Sister Marlowe...Week #29
June 27, 2017
Alright SO. here comes another rubbish group email for this week but I am DOING MY BEST PEOPLE!!! Wow. So this week has been a week of MIRACLES!! Don't even know how to explain it, but after being here for 3 months finally Heavenly Father decided we can have some things fall into place hahaha. I think it's because Sister Vue is FANTASTIC!!! Our ward had a pie night on Saturday night. Wish I would have taken more pictures!! Everybody and their dog brought pies for three categories, Savoury (that's a thing here, meat pies), sweet, and best apple pie. And everyone in the ward just ate and ate and ate pie and then the pies got judged. But anyways, we had so many people come that were answers to prayers to have them there. and long story short we have a few new people to teach this week :) #SEKI #faafetai (also Sis. Ete is sadly in Utah. but she left me her samoan study book. Working to make her proud as when I see her in Temple Square next year.)
Yesterday we had a lady in our ward take us to visit her friend.. and we had a three hour long adventure hunting down her friend and finding her in the hospital! Sweet little old lady that we are going to visit again later this week and bring her some light-reading for the hospital (the Book of Mormon :) ) The members of this ward are the best. It was so funny because for a split second driving around with her yesterday, I almost felt like I was driving around with my mom.. and then I looked over and it definitely wasn't my mom and my companion was sitting right behind me and I am in a different country and I'm expected to be a "grown-up" now hahaha. it's a good thing the families here are so awesome. yes I'm a missionary and we do so much work and we're "adults" but it's nice to have people who are willing to help us out because I'm still only a child hahahahaha. I have said a lot of prayers of gratitude this week and I won't be quitting out on that anytime soon. I am grateful for a loving heavenly father who knows I have been trying, trying, trying for a long time and decided to throw some good things our way this week :)
I love you all!!! have a great week and don't forget to stay cool.
Ofa atu,
Sister Marlowe
76 Cathies Lane
Wantirna South, VIC
3152 Australia
Ps. Sis. Ete left me a giant bugs-bunny onesie. Yes it's the best. She's the best.
Pps. Also one of those stars above me definitely says "Sis. Marlowe is a white samoan." #polyforlife
June 27, 2017
MOM
Hi my lovely momma-lou. Oh how I love you. I have been thinking about you a lot this week. Momma, this ward is the best ever! Someday, I need to bring you back here and have you meet all the people I love here so much!!! Some are funny, weird, different, but oh how I LOVE them. I told President today (again) that it would be more than fine if he leaves me here for a while. I've been feeling upset the past few weeks, because I've been really trying my best since I got here, but we haven't seen much progress made. I just have felt sick about leaving this place with nothing to show for it. I have prayed harder than ever to just be able to find out how the heck to help this ward. and this week was such a week of tender mercies/answers to prayers/miracles!!!! I told President he needs to leave me here a while longer so we can get this work done that has taken us (me) so long to figure out how to do! This ward is like my family hahaha. I love the heckies outta them. I've already had a few offers of places to stay when we come back to visit, so no worries about a hotel! ;) Please, please, PLEASE keep Lisa in your prayers. Lisa Presland. Her daughter Tayla (10 years old) committed to be baptized next month. Tayla is great and strong and wonderful, but she's still only 10 and needs support from her mom, and her mom needs heaps of prayers.
Momma this has truly been a week of miracles! I feel a tiny bit worried about Sis. Vue because she's honestly getting a fantastic start to her mission, but like THIS IS THE MOST INCREDIBLE WEEK I'VE HAD MY WHOLE MISSION! And I don't think she realizes how amazing all this stuff is that's happening because.... she hasn't had bad weeks before...... and she hasn't been here for the last three months that it took to get to this point. It just makes me laugh because I've been here through 4 different companions, and it has taken so much trial and error and hard work and failure and disappointment and prayers and now after THREE MONTHS, things are finally working and we have started to get some real traction.. and now she is just here to tag along (most of the time having next to no idea what is going on).
I had kind of just a tender mercy on Sunday, we have family in our ward who invited us for dinner and they were also having some friends come who wanted to meet us! We were sitting in their living room waiting for their friends, and one of their daugters, Serene, (the one I sang with on Easter and in a fireside for another ward) just randomly came over and started to just rub my neck. As silly as that sounds to call that a tender mercy, it really was! I have just felt so worried and like I've had a big weight on me for a long time. and apparently I've been getting reeeeall tense because my shoulders have been cramping up.. I'm sure you remember when I used to have problems with that during school! They have been so much worse lately, to the point that they will start hurting really bad even just while I'm driving. It just helped me to remember that somewhere I have a heavenly Father who knows I'm tired and I'm sore but I'm really trying to do whatever I can to care for his children here! And there are people he is sending to remind me that he's still got my back. Man I never knew neck-rubs could be such a testimony builder/emotional experience hahahaha.
Anyways. I LOVE YOU MOMMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are the best ever.
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