Hello friends and family,
Okay. So, the days are flying by. I feel like I just emailed
you all yesterday! Anyways, about the week.
HERE WE GOOOOOO.......
First off, let me talk about P days. We basically get all
day to study/prepare. That means being able to go to the gym, do laundry, write
letters and emails, language study, personal study, go to Brigham's Landing for
some legit burgers and Jamba Juice, and go to the Temple!! Man, the temple here
is so huge and awesome, but it closes next week for the rest of the year!!!!
I'm so bummed.
So, this Sunday we had a devotional by a lady named Mary
Ellen Edmunds. First off, she is hilarious, but she talked to us about how we
should be optimistic and powerful and always smile. Hard to do when you don't
know the language, but we're working on it!!! Then we got to watch a video of a
talk Elder Bednar gave at the MTC on Christmas of 2011. It's entitled
"Character of Christ"....... WOW. EVERYONE WHO IS READING THIS NEEDS
TO STOP WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND WATCH IT!!!!! It was so great. It talked about how to become Christ-like we must be willing to turn outward even when
the natural man would turn inward. We also always have devotionals on Tuesdays.
This week it was of Elder Audikaitus (Elder Marcos A. Aidukaitis) or something like that of the 70. He spoke
on the Kingdoms of Glory. Pretty righteous stuff!
This week we got two new investigators. Raili and Louis.
They were both people that our two teachers Hermano Pasantino and Hermano Carr
taught on their mission. (They role play as if they are them.) It's awesome. We
were able to teach both of them the Restoration and commit them to read, pray,
and come to church this week. Elder Backus and I are getting so much better at
preparing and giving lessons. We have so far to go, but we are starting to
understand each other much better. I can also teach the whole restoration in
Spanish in 1 minute and 10 seconds. JAJA.
This week we got a special little treat! We normally have
gym outside and it's a bummer when it rains because we can't do like anything!
But now we have these huge temporary buildings that look like big white
marshmallows or bubbles that are held up by pressurized air. They're really cool
and they have concrete floors and volleyball, and basketball, and indoor soccer,
and 4 square. I'm not sure why, but 4 square is like what I live for during gym
time now. It's literally the best thing ever.
So, VISA update. Elder Scholes, Elder Phair, and myself will
be waking up at 4:00 AM tomorrow to get on a plane to Vegas where we will go to
the Mexico consulate to meet and do stuff about our VISA's. We'll be there
all day and get back at 9:00 PM. Wooot.
So, funny things of the week. I go and check our mail
everyday. Well this week for some reason for like 2 days they didn't give us
any dearelders which is the majority of our mail. So, we would always go check
and have an empty mailbox. Well, one particular day, I checked and there was
nothing. So, our district asked me whether there was any mail and I responded
in a funny voice and with a couple hand gestures, "No, everybody HATES
US." Well, I thought nothing of it until the next day when a Sister came
up to me and explained to me that she and her district had overheard me say
that and they thought it was the funniest thing and they had spent the whole
day imitating me and laughing about it. So now, at lunch, I always see that
district and they're like obsessed with watching me and laughing at everything I
do..... Kind of funny.
More funny things
about our district. For some reason nobody in our apartment seems to understand
how a thermostat works and all of them must be pregnant because they are
constantly complaining about the temperature and changing it to either like 90
degrees or 60 degrees, I try and explain how it works, but they don't
understand.
Love you all so much. I know that this church is true. I
know that the only way that we can know for ourselves the truthfulness of
anything is through the Spirit. He is the one that is the teacher out here, we
are just the words.
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| Elder Covey wearing his proper cleaning attire for when we do service |
Love,
Elder Morgan