Lumbee Bowls

        It is yet again another great week! the Lord is really blessing us here. This week Elizabeth is being Baptized and it has really been great teaching her. Her Mother is from Nigeria and speaks with a very heavy accent, she has as been less active for a long time but has become very strong through the teaching of her daughter. Elizabeth is really excited for it and she really understands the importance of what she is doing. I must say I'm really excited too!

 Another really cool thing this week was that we were at a members house where we were suppose to teach an investigator that never showed up... so we asked this member if there was any one that he knew that needed to be taught in his home and he gets up and walks into another room and comes out with one of his mother's home nurses. He invites her right there in front of us if she would like to be taught. We set up another time to go teacher her but she got really sick so we couldn't meet with her until Sunday. Her name is Tina. When we first got there she really didn't know why we were there other then she wanted to understand more about Jesus Christ. It was really great to see the change that had come over her, from the opening prayer to the closing. She hasn't been involved with any church for a long time but she does have a testimony of prayer, besides that she really didn't know to much so we started from the beginning. The best part about the lesson was when we started teaching about the Book of Mormon she came out with a really deep question about her own life as pertaining to if she should marry a man she was dating or not, and then that is where the spirit really came in strong as we testified about how if she were to read and pray about the Book of Mormon that her question would be answered. She is really excited and wants her Boyfriend to learn now too! This was all a big miracle. 

A really fun thing we did yesterday was to make clay bowls with the Lumbees! yep so I'm almost full Lumbee now haha... but to tell the truth my bowls were not that good. It was the first time that I have ever done pottery on a wheel. It was a really good bowl to start with, but in the end after just a "few" mistakes i don't think it will hold more than salad dressing or something haha. This project was for a thing called empty bowls where we make the bowls and then they sell them to others and give all the money to the poor in the area. Very cool,  I had a lot of fun. It's so much fun being with the Lumbees!

Oh ya so today the weather is in the high 60s....... its one of the craziest winters I have ever been in..... I really have no idea what its going to be like in the summer......... all is well and it has just been a lot of fun! I love you all so much and I hope you have a great week!

LOVE ELDER MAUGHAN