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So Much Love

From Emily:

GUYS! I'm moving areas *cries a thousand tears*. That's the super sad news for this week. My heart is a little broken, but I had a cool spiritual experience that helped me feel better, so get yourselves ready for some cheese. I was just sitting on my bed listening to music and thinking on Saturday night before bed. Then a song came on by Lauren Daigle. The chorus says, "What have I done to deserve love like this." It was like my heart just burst and images of all the people I love here in Rainville flashed through my head. I truly feel that I don't deserve the relationships I have with these people--it's more wonderful than I can explain! I have been filled with more love than I ever thought possible. What have I done to deserve such love? I feel blessed beyond words for the time I got to spend here. The more I think about my experiences in Rainville, the more I want to give Heavenly Father a big hug haha. There's no question that I'm gonna miss all these wonderful people (featured in the pictures below). AHHH! Crazy stuff. 
But this week was really really great. Taught a grand total of 27 lessons so yeet. We just worked our bums off and found some super awesome people. If I had more than 90 minutes, I'd write all about it, but I don't....so I'm just gonna end it with this one experience. A couple days ago, we were going to follow up with this woman that lives close to our house who's son has just died. We rolled up, but she wasn't emotionally stable enough to talk to us, so we talked with her neighbor and were walking away when I see this boy come out of her house. We ask him if he knew the man that died. He says yes, he was my cousin. We expressed how sorry we were and that as missionaries we have a very important message he needs to know. The next day we came over and taught him some of the gospel. He was so into it the whole time, asking lots of clarifying questions and so. The spirit was overwhelmingly strong and we taught that lesson like we've never taught any other before. I felt God putting words into my mouth and I know He was also putting words into Sister Elmer's mouth. IT WAS SO COOOOOOL. I love Domelso. God leads this work and I know Jesus is the Christ! I see it every single day. 
I love you guys!
Zr Merg
PS: Count how many times I said the word "love" in this email and you get extra credit. I have become the sister missionary I never thought I could....hahaha bear with me people.









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