9/25/17.. We went teaching with President Alexander and taught Jason

Hey y'all! 

Hope y'all are killin it as always! 

Can't believe everyone is back at school already! Time goes too fast sometimes. That's something that I want to focus on coming up is just enjoying all the time I have and not getting too stressed about things. 

This week was a blurr really. I'll try and give some details of what's going on but I can't think right now haha. 

Tuesday we went to the chiropractor for Elder Johnsen's back up in Mooresville, I thought I'd hop on the table while we're their and get my back adjusted. It was pretty good but my back has been hurting a bit actually after it. Then we drove back through uptown Charlotte....idk why it's called uptown not downtown but it is. Got some Prices Chicken for lunch when we got back and it was so bomb! Best fried chicken I've ever had. It's crazy how good it is. You've just never had any chicken this good. With some hush puppies and some slaw mmmmmhhhhmmmm now this is actually finger licken good. After dinner that night we went teaching with President Alexander and taught Jason. He only was able to come to one lesson with us, but after we had a meeting with President Hall, the stake President. We just talked mostly about how to improve the work in the zone with the members. Overall really fun day! Oh ya and I was with Elder Fife! My buddy from the MTC! We got to go on exchange and it was a blast talking again about all the MTC memories....still can't believe I can say that was over a year ago. 

Wednesday we had district meeting and then we had a meeting with he sisters and talked about our zone week we're going to do in a couple weeks. We gotta come up with a super fun zone activity to do as a zone to kick it off too. So if you have any ideas tell me!  We can't do a big group activity in public but we can go to a park or something. Let me know what some ideas are, I'm not super creative. 

We helped some members do an eagle project this week too that was pretty fun. Then we went and ate in uptown on our way back again and it was really fun.

We saw a lot of miracles this week too. Elder Johnsen and I were doing some finding, trying to talk to some people and we got in the car and realized we didn't have much time so we got out and said we'd knock 2 doors behind us and we'll find someone that is interested. Well we knocked the first, no one. Knocked the second and someone opened and it was a lady from Nigeria.  She asked us about wanting to come to church and wanted to learn more. We taught her again Saturday and had a really solid lesson with her and her daughter and put them on date for baptism. We're really excited to keep teaching them. 

We also went on exchanges this week with Elder Carroll and Elder Grieve who are companions again. It was pretty fun -- good to be back with them again we had a good time together.  

We go get pho with Jason and Star every Saturday which is a lot of fun. Guess what? Jason got the Aaronic Priesthood Sunday! It was awesome. He asked if I would do it so it was a gold experience for me doing that the first time. And another returning member asked if I'd ordain him to the Aaronic Priesthood as well in a few weeks too. Seeing people progress in the gospel is the best. I'm just grateful for the experiences I've been able to have here.

The Book of Mormon is the awesome and true. 

Love y'all! 

Q's

When did you send the package here? 

Is dad getting a new calling that he knows of? Mom what's your calling right now? 

How's Southridge football this year? 

How can I decide where to go to college when I get back if I have about a month until it starts? 

Prayer and fasting of course. What else? 

 

9/18/17... This week was definitely a test of faith.

Wasup  y'all! 

This week was definitely a test of faith. We were working hard trying to find new people to teach and things just weren't turning out all week. It's like people just hated us. They'd open the door and just immediately reject us... it was rough. We tried not to get discouraged at all. It was seriously worse than I'd seen my whole mission. People just weren't happy to see us lol. 

So it got to Sunday and we just prayed before we went out and had faith that'd we could reach our goals for the week. 

I prayed that we would find a family to teach and Elder Johnsen said he wanted to find 5 people interested in having us come back. We had put a lot of people who had potential in our plans and we hit it hard. First door we knocked on we met a lady we weren't trying to find and she was really interest in having us come back and teach her more. We kept going and we went over to the next apartment complex and we tried a Hispanic family that had some interest before and the dad answered and was really interested in what we shared.  They invited us back to teach them more. Literally this is the first 2 people we try and see after a week full of rejection after rejection, you could imagine we were stoked haha. 

