Alaska Alaska Alaska: December 1, 2014

Hello hello! Happy Turkey day! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Hopefully, you were able to ponder about what you were grateful for. I know I sure did.

Well, this week started off attempting to summit Half Top Mountain again for Pday. This week we were able to summit with ice cleats and the whole shebang! It was definitely an adventure. As I was climbing the last stretch of the mountain. I looked down to see some of the other mission missionaries making their way up the mountain. I could see the difficulties that lay ahead for them that they could not. I had a pretty cool impression. Life is like a mountain. Heavenly Father is at the top looking down. He knows the trials that we may face right around the corner of the trail, but he also leading and protecting you from dangers. I don't know... maybe that makes sense to you guys. It made sense to me :)

Well, we had a surprise this week. We went over to an active members house for dinner and guess who they invited? C and her family. It was so exciting. The husband even came! The P's told us that we as missionaries deserve at least one surprise a week. We were able to teach them about prayer and the power of it in a members home! Man that was the best ever. Nothing better that having great fellow shippers for an investigator.

This week Sister Ogden and I went on two exchanges this week. I went to the Jewel Lake ward to be with Sister Honey for the day. It was a day full of miracles. Well, let me tell you about a huge miracle. We were teaching a lady, named M, the Restoration. She loved it so much. As we testified of the Joseph Smith story her face lit up bigger than anyone's I have ever seen. As we were ending the lesson she kept saying, "Teach me more, teach me more!" That is what missionary work is about. That was so happy. Okay, and here is the other miracle that happened at M's. She knows we can only drink herbal tea. Well, she gave everyone herbal tea except for me on accident. She accidently gave me black tea. I didn't want to be rude and not drink it, but I was no way no how breaking the word of wisdom. I was praying so hard the entire lesson for an opportunity to some how get rid of the tea without her noticing. Well, half way through the lesson the Lord answered my prayer in a way I did not expect at all. Mary has a giant pitbull that was laying under the table when all of the sudden the dog had a giant twitch launching it into the air resulting it to bang its body on the table perfectly underneath my cup, knocking my cup of black tea all over me and the table. Funny thing is... no one else's cups knocked over. Just mine. The Lord really does answer prayers. So... I taught the rest of the lesson gladly with a soaking wet dress. Pretty cool right?

I was also able to go on exchanges with Sister Harrison. You all know that is always a good time. We always have so many miracles happen and just have the best days ever. I sure hope we are companions one day. Well, here are so miracles that happened. We decided that we were going tracting early in the morning telling people about the new Christmas video that the church has put out. It is called, He is the gift. You should all watch it. Anyway! I felt really inspired that we needed to go to a certain street to tract. Lo and behold, on the second to last door a man answered in tears. He explained that he was going through a really hard time and didn't really want to talk. We told him we would pray for him and shared with him the, He is the gift video. Who knows if anything will ever come of it, but it truly amazing to see the Lord leading us to the right doors at the right times.

This week we met with a less active in our ward that suffers from severe anxiety. Last week we were able to have a lesson about the Book of Mormon with her. We taught her that the Book of Mormon can solve any problem that we are facing. Well, this week she had a fear of heights and was anxious at work thinking about the giant hill she had to drive down to get home from work. She was so anxious she could barely function until she remembered the promise we had given her about the Book of Mormon. She pulled the Book of Mormon out from under her desk and read the introduction page. A line stuck out to her that promised everlasting peace. She was then able to drive home with that everlasting peace the Book of Mormon promised without any anxiety. True blessings come from reading the Book of Mormon.

Thanksgiving was kinda a bummer, but that is okay. We spent the morning handing out "Thank you" cards to the ward council and then my companion got really sick. She had to stay in bed until dinner. It gave me the opportunity to organize our files and clean the apartment. We then were able to go to the M's for dinner. It was a fancy feast. We had a lot of fun. After dinner we then continued to pass out more cards.

It snowed in Anchorage and sadly it is sticking. Watch out Anchorage! Here comes a California driver!

Hope all is well! Make sure to check out Christmas.mormon.org :) Share it with everyone! Can't wait to Skype in 24 days. Can you all believe it is already December?

Love you all!

Sister Morrison