10/10/16... We started feeling the affects of the hurricane...but thankfully nothing serious at all happened in Winston.

Our district before this transfer 

Heyyyyyyy

We had another great week, a lot of good times and a lot of miracles!

This Monday was super fun! We played basketball for like 6 hours...... I had taken pre-workout before and it was insane, I had so much energy it was so funny. Needless to say my team out hussled the other team every game haha. I dont think its very healthy to take pre-workout though, my heart didnt stop racing for the whole day. It made missionary work really easy at the end of the day though.

Elder Mautz left us Tuesday and we got another Zone Leader, Elder Craig, in the apartment.  He is really fun too.

Elder Mautz's last P day 

We have really been focusing on our finding efforts and trying to find new investigators this week.   We knocked on a lot more random doors which isn't always successful, but people in the south love talking about Jesus Christ so usually we have a lot of good conversation. We were able to find 3 new investigators. One is 86 and we helped her pick up some stuff in her yard then we started teaching her and she was very nice.  Her only concern is that her church is paying for her grave and burial so we will see what happens.

oHHHHH and we ate out at Pizza Hut for their buffet the other day and we were just sittin there regretting eating so much food and guess what comes on? Jack Johnson, I knew the Lord's been looking out for me haha!!!

Thursday we went and did service at the orphanage again and we helped sweep out some halls that had just been painted and stuff, there was dust everywhere and we had to wear some gas masks (not really just dust masks but gas masks sounds cooler). Then later that night after weekly planning and dinner we went knocking again, we found a lady who was verry interested in the book of mormon and learning more.  We are hoping to see her again this week!

Friday we started feeling the affects of the hurricane. Nothing serious at all in Winston--just rained all day Friday and Saturday with pretty light winds. We try to be as productive as possible when we only have bikes and its pouring out so we do a lot of online-proselyting in those situations. We had Chic-fil-A for dinner, which we do a lot and then it drains your money for the month. We got back and decided we would just get out in the rain and go for it. We bike a little less than a mile to David Brewers house who was just leaving for dinner. So we turned around and biked back and by the time we got back I was soaked! I mean you woulda thought we went swimming. Then we just went and got Cook Out shakes with the zone leaders. 

Saturday was another super rainy day, it didnt stop at all. It was not a downpour but just a constant rain, so biking anywhere just ends up getting you soaked. Later that night we walked with our umbrellas to Larrys house......he wasnt home! We got back and we were still drenched haha. The wind was stronger and all of the rain was just blowing right under our umbrellas haha. Saturday during some rainy down time we might have played a little bit of soccer in the apartment haha.

Sunday the rain was gone and we were excited to hopefully see some investigators at church. None of them showed except Huan Huan the Chinese man our ward mission leader is workin with. He has read the entire Book of Mormon and we taught him the Plan of Salvation yesterday and it went really well, he just doesnt understand a lot of English and the concept of Faith is new to him. But i really think that he could be baptized soon we are just letting our member take the lead.

We also had a mission fast this week because it was fast sunday......but our ward fasted last week so we did it again.
Today......p day should be really fun.  We are going to clean our apartment! ...You know I love doing that!  But we got the dirtiest apartment award, so we're gettin on it..... (Mom it's really not that bad, our inspectors are just kookoo.)  But we are playing some ball and going to the mall to get a sweater and I might buy some meeting shoes to look spiffy haha.

Love you so much!
Elder Morgan

excerpts from Brad's letter to Jeff:

Ya the storm wasn't anything serious up in Winston but I was actually hoping we were going to get something a little more serious.  That probably would have been cool to experience...but good thing nobody got injured over here.  What were the injuries like in other cities?  I heard it was one of the worst hurricanes in decades. 

I really felt y'alls prayers this week.  I've been praying hard for new investigators as well. Tyler's ceremony sounded really fun. I'm sure you loved mom and Sarah going shopping all day. 

Overall I'm having a great time and me and Elder Leavitt are getting along really well, I see myself improving on different things ever day. I definitely recieve strength from Heavenly Father a ton. 

Love you 

thanks for the updates 

Elder Morgan 

This is how green NC is. 

Qs

Was the weather very severe when it hit Winston-Salem? Or had it calmed to a regular Tri Cities windstorm?  
Not bad up north in wintson not really any floods at all either. 

How about the rest of your mission?  Will you be involved in any relief efforts?
I'm not sure about south of us like Charlotte.  I don't think it was anything other than wind and rain. No relief efforts are needed over here and i dont think president would have us drive to South Carolina to help.  That is pretty far.

Who have you been keeping in touch with?  (I got a text from "the worst shooter in the MCC" today asking for your email! :). Is that Trevor?
haha that is trevor... been keepin up with a lot of people--ethan jake rt jashaun kelly kendal ellie and even a couple from the mtc. 

Tell us about what you are studying in the scriptures?
We just started as a mission reading the BoM and I had just finished it last week. Just read about Lehi's vision about the tree of life today.  I'm highlighting anything with the doctrine of Christ, faith repentance, baptism...so on. Nephi had so much faith... it is amazing.

What's your daily schedule?
workout 630 

study 8 

training for greenies 10 

lunch 

out the door 1 

work until dinner 

then get back at 9 

plan 

workout some more. 

What kinds of food are you eating/cooking in your apartment?
depends, mac n cheese, eggs, and other just depends, i usually try to eat a lot of protien........

Do you need a winter coat??
I will let you know if you need to ship that coat i might need it but maybe not. 

What do you want for your birthday?????  Please send me a wish list. 
Chic-Fil-A gift card, maybe a Chipotle one too.  I'll think of stuff this week too.