Easter was really good! I had a really good time and the
spirit was really strong yesterday. It started out at church with a few really good
talks and then really good lessons about the atonement. We then went to have lunch with
a really good family where we had a good southern breakfast for lunch and it was fun.
Then there was an Easter Program that our ward put together (I was not in this
one) and it was really good! So all of my Easter was very spiritual.
Oh and on Saturday the primary had a Easter egg hunt and we offered our yard for them to do
it on, since it is so close to the church. Tt was really funny to see this mop of children
attacking our yard and there was a little girl that saw the horses next to our
house and ran over to them and the horse came right over because it saw me. ( I have made a friendship with this horse by feeding it..... so now the
horse will come over when I walk up to the fence) so anyways this girl
walks up and when another little boy sees the horse coming he runs over and spookes
the horse, the lumbee in me kick's in and I run over to calm the horse down.
So the boy got scared and ran away but this little girl stayed right there
because she wanted to pet the horse. The funny thing about it was as the
girl was petting the horse, it bent down and grabbed her Easter bag thinking it
was food and for the next 3 seconds.....it was this epic struggle between animal and
girl! The surprising thing was the girl won! So never underestimate the strength
of a girl and her candy!
We had a really good lesson with the girl
from UNCP, she is doing really well and she has started to open a lot and its
been great to see the growth in her.
We also had another good lesson with
another investigator and she has been really quiet about what has been holding her
back from baptism and this last lesson she shared to us what was going on and it is is that she is having a hard time with the Sabbath being on Sunday
(she is a former 7th day Adventist) so tomorrow we will talking more
about that.
Oh also on UNCP there was this man that came and claimed to be
perfect . He started telling everyone that they were going to hell for very
random things; like any girl that plays sports is going to hell, and bla bla bla
and bla. It turns out that this has made a big impact on the school and a lot
of students now have questions . We have talked to a few people already and it
looks like its opening a lot of doors for us to share what Heavenly Father
really thinks of his children. But that's the south for ya... haha.
I hope everything is going great back home. I am so grateful
for all of you. I hope you all had a great week with Tim! This week we
will be having a Zone Activity day and I'm going to see a few of my old comps and
I'm way excited! Then next Tuesday will be transfers and this Saturday I'll be finding
out if I will be saying with my Lumbee family or going to make another family! So
its going to be fun!!
I love you all and I hope you have a great week!!
ELDER MAUGHAN
