Morley, Mya

Lua is so sweet. She has been taught by missionaries for a long time. She is 12 years old. She came to church a few weeks ago & went to a youth camp. She loved it all & we invited her to pray about baptism. She did & maybe she still doesn't know how to recognize the answers but we spent a lesson explaining that & asking her questions. We made a goal to have her get baptized in February!!! We are going to help her feel sure about it & to bring the spirit more in her life so that she can make that step.  It was another week of seed planting which is special & requires a lot of patience. We have been using every resource it feels like & we just know God is preparing people. & I've been taught & I know that His timing is perfect. We met a lot of people who just don't believe in Christ. It breaks my heart right in half to think of the hope they are missing out on. Christ is the Savior of the world. I believe in Him. He has walked with me every...

The spirit filled our week again. It makes me so happy. We have been planting so many seeds this week. Sadly, each person gets to choose for themselves. Marcos doesn't want to have a baptismal date anymore because he doesn't think a goal is helpful. Instead, he wants to quit smoking first & then he will tell us he's ready. It's so sad. He just is so close. We talked about the Atonement, how Jesus heals us. It was so special. It's. Sometimes we wait back letting Jesus heal all the others thinking that it’s better, when He waits for us to come & help us. Sometimes the healing doesn't come right away though & we have to learn something. Paticence is the Lord's perfect plan is sometimes the hardest part. But suffering in some way is exalting, like President Holland said. We just have to trust. Marcos needs to trust. As we were walking in the burning heat yesterday, we got to the house of someone we have been trying to find for quite some time. We san...

The spirit is just undeniable. We felt so much of it this week & that fills my heart. So many times we left a lesson thinking that there is no way they couldn't feel what we just felt. One of them, we knew. It was Sebastian. He came out & tried to send us away telling us he was working, introduced us to his honey because he is a beekeeper, talked to us at the gate telling us of the hard moments of his life but also of the moments where he knew God is real, pulled up some chairs outside of his house & we taught him. All this we did in english. While we talked outside his gate, I felt God's love for him. Tears filled up my eyes. He called me out & later had me share why. I told him that God is aware of him & he wants to give him a rest & the happiness that he is looking for. He cried. We spoke to him of baptism & invited him to be baptized. He accepted. We met him on Monday night. It was a speciak aay to start the week. Things like this don't alway...

We went out to knock some doors while waiting for some of the sisters to get to our area. Franco was just waiting. We got to his house & he popped his head through the window. My companion said, he's going to be elect. So we introduce ourselves & started to teach him about the restoration. It was so perfect because he is 14 years old. We told.him about Joseph Smith & had him read the first vision out loud. The spirit came flooding in & you could see it in his body. He know he felt the spirit that day. We felt it too, so strongly. When  the things we asked them too. It was so special.  We had exchanges with some of the sisters in our zone & my companion told me that we could go visit an active family in our ward. I just pushed it off because there wasn’t going to be that much time. Again, she asked me if I had put them into the schedule. I responded telling her I would, then forgot. We had already visited quite a few people & we just so happened to pass ...

I spent every single minute of 2023 in Argentina. While walking the streets yesterday, my companion & I talked about how special that really is. It brings me joy & peace to know that I have been able to meet so many new people & be part of their conversions, as they have been in mine. It has been a year of growth & change. It has probably been one of the hardest, most rewarding years of my life. I have been stretched. Moments when I felt like I lost faith. Moments when I wanted to just stay in bed. Moments when felt that maybe God didn't hear me. But I didn't lose the faith, I didnt stay in bed, & God always listened. My testimony truly has been strengthened. I know that this next year is also going to be a lot of change. I am looking forward to seeing all the things God has in store for me. I feel lucky I get to start this year off here. This place has turned into my second home. I found family within these people.  We got to go to the temple grounds! I hop...