Week 8: Crazy Kids & Beautiful Hikes

October 3, 2016

What a wonderful week! I've had a lot of fun this week being in the service of the Lord. It's amazing how fast the weeks go by though, weeks feel like days. It's weird to think that I will have been our for a transfer by the end of this week, it flew by! I have had a lot of missionaries tell me that the second transfer goes by even faster though, which is hard to believe.

Conference weekend was so awesome! I noticed a lot of themes about the Book of Mormon, restoration and missionary work but maybe that's only because I'm on a mission. My favorite talks was probably President Nelson's talk on joy, but there were so many good ones, it's hard to pick a favorite. We got to watch it at members houses for the most part but watched in the church as well. It was a strengthening experience to hear from God's chosen servants.

We had a fun p-day last week where we got to go on a hike that included these awesome tunnels we went through. It followed the Arkansas River and it was really pretty. I'll be getting some winter clothes today because it normally snows before Halloween here.

Arkansas River

We started teaching two families that I really love this week as well. One is a single mom with these three crazy kids and the other is this family with 2 even crazier kids, it reminds me of home, haha. All the kids that we teach are in love with me which makes it really fun. This little girl had to have her Dad hold her back  from hugging me and then when he let her go after she "calmed down", she bolted  over and tackle-hugged me, haha.


I'm really excited because we should be having 2 baptisms this Saturday if all goes as planned! So we will be preparing Jeff and Nathan to enter into that covenant with God this week. 

It has been a great week though, and I am thankful that the Lord has blessed me to be able to serve. I definitely miss my family, but I should be back in not time if it keeps going by this fast.

Love, 
Elder Morgan


Some additional back-and-forth emails:

Ya that was from a cool couple in the ward that we watched conference with yesterday! I definitely miss being with the family on conference weekend. I loved conference though. Ya I heard Black Angus doesn't sit too well with Isaac haha! Man I hate it too but that's cool about Eli, make sure he send me some pictures! Keep me updated though on everything, no ones divorced or anything right? Ya We got that cookies and they were awesome! thank you so  much, that made my week for sure and the other guys also appreciated it. I've gained like 7 pounds since the MTC though so I might come back with diabetes haha. And I have to shave like every 3 days now, I'm becoming a real man. But anyways I love and miss you Mom!

Love,

Elder Morgan

Billy and Conny, two recent converts that we see every week, they're hilarious.