February 23, 2015

Hello friends.

Well, here is some cool news. We had dinner with a family in our ward named the H's. Turns out they lived in the Long Beach 10th ward back in the day and they know Clark and Genie Poston. Apparently, the Poston's gave them a Coleman water jug for a Wedding gift. Whoever talks to the Poston's next tell them the H's said hello. Also, their nephew is serving in Abundancia in Paraguay. The gospel sure is a small small world.

Okay, our investigator A is not really progressing. Sadly, she is not keeping any commitments and wasn't at church yesterday. Tomorrow at our lesson with them we have a sister coming with us who her and her husband just got called to be mission presidents in Mexico. This is one of their assignments to come out with the missionaries. Hopefully, we can a really great lesson teaching the second half of the Plan of Salvation.

Okay, Elder Ballard and Elder Rasband were just awesome! They were only with us for about 1.5 hours, but it was just what I needed. They taught us how to ask for more referrals from people and how to talk to more people about the gospel. Elder Ballard promised us that if we talked to 10 people a day outside of teaching appointments and tracting that our baptisms will double. I have been working extra hard and hopefully we can see some positive results from it soon. He also taught us that whenever he is having a hard moment in life he just pulls out a picture of Christ and looks at it. After looking at it he knows that everything will be okay. I decided to put up a picture of Christ in our car and try to look at it more often. Every time there is a hard moment I look at it. It seriously bring immediate peace. It is incredible. You all should try it. One of my favorite scriptures is 2 Timothy 1:7. "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love and of a sound mind." I feel like it applies perfectly!

This week we volunteered at a Senior Center. Most everyone their has dementia. It is so sad, but can be pretty fun sometimes. Sister Strong painted everyone's fingernails and I painted with the old ladies. While painting an old lady rolled up to me and said with what she thought was a whisper voice, but in all reality was a shouting voice... at least you don't have a butt the size of that lady over there. So awkward. The director of place, who the lady was talking about is about 300 pounds. She heard the whole thing. So awkward. Hopefully, you are laughing and feel really bad for me.

We had dinner with a part member family this week. It was great. They invited some non-members. We were able to talk to them all about missionary life and the gospel. It was the best. The part member family invited them to come to the next dinner we have with them. They happily agreed.

The weather here has been so weird. It is actually pouring rain right now. I am all about warmer weather, except for the face that it makes the roads insanely icy. Yesterday, we got a text saying that we could stay inside all day because of road conditions. No way jose were we staying inside on a Sunday. We had way too much to do. I drove with much caution. No need to fear!!!!

Well, last night a member told us a story about when he fought a bear in a cave. Talk about crazy! Remind to tell you about it when I get home.

I love you all! I hope all is well!!!

Love,

Sister Morrison

Exchanges with Sister Ogden