Week 21 - Post General Conference

Helllllllllo Family!

I love you all so much and think of you often.

This week was pretty good.  We focused ourselves a little more on less active members. There's a ton in this ward. Here in La Morita (My sector) the people sometimes reject us.  Please everyone that is reading this go onto YouTube and watch "The Work of Salvation and The Atonement". Elder Holland and Elder Eyring speak and it's soooooo powerful!  Sometimes I feel like asking, "Why do the people reject us? Why is this hard?"  Then I think of the Savior and what he did and I can't help but be forever grateful!

I loved Conference this week!  The translating part was a little difficult for me, but during the Priesthood Session I said a little prayer and it was like night and day. The Gift of Tongues kicked in and I could understand everything perfectly as if it was in English.  I know that The Gift of Tongues is real.  I live it everyday!  I really love to listen to the Prophet speak!  The only bummer is that I didn't get to hear his actual voice.

Of course I was playing Where's Dave-o (A game we play in our family every Conference in order to find Dave Belt singing in the Tabernacle Choir) haha. My companion even started playing by the end of it!

We're doing really great here. Working hard and being blessed. We should be having some baptisms in the next few weeks.

Something that I have learned this week is that we're here to teach people, not lessons. As a missionary, sometimes it can become easy to just run through the motions of the lessons after you've taught them hundreds and thousands of times, but we're hear to listen to these people.  They are sons and daughters of God.  I love the quote by Elder Holland when he says that "These people are not baptismal statistics disguised as people.  They are Children of God.  Our Brothers and Sisters".  I love this work. Something that I really want to work on is helping people gain faith in Christ.  Faith leads us to do everything that we need to.  Obey the commandments, repent, go to church, everything happens after we first have faith!

I love you all so much! I want you to know that this work is true and that I love my Savior and the Atonement that he performed for me.

Love,

Elder Morgan 

Editor's Note: He still hasn't gotten his packages (little over a month now), so still no camera, and so no pictures.   :-(