A few days before we were in an apartment complex and heading to the car and we see an Isuzu Rodeo drive by and park. The lady smiled and waved and we both said we need to go talk to her some day...1 she's driving a Rodeo....best car on the road!  2 she smiled and waved she's gotta be nice. So back to Sunday, we go to this apartment complex knowing that Rodeo family is in here somewhere lol. 3 doors later and they open the door!  The mom was playing the piano and she just loved the restoration.... It was in Spanish so I was just trying to follow along.  I'm getting pretty good at it.  I can tell what they're saying, I just can't speak it.  It was great she invited us in right away but it was just her and her kid, so we couldn't go in. Miracle. So we were able to find 4 people in an hour. It was amazing.

After this we just prayed said thank you to heavenly Father. The whole week was just a test of faith and I think we were able to overcome the test. My testimony that this is the Lord's work was strengthened a lot. It was also humbling. 

This was pretty much the gist of our week, not much other happened. ...except I lost my lunch...

    

What is the new technology program you are implementing?  Oh yes! Soooooo this is sweet. In a few weeks at MLC they are implimenting Smart Phones in our mission! We will still have our tablets but we get to use smart phones now, don't know exactly what they'll be used for but starting in 2018 new missionaries are going to come out with Samsung phones. 

Have you been throwing a baseball?  Not as much as I'd be hoping too. I do miss throwing though. 

What is your favorite Southern food you've eaten?  What is your favorite thing about North Carolina?  Probably the culture, it's pretty different lot of country folk that open carry and it's pretty sweet not so much in Charlotte but still see it quit a bit. 

How are you doing getting up early now?  Good! Still not a morning person but you just gotta do it really. 

Are you still playing basketball a bunch?  Not much this week but next week we are, playing right now too. 

What are you doing for Pday?  Playing some b ball right now!

Scripture or quote of the week? Just reading in the book of Mosiah this week. And Abinadi quotes Isaiah in chapter 14. It's one of my favorite chapters. He uses ways to describe the Savior that make you think a lot and helps us understand the Savior and his mission. I'd invite y'all to read it. Mosiah 14. 

Do you know we LOVE you??  I can only pray. lol  ya I do 

I love y'all though! LOVE YOU MOM

Elder Morgan 

That's pretty fun Parker went and took a girl to homecoming that's nice of him. This week was pretty tough honestly, we have been working super hard and we hadn't found anyone all week. It Sunday and we prayed before we went out that we'd reach our goal of 3 new investigators. Elder Johnsen said let's find 5 and I said let's find a family too. We go out and miracle after miracle we end up with 5 new investigators and a family. It was amazing. It was definitely a test of our faith. And we could tell throughout the week, it was just rejection after rejection. 

Overall it strengthened my testimony a lot. 

I need to start throwing I'm gaining weight little by little though I think I can get 180+ by the time I'm home. 

Love you 

Elder Morgan 

 

 

9/11/17...Jason's baptism was so good!

Transfers are this week...........

..........i am..........staying in Pineville! No surprise there though. 

This week was pretty sweet! Tuesday we had MLC which is just in Charlotte so it wasn't a very far. But it was all on our technology. We got chosen out of 12 missions in the world to do this new program. Not sure what it is yet but it's a new way to proselyte I guess. We had a huge technology training to get everyone back to the safeguards so we can be ready to receive this new stuff. I hear some missions are getting iPhones and Instagram and other things so we'll see what's going to happen. .....maybe Snapchat lol. No probably not Snapchat. But we'll see idk when we'll learn about this stuff but it'll be soon. Then Friday we had a zone meeting and we trained on the technology stuff. It was pretty funny we were all set for the meeting and we had went and bought a HDMI cord and an adapter to the iPad and we plugged it all in and got it all ready.....the adapter was to the new iPhones and it didn't work. So we needed the slideshow on the iPad so 15 minutes before we had to haul over to Wal-Mart and by a new adapter. Ended up costing a fortune because those aren't cheap. Got there and got it all set up and got started 30 minutes late but hey it was pretty good meeting. It took a long time but it ended good. 

