I MADE IT FOUR MONTHS!!!!!!!!!! YAY! TIME FLIES WHEN YOU ARE HAVING FUN!!!!!!!!!
So sad. Mom, you must have given me a migraine through the computer last week. It was P-day and I was in the middle of playing basketball and all of the sudden I could not see about half the stuff I was looking at and I started to get SUPER nauseous (mom spell check that word). Well, I went and laid on the stage and about an hour later I was experiencing a raging migraine. I told my companions that we needed to go the store and get some medicine ASAP. So... I ruined two hours of their P-day. They went and got me some medicine and they dropped me off at the mission home where I laid in pain and tried to sleep until they picked me up that night around 9. Man it totally sucked to not being able to work, but it was nice to have a place to stay and my companions could still go out and work.
We taught a less active couple this week. They are 90 years old and are celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary. Can you believe that? The down side about teaching them is that we have to literally scream the lesson at the top of our lungs in order to teach them anything. I think they might just need to get those hearing aids adjusted. It's kinda hard to keep the spirit when you have to scream, but my comps and I always come out of their lessons dying laughing!
We picked up a new investigator this week. His name is P and is a native man. He lives in the basement of a members home and joined us for dinner at the members home. We shared a message about diligence and that brought up him talking about diligence in working out. It was so funny! He is obsessed with working out and brags all about how buff he is. Well... his muscles are about the size of mine. AKA... he has no muscles. On the bright side because of that we were able to relate it to the gospel and he agreed to meet with us again. It's amazing the different ways you can pick up investigators.
This week we met with some less actives that have been faithful members of the gospel their whole lives and recently read a whole bunch of anti Mormon crap online and have completely left the church because of it. NEVER READ THAT STUFF ONLINE. It will literally destroy you. It was so sad to see the effect that has had on their lives. It was probably one of the hardest lessons I have ever had to teach. I had to rely completely on the Holy Ghost. We came out of the lesson having borne powerful testimonies of the truthfulness of gospel. I think the lord really helped us because they totally showed up to church on Sunday after about a year! WOOOOHOOOOOO
We are teaching a lady that used to live in Dutch Harbor. Only my dream place to live. The best part about it is that she totally knows all of the people from Deadliest Catch. Every time we go over to her house we always talk Deadliest Catch for the first 10 minutes. Man it is the best!
Okay. We are meeting with two families. Both the husbands are less active and the wives are non-members. After years of meeting with missionaries the spirit is finally working with them! Both the wives are finally progressing! We are so excited. Their hearts are being softened! They are building testimonies about the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon and are now finally considering coming to church. I am so grateful that the Lord is letting the Dream Team be those instruments in helping others finding the truthfulness of the gospel!
Fun fact of the day! I finally have my Alaska drivers license. I only had to take the test one time to pass! I started driving this week. I must say the roads are a lot different from nice California dry roads. I have officially driven on ice and I am feeling a lot more comfortable about it. If anyone remembers my license picture from California we all know that is the worst picture ever taken in the history of the DMV. Well... sadly my Alaska picture beats the California picture. IT IS EVEN WORSE! I look like a 500 pound white ghost. Oh well.
Saturday was quite the eventful day. We got a call from our mission president. He told us a girl in the crisis center requested sister missionaries to come and visit her. We we all a little panicked not knowing what to expected. Man I prayed so hard trying to know exactly what she needed to hear. We ended up meeting with her. She was a little timid, but ended up being totally normal. Turns out she was baptized in the North Pole ward like 5 years ago. We were able to talk all about the people there. It was awesome. She was able to come to church on Sunday and is going to start attending mutual! It's the best! Then we got another call from the mission president. He asked us and the the other missionaries in our ward to come and meet with him. We all pretty nervous and were trying to think of what we did wrong... We got to their house and he called my comp upstairs first...She came back down BALLING. Well... we all know I have anxiety, so I just about peed my pants I was so nervous. He told us that she was being transferred up to Fairbanks early. The sister in Fairbanks will be with us for two weeks. The dream team is getting split up! We are SOOO sad! It's nothing that we did wrong. It's just that the sister in Fairbanks is coming down this week for meetings and is going home in two weeks...so there is no point in flying her back up to Fairbanks just to fly her down again in a couple days.
I am kind of worried about it since she is the senior companion and we have SUPER tough investigators. It will make me the senior companion. You bet your bottom dollar I have not prayed harder in my life these past few days for the Holy Ghost to be by my side. Things get a lot harder when you have responsibility to lead out the lessons. I know it will all work out. I did meet with the mission president Saturday night also. He said I was most likely going to be the missionary that stays in Anchorage next transfer. So..that was a little nice getting transfer calls early!
Best part about this week. I sat on a members cat and almost killed it. It was an accident,but I really hope I injured that thing. I know... probably not missionary approved mind, but oh well!
Love to all! Keep teaching and preachin' the gospel friends and family! You never know who the Lord is preparing for you to share the gospel with!!!!
Sister Morrison
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