Week 90: Parker Task Force & A Fireside

April 30, 2018

Well things are going pretty well here in Park Meadows! We have done lots of door knocking and have worked with with a lot of members. A couple lessons we had this week cancelled but that is ok because the weather was great and we were able to talk to a lot of really cool people.

One fun thing we do weekly is go to the Parker Task Force and do service. It is pretty awesome because it is technically out of our mission and we do it with some missionaries from the Denver North mission. So I get to feel a little rebellious for a couple hours even though it is approved haha. But we go and do inventory and stock food for the pantry there so it is a lot of fun.

We also got to go to a Work of Salvation fireside that was really awesome. It was a stake fireside where a couple recent converts speak and tell the stories of their conversion. They talked for a little bit about how we can become better member missionaries. It was really uplifting and a learned a lot about missionary work. 

Other than that, things are just good, loving it out here and working hard. Thanks for all the support and love. Love you all! Sorry no pictures this week!

Love,

Elder Morgan

Week 89: Knocking More Doors

April 23, 2018

Hey everyone! This was another great week and I am loving serving in the Park Meadows ward. I am finally getting a feel for the area with all the streets and getting to know all the ward members and people of the area.

We did a lot of tracting this week and placed a ton of copies of the Book of Mormon. We also found a new investigator who is so cool! Her name is Israel and she is so prepared for the Gospel. We knocked on her door and she was so happy we were there because she was going through a "faith crisis" and was having a really hard time with spiritual things so she saw it as a sign from God that we came to her door. When we gave her a copy of the Book of Mormon she was so grateful and couldn't believe that we were giving it to her for free haha. She was really nice though and we have a lesson with her this week so hopefully it will go well. 

Other than that I am having fun getting to know the members of the ward. The missionaries have been teaching all of the youth in the ward the missionary discussions for a bit so it has been fun getting to know a couple of them. The Jones, who we live with, are so awesome too, I am having a lot of fun staying with them. 

I am just loving being out here and working hard to spread the good news about Jesus Christ! I am learning so much about the gospel and my testimony of Jesus is growing everyday. Hope everyone has a great week!

The wonderful view of Denver behind me!

love,

Elder Morgan

Week 88: New Area & New Companion

April 16, 2018

Well this week had flown on by! Park Meadows Ward is awesome, I love it! It looks so much like home and the weather has been great and the ward is cool, nothing to complain about haha. We have done a ton of door knocking this week and met with a few people. It has been a great start to my time here in Park Meadows.

Elder Niu & Elder Morgan

My new companion's name is Elder Niu and he is from Salt Lake City, UT. He is a great guy and we are having fun together. We live with some awesome members up here, the Jones. They are so nice and I am excited to stay with them. it is my first time living with members and I was a little worried that I wouldn't like it but I was happily surprised. 

We aren't working with really anyone haha so we have been able to go an knock on a lot of doors and have been talking to everyone! We handed out 36 copies of the Book of Mormon, it was great! There are a few potential teaching opportunities that we have been pursuing and hopefully we will be able to teach some of them in the coming week. 

We also met a nice lady named Jana who was baptized many years ago and went to church for about a year and then stopped going for whatever reason. So she invited us to come and talk to her later that evening and she told us about herself and she now doesn't believe in God. She is a philosophy major so we had an interesting conversation about God to say the least haha. 

Anyways I am excited to serve here and get to know the ward and work hard! I really am hoping I will finish off in this area. Love you all and thank you for all the support and love.

Love,

Elder Morgan

Week 87: 20 Months!!!

April 9, 2018

I'm getting transferred! I will be going to Park Meadows Ward in Castle Rock! I haven't served in Castle Rock yet, but am really excited. Castle Rock is the most affluent part of our mission and I hear a lot of good things about it! Park Meadows Ward is the northern-most area in the mission, it is really close to Denver. I am so excited because it is a biking area too! Anyways more to come on the area and my new companion next week.

This was an awesome week, I will be sad to leave Falcon! Elder McCombs is the only one of us staying, Elder Yesilonis is going down to Canon City 2nd ward, my first area! He will love it down there. 

One highlight of this week was going over to Joe and Joan's house. We do service at a food pantry with them and they invited us over to go on a quick hike (they like in a real pretty area), eat dinner and play some pool. It was so fun and they are so cool! We talked a lot about religion and they asked a lot of questions about what we believe. We gave them a Book of Mormon and they will hopefully be able to start teaching them. 

Also this week it was really cool because I really was inspired by President Nelson's talk to learn how to receive revelation. He asked, what knowledge do you lack? And then talked about how the Holy Ghost can help you to gain that knowledge. So I asked, what do I need to do differently to find some more people to teach in prayer and felt like I should look through the records of people previously taught (which I have done 2 time before). I found one that said that Jose had been taught about a year ago and I had never found that one before. So we went and stopped by that afternoon and he told us to come back the next day and we taught him an awesome lesson! That was a cool experience for me and definitely strengthened my testimony of prophets. 

Anyways, it was a great week to end on for Falcon and I will miss it here! Hope everyone has a wonderful week and keeps the commandments!

My District at the paint mines...again haha, and then us and the senior couple I love, the Hepworths

My Companions at the paint mines, and the Hepworths

Picture with a youth that we are friends with

love,

Elder Morgan

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Week 86: Happy Easter!

April 2, 2018

   Wow, what a week! It has been a great week and I have loved serving here in Falcon so far. General Conference this week was so amazing and inspiring, it was great to here from a prophet of God. We will find out about transfers this week, I am anxious to see what happens because any of my companionship could leave or stay. 

    To start off the week we had a great lesson with a lady who hasn't been to church in quite a while but is so nice. They have 28 horses! And they just roam around the front yard so it is pretty cool. We taught her about the Plan of Salvation and that was a great lesson to share with her. 

    We also found a really cool guy that seems pretty interested in our neighborhood. We walked up and he asked if we were his neighbors and then said he was interested in learning more about the Book of Mormon and things, super cool! 

    We went to the Wilkes for the Saturday sessions and Sunday morning session and they fed us lunch and then breakfast the next day. They are an older couple with no kids and are super cool! Then we went to the Priesthood Session at the Church. Sunday afternoon, we were invited to go to a family in the Black Forests area and that was awesome, they were way funny. For Easter dinner, we had ham and funeral potatoes and green beans, it was good! A bunch of families have given us Easter baskets so we have a ton of candy

A family that gave us an Easter basket. We have so much candy at our house haha!

    General Conference was just awesome, we watched it at a couple really great member's houses. I was so excited whenever President Nelson spoke, he is so cool. I definitely gained a testimony that he is a prophet of God and is so inspired. The new changes were pretty surprising as well and  temples in India and Russia, crazy! 

Traditional Ice Cream after the Priesthood Session of Conference

   Well hope everyone has a wonderful week and follows the prophets counsel! Love you all! And Happy Easter!

love,

Elder Morgan