Last night was so long though, we got in at  about 9 and had a mission conference call with President about the hurricane coming in. Then we had to put in all of the indicators for the zone. Then we had to wait for transfer calls to come in and it was about 11:30 and they told us they'd come in the morning lol. We got them and President made so many changes it was so wild! Elder Johnsen and I are staying, but pretty much everyone is getting moved around. 

We got dinner one night with the Gunsons and Brother Gunson is super knowledgeable about the Book of Mormon so we had some really good conversations on it. The Book of Mormon contains somethings called chiasmus which is a literary device that was used by ancient people and wasn't discovered until the late 1900s.  It's in many chapters of the Book of Mormon. Alma 34 is a big one. Just another witness of its truthfulness. 

Friday night was Jason's baptism! It was really good! And it was a bit too long but it was good. The Cardenas Family was baptized too.  I'll send some pictures of it.  Jason's wife came. She works 2 jobs so we don't see her ever.  We're praying she can investigate, she seemed to really like church too. I got to confirm Jason which was a good experience, it was my first time so I just tried to follow the spirit. 

Other than that not much happened.  It was a great week we had some miracles finding as well. 

Love y'all 

Love you mom 

Qs...

Did you go into Charlotte for the MLC? Did you spend the night there?  or is it close enough that you just go back. 

No it's about 25 minute drive plus traffic time. 

Who all did you see at MLC?

Elder Shultz, grieve, Carroll, Sister Vonasek, Sister Peterson, Elder Fulmer, some other peeps it was super fun! 

And Elder Fife from the MTC is coming into the zone. 

Have you felt any effects of Hurricane Irma?

Ya it's raining pretty good here right now and it's about 30 mph winds

The Smithees said that a bunch of people from Florida were staying with people in Chelsea's ward in South Carolina... Do you have people finding refuge there too?  

No there's none of that going on here. But we are doing drives and stuff. 

Tell us the 3 best things about our mission so far. ...

Do you need anything?

Naw I'm good right now.

Who should we pray specifically for this week?

Pray for our investigators beryl, that she can recognize an answer that this is true, she believes it's true but we're helping her recognize the spirit. 

Oh... Did you get the Amazon Pantry package???  Did you like it??

Ya it was so good! Thank you so much! 

We had a an awesome week here as well! Jason's baptism was so good! He got baptized with a family the sisters baptized. I got to confirm him and it was pretty sweet experience. I feel like Jason could be a really good leader in the church one day. He is ready to receive the priesthood. It's really exciting seeing his progress. I can't believe that you're almost done in the branch. I have seen your love for others grow so much with this calling. I want to be able to be an example like this to my kids one day. Thank you for all that you do for me. 

This week is transfers we're stating together and pretty much our whole zone is getting switched around. Elder Kimball is coming into the zone to Fort Mill which should be fun. I know some of the other missionaries that are coming in too so it'll be a good transfer. Just gotta help elder Johnsen finish off strong. 

It just keeps hitting me how fast time is going. I'm going to be home so fast it's insane how I can already say 1 year ago talking about my mission.  Also....side note I think we should get some more guns, a pistol and maybe an AR. And each have some handgun training, especially Mom and Sarah. 

The works going well though, we might be starting to teach Jason's wife soon, she came to church and loved it so hopefully she'll start to investigate soon!

Love you,

Elder Morgan 

Wow the weeks seem to be flying by.  I do not know how you feel but it is amazing to me that conference is in 3 weeks.  We had a busy week, we got home late from Island Park on Monday night and I worked for a couple of days and then I went to Utah for Thursday to check out a business that I have been looking into for a while, then I flew back for Friday and got some stuff done then Saturday we watched BYU lose to Utah which almost gave me a heart attack.  Sunday we had a great day at church and the branch.  Mom and I met with President Call about getting released from the branch this week and I feel really good about it.  It should be the same way when you get off your mission.  Work hard and do your best and when you are done, know you left it all on the field and did your best.  So the week after conference we are going to be released.  As one of my favorite talks says as one door closes another one opens, Elder Morgan I am so thankful for a Heavenly Father that knows me and loves me so much that He sent His son to be my Savior.  I love you and know how dedicated you are as a missionary and know Heavenly Father knows that as well.  I hope that you have a great week and that you enjoy every minute of it.

