RIP Bryce Astle

Well this sucks... Right now my heart goes out to the Astle family, It is such a bummer to see someone with so much going for him in life, and to see how fast it can all end. Bryce was a great friend of mine, who I knew since elementary school. It is a very sad week for the ski world, because we have lost one of our own local legends. At least he passed on doing the thing he loved. RIP brother. 
Well how was every ones new years? Mine was pretty stinky... haha all we did was teach until 9 and then went home to sleep. I was just up chillin in my house cleaning some things and then heard some fireworks exploding outside. haha I didnt even get to do a countdown... 
On Saturday I got to go back to one of my old areas to help contact and visit some less actives. It was so awesome to see the people that I was teaching about 6 months ago. I was so happy to see them and they were super happy to see me. On Sunday we had a BBQ with a less active couple who are just the coolest. I felt like I was back home in the mountains when we were roasting some marshmallows. 
Transfers are next week, but I know that I will be staying in my area for at least one more transfer because my comp has to go home to get a knee surgery. So am just so ready to go crazy this next transfer and work super hard. I only have 7 months left to serve the lord with all of my heart might mind and
soul. I am so grateful to be here and for every blessing that I have received in my life. I know that the gospel of Jesus Christ changes lives. I love you all soo much!
Luv Elder Morgan

December 31, 2015 Happy New Year!!!

Well this week was pretty chill. It is weird because everyone here is on ¨Winter Break¨ so it is actually super hard for us to find and teach people. Its like we will be contacting people and we ask when we can pass by later in the week and they tell us that they wont be available until the 8th of January... Its because they are way too busy partying... haha but thats the DR.. It was super awesome being able to talk to the fam, although it was super weird seeing how much everyone has changed physically... I just love family! Well I got to talk this Sunday. It turned out to be a good talk with the fact that I had 5 min to prepare for it. But I chose to talk about the family and the simple things that we can do to keep our relationship strong and have strong testimonies on the church. it felt great because after there were lots of members thanking me for talking about that subject. Other than that My week has been normal. We have an investigator who is progressing very well. I think that she well be baptized in the future but I probably wont be here.Well its the time for making all of our new goals for this coming year. Honestly the best goal that I have found to have on the mission and also one of the hardest is to have the goal to achieve your goals... Plain and simple. haha  Well this is my short update of the week. I hope that all of you have a wonderful new year! I love you all so much!

Luv Elder Morgan

December 24th! Feliz Navidad

Merry christmas everyone! I had the funnest week, and hope that all of
you did as well. I love you all so much! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

 Singing Christmas carols at the mall.

The delicious Christmas Turkey.

A Whole lot of Christmas Spirit

Hey y'all! I just got to say that this week was awesome! The first great thing that happened is that we found another golden investigator. That makes it two right now that are progressing well. It has been a blessing because this area is super tough. Last Friday we had our ward party. It kinda stunk.. It wasn't planned very well so the people were bored.. A ton of people came but left right after they served the food.. haha and they had music to dance to but no one was dancing. I just wanted to let it all out and liven up the party but you know the missionary rules... So I just suffered and watched. I have been trying to get into the Christmas spirit lately. I have some Christmas socks that I have been wearing every day... Everyone thinks that I have problems... They just don't understand... I found some egg nog the other day, super expensive but I bought it for Christmas day.

I think that this Christmas is going to be a lot better than last years just because I am used to how everything is. Yesterday we had our Christmas conference with all of the zones. It was awesome because it was the first time that I have eaten real smoked ham in my whole time out. I got to see lots of friends that I haven't seen for a long time. Our zone had to do a Christmas skit in front of all of the other zones. Everyone chose me to be the main person because like I said earlier, everyone thinks that I have problems... but it was awesome.
We made a few people laugh. I just am not the acting type.. President Douglas and his wife gave great talks on giving and Christmas. It was just a super awesome and spiritual day. Today we got to go play paintball. I went HAM and killed lots of people. I really think that I have the coolest mission in the whole world. 
Well Christmas is in a week, I hope that all of you can get into the Christmas spirit of giving. That is Christmas is all about, giving more than receiving. I love you all so much and hope that you have great times with your
families.

