire to learn more a couple of weeks ago, but now he can't get enough. There is SO much power in the word of God.

Love,

Sister Mod

The Princess, errr.....Missionaries and the Frog

So this week in order to improve our comp unity we decided that Sister Withers needed to catch a frog too so we could be equally yolked. Night after night we searched for precious children of God to teach, but also frogs, cuz in the beginning God created all things ya know? And then we found a little baby frog so I looked at my companion and said these moving words, "Do it, you won't." And in response to that, she did.. not. hahaha She pinched it and it jumped onto my foot and that relates to missionary work BECAUSE things don't always go the way that you plan. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Speaking of that, we had a bunch of return appointments on Sunday night that we were super excited for, but all of them fell through, so we went out visiting our friends instead! If those appointments had not fallen through then we would have never gone to our friend Hart's house and read a chapter of the Book of Mormon with him. The Sisters have been trying to meet with him for years but not until last night was he open to meeting. God has a plan and even though it might not be ours, it's perfect so we need to trust Him. Love you all!!

Love,

Sister Mod 

New Things and Not So New Things :)

Things that are new with me this week:

1. I ate a clove (are you supposed to do that? sos) 

2. I caught a frog with my fingers and held it like it was a piece of sushi 

3. Sister Withers and I are staying together for another transfer!! 

4. And we started teaching two new families!!!! One from Vietnam and the other from India {wahoooo!!}. Updates to come. 

Things that are not new with me this week:

1. A miracle happened hehe.

We decided one day to go finding in an area that we hadn't been to very much, and in the first couple of minutes that we were there we saw a lady walking her dog. We stopped and talked to her and she shared how she thinks that we can't know all that God knows because we just can't comprehend it. We had just memorized a scripture from the Book of Mormon and felt that we should share it with her. It was Mosiah 4:9. She specifically asked, "Only verse 9?" and we said yep so she read it and it says:

 "Believe in God; believe that He is, and that He created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that He has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend." 

Without hesitating she continued on to verse 10 saying,

Sister WIthers & Sister Mod with the cute mission nurse

"And again, believe that ye must repent of your sins and forsake them, and humble yourselves before God; and ask in sincerity of heart that he would forgive you; and now, if you believe all these things see that ye do them."

After she read that she thought about it for a second and started telling us how she's always had a hard time believing that she could be forgiven of her sins. We had no idea what verse 10 said until she read it but God knew exactly what she needed to hear and He worked through us as His instruments to share that message with her. SO COOL. :))

Love,

Sister Mod

Ferrets in the Mission Field

This week I would like to call your mind back to the movie Barbie Rapunzel. As you take that journey down memory lane please think of the small animal that looks like a mouse that got sucked through a straw that lives on the queen's shoulder. That, my friends, is called a ferret.  And this, my friends, is a shook Sister Mod because she saw one this week. We were out tracting and someone opened the door. We had a really normal contact with him until he looked down and was like, "Oh!" so I looked down too, and lo and behold I saw the ferret coming to me. Hahah I was like, "What is that?" and he was like, "Ya, that's my ferret. You can pet him." So I did and I'll never be the same. All creatures of our God and King you know what I'm sayin'?

This week's miracle was our friend Heather! She was someone who had been taught before so we decided to stop by and say hello. She was super nice so we talked for a while and shared some scriptures with her, then she asked what we believed about infant baptisms! I haven't gotten that question a lot on my mission so I was interested to know what prompted that question. We explained that we know that children are pure and are happily welcomed into God's presence and she shared with us how her son had passed away at a very young age and how what we said sang true with her heart. :)) I'm so grateful for the perfect doctrine that God has set forth through the Book of Mormon and my testimony grows so much stronger every time I hear that the spirit has born witness of those truths to others! I just love the gospel and all of you! Have a good week!

Love,

Sister Mod

PS don't look too closely at our pics cuz then you might notice that we forgot to take pictures until Sunday night. Hehe. Guilty as charged. 

Mind Blowing!

The singular picture that we took this week.
Sorry Mom and everyone else, haha!

So remember Kevin from like 2 or 3 emails ago? WE LOST HIM. We lost that man. Literally couldn't find or get in contact with him for like 2 weeks. Then we had a prompting to go to his complex one afternoon so we speedily obeyed. Once again no Kevin. So we pull out to leave and as we are driving away we see something out of the corner of our eyes. We whip our heads around only to see our best friend Kevin. In slow motion. Driving away from us on a golf cart. Cya Kev. Hahaha! We made eye contact, he mouthed "hey" and then he disappeared into the sunset. But NOW because of that tender mercy we no longer think that he's dead!!! God is good guys.

It's been an awesome week here in Centreville, full of tons of miracles as usual. Missionary work is the coolest. You know what's also the coolest? THE BOOK OF MORMON. Imma also going to put in a plug for the book "A Case for the Book of Mormon" by Tad R. Callister because it's changing my lifeeee. Like a member told us this week that the Jonas Brothers are back together. Earth shattering?? Mind blowing?? Now imagine 239 pages of that. It's GOLD. Here's a sneak peak of how unreal it is. "No one adequately and properly knows why he needs Christ until he understands and accepts the doctrine of the fall and its effect upon mankind, and no other book in the world explains this vital doctrine nearly as well as the Book of Mormon." I bear testimony that that is true. I love the Book of Mormon with my wholeeee heart. Love y'all! Have a good week.

Love,

Sister Mod