Follow The Elephants, They Know What's Up! (Nov. 11, 2013)

You guys this week has been so great!!! Like, no joke! 

But really it was so great! Hna Skousen and I are killing it! I love her so much! 

We found so many great people! Funny story pertaining to the subject line, we were talking about the past events in history and I told Hna Skousen that elephants always know when something bad is going to happen (that’s a fact) but anyway so I told Hna skousen that elephants know what’s up so that we should find an elephant and follow it to where we need to go, ok so we find this old man and we contact him in the street and we come back the next day and he has this huge tree in the back of his house and I was like oh my I love that tree and he was like it's called, the ear of the elephant because the leafs are so big! Hna Skousen and I just looked at each other and when we finished the lesson, Hna Skousen was like “Well, we followed the elephants!” Ha! It was funny and he is the sweetest man! His name is Salgari and he is 81 years old and he is so great! He was telling us during the first lesson that he likes to read so we continued to teach him about The Book of Mormon and when we left Hna Skousen said “I know he is going to read the whole Book of Mormon tonight, I just know it!” So we went back the next day and we were asking him how he was doing and he said that he was tired and he said "usually I go to bed at 7 at night but last night I was up until 11 reading!" I just looked at Hna Skousen and I was like holy crap!! So we are excited about him, his wife right now is traveling and is supposed to get back in 15 days and we want to teach her and they also need to get married before we can baptize him...so we kinda need her for that ha but we have a lot of hopes for him! 

We were fasting yesterday and I love fasting!! it was so great! First, we received a miracle, we were knocking a door for an appointment but it fell through and so we were walking away and this old man just sitting outside his house called us over and so I went over and he was like "are you Testigos de Jehova" and I was like "no hermano" and before I could introduce us he was like "you guys are Mormons?!" and I was like yes that’s us! And he asked us to wait a minute because his family wanted to hear from us!! So we waited outside for a minute and then he came back out and let us in and we taught him and his wife, and they were sad because their daughter also wanted to hear but she wasn't there but we scheduled an appointment to come back, but it was so great because we were talking to them about prayer and he was saying that he prays to a little baby doll of Jesus and he was like, “is that bad?”, and so we just explained oracion and how we don't use those things anyway he was like oh ok I will not use it anymore so that was great and then we asked them how long they have been married...and they aren't married but as soon as his wife said that they aren't married it was quickly followed by but I know we need to be married because it's a commandment that we need to be married, it was just so great to see this family so prepared and so willing to listen and take the lessons that we were teaching them! Then we went to a lesson with Michael (who is getting baptized this week) and we were about to end the lesson and we asked him to say the prayer and he was like wait I have a question and he asked us "do you guys pray for me?" and I was like yes Michael we pray for you everyday and he said "because I feel it, like I feel it inside my heart that you guys are praying for me" I almost died I was so happy that he was feeling it! That he knows that we are praying for him but more importantly that he is able to receive that feeling!! It was so great!! I was so happy at the end of that lesson it was insane!

It was a really good week!! Oh! Also, we contacted a taxi driver and invited him to church and he came!! So that was another cool thing! The thing that I love the most this week is how much I'm feeling the spirit in our lessons! It’s been so great and I love this gospel!! 

I love you all and miss you! Sorry the pictures were being weird and I couldn't get them to load the way I usually do but here they are! One is of us outside the church waiting for someone with the keys! It’s Elder Narvaez, Elder Oxom, Hna Skousen, Hugo Perez (a ward missionary who is so great and comes with us to all our lessons and helps us so much!), and I! The next ones are from Halloween when we were buying stuff for the ward party! I love you all and I hope you guys all have a good week!!

Also, HAPPPY BIRTHDAY JUDE!!! 

Love you all!! 

Morgan