Kia Ora 9-25-16

Hellooo!! Sorry for that late email I went hiking in basically the Garden of Eden.. hahah:) These last few days have been pretty wonderful, I had the amazing opportunity to go to the temple. We took the Wilsons (senior couple at vc) family names to the temple, and while doing initiatory I couldn't stop sobbing, it wasn't me though, I just knew that this lady, Annie was so grateful. she had waited since the 1800's and she was so so grateful her work was finally done. It was a spiritual experience, and everyone kept asking if it was my family name because of how strong the spirit was. 

Yesterday while at the Visitors center, This girl who is a returning less active came in, she seemed a little down, we started talking to her and she began to express the doubts she was having about entering the temple. Luckily we all had similar experiences because Satan works on those who want to do right things, so we were able to share with her that we had been there and that she could overcome, it's really hard though because her mom passed away so she has no one else really in the gospel to help her. While we were talking with her, the spirit was so strong and all of a sudden she started sobbing, and she said in mid tear "I didn't realize how heavy the burden I had was until it just got lifted off".... WOW. The spirit was so strong. It was amazing to see that because we took the time to talk to this girl, and to tell her she was good enough that she was loved, we were able to help save a soul. She is an amazing person. 

We had the craziest person call on mormon.org the other day, he literally just argued and screamed at us and made fun of us. It was quite annoying that we had to keep talking to him because we are the "face of the church online" and so we did, and anyways it helped me realize that we can't change, unless we want to. No one else can make us change. This man kept getting more rude, and wanted to talk to our manager so we got elder peterson, hahaha and we were on the other line and heard this guy saying how rude we were and how we got so offended?? haha it was a crazy guy, glad he felt mormon.org is where he needed to be though hahah crazy world!! 

Well, I've now been out officially 6 months, isn't that crazy? It went really slow, and really fast. So grateful to be a missionary, so grateful for the experiences I have had. I love you each so much, and am so sorry this is so short, but not much has happened within the last few days!!! I love you each so much and pray for you so much daily. KNOW YOU ARE LOVED!!!

Arohanui, 

Sister Maddie DeLoach