Love

Dad

 

9/4/17... Everything's been going good down here in Pineville

Uptown! B ball court we found in the hood
that we're going to this Wednesday morning to play at! 

What's up y'all!

Everything's been going good down here in Pineville.  We are seeing a ton of miracles!  We found some awesome people this week. 

We went on exchanges this week with Sharon and I went with Elder Berryhill and it was so fun! Elder Berryhill is crazy haha He is so funny.  He knows how to make a bunch of bombs... He blew up a whole mailbox in high school haha. It was so nice going on exchange with a new missionary, they just have some fire about them that is good to be around. We had a good night, we had such a weird lesson though, there was a blind guy and his family that we taught and it was just weird, it was a decent lesson but just weird situation and the blind guy wasn't super interested. Let's just say he didn't really SEE the light of the message. 

Jason is doing really good.  We taught him Tuesday some commandments and focused on reading everyday, praying and following the prophet.  It was really good. Brother Malave came. Jason is the best, he is so funny the way he talks.  He is from Ghiana in South America and he always will say what's up baby or what's up mama to women.  He always speaks patwa like they did in Jamaica so I was trying to learn some 😂 wah gwan bruddah. 

Church was really good yesterday, we didn't have anybody make it.  Jason was out of town and David, Beryl's husband was sick so she couldn't make it either.  But there were some great testimonies shared. We talked a lot about service in 2nd hour as well and I just though a lot about the service that the Savior gave while he was here. Service helps us develop Christlike attributes. Like when the the Savior washed the feet of the disciples, it was such an act of service to them... that was a great example to us. 

This Tuesday is MLC and it should be super fun. It's my favorite meeting. President usually has some really good trainings and I'm excited. Jason's baptism is this Friday so it should be really good. 

Pic at the mission office 

Qs?

How's it going with Elder Johnsen?

Super good he is so funny and has been out quite a while...He goes home in 7 weeks so we're just working hard finishing it off strong for him. It's so fun though-- he likes sports, likes to hunt, so it's a good time.  We are like the same people almost sometimes it's crazy....his brother's name is Jeffrey Parker. His dad's name is Jeffrey, his dog's name is Max....ya no joke. 

How is it being the Zone Leader? 

It's good, just doing my best, it's just a little more responsibility sometimes but other than that it's the same. More stressful sometimes though. 

Are you getting it?

Yeah little by little... Its going though 

Has the humidity cooled down at all?

Ya this week was soooo nice! It wasn't humid much and it was so nice to be out working in the cool heat.  It was so nice towards the evening time because it was really cool. I guess there's a massive hurricane that might come our way too called Hurricane Irma... look it up. 

Is Maddi's friend in your ward?

Ya she lives right by us, super nice family. 

What is your scripture study routine?

Start with the Book of Mormon, read 5 pages and mark Christlike attributes, then I go to Preach My Gospel and study a topic and doctrine section. Then if I have time I'll go to the New Testament and study a chapter as well. 

Love you!

Elder Morgan 

We got to drive the big van for a night!

Then we passed the Nascar Hall of Fame on exchanges in Uptown. 

                        

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 

8/21/17... We found some great people this week... Saw the solar eclipse...And my tablet got stolen...

Hey y'all! 

Guess what? Right now we are driving down to a place called Chester, furthest in the mission South. To go see the total Solar Eclipse! Yup total I said it! I don't know if it'll be anything sweet or what not but we're going just in case we really don't wanna miss. Hopefully it's not lame, it's going to be almost an all p day thing. Oh well. 

