Bloxham Missionary News: Hermana Bloxham

This has been an awesome week! This Friday and Saturday we had guys painting our apartment so we all had to be in our apartment from 8am to 6pm.... killer long! But we got lucky on Saturday that they got done at about 2:00. We didn't have anything really planned and neither did the english sisters we live with... so we decided to go on splits with them! I went with the new trainee sister liou and sister cole went with sister cole went with sister crawford. I thought it would be super scary to be the "senior companion" for a little bit but it was awesome!

We went tracting and found these ladies sitting outside their house talking. We stopped and talked to them and found out that other missionaries had given them a picture of Jesus and a Book of Mormon. We thought it was probably a while ago with other missionaries so we were super excited to see them! We talked for about 30 minutes outside and ended up getting inside to teach them about their purpose in life!

At the end of the night when we got home we were talking to our companions about our day and come to find out that they were the missionaries who gave her the card and BOM that same day! So our trainers helped us out even when we weren't even together! It was such an awesome experience and I learned a lot about myself and the work!

So yes of course I'm going to talk about Mercedes again haha but this week we decided to read the BOM with her. We started from the beginning and just read 1 Nephi 1 with her. She said that she will read it now that she can understand more about the people in it. It was great! We started with the song "more holiness give me" and she was bawling! Like could hardly talk, crying so hard. That just brought the spirit so strong into the lesson.

After the lesson she said that she had this great iced tea she wanted to give us. We told her that we dont drink that and she sat right back down and we explained about the word of wisdom really fast. Talked about how we dont drink coffee, tea or alcohol and all of that. She said that makes sense, to keep your body clean. And that was all we said about that.

On sunday we went over to clean her house and give her a blessing with elders in our district. She went on and on to the elders about how much she loves us and everything haha, we love her so much too ;) and then she said, I had a woman offer me coffee yesterday and i didnt take it. If my nietas(granddaughters) dont drink coffee, neither do I! And she threw out all of her iced tea! We didn't even ask her to do that at all and she just did it! Its so awesome!!!

I love this mission so much and I hope you can all feel how great it is too!

Love Hermana Bloxham