A Weird Week

I don't even know... This week was weird. Well first of all, It was a pretty rough week with the work. It seemed like no one was home or that everyone was hiding from us.. We aren't that ugly of missionaries.. Also this last week I was sooo stoked for conference. We had lots of people who told us that they would come and watch it with us. So Saturday finally comes and we go to get everyone who said they wanted to go.. Well only one person really came... Then we get to the chapel. I thought that they were going to have one room where it would be playing in Spanish and one in English. I was wrong. Spanish only. It stunk. Not for the fact that I can't understand what they were saying. It just isn't the same when the prophet is talking and a voice of a Mexican from Nacho Libre comes out.. Haha no it was all good though. It was super cool to see some of them talking in their native tongue. Its weird to think that I only have one more General Conference until I am home.

On Monday something great happened. We were having a rough day as like all of the week days are. We were waling around trying to find anyone to talk to. We contacted a lady who strait shut us down... then we said a prayer to be lead to someone who needed us. We were walking and we went to a street where I felt like we needed to go. As we were almost at the end of the street just about to give up, we heard someone say Elders! We went over and started talking to them. They told us that they were less active from another area and just moved to this area. They are so cool! They still read pray and FHE. It was a total answer to our prayers. I am hoping to work with them hard to get them reactivated. A family of 11! The spirit really guides!
Well now for the weird part. So yesterday morning when I got up my face felt kind of weird. I went into the bathroom and looked at the mirror..... My eye was swollen and red. I have no idea how it happened. I went to an eye doctor to get it checked out. Don't worry mom they said that what I have is super dangerous and has %100 death rate.. Haha no they just think that it it a bug bite or something. Its ugly. It looks like someone hit me in the eye haha. Well that's about all that I want to tell you all about this week. I love you all so much!
Love Elder Morgan

Gangsters and Mormons

October 1, 2014

Well It feels like I just wrote yesterday... but Ill write a lil sumpthin.. This week was a good one. The work has been kinda slow the last couple of weeks but is now heating up. Its good that i am here, I am learning a ton about how to talk to everyone. I never had to contact in my other two areas but now I am forced to. We have found two new families this last week that i hope will progress fast. We have two girls with baptism dates who are super stoked about the church! They just need to follow through!! We are also teaching this old dude who is 73 and is such a G! He totally knows that the BOM is true, Every time we are there he bears his super strong testimony. The only thing that sucks is that he is too old to got to church on Sundays.... It's a toughie. But things are going good.  Where I am at there is a group of gangsters who pretty mush all lived in NY but got deported for crimes. Haha I am super tight with them. Other people walk by them super scared, but every time I walk by they call me over to talk about the states. That one day they will all get back in and be pro rappers. They love to show off to everyone that they know English, but it is so crappy.. Haha they are sick. This past Saturday one of my investigators from my old are got baptized! It was so great to see that she finally accepted the gospel!  Well I am super excited for General Conference this next week. WE have lots of investigators who are going to watch it with us. I hope that they can feel the spirit and the power in the words of the prophets! Well I hope that you all have a wonderful week! I love you all!

Love Elder Morgan

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

A Terrible Idea.... (Playing with Bats)

I'm pretty sure Elder Morgan has no idea how many terrible diseases come from bats!  Including Ebola!!  Pray for his stupidity, I think he might need it:)  

This week was pretty normal... It has been raining like crazy here. I also believe that it has been the coldest that I have felt the weather, Like 70 degrees..... Hahah its too hot here. 
The work is going pretty good. This area that I am in right now is a lot different than the other areas that I have had so I have to learn how to do things here. I have met some cool people who have taught me a lot. Along with some RMs from the ward. Two days ago I had splits with the zone leaders, crazy things happened. When we were walking to their house we found a half dead bat.. So we put it in a Styrofoam box and took it to their house. We left the house to work for the day. When we got back it was dead.... So we took advantage of the situation. We took tons of pics with it.. Its not everyday where you can hold a real bat in your hands!!! After we felt to bad to just throw it away, so we decided to tape it on the wall as a decoration. It is a very unique wall piece... Hahah 
The next day we had a service project with the zone in Tamboril. We were making a wood house for one of the members. We spent the whole day cutting out the weeds
from the field. I got so sun burnt  on my face neck and legs. I can't even move my head when I wear my white shirt. I have to move my whole body to look around.... I'm so white.. 
Well that's just about all that happened this week. No one said that the mission is easy. Even a year into it I still have hard days. But every day I learn new things. You just have to always have a positive attitude with everything. We get
so many hidden blessings from the lord everyday. I love  you all sooo
much!
Luv Elder Morgan

                                                           Sunburn!

                                            Building the house

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