Monday, October 7, 2013

September 30, 2013


yes, that would be a chicken foot just chilin in the soup! They eat them here…they, not me! no I have not had one yet and I am not looking forward to the day when a member/investigator gives me chicken’s feet. I’m hoping its something I can avoid.


Us with a member of the ward, Hugo. He just got his mission call to Brazil!! This was at a baptism that the Elder’s had.


This week has been good! Long, but good. We are really just trying to find new investigators and we are knocking doors like nobodys business and setting up appointments and then we when pass by they aren't there. (#missionarylife) But it's been good and we've met some really great people!
Our investigator Edgar is doing well and he has come to church the last 2 weeks. He is doing really well so we have him set up for a date for baptism for the end of October because the President wants him to meet with a psychologist before we baptize him. 
Also this week (I swear we meet all these cray crays) but we knocked on this door and this lady opened it and we don't even say anything and she just let us come in and then walked away...so we were like ok...? so we go in and she tells us to sit down and she is like let me go get my bible and me and hna Burgos were like..ok? and we just looked at each other so confused and then she comes back with her bible and a Book of Mormon, so we asked "Have you met with the missionaries before?" And she was like yeah they came once but I'm very strong in my religion and so then she went off telling us about all the rules of her religion and we were just sitting there and we were like ok? so we might go back and visit her again but it was just so weird and Hna Burgos was like "I think she's a little special" and I said "yeah she's def not all there" and I pointed to my head and she was laughing because apparently they don't have that saying down here but she thought it was funny so I felt like a cool cat! (#bringingknowledgetothenations) 
Also on tuesday we had cambios and it was really good, me and hna burgos didn't change but our zone goes and helps with the transfers so thats fun and Hna Archibald (Presidents wife) talked about with the change of companions we can also change the way we work. we can be different and be better than we were with our last companion so I've really focused on being better this week. I don't have a new companion but I figured we can always change! So I've been trying really hard to be Christlike this week and it is hard! The President has been telling us with the work of the Lord advancing Satan is going to be working harder as well. Satan has been trying really hard and that's something that I've noticed in my own life, and this week I've really just been focusing on trying to be like Jesus, and it's hard. I told myself that everytime I get frustrated or my patience is wearing thin I just sing that song in my head, and it just made me realize so much more of how much Jesus loves us because obviously it's impossible to be exactly like Jesus but thanks to Him we don't have to be perfect. I just thought how much He actually had to deal with, because I'm a pretty chill person but there are somethings that just bug me and when those things happened this week I just walked away or kept my mouth shut or I served in some way and it's amazing how great you can feel when you are really following Jesus Christ and by the end of the week things were easier, and that just showed me that as I work my hardest to truely be a disciple of Jesus or a representative of Him, He is going to help me with what I need and I'm going to be able to help other people because you just realize that to truely follow Jesus you cannot be selfish, because He wasn't! He gave and He gave, and it's hard but I know that the more love we give the more love from Jesus and God we receive.

So try to be more Christlike ok!! ok thanks ha! Also, we knocked this door this week and a man asked us who was first the dinosaurs or Adam? So if you can help me with that let me know ha and also they are having a blood drive here in Lima and a member asked us if we were going to donate and we said we can't because we are missionaries and she asked why missionaries can't donate and we didn't know, so if you can answer that for me as well...and then after that question I had the question if we can't donate do you think the general authorites can donate blood? let me know if you guys find the answers to these questions ok? thanks haha 

I love you all and the house looks great!! Are you going to get grass? I hope so....but I have like a year to worry about that so yeah haha I love you all and I hope you have a great week! thanks for everything!! 

Morgan 

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