2.08.2016

When you laugh inside a bathroom, someone is bound to hear you...

This week the weather was nice and warm! And by warm I mean in the mid

40s. There were also more days with clear skies which sure makes me

happy! Those days are usual far and few. I never realized how grateful

I am for the sun and warm weather!

J came to church yesterday, it was great! She only came for the

first 30 minutes to take the sacrament before she went to the other

church with her mom, but something is better than nothing!

Ju also came and this week she paid her tithing!!!! That is

something that we have really been trying to work with her on. We kept

promising her that if she paid tithing that she will receive blessings

and that she would still have enough to pay her monthly bills. Well,

this past week she saw a financial blessing that caused her to have

enough faith to pay tithing. Hopefully we can continue to help her

progress towards a full tithe so she can go to the temple!

The R's didn't come to church yesterday. As frustrating and sad as

it makes me, it doesn't surprise me anymore. They keep bailing last

minute for random reasons. It kills me to see how they aren't keeping

the covenants that they made.

We saw E with the Relief Society

president this past week and you could physically see a difference in

her since she has stopped coming to church. She is no longer full of

light and happy, but is miserable. I just wish she could see that when

she starts doing the right thing she will be blessed.

We got to teach L a little about the Plan of Salvation this week.

She is really eating it up! It's nice to teach someone other than the

Restoration. Seeing people progress is one of the best parts about

being a missionary. Sadly, she got called into work yesterday so she

wasn't able to come to church, but she said next week she will!

We have been working with a less active named L this past month.

Both her and her mom, Susie, have been coming back to church more

recently. L was really able to open up with us this past week and

now we have a great relationship with her and we will know how to help

her develop her faith in Christ in the future. We also helped her work

on her car. She knows lots about cars and she said that she had $1,600

worth of work to do, and if she did the labor it would only cost her

about $300, so we volunteered to help! I didn't learn too much, but I

did learn a little about the inside of a car. The highlight was

definitely hitting a sledge hammer a bunch of times on a part to knock

it loose. I also got my hands dirty and wore pants which is also a

nice little treat :)

At New Hope this week they had a comedy club activity. They told funny

old people jokes and we served them drinks. Leave it to the two Mormon

missionaries to be assigned to making mock tails for everyone!

Thankfully most of them wanted piña coladas or margaritas so it wasn't

hard. I just faked it till I made it when it came to being a bar

tender.

So this past week we got to one of our lessons and I really had to use

the bathroom. I went upstairs used the bathroom, and then went to

leave when I noticed the door handle was falling off. I knew I was

locked in and all I could do was laugh. I could hear everyone

downstairs talking and I figured I would be stuck in there for a while

and continued to laugh hysterically. Well, all the sudden I heard

Sister Kwasney say "is your bathroom door hard to open?" I knew she

heard me, so I just knocked on the door to signal that I was stuck.

Eventually I got out, but it was funny knowing that everyone and their

dog could hear me laughing in the bathroom and that if I just yelled

they could have gotten me sooner! During that same lesson both me and

the member who came with us fell asleep, but only Sister Kwasney

noticed, thank goodness!

We were on the bus to the outskirts of our area, so the bus ride is

about twenty minutes long. For some reason that bus ride always makes

you so tired. Kwasney told me that she was about to fall asleep so I

stayed awake so we wouldn't miss our stop. Her head started bobbing

more and more, and within a matter of two minutes her whole body was

practically jerking. That didn't seem, to wake her though. What did the

trick was when her whole body gave out and she fell forward and hit

her head on the pole in front of us. I was dying laughing as she woke

up to a bonk on the head! If only I got that on camera!

Sister Morrison

Beaver Valley District

One of greatest things about going into the city is that there is a 7-11 on every corner. I love slurpees!

Touching Monongahela, Ohio, and Allegheny Rivers all at the same time! Only place you can do this is at the point of Point Park.

Selfie while we fix L's car.