{August 11, 2014}

Gracias por seguir adelante trabajando sin el exito que merecen y quieren. Con la paciencia, el Señor puede ayudarles a aprender como ser lideres para el. Cambios siempre requieren valor. Muchos pueden mostrar la fe cuando estan inmediatamente bendecidos, pero para seguir trabajando fuerte con todo dedicacion sin ver frutos...asi podemos mostrar fidelidad hacia Nuestro Padre Celestial. Estas son lecciones muy importantes para aprender cuando son jovenes. El poder de trabajar con testimonio aun cuando parece que no hay evidencia es la manera de aumentar su fe. 

Thank you for continue working without the success you deserve and want. With patience, the Lord can help you learn to be leaders. Changes always require value. Many can show faith when they are immediately blessed, but to keep working hard with dedication without seeing all the fruits ...that is how we can show loyalty to our Heavenly Father. These are very important lessons to learn when they are young. The power of working with a testimony even when it seems that there is no evidence is how to increase your faith.

that is a part of our letter from President last week. it was good and I liked it. 

because sometimes you really do feel like you are just walking around because no one wants to listen or change. but I know that eventually everyone sees a change. 

This week was good. Nothing really great to report. none of our investigators came to church, so that always just stresses me out. but we found a lot of good new people this week so we will hopefully see some good progress! 

meet the choir

we are getting ready for an apostle to come here to Peru! so we are preparing a song to sing! it should be good!!

but really nothing new this week. but we were teaching Roldolfo this week with Hna Teresa Salazar (a very sweet lady from our ward) and we were talking about the Book of Mormon and she just says..."isn't it funny that Laman and Lemuel complained when they had to go get the plates but when they went to go get their wives they went running!" haha it made me laugh! she's funny. Roldolfo is doing good but just that he didnt'come to church so we are going to have to see with him. but everything will work out the way it should!

I love you all and Ihope you have a good week! 

love morgan 

{August 4, 2014}

so this happened.

we were sitting in church. fast and testimony meeting right? and our investigator Rodolfo was there with us and he was just listening to all the testimonies and he was like "I'm going to go up"....I was freaking out...iw as like WHAT?! and he goes up and bares this awesome testimony about how he is hungry for the word and how he loves learning about the gospel. it. was. so. great. 

that was probably the most exciting thing that happened yesterday. but then we also found this new guy Herbert. and he was really great too, the greatest thing is that when you are teaching you see the wheels in their mind start turning about all the truths that they aren't living. I don't know if that makes sense but for example, everyone always ask if we pray to saints and we always say no because it's a commandment and we explain all of that stuff right. and so when we explain all that they just start asking more and more questions and it's just really great when that happens, for me it shows a willingness if anything so we are excited to work with him.

Guillermo is doing very well, he recieved the preisthood yesterday and is always just happy. 

also...

 we made hamburgers for pday and they were delicous! 

ha everything is going really well down here. we were a little bummed this week because we didn't find as many new people as we are used to finding. but we know that we did everything that we could so we are just hoping a flood of new people will present themselves this week....heres to hoping. 

I always find that when we are knocking doors, we can be knocking for hours and sometimes nothing, but at the end of the day the last door we knock someone comes out and seems interested, so I like to think that God tries us to see if we can really be trusted ha but I feel like most of the time we past the test so thats a good sign. 

Last week President Archibald had us read "The Unwritten Order of Things" by Pres. Boyd K Packer it's from a BYU devotional in October 1996 and it's a really good talk, so if you'd like to be spiritually better, you should read it. :) 

also fun peruvian fact: July is also when the Peruvians celebrate their independence day, they ask everyone to have a flag out for the whole month of July and in many parts of the country if you do not have a flag outside your house you can recieve a fine. 

bet you didnt'know that.

I love you all! hope you have a good week! 

Love Hermana Winters 

{July 28, 2014}

(hablando de las escrituras)...nada de esto hace ninguna diferencia a menos que entre en ustedes. Todo eso consiste solamente de marcas sobre papeles juntados en cuero, no tiene valor intrinseco, a menos que lleguen a ser ustedes. El proposito y la bendicion esencial de la vida es llegar a ser cambiados mas como el Senor. y realizar la medida completa de su potencial divino. 

(speaking of scripture) ... none of this makes any difference unless it enters in you. All this is just marks on paper bound together in leather, has no intrinsic value unless you become them. The blessing and the essential purpose of life is to be changed to become more like the Lord and perform the full measure of your divine potential.

Hello family. 

this week went well.

GUILLERMO GOT BAPTIZED! 

he is the one in the jump suit. 

Hno Guererro is our Mission Leader and he baptized Guillermo! 

it was really great!

