Moore and Moore

Hey ya crazies! haha 

I am staying in Moore! ya man. It is pretty great here! I have it good :) 

So this week... well, we have been doing so much finding that I wouldn't mind if I never knocked on a door again. haha Optimistic over here. I am just kidding though, because finding people is the best! And we have been blessed with miracles! The zone leaders gave us a referral on Friday and we went to go visit them. His name is Hector. I call him Hector Zaroni, even though that is not his name. :) Anywho, we went over to his home and him and his wife were out on their front porch and we talked to them and Hector has been reading the Book of Mormon, so we invited him to keep reading. :) 

Another cool porch story, we were knocking and a man named Paul Gray answered the door and refused to pray with us. He thinks that religion is the reason why the world is going downhill because everyone is fighting all the time. He told us that when Christ set up the gospel everyone was the same but now people are lost....thanks to inspired questions about the truth being restored, he invited us back to teach him! MIRACLE

Last porch story. We found Kim knocking a little while back and we gave her a Book of Mormon. We had set up an appointment, but she had to cancel. We went to go check on her Saturday night and she has read 7 chapters!! We are meeting with her on wednesday:) 

Cool miracles huh? All on porches. Next step is getting inside:) 

I learned a lot about obedience this last week and something that really stuck out to me was the reason why we are obedient. I mean, ask yourself - why you are obedient? It was honestly hard for me to answer. But the most ideal motivation behind obedience would be because you love the Lord and want to serve him! I just like the blessings I get....which isn't bad but that makes me sounds like a big ol jerk. haha so I will working on changing that:) 

Love you all, keep it real. Be safe. 

LOVE, Alisha 

Two Cool Things

HEY!!!

Guess what?! It was Easter yesterday. haha surprise! The coolest thing in the world happened on Saturday (two cool things) So Bobbie is an investigator that we have and she found out that we weren't really doing anything for Easter because we don't have our families here and she invited us over to hide Easter eggs and to have dinner with their family. Well, we get there and they were so excited when we showed up. Bobbie has a husband and two children and then she also had her parents over! It was so cool because they totally welcomed us to the family. Bobbie's mother also gave us a picture of a cross with a scripture at the bottom. Oh man, we just felt so loved. We normally get that from members, but to have an investigator treat us that way was so special. When we had to leave they were super sad. They told us to come back anytime :) Oh man I love nice people! 

The second coolest thing! The Torres family got baptized and they asked me to give a talk! That was way nice of them and I am grateful that I got to go back and see them and that ordinance performed. Baptism is so cool and if you read about it in the Bible Dictionary it talks about how is it not an option if you want the fulness of salvation! Just plain and simple as that. 

I was reading in 3 Nephi how Christ comes again and the people just want him to stay (I would want Him to stay too) but He calls apostles and gives them the authority to baptize. I mean, He saw that they wanted Him to stay with them, so the best way to comfort them was to give them the opportunity to be baptized and get the Holy Ghost. I thought that was super powerful. He did that for us as well, when the Gospel was Restored to the Earth through the Prophet Joseph Smith! 

Baptism is a blessing:) I love you all! 

Love, Alisha 

April freezes bring May sneezes

It is snowing!!

Happy Easter! 

We moved. 

2 tornado warnings. 

I had to unclog a bathtub the other day. And it wasn't even my hair that was in the drain. I almost lost it, so I just ended up buying Drain-O. Thank you, inventor of Drain-O. 

This week was great! We got to teach a lady named Marie and she is just the greatest thing ever! I am so grateful that the spirit lead us to her house. She was supposed to come to church but she got really sick and couldn't make it but wants us to go back tomorrow to see her. She told us over the phone how much her life has improved since we found her and prayed with her. That makes missionary work worth it. She told us that she has been thinking a lot about baptism too :) I will update you all next week with how she is doing! 

Toward the end of the week was a real struggle. But last night I had a really cool experience when I got to receive a blessing. So I have had a lot of blessings in my life and they all have been really important to me, but since I have been out on my mission I have learned a little bit more about priesthood blessings and so this one was different!! You have to have faith, or they won't work. It was so cool to receive this blessing and just have confidence that what he was saying was true and that it could happen. I can't remember the blessing word for word but I just remember the confidence that I felt. The Gospel brings confidence. He told me that I would finish my whole mission...YOU BETTER BELIEVE I WILL. haha I am grateful for the priesthood :) 

I love you all and I hope that you have a wonderful and blessed week :)

Love, Alisha 

Rolling into April in Moore, Oklahoma

HELLO!

 

Conference was so great! I have to say that Saturday morning session was so great! And a few shout outs to Oklahoma just added to it! The Sorrel family that Elder Rasband talked about is in our ward and even in our area! I have personally knocked on their door a few times....hahah

 

Ok my favorite talk was Russell M. Nelson's. I thought that is was so powerful and it is a subject that I have been thinking about a lot as a missionary. He spoke about how sometimes we separate our lives into different categories such as work, religion, sports, etc. I mean if you had a strong belief in something wouldn't that be a part of your character? It should be and that is what I got from his talk. I think that some times we care so much about what others think about us that it affects the way we act or the things we say. It reminds me of wicked King Noah and Abinadi; King Noah was going to let Abinadi go!! But the influence of the high priests rekindled Noah's anger and that influenced his eternal salvation! And he suffered death by fire because of the influence of the high priests. Then it made me think of Linda S. Reeves talk (powerful) about how the greatest filter we can have is conversion. Personal conversion, not conversion in others. When we have a strong foundation ourselves, then no one can influence us. All my thoughts in a letter is hard for me to do! haha I hope that you know that I loved conference.

 

I love you all and I hope that you have a great week:)

peace and blessings

Ethan got to experience a tornado before me. its fine.

 

Love, Alisha

Also, please pray for our investigators. We've got a family scheduled for baptism and they could use your prayers!