We found some great people this week! We got a referral from the Sharon sisters named Miles.  He's 26 and he had been to church. It's kind of interesting though, he might of just been interested in the sisters than the message.  He keeps texting them about taking them to dinner or something.  It's weird that he doesn't want to take us out to dinner... fishy. 

We went on exchange with Elder Shultz and Elder Grieve. Elder Grieve came here with me, and Elder Johnsen went to Mathews with Elder Shultz. It was pretty fun, we had dinner with the Sheppards and an elder that went home a bit ago came back and visited and it was pretty fun talking to him and his family.  They're all Canadian. Canadians are really weird but funny haha. Then we went and taught Jason after that. It was such a good lesson.  We had Brother Malave come with us who's a Spanish member that's a super fun, chill guy. We taught the Word of Wisdom and it went so well. He had quit most of the things a couple years prior. He quit drinking coffee the week before and said after he quit coffee nothing is hard at all. So he said he'd stop drinking tea as well. It was amazing, Jason is so elect it's awesome. We went and got pho with him on Saturday as well. He came to church on Sunday all looking fresh in his suit. He seemed to like it a lot. He even volunteered to help with nursery until they had him come back into elders quorum haha. It was pretty sweet. He's such a solid guy, I think he'll be a leader in the church one day. 

Oh my goodness I need to tell you what happened on Wednesday too. So We went to district meetings and exchanged back after, then we went to go eat at Mr. Tokyo and we went in to eat and we come back out and head back to our apartment to change and I looked around for my tablet and it was gone. I couldn't find it. We drove back to Mr. Tokyo and asked if they saw it at all, but I didn't think that I brought it in. The only thing that could have happened was it got stolen out of our car. So someone stole my tablet out of our car during lunch. We then called the mission office and told them, they wiped my tablet and we're able to get me a loaner tablet. I was so worried I lost all the pictures I had taken but it somehow downloaded everything I had on my old tablet. 

Thursday we got a call back from Jo and he told us he wanted to push the baptism back a little bit. We were a little bummed just because we had planned a lot of it. But I understood, Jo is kind of doing this with not much support from his family and his dad started to push back against him. So we are just taking it a little bit slower with him. He still wants to get baptized so it'll probably be early September. 

  

Elder Johnsen and I are getting along really good.  We have a ton in common.  Our dogs are both named Max, his brother's name is Jeffrey Parker.  And mine is Parker Jeffrey. Crazy.

Love y'all 

Love you mom! 

Qs

Do you need new garment tops?  What kind and what size?

Yes please! Size Medium

Do you need anything else?  Not right now I'll send you an email about something you need to know. 

Did you get the new protein powder I sent?  No I might need to go check the office.

Are you lifting??  You know it! I'm a few Lbs here and there.   

How do the basketball shoes fit? Yes 😍I love them, they're so sweet and feel really good when I play in them. 

Amazon pantry wish list?  You didn't tell me anything last week! Zone perfect fudge graham protein bars. Cereal. Don't send the tv dinners though --Don't like those anymore lol. 

Yes I'll need you to buy me a new tablet, I have 3 weeks with the loaner. I'm so sorry, this is expensive and I feel really bad about all of this. 

Samsung galaxy s2 tablet. The smaller one. Get me a sweet case with it if you could. I don't like the case they come with. 

Okay. I'll get on it now. Don't worry about it. It is a bummer, but now you will always be sure to lock it up. 

Dishonesty is the worst!!!  

Read ASAP:

So a couple weeks ago right after the pga tour when we were leaving I tripped and fell into the side of a car, I dented it a bit on accident probably about 4 inches on the left side by the tail light. I left a note on the guys car and we had to leave for dinner. 

He called and we talked about it. And he said he took it in and he gave me the estimate number, 1200$ I didn't  really believe him and we talked and he said he would take it in to another guy. He came back with another number and told me 1380$  for a fender.... one fender. On a Hyundai....

