September 24- Birthdays

Happy Birthday Mom!! I hope that you had an awesome day!  Well this week went by super fast! I think that this week was the most meeting filled week of my life.... Haha I feel like we hardly had time to work. But it was a very spiritual week as well. We had the wonderful opportunity to have Elder Cornish from the seventy come and talk with us. Haha the mission really makes you appreciate the words of the prophet and apostles. They really are chosen by God and teach with the spirit. Also we have the awesome chance to serve an orphan home once a week. We go there and do any kind of service that they need. It is super sad to see how many parents have abandoned their kids. That is why I am so grateful for mine. They have given me everything! Haha yesterday was the Presidents birthday. The missionaries in my zone decided that we should go sing to him. So at 630 in the morning we went to his house to sing to him. Haha Sister Douglas let us in the house and led us to his room. We ran in and found him with a "what the heck" are you guys doing in my room at 6:30 in the morning face haha he was pretty surprised. Haha I really have the best mission president in the world! Other than that the work is gong good. We are looking for lots of new people to teach. Sometimes you have to be creative to talk to people. Its fun sometimes. Well I love you all. HAGW.. (have a good week)...

Love Elder Morgan

September 17th- Hot Dogs

First off this week was a lot better than last. Dean Coffey is an amazing man. I am trying to be positive about everything that has happened.  Not much has happened. Last week was transfers but I am still with my same comp. We had a fun couples activity for the members. We made like 80 hot dogs.... I am so fat.. Mom send me a diet plan...  The area that I am in right now is kinda hard because it is small. I feel like there aren't any more people to teach... I have been thinking a lot about me being here for over a year. That means that I have less than a year left. I just want to do my best but for some reason IDK how to do that.. Today for Pday we watches Monsters University... Now IDK if its from not seeing a normal movie for over a year or what, but I thought that it was like the best movie ever!! Haha sometimes I just feel like I am out of the world. I know that it ain't much but that's all that has happened in the past week. I will
try to do something dumb or stupid or dangerous this next week. I love you all so much.
Love Elder Morgan

Oh Dean-o I Will Miss You

Oh Dean-o... Thanks for everything. In small words you have made me a better person.. I have so many great memories of Dean-o that I will never forget. From the great times in Lake Powell on the good ol´houseboat, to the great nights spent up in the Coffey's cabin and to the most cherished of all for me, the sweet moments of chilling on the lake fishing. Dean really was like my second Dad. Ever since day one of the Coffeys moving into the neighborhood, he took me in as a son. I don't think that anyone has a bad memory about Dean. I was over at the Coffey house almost more than I was at my house. In all of the time that I spent over there I never saw Dean in a bad mood. He was always cracking jokes with his distinct chuckle making everyone else laugh. He was such a selfless person. I remember times when Matt and I would beg him to take us out to go fishing knowing that he was busy and had other things to do, he would make time to spend quality time with all of his sons. I could go on for hours writing about how great of a person Dean was. The truth is that his unexpected loss has been extremely hard for me. These have been some of the hardest days for me as a missionary. But I realized something today. Being PDay I had a lot of time to think. Everything that has happened has helped me have more faith in the great Plan of Salvation. We just have to accept the fact that God has a purpose in everyone and in everything.  That for some reason that we don't know in this instant, God needed Dean. I love the Coffey family so much. I wish I was there to be with you all. Just know that everything will be okay. All we have to do now is make him proud with everything that we do in life. Even though I have tripped and fallen, I will get back up and make ol´ Dean-o proud. I will serve and live life just how he did. Happy. I send all of my love to Deb, Ashley, Drew, Matt, Chase, Addy and Cam.. My second family. Lets just follow the big mans example and love life!

Lost

September 4, 2014

What upp! It was another great fun filled week.- So to start, last Saturday I got to go back to my old area to see one of my investigators get baptized. Jeffery was a kid that I taught for a transfer while I was in Tamboril. It was so great to see! 

So yeah its pretty cool to think that I have a year on the mish. The time went by so fast. It kinda makes me nervous that this year will go by faster. I just love it here... But the work is going pretty good. My area is alot harder than my others. We are contacting a lot in the streets which is pretty fun. I love meeting new people and hearing about their lives. The other day we found a golden investigator! It is this young girl that is super chill with everything. She isn't like the other Dominican youth that goes out and party's every night. We shared just a little bit of our message and she was super interested! It was so sweet. I just hope that she keeps on listening and progressing.  

Yesterday we went to a waterfall for pday. It was like a two hour hike to get to the waterfall. I was talking the whole time to another Elder so I never payed attention of how we got there. So after we played for a little we started to come back. I was talking with the other Elder and we just kept on walking down the river... After like 40 minutes of walking we realized that we were not on the same trail we came. Haha the only living thing that was close to us was a few cows. It felt like a dumb and dumber moment. I thought it was so funny that we were lost in some DR mountains. I was so ready to rough it and stay the night. The other Elder was pretty freaked out so he wanted to find anyone to help. After screaming and walking for awhile we found an old guy with his machete. Like a Dominican cowboy. We asked him where the trail was to get back to town was. He said that we were far away...haha but after that all went well we found the trail and made the long walk back. I was kinda bummed that we got back. I just wanted to camp.. It was a great day though. Missions really are so awesome! I love mine so much and wouldn't trade it foe anything. I am so lucky to be out here. I see how much the lord blesses his children.

I love you all so much!
Love Elder Morgan