Week 30 - And another week....And a transfer

Family,

 I love love love love love you all!

This week was a good one. We had great success with some of our investigators and found some new people.

We have one investigator who is super cool. She’s now been to church 3 times in a row and she is trying to quit smoking. In this week she went from smoking 10 cigarettes a day down to 1 per day. This week we’re hoping she stops all together and then we can baptize her next week.

Welp, Elder Segundo will actually have to do all that I just said because I got transferred! I went around yesterday to say goodbye to all the members and converts and investigators. It was super sad actually. When we stopped by to tell Patricia, Janet, and Josilyn, Patricia and Janet were crying. I’m really going to miss being with them, but I know that The Lord needs me where I am.

This morning I packed up all my stuff and headed off to a chapel where I was to receive my new companion and everything. They didn’t tell me anything before hand. When I arrived we sat with all the Elders and the transfers began! After a while they called this one Elder’s name, then they said, “Your companion will be Elder Morgan” I looked up at who it was and I was super surprised to see this tall white kid that has the same time in the mission as me. Then the President said, “Elder Morgan will be the new district leader.” What the.... I almost sat down again thinking that there must be another Elder Morgan. 2 white kids with the same time in the mission and one of them called as the district leader.... That’s pretty rare. After we hugged, President Carreon said, “Obviously a lot of inspiration went into this companionship.”

So.... Here I am in the ward Casablanca which is right next to my old ward  Matamoros. We’re actually emailing from a place where we used to email in Matamoros. Elder Smalley seems like a super missionary. I’m really excited.

Anyways, that’s about it!

Elder Segundo stayed back in Terrazas 2 and finished his training last week. He’s going to be a great missionary and none of the thanks goes to me. He practically came pre-trained and learned much from The Lord.

This week we actually went to a conference where President Carreon spoke. He spoke to us on The Doctrine of Christ. The Doctrine of Christ, or Gospel, is the plan that our Heavenly Father has given us in order to be able to lift ourselves from this fallen state of humanity. When Adam and Eve partook of the Forbidden Fruit, they were expelled from the Garden of Eden and became mortals, subject to 2 types of death, the spiritual death or sin, and the physical death. We all are in this fallen state and separated from our Heavenly Father because of it. However, he has lovingly provided us with a way to be redeemed from this fall. We can imagine that what separates us between God is a trench. To cross this trench, God sent Christ. He has made this bridge to cross this trench through His Atonement. However, if we don’t start walking, we’ll never be able to cross over. This process of Spiritual Walking is the Gospel. Faith, Repentance, Baptism, the Reception of the Holy Ghost, and Endurance till the end. If we do these things, we will live with God again. No question about it. I testify of this great Gospel that we have. Now all we have to do is walk. So, I exhort you all to WALK!

Everyone have a great week.

Love you all,

Elder Morgan