8/28/17... Elder Johnsen and I found some great people and had some gold lessons.

Mornin y'all! 

This was just another great week in the south. Elder Johnsen and I found some great people and had some gold lessons. Also had some conference this week which was really great. 

Oh the eclipse last Monday.... i thought It was going to be lame or kind of a waste of a p-day but naw it was way worth it. It was legit. I sent the videos of it idk if you saw them but it got pretty dark outside actually, like really dark. There was so much anticipation right before it happened, hopefully I didn't burn my eyes because I looked up before it was full under and it looked like a ring with a diamond on the top and then I went under and you could see the sun around the moon and almost like solar flares. Then the clouds cover it before it even finished so that was a bummer but it was still dark when that happened and we got to see the total eclipse still. I probably thought it was so cool because that's about how exciting my life gets right now lol. 

Monday night we had gotten a referral from a member in another ward, so we set up a lesson to go teach her. Her name is Archana. She is Indian and has lived her for about 5 years. We started to get to know her and she really opened up. She was in an abusive relationship.  Hher family pretty much disowned her. And she has just had a really hard time, she started going to a church called elevation church a while ago. We could tell she had been really prepared before we started to teach her the restoration. We taught her and after she said she saw a light around us as we talked about the first vision. She definitely felt the Spirit. She was very excited to read the Book of Mormon.  Unfortunately we got a text the next morning and she told us she is too involved in the elevation church right now to switch anything. I know she knew that what we taught her was true, I think she will join the church one day for sure. 

Right after that we had to go pick up an elder from the mission home whose companion went home, so Elder Buffalo came and stayed with us. Thursday We had our zone conference. It was really good, we listened to a talk by Elder Christopherson on the Book of Mormon. He mentioned D&C 4 where it says thrust in your sickle with your might. And he talked about how the Book of Mormon is the Lord's tool in the harvest. So the sickle is the Book of Mormon and we talked a lot about how we can use the Book of Mormon more in our finding and teaching. It was great, so this week we tried to really connect people with the Book of Mormon and we saw some miracles. Peoples hearts are softened a lot when you share a scripture with them before you mention the book. 

Jason is doing really good still, he came to conference yesterday. We taught him the word of wisdom and he is so set, we got lunch with him again on Saturday. Jo isn't doing so hot right now, he hasn't been getting back to us lately. His dad is still telling him it's a bad idea. Beryl came to church this Sunday and she quit smoking finally! She is starting to progress again! So excited for her. We're also teaching a guy named miles that is pretty interesting, I think he is pretty lazy so it's hard to get him up for church on Sunday! 

Love y'all

Love you mom! 

Qs

-Did you get the protein?

Ya got it!

-What is going on with the guy's car?

It's all good, I called the mission office and the church insurance is taking care of it. 

-Did you get the mission office to help you?

Yup

-Did you get the tablet and case? 

Ya got it all! Thank you mom! 

Wow that's so sad what happened to grandma. And Hattimer, Mom said he's in pretty bad shape right now and tore like everything in his legs? And also Grandpa Wayne has cancer? 

Are you just home alone all the time now since they just go out of town everyday? 

Everything got taken care of by the mission office with the car dent. I called and he was like no no no you're doing this all wrong we'll take care of it from here. So they handled it all already. I got the new tablet already too. Hopefully I can just steer clear of anything bad this next couple weeks before I end up making everyone go broke. 

I've been thinking about how short this 2 years is especially thinking about how fast it's gone so far and just trying to make the most of my time. I think it will really hit me in a few months when it turns 2018 though. It's just so weird how fast time has gone.

Love you, Elder Morgan