11.2.2015

Happy Halloween 🎃

This week has felt like 5 miles long, but we had a lot of fun as well

so we'll start off by telling the fun stories.

Let me just for start off by saying I did something super legit on P

Day! We went to North park which was super beautiful because of all

the fall leaves on the trees, and we found a vine that we swung from!

I just got to swing like George of the jungle and I felt so cool doing

it!

Tuesday morning the elders had to come by our house night before we

found Nerf guns in our apartment, so we decided to surprise attack

them. We climbed onto the roof on the second story of the house and

had her studies up there what we waited to shoot them. Well after an

hour waiting they finally came and sadly they didn't think it was as

funny as we did, but we sure got a hoot out of it!

It rained all day Wednesday which is pretty terrible. I sure don't

know what I'm gonna do when the rainy season really hits. I'll just

have to pray a lot.

So Halloween this year was pretty awesome! We couldn't really dress up

like anything but Sister Birch and I still managed to dress up and it

was so fun! We were cleaning out our neighbors house the week or two

ago when we found a bunch of outdated dresses. We ended up dressing up

like sister missionaries from the 1990s and even did our hair and

makeup to match them. We went to the ward trunk or treat party like

that and everyone thought we were so funny. My favorite comment that

we got was "I looked just like that! I think I had that same exact

dress!" Next day on Halloween we went to New Hope, a senior rehab

facility, to help with their Halloween party and it was so fun to see

all the old people in their costumes and with face paint on.

OK, now for the most exciting news that I have had on my mission so

far… We had six investigators come to steak conference this weekend!

Oh my gosh it was so stressful and by the end of Sunday I was pooped.

It took about three hours of coordinating to get everyone a ride to

church but it all worked out. They even got to meet President and

Sister Johnson which is pretty cool, as well as a bunch of members

from our ward which was fantastic. It was seriously a miracle that it

all worked out. By the time we got home were so tired that we didn't

feel like talking to each other during lunch so it was a little quiet.

Later that day when we were out visiting people they kept asking ask

us why would he looks so tired even though it was daylight savings the

night before; I guess we looked as hammered as we felt.

J is great she came to church on Sunday and our lesson with her

this week was phenomenal. The member who came with us was so impressed

with her love for Jesus and I can tell that everyone in the ward is

just going to love her. She really taught me this week how much

somebody can love Jesus and makes me want to try to emulate that.

A also came to church on Sunday and his lesson this week was

amazing. We brought along one of the ward members and they clicked and

got along very well. That was such a relief because we feel that A

is sometimes a little reserved when sharing his emotions and feelings.

He even prayed for the first time out loud during her lesson and it

was wonderful! Hopefully he'll continue to read the book of Mormon and

gain a testimony of the Gospel.

Now for some of the greatest news ever, I know I've said this so many

times in this email already but I just can't stop smiling every time I

think about it. The R family has recommitted themselves to baptism

and are getting baptized on December 19! We are so happy and it's been

a long road for them, but things are finally looking up and they are

committed once and for all. They've been through a lot of struggles

lately that have been keeping them from progressing, but they've been

able to resolve almost all of them and they have this new drive and

spirit that just lights up the room. Sister Birch and I are so excited

and we cannot wait to get their whole family baptized. Brother

K, a member in our ward, has been a great fellowshiper and

is really taking them under his wing. It really is amazing how much

people can progress and they have a friend in the Gospel.

Sister Morrison

This picture doesn't really do the trees justice of how beautiful
they look right now.

Our super legit costumes were we look like freaks the whole night!

These old folks seriously cracked me up the entire time. If you zoom in you can see some pretty wild face painting jobs.

I got a picture of me swinging from the vines!