Sister Amanda Moser: Beans beans the magical fruit.

July 26, 2021

Good morning!

First off, my brother got married this week...so I was super homesick. Luckily we have this handy dandy booklet called adjusting to missionary life. It has a whole bunch of tips and tricks for the things missionaries struggle with including getting homesick. Followed those and now I am good! All it takes is canceling the pity party you were throwing and focusing on the work :)

It was nice because we have 3 weddings happening this month in the White Rock ward. We painted the famous rock to help out a family with wedding preparations. It was so fun. We actually talked to several people in the process. That definitely helped with being homesick because I felt like I was celebrating in a way.

We had an AMAZING lesson with my buddy Bruce. His wife Florence didn't join for the lesson. But let me tell you, the spirit was so strong! We did weekly planning, and I just had a feeling that we needed to focus on prayer. Guess what? Bruce prayed!! He hasn't done that in a while. It was such a humble prayer too. Best. Day. Ever.

We have this guy in our ward that looks like Robin Williams. His name is Brother Stradling. Anyways, he met this guy at Jiffylube and they started talking. The guy said he has been going through some hard things. Brother Stradling bore his testimony on the gospel of Jesus Christ. The guy was like tell me more. Just goes to show that simple testimony is the way to go. We have been in contact with him and will be passing him off to the Española elders soon!

Our friend, Mary, has been progressing really well! We invited her to church last week and she never came. Well, long story short, she broke her arm. She cancelled her lesson, too. However, this has given us some time to think about fellowship. We have some great names in mind!

I have THE best story to tell you. When we knock on doors, we ask to sing them a song. Anyways, we have been going around for an hour and everyone has been like no or doesn't bother to answer. We were walking down this road and Sister DG and I see this lady weeding. We look at each other and say "we need to talk to her". Her name is Beto and she is mostly deaf. We still asked if she wanted to hear a song and she said yes. After, she goes "do you want some beans?" (as in green beans.) Well...we didn't have anything to put them in. I said we could put them in our bags. I go forward to get a handful, and she pulls the bucket back. I was like "oh no. I just messed up. That's not what she meant." Nope. She just looked me dead in the eyes and said, "give me your bag." She proceeded to dump the entire bucket of beans into my bag. On top of my Book of Mormon, PMG, and hymnal. Sister DG and I lost it. We were laughing so hard.

We laid sod this week. I have it down to a science now because this is my 3rd time doing it. Sister Thompson says I could open a business...I don't know about that.

There is this handy dandy app called Gospel Living. It. Is. AWESOME! It has a whole bunch of videos and activities you can do to share the gospel. There is this video called "To Love Them All". It is all about developing the culture of patience because people in the church aren't perfect, but the gospel of Jesus Christ is! I would recommend you watch it. I will be posting it to my Facebook today so you can have easy access to it.

Remember God loves you

I love you I love you I love you

This is the way

Love Sister Amanda Moser