Luv Elder Morgan

CocaCola Santa Truck in the DR

                                          Elder Enriquez and two cute Sisters

December 10, 2014 "He is the Gift"

Well first off this is super awkward because there are two people sitting next to me making out as I write this... Kids these days...
Well things are going good.. I feel like this week went by super fast.. Not much happened.. All of the Americans have been
trying to get into the Christmas spirit. We have been planning things that we are going to do as a zone at the Christmas program. It is
weird to think that a year ago I was in Nagua singing carols to people haha time sure does fly..

Well the mission and every mission is doing this thing with Christmas. It is called ¨He is the gift¨ We have to
pass out lots of cards to people talking about the true meaning of Christmas. There are so many people that don't know why we have
Christmas down here.. They think that it is just a time to eat drink and dance... Its hard for them to understand how important Christ is
in our lives. We have had a few good contacts with this. Well we have been looking for new people this week but didn't have lots of luck.

Well other than that our house has is infested with rats.. We killed one the other night but eve

Luv Elder Morgan

December 3, 2014

Well what is up?! This week was a super crazy one. We did lots of fun little things haha. On Friday we went to the place that we eat every day to learn how they cook. I'm not so much of a cooker but I would love to learn how to at least make some Dominican style food. The ladies that work there are like our little old grandmas haha, full of so much love. That same day the son of a member passed away from cancer. They called us and told us to go to the funeral home. There I was told that I would be sharing a message.... I didn't know what to
do because I had to speak in front of a crowd of full on catholic about something.. I chose to share our beliefs about the plan of salvation. I felt so calm sharing the message and could tell that lots of them were interested in what I was saying. Then the next day we celebrated the birthday of Rodcilian, one of our converts. We just sang and ate cake it was fun! 
On Sunday we had a pretty rough day. We had invited lots of people to come to church but in the end of it all no one came.. It hurt.. That night my comp and I made something called quesillo. It is this egg cake that is sooo good! Transfers were today but I will be staying in my area for one more transfer. Haha we played a prank on some of the members telling them that we both were getting transfers. It was pretty sad.. haha but something that they will never forget hahah. Well that was pretty much my week. We are working hard and slowly seeing things progress. I love my mission and everything about it. I love you all so much!

Luv Elder Morgan

Happy Thanksgiving

Hello.... I heard that there is snow in Utah... jealous.. haha no but this week was pretty chill. There are always some days when you get feeling down because of things that happen in the mission but the only thing that you can do is just keep swimming. Its hard when people make promises to you and then break them. You have no idea how many times that happens on the mission. Its like the people are to scared to say no so they just say yes knowing that they won’t do it. That's how you know that you have a great investigator. If they do the things that you ask, they are interested.  It has been hard for my comp and I to get help from the ward. We only have 4 families in our area and they are always busy. It’s tough sometimes.

Well something awesome happened this past week. One day we were leaving one of our lessons. We were walking past a house that we have walked passed a thousand times but have never seen the people who live there. As I was walking by I saw a woman in the front yard. I just said hello and kept on walking. As we kept on going I just had the strongest impression to go talk to her. We were in the next lesson and the only thing that I could think about was why I felt like this. After that lesson I told my comp that we have to go to that house and talk to them. We got there and found an older lady out front. We just started talking to her about chikinguya.. then she let us in after talking for a little. We walked in the house where we met the lady that I had seen before. We sat down and just started talking. After talking awhile we found out that one of her sons had passed away a month ago. When I heard that its like the spirit completed something in my heart. I knew that we were led there to teach the plan of salvation. I felt so blessed to have been influenced be the spirit that way. We shared with them a few days later and they are showing great interest.

On Monday we had a little B day party for my comp with Brenda and her family. It was a good week. I love my mission and all of the hard times it had. Its the hard thinks that make you stronger. I love you all and wish you a happy thanksgiving!
luv Elder Morgan