He is just so great! and his confirmation yesterday went good as well! so he is doing well! like always! he really is such an example for me. Whenever something came in the way trying to prevent him from being baptized, he always says "adelante no mas" and he stuck to it because he knows everything is true! HE IS SO GREAT!

the Elders also baptized a Father and son! so we are really picking the ward up little by little!

This week was good, that quote I found at the beginning, I just really liked it and wanted to share it! 

Everything is going well here, we are looking for people to baptize! and we are finding some that are looking promising! We found a little old lady Pascuala, who is has high as my rib cage...haha but shes nice. we found a mother and daughter who are also looking promising so we are going to be doing work! 

Everything is going well down south! I love you all and I hope you have a good week and know that I love you!! 

also something that you can read, is the talk from this conference "The Prophet Joseph Smith" it was awesome. and that will help you when you read "The Witness" also from this conference! its a good combination. 

I love you all and I hope you have a good week! 

love Hermana Winters

{July 21, 2014}

HELLO new family! I'm so excited to hear that William came out all safe and sound, I'm not going to lie it's a little stressful without knowing anything thats going on! but I'm glad that everything is going good and he is doing well!! give him a kiss for me.

this week went well, I was stressed trying to plan a baptisim in a week, we had to teach him all the lessons and get all the clothes and invite everyone but everything went really well!

This is the Family Pezo, and I love them so much, I'm serious in this week we've been with them everyday and your love just grows so fast for these people that you just become part of the family! and I love this family so much!! 

it was a good day. 

Guillermo came to watch the baptism and he is just still so great, I will say it again and again. We taught him a lesson this week and he told us things that had happened in his past and I just see in him this desire to change and I love being the one who is able to help him realize that he can change, that he can become a new person. He loves this gospel and that's something that I love about him, he just already has this spirit about him! it's been a blessing being able to teach him! 

We've been finding new people and walking and walking and talking with everyone! and we are doing well! I love this work! 

oh also I was reading today in the ensign and I was reading the talk "your four minutes" by Bishop Gary E Stevenson and its a good one you guys should look into reading that. 

and I read 1 Corinthians 13...its really good, go and read that! and apply it. and see what changes in your life. 

I love you all! I'm sending my love, I hope you all have a good week and everything continues to go well with little William. 

Love you!!

Love Hermana Winters

{July 18, 2014}

While Hermana Winters has been gone we welcomed a new addition to our family! Will(iam) was born on the 18th to Morgan's sister Gretchen and her husband, Griffin. 

We can't wait till Morgan can see him in person!

{July 14, 2014}

Hello family.

This week was good. Hno Guillermo is doing very well! like so well that yesterday after priesthood all the members come up to me and tell me that he is going to be a Bishop someday ha

and....we had a miracle

so we were at church yesterday and we had just finished all the classes and we were heading to ward counsel and a lady from the ward comes up to us and says "my son really wants to get baptized and he is 9 years old...what do I need to do to get him baptized?" I was just like WHHHHATATTT?! so we are going to be having a baptisim this week! his name is Sebastian and he is super cute, we went and taught him yesterday and so that will be good!

I DID get your package!!! Hna Tique says thank you thank you thank you!!

this week also, we found this...

yes...it is a saying from David O Mckay written in the sidewalk. how cool.  I just love Peru more and more every day. 

also everyone is leaving!!

these are my best friends. 

Elder Poole leaves tomorrow...and Elder Paredes leaves in 4 weeks. I hate when everyone leaves me. 

but it's a good thing. 

but everything is going really well! I'm loving my ward and my area!!! and I'm happy. that's the most important. I love you all so much! thank you for everything! 

I loveyou all! good luck with the whole baby thing this week!! ha love you

love Hermana Winters

{July 7, 2014}

This week was good, a little bummer, the Diaz Family (Miguel, Catalina, Yulino, Rosa and Guadalupe) couln't come to church this week so we will have to postpone their baptism. So that was a bummer, but everything happens for a reason. The ward is getting involved with them and that is something that I so greatly appreciate. as well with our investigator Guillermo, he is doing so well and I love teaching him just because he has a desire to learn. AND we went to teach him this week, and before he sat down I asked him to bring his Book of Mormon, and he says "yeah and I'll bring my Bible too" so he brings them and then leaves again to get something else and I was looking at his Bible and I see that it says "La Iglesia de JesuCristo de Los Santos de Los Ultimos Dias" and I was like what they heck!? so I ask him where he got it, and he says "I found it in a store when I was looking for a Bible" it was so great! and he says this about the Bible "I'm finding that everything that isn't written in the Bible is written in the Book of Mormon." I just sit there thinking...yeah.....it is, you're great haha so they are doing well, we found another family of 3 a dad and 2 boys so we will be working with them, and another man we found yesterday, things are going well. 

I love you all and I hope you have a good week!

love Hermana Winters