2.01.2016

It's already February!

Well, this week will help compensate for the lack of crazy stories

from last week. But first, I'll start off with those we teach:

As you could probably notice, over the past few weeks we have been

trying to find people to teach and build our teaching pool again. Well

last week we went to visit a self referral from two years ago in

Sewickley. When we got there we met L, his mom. We gave her a

Book of Mormon and got another appointment with her set up. She is

seriously so awesome, the time that we set up didn't work for her and

instead of flaming out like most people she called us and let us know

a time at worked better for her. We went and taut her Saturday the

Restoration and the lesson went fantastic. The spirit was strong and

we invited her to be baptized and she said yes! Even better, we

invited her to church and she said yes to that as well. So yesterday,

Leslie was at church! She loved it and was smiling the whole time. I

am really excited to teach her, I see so much potential not only in

her but also possibly teaching her family as well. She is a blessing

that was much appreciated since I felt like we have been working super

hard to find someone ready to hear the gospel.

We also met with a former investigator who stopped meeting with the

missionaries when his health went bad about two years ago. He had to

get his leg amputated, yet he has such a positive outlook on life.

Hopefully I will have more to report about A next week!

J has been struggling little bit, and this week she was genuinely

concerned and didn't understand how Christ knows exactly how we feel

during trials. I was able to testify that he really does know how we

feel, and how he took on the sins and pains and sorrows for each one

of us individually. It makes me so sad to see how people do not

understand that Christ is there for us and is willing to help us when

we feel bogged down. All we have to do is ask for help and rely on

Him. I have grown a love for the Atonement, yet still have so much

more to learn. It's super cool.

Now for some adventures from our week:

We were riding on the bus one day and it totally broke down.

Pittsburgh is a city of hills, and we were slowly going up one (a lady

jogging on the sidewalk was faster than the bus) when all he sudden it

died and started to roll backwards a little. Thank goodness for

emergency brakes and the next bus which only came ten minutes later!

We had dinner with a family who has a Great Dane that probably weighs

as much as I do. Well for some reason it took a liking to me, so the

entire time at dinner it was trying to bite / tug on my laces, and

stick it's head up my skirt. at one point the dog got so close to my

face I thought it was about to lick my mouth. That would have been

bad. The whole time I was trying to play it off all cool and

nonchalantly push it away, but I totally failed. I got the "laugh when

you are in an uncomfortable situation" thing from my mom, so the whole

time I was dying laughing. It totally backfired and drew so much

attention to me. Classic backfire moment of Sister Morrison.

So, one thing I love about Bellevue is there is always something going

on because it's a walking community. Well, yesterday we were walking

to see a member when we saw Sister T and her friend L on

the side of the street. We were talking with them for a little bit,

when all the sudden we see a car speed past us and a few seconds later

two girls screaming and briskly walking down towards us. The girl who

was screaming profanity more than a sailor had her face totally beat

and blood gushing out of her nose. Obviously she got the crap beat out

of her, she looked nasty. We went over to see if she was ok and the

whole time she was screaming and bawling hysterically while trying to

call someone on her phone, but failing to do so. She had two dogs that

we pulling her arms in different directions, so Sister Kwasney and I

held the leashes for her and the friend so she could settle down and

get a little cleaned up. Well, while all this is happening Larry

decides to call the cops, which was a little unnecessary since the

only thing that happened was a girl got beat up. We kept trying to ask

her friend what happened but the whole time she was mute, and would

only talk to her friend. I'm pretty sure they were also both on drugs.

The girl finally composed herself a little and decided she felt good

enough to walk home. Right as they left a police came, so we finished

talking to Sister T then walked towards the cop car to see what

happened. As far as we could tell they were just trying to see how bad

her face was.

So that's about it for the week! The weather has warmed back up to the

fifties again! This winter has been the second most mild winter here

in the past century, and I'm sure not complaining! As long as I am in

a walk area the snow stay for away!

Sister Morrison

Since I don't have lots of pictures to send this week I though I'd show you this one. It's a picture of the shortest and tallest missionary here in the PPM. It cracks me up every time I look at it!

Gas is so cheap here, can you believe it's below $2?

Me and Kwasney