So I need to talk to him and i told him id get my insurance information from you. Which i dont even want to have to deal with, it's just kind of stressful on top of missionary work. 

But i told him I'd get my information from you and get back to him with it. 

What should I do? 

Email me back when you get my email. I just need some advice, 1200 sounds like way too much I'd think it's be 400$ 

I just talked to Dad. He asked if you had talked to the mission office--and what did they say??  I don't think it would be worth it to turn it into insurance because of our deductible. I would pay the bill directly if you can get they place to send you the bill. I know cars cost a ton to fix but maybe the mission office will tell you where he should get a bid and then we will know if it's a legit bid. Then whatever you and the guy decide is fair, we can pay the place directly.  (Off of an invoice, of course)

Sorry that happened!

143!

Ok what do I pay with? I haven't even talked to mission office about it. 

Should he just email me the information on it? 

I told the guy to take it into a Maaco where the church takes the cars in and he told me he wouldn't get no cheap job on it. Can I tell him to still go there even if he says no? I kind of feel that this by is scamming me, it was a 4 inch dent....

He doesn't have to get it fixed there. We just need to make sure it's in the same price range. Then we can split the difference. Tell him you understand that you don't want a cheap fix job. You want it done right--you just really trust the guys at Maaco. 

Send me a picture of the invoice when you get it. 

I do think it's important for you to have him get a bid at a shop you choose as well so you know he is not hosing you. If your shop comes out with a bid in the same ballpark, then you know he's not hosing you. Ask a member or the mission couple in charge of cars. They probably have a contract with a shop. 

 

 

8/14/17... Great week...exchange with Elder Huff, lesson with President, Sunday dinner, sushi and a package!

Sup y'all! 

Had a great week. Had some good miracles this week also. 

Went on exchange this Wednesday with Elder Huff. It was super fun, we found a new lady to teach named Iliana. We had a meeting on Tuesday and talked a lot about connecting people with the Book of Mormon and finding something that can connect with them, because anything can really. So we connected her really well with the  Book of Mormon and it was really good.  She liked it and her heart opened a lot when we read her a scripture.  We taught Jason on exchange this night also and it went super good, we asked him to set a date and he was like ok let's do this I'm thinking September 8th. He has quit drinking coffee this week already.  He is also coming to church this next Sunday.  He said he's busting out the suits.  He also invited us to go get lunch with him this Saturday.  We went and got some Vietnamese Pho. It was so good it changed my life I think lol I was in love. I got converted to the pho life. It was amazing. I think we're going every Saturday from now on. 😍

Friday night President Alexander called us and told us to bring an investigator over Saturday night so his grandkids can teach him.  We ended up being able to get Jo to come with us.  And a member to take us up.  We went and it was fun.  We ate pizza. Then the kids taught the restoration. It was a little all over the place but it was probably a lot better than I would have done at their age!  Then we taught the Word of Wisdom and Jo was committed to live it.  He came to church the next day as well.  He is so amazing.  Ever since we came and taught him they first night, he has kept every commitment and anything that we have asked him.  He is totally doing this on his own without much family support either. It's pretty amazing. He inspires me. 

Sunday we went and had dinner with one of the bug guys here and his wife, who isn't a member.  They're super fun we had a good time and they had this really good French toast casserole. Sarah's gotta make it sometime for me when I get back.

This week we went and got some sushi at this restaurant down the road😍 It was amazing. I like sushi so much now. But this is not a good thing because it's a little spendy sometimes. 

  

Mom I got the package! Thank you so much I loved it! The shoes are so sweet! I love the tie and the glasses, all of it was much needed!  You must be so close to the spirit because I think everything in there was inspired.  You're the best. 

We went and played basketball in the morning this week, and it was so sick.  We had 12 elders there and we played 4 on 4 on 4 continuous and we were getting smacked for a while until we started heating up and we couldn't be stopped.  We came back and won, of course. No surprise. Jk but really. 

Also shout out to mi padre! Happy Birthday Dad! I'm glad y'all had a blast at the narrows. 

Love y'all!