Week 40 - This week.....Wow

Hey there family!!!!

I love you all so much!!!!!

This week was super weird. We were so busy, but then at the same time we did like nothing. 

To start off with, this week we spent a whole bunch of time planning this Ward Open House that we did on Saturday. We went out with the youth for a few hours and passed out like 400 invitations and we were inviting everyone that we talked to this week. It was so great. The day of the actual activity came and everyone from the ward had done a great job. Basically we set it up so that all the organizations had a room in the church and had to give a 5 minute schpeel on what they do in that organization.  Well, everybody did a great job. So, then it came time to start and NOBODY CAME. Not a single investigator nor non member showed up. We were pretty bummed, but the good thing was that the ward all pulled together and saw that we are trying to work. I even tried to get people that walked by to come in by standing outside holding a sign that said, "Free passports" haha. I didn't really do that. We would have had a way bigger turnout though. 

So anyways, that really hurt our week because we had been planning that activity and everything. Oh well.

Our zone here is doing really good right now. Our zone is known as like the worst zone of the mission basically, but it's really turned around. When I got here, the whole zone only baptized 1 person in that month. The record here is 19 baptisms in one month, really really low! However, we've been working really hard and focusing on the people, not the numbers. As a result of that we should end up with like 25 or something this month. A huge improvement. 

Juan baptism

Juan baptism

Anyways, there's not much else to tell. This week we tried to get permission to go over to the San Diego temple because Frida, our recent convert was going, but I guess the missionaries here can't go to the temple anymore. which is a bummer!  Oh well. She went and had a great time!!!

I know that this church is true. I know that because God has told me. I know without a single doubt in my mind that

we have a prophet that leads and guides us.

I love you all so much! 

Elder Morgan 

Elder Morgan's and Elder Smalley's desk at their apartment