Sister Clifford: Week #2 in Alabama!

Sister Clifford: Week #2 in Alabama!

  Hi everyone!!!! I hope everyone is doing well! I miss and love all of you! The south is amazing and the people here are the very best, just like everyone said. They are the nicest/sweetest people. This place is beautiful and so green!

 We had the opportunity to go to the temple in Birmingham last week and that was such an amazing experience. The temple is the most perfect place to be and it's where we should always strive to be. I'm so grateful for the peace and love I feel when I'm inside.

The people in Bama are the best and our investigators are amazing!!! This mission is huge and people live so far apart from each other so we are always traveling long distances. It takes 30 minutes to get to our church building, but the drive is beautiful! I love it. ALSO, we have this investigator named Beverly who is the sweetest! We love her! She never stops talking and has the deepest southern accent, literally ever. Every time we call her on the phone she asks us to pray with her and after we say "amen" she always goes "PRAISE THE LORD I LOVE JESUS AND I LOVE THE SISTER MISSIONARIES". It is amazing and I try so hard not to laugh every time she does it. I had the amazing opportunity to invite her to baptism this week which was an experience I will never forget. I asked, and she looked at me with the biggest smile on her face and said, "OF COURSE I WILL YA'LL. BLESSED!!!" My companion and I just looked at each other so happy! Missionary work truly blesses people and changes lives. I witness it everyday. Also, we have an investigator named Glen and he is the best to teach! He's a baptist but he always says he needs some help because he doesn't really believe in that church and believes the Book of Mormon is more accurate. The other day we were over at his house and he looks at me and says, "Sister Clifford, look what I have!" and he pulls out a Clifford the big red dog stuffed animal and just starts dying laughing. I immediately had to take a picture of course (attached below) and then he made me take a bunch of selfies with it on his phone. He's incredible and I love him.

 I've currently been on an exchange the last couple of days in Tupelo, Mississippi and this place is RAD. I love the southern people. They are some of the nicest and most caring people I have ever met. I'm grateful for this opportunity I have to be serving them! Also, today we were able to go to the zoo n Tupelo with the other sisters and it was so much fun, even though it was 72708731 degrees outside. Gotta love the south in August. I sent some pictures!

  Missionary work is incredible, but it's definitely no easy task. It is very, very hard. I've had some difficult days, but through those difficult days I've really been able to see Heavenlly Father's hand in my life and I'm so grateful for that. He is always there for us and He wants us to rely on Him during these hard times. Prayer is amazing and it's such an incredible tool that we have. I'm also so grateful for Priesthood blessings and the love, peace and comfort that they can provide. It's amazing. I know Heavenly Father can give us strength and help us to overcome any trial that we face.

“Whosoever shall put their trust in God shall be supported in their trials, and their troubles, and their afflictions, and shall be lifted up at the last day.”

—Alma 36:3

  This church is amazing and I'm so grateful for it. It has blessed my life in so many ways. Our Heavenly Father is always there for us and he loves us. I know that to be true! I hope everyone has a good week! WRITE ME!!! I love you all!

XOXO

SISTER CLIFF