Week 97 - Buzz and Woodsy

Family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow. Time is going by fast. One more month to be here in the full time service of The Lord! Yikes!!! We're working really hard.

Things here are going well. We had a really great week considering it's the second week here in the sector. We got 11 different referrals from the ward members and we had 5 new investigators go to church. One of the guys we're teaching is super awesome! God has been preparing him for some time now. We gave him the first lesson pamphlet and when we went back he had read every page of it!!!! Glossary included. He even filled out the additional study questions in the back! He then said, "Sorry I could only fill out half of the questions, but it's because I don't have a Book of Mormon, where can I get one?" Bing Bing!!!!!! It was such a great lesson and he's fulfilling all of his commitments! I love being in the Lord's hands. He went to church this week and after the three hour block, we asked if he had any questions. He said, "Yes and no. I feel like I have so many questions, but God just keeps telling me that this is the right place for me, that's the only question that matters right now, the rest will be resolved later." He felt like he was at home there in the ward. He should be getting baptized right before I get home! Could be the last convert I get to see in the mission.

Anyways, things are going really well. Elder Woods and I are starting to get into the swing of things here. The funny thing that happened yesterday was we ran out of money and so we had to walk home from a really far away place. After an hour and a half we finally got there. Oh well, it was a great excuse just to talk and look at the lunar eclipse!

I know that this church is true. Christ established a perfect church. There is no need to change His church. If He put the prophets and apostles there, we don't need to take them out of it! His church stands today and a prophet of God is at the head of it on this Earth. I testify of that as His representative. En el nombre de Jesucristo. Amen.

Elder Morgan

Week 96 - The hundred acres with Woods.

Family!!!!!

Love you!!!!!

So, first off... the title of this email... The hundred acres with Woods. This area that I'm in is so huge. To get from one end to the other, we take like a 45 minute bus ride up these sketchy dirt hills and stuff. It's like a storybook here. In the first 3 days, we saw 8 men riding horses. We've seen like 300 chickens, like 25 cows, a million dogs, and one little meal worm that was in Elder's Woods' food.

It's great though. It seems to be a place with so much potencial! We're going to do some good things here. I can feel it.

We're doing well. This week we were basically getting to know the area and getting accustomed to the place. We've already made ourselves good friends with some great families in the ward and we've been finding people to teach. It's crazy because from now on, I'll be setting baptismal dates from dates AFTER I'm already home!!! What the??? This whole two years thing went by way too fast. I love this place and still don't want to leave.

One of the cool things this week was that we went into a little store to see if they had any maps. They didn't, but then the lady that was working at the counter asked us if she could ask us a question. She said, "My husband is a member of your church and we want you guys to come to the house to give our son a blessing and to bless our house." Well, we set up the appointment and on Saturday we went. They're super cool. Basically their son his whole life has been able to see Spirits, one of them being his twin brother that died at birth. He's 17 now and he sees people quite often. They just wanted us to give him a blessing so he can cope with this ability that he has and to bless the house against evil spirits. A few years back some missionaries did the same thing in another house and they said it helped a whole bunch. We ended up blessing the house, and giving a blessing to all inside. It was really spiritual. Then we set up an appointment to return. We're going to reactivate this less active member and see if we can teach his family too. It just goes to show that we are not doing the work out here alone. God guides our footsteps. Even when we think that we're acting out of our own will, like by buying a map in a store, we realize that God leads and directs us.


Love you all!!! Have a great week!!!

Elder Morgan

Week 95 - Knock on Woods

Family!!!!!!

Love you guys so much!!!!!

This week was really great.

We had the chance to go to the re-dedication of the Mexico City temple. It was broadcast to all the chapels in Mexico. The doors were closed to the public, only worthy members. It was really really really great. I learned so much and was able to feel a wonderful Spirit! I love the temple and it's marvelous blessings. Thanks to these special edifices, we are able to be eternal families!!!!

Well, the news of the week is that I have been transferrred!!!!!! I'm now here in Rosarito with Elder Woods (notice that it is not the Elder Wood that I was with at the beginning.) He's a great guy that's from Idaho. I'm really excited to be working with him. We're opening up a new area (whitewashing) and I'll be serving as District Leader my last transfer. 15 months straight of being a zone leader and I can't even remember what a District Leader does! haha Should be a great learning experience. 

Well, I just want to let you all know that I love you. I got a lot of work to do before the end of this full time mission. I will never end the real mission though. The real mission that I'm serving is a life-long commitment to my Father in Heaven. I won't let Him down. 

Love you all!!!!

Elder Morgan

And a few goofy ones

Gotta love him!!  ;-)

Week 94 - el niño

Family!!

Love you all!!!!

Families are forever! wahoo!!

So, this week was good.

There was nothing really out of the normal that happened, but there was a cool miracle. We had finished up exchanges one of these days and so we went with a lady that was supposed to live in this area far away from our house. So, we went there to find her, but we couldn't find the house. We walked around all over, but it was nowhere to be found. Right when we had given up the search, we started walking and all of a sudden these two people come up to us and say, "Excuse me, are you the Elders?" We answered affirmatively and they said. We've been looking for elders for a long time! We were in Sinaloa studying with you guys about a year ago, but we didn't get the chance to finish the lessons and get baptized. We want to know where the church is, start up the lessons again, and get baptized. After we had picked our jaws up off the ground, we answered with a huge smile, "We can help you." These two are awesome. They were going to go to church yesterday, but they got lost on their way there. They walked a few miles to get there and almost got there, but they got lost at the very last bit and don't have a cell phone to communicate with us. They both have baptismal dates for the following month! This is the Lord's work. He shows us what to do and when to do it. 

Supposedly there is a hurricane that's supposed to hit this week. I hope we get to talk next week, but if not, it's because I'm swimming... haha. :)

Love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Keep safe and sound!!!!

Elder Morgan

Birthday Party for Bishop's son

Minion themed

 

And a few pictures to prove that Elder Morgan is still goofy Derek :-)