1.23.2017

Three words, moose calls, and dead peeps

Oh man, I don't even know where to begin for this week. G and

W are still MIA, so I guess that's all I can report on for them.

Sister Piña is also getting very cultured in the never ending project

to clean up the area book. That's just a fancy way of saying going

through old potential and former investigators to try to find people

to teach. Still not much progress there, but at least we are helping

future missionaries save time by weeding out people who have moved or

are clearly not too happy to see us.

In preparation to see G and W when they come back when school

starts, we have been doing a lot of reflecting and praying to know how

we can best help them move forward. As we discussed the recent lessons

we had with them, we have figured out what tipped the scale and caused

them to runaway. Are you ready? I said the three words during our last

lesson with them...yup, I said "I love you," and that was obviously

frightening to hear it come from such a scary and freaky person as me,

so they bolted. Oh man, I'm in trouble when I get back home and start

dating boys, but hopefully I'll be able to hypnotize them or something

before I say those words for real haha.

A guy named M has recently been reactivated so we don't have

lessons with him anymore. It was a huge bummer because M is one of

a kind, and a little crazy so you always leave his house cracking up.

He was a little bummed too since he didn't get to see us outside of

church so he offered to come teach lessons with us. Sadly, we have no

one to take him to right now, so we figured that we could take him

finding instead! I think this was the funniest hour of finding I've

spent on my mission. We would be walking down the streets and he would

be dancing, and making this moose call that sounds more like a mating

call. You couldn't help but laugh. M really enjoyed it as well, and

he kept telling us that we were doing a fantastic job and that he was

proud of us. So not only did we get entertainment for an hour, but we

also had a personal cheerleader :) He enjoyed himself so much that he

said he'll join us next week.

We did get to teach Sister D again. She has expressed a desire

to start family history work, but claimed that all the temple work had

been done for her family. So we volunteered our very limited knowledge

and helped her find two ancestors who needed work done within a matter

of five minutes. She was so excited, and kept going through her lines

fascinated with where her family was from and what different temples

around the world the ordinances were performed in. After she was

taught enough to help her be self sufficient we left. But the miracle

happened two days later. She called us one night and thanks us because

she's been on familysearch.org for hours since we left and has found

so much information! She was so excited she wanted to call and tell

us. So even though she is nowhere close to coming to church right now,

at least we are helping her ancestors have a fair shot at exaltation!

Sister Morrison

I'm really working hard and pushing through

to the end out here in PA haha

Find with M :)