Before this letter, we had a funeral for our grandma and grandpa who died four days apart and could not wait to be together in Heaven. Morgan was given an opportunity to write her thoughts and send a special email to family after each of the deaths. She is handling it with a positive attitude and is happy that Memaw and Papaw are together serving their eternal missions at the same time she is serving hers in Washington.
Dear Family,
How are you doing, how did the funeral go? Last week just seemed to
fly by for me! Its really hard for me to believe that I entered the
MTC a year ago. I remember thinking that days would never be over and
that I would never be able to lay my head down or shut my eyes. I felt
like this a little bit yesterday between getting up extra early and
fasting. Fasting is always difficult for me. I usually end up with a
headache that is worthy to be categorized as a migraine in my opinion,
with bouts of nausea, light-headedness, and sensitivity to light and
sound. Nevertheless I still fast because I know that is what Heavenly
Father wants and that is what I want in order to obtain the special
blessings that come from fasting. I am so grateful to be a missionary
and to have the opportunity to fast for those that I teach or want to
teach. I have been praying so hard to be able to find new
investigators and so far we haven't had much luck. Last week we
received a referral from Elder Bodmer about a lady that had called the
mission office requesting sister missionaries. She lives in the Union
Ward boundaries and we are the lucky ones to be able to go and contact
her.
So here is how the story goes: We ring the door bell and a
younger woman probably around 20 or so opens the door and we ask if
our referral Niki is at home. The woman Sky says yes but that she is
not feeling well. We then introduce ourselves and ask if there is
anything we can do to help. She said no and that she was taking care
of her mother (Niki). We said okay and we proceed to OYM her and tell
her why we're there and that her mom had called us and asked us to
come by. So we gave Sky a card with our names and phone number and
asked her to tell her mom that we came by and to call us when she is
feeling better so that we can set up a time to come again and visit
her. Sky said that she might be the one who calls us because she needs
some more faith in her life as well. We said that would be wonderful
and we would be more than happy to share our message with her too. She
said thank you and we said our good-byes. I totally had a good feeling
about everything that had happened. As I was backing out of our
parking spot I saw a woman running out of the door towards our car
waving our pass along card in the air. I stopped and as Sister
McMurtrey was getting in the car I was getting out, leaving the car
exactly where it was (the lot was mostly deserted with no traffic). We
introduced ourselves to Niki and she proceeded to tell us about why
she called the mission office and requested sisters. She is a member
of the church and was baptized in her early 20s, but since then she
has made a series of mistakes and wrong choices. She has been clean
from drugs and alcohol for 5 years now and she is working on quitting
smoking. She is ready to change her life and come back to church. She
wants to hear the missionary lessons again so that she can regain her
testimony. We were so excited and slightly disappointed that she is a
member already. We asked her how soon she would like us to come over
again with the intent of setting up an appointment for the next day
(Sunday/yesterday) since she had already told us that she was too busy
that day (Saturday). She said that Sunday was not a good day of course
because of the Superbowl so we set up an appointment for today at
6:30! I am so excited to be able to teach her! We asked about her
daughter Sky to find out if she was a member to and Niki said no so we
asked if she would be interested in meeting with us too. Niki said no
and we told her what Sky had told us at the door. Niki was surprised
and you could tell that she was excited to hear that. Sky looks like
she is on the same path that her mom was on 5 years ago. You could
tell that Sky has a very difficult life and we are hoping and praying
that she will listen to us and be ready to change her life! We will
find out more tonight and fill you in of course!
Other than that, testimony meeting was interesting yesterday. I had
planned on going up to share my testimony on the plan of salvation
since I had been contemplating that so much lately. As I was about to
go up, another sister in the ward went up and started to bare her
testimony and talk about how her mom passed away last Sunday the same
day my Papaw did. She talked about how hard it was for her but that
she was able to overcome her sorrow because she has such a strong
testimony. After that, a few more testimonies on the plan of salvation
were born and I felt peace knowing that I didn't need to go and bare
my testimony too. I am not sure why I felt this way but I knew that if
I had gone up to bare my testimony it would have distracted me from my
purpose to share the happiness the gospel brings. I think they would
have felt bad for me and I don't want anyone to. I am so happy that my
grandparents have passed on. They are out of their suffering. I am
grateful for this knowledge. I am grateful for our Father's plan of
mercy. I am grateful to be a missionary. I love this work. I love you!
Have a great day!
~Sister Brox
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