Alaska Alaska Alaska: July 7, 2014

Offically half way done with the mission!! Man time flies. It is just crazy.

Part of misisonary training is something called 12 week. You basically spend an extra hour of studying and practicing principles from preach my gospel every day. It has been made known to be super annoying with the amount of role plays and practices you do, so we decided to make it fun. We played frisbee trying to memorize scriptures and practiced teaching people that were playing frisbee. They didn't say missionary 12-week had to be boring, so I decided to make it FUN learning.

Two senior couples work at the state archive center. This week we helped them pull out staples out of old documents so they could be prepped to be photographed. Who knows? Maybe the stuff you all end up indexing I will have put my hands on. Wouldn't that be cool?

We go an amazing refferal this week! They are a Fillipino coulple that have a daughter who is dating a member and they want to know more about the church. They seem pretty golden, so hopefully they start progressing. We are meeting with them again tonight. I am pretty excited. Pray that we can understand them. They have thick thick accents.

We taught W the second half of the plan of Salvation! It is amazing. Missionaries have been meeting with him for years and we finally are seeing him progress. He told us about some amazing spiritual experiences that he has had. We told him that if he prayed about what we were teaching him was true or not, he would have another very amazing spiritual experience. He took the challenge and we are meeting again with him this week!!!

So.. we were in car accident this week. Nobody get scared. It wasn't too bad. We were visiting a less active whos front door access is from a back road. We made sure to pull out of the road to park. We were in the middle of the lesson when a knock of the door came. A lady asked us if our car was the grey one outside? We said yes. She told us that she had just backed into us. She told that she not look before backing up and that is was her fault. A drunk man who witnessed the whole thing even offered to be our lawyer. Anyway.. our whole back bumper was pretty much destroyed. This week we have to work on geting it all fixed.

Fourth of July. Just another day on the mission. Except for the fact that my companions and I each took a color of the flag an each wore a solid color. I was the color blue. It was pretty fun going out in Red, White and Blue. We did try to go out to the parade to talk to people, but we barely missed it. We figured we would be able to talk to people about the church and patriotism, but everyone was too busy getting from point A to B, so at least we tried right?

We have a few other investigators that are slowly progressing. I don't have much of an update, but hopefully I will next week. We did have whole less active family show up to church on Sunday, so that was happy. Also, The whole K family fasted on Sunday. It was so cool seeing them continue to progress in the gospel.

They are building a new church in Juneau and it is almost ready! They are going to have church tours and all that jazz. Guess who they picked to be on the planning commitee to help with the tours? Yep, you guessed right. The Sister Missionaries! I am more than pumped. You know me. I LOVE planning things! Woohoo.

We got a new mission president this past week. I haven't met him yet, but he is coming to Juneau on the 17th. I kind of feel naked with out President Beesley. It is kind of funny!

Hope you all are doing great and sharing the gospel!!!!!!

I love you so much!

Sister Morrison