Another amazing week!

Hello,

This week was a roller coaster! We had some good things, some bad things, and some funny things happen but transfers are next week and we don't know what is going to happen we will know Sunday night but hopefully we will stay! One of the elders in our ward is training a new missionary so their companionship will split up but we don't know about me and Elder Balch yet.

We had a pretty good lesson with the Haggler family yesterday! We usually meet with them a couple times a week and they are awesome! We watched the Restoration video with them because they had some questions about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon and they loved it and thought it was great, we were also able to help them set a date to be baptized!!! That was pretty sweet cause their son Trey has come a long way.  At first he was kinda shaky but ever since we have been coming by his heart has been softening. 

We had ward conference yesterday and that was pretty good stake President Bowman gave a really good talk about trusting in God and talked a lot about the Holy Ghost! Good Sunday to be at!! 

Here's a pic of me in Guthrie, Okla., where I am currently serving my mission.

We also had a couple good lessons with Rebecca! She is doing good and told us to tell ya'll, Hi.  In our lesson she did however tell us that she was only getting baptized because she likes us... That was hard to take because things have been going so well but we are glad that she let us know because now we know her concerns about the gospel and we can talk more about them! 

I have been on a high with reading new talks by general authorities.  There was one really good one that I was able to read that talked a lot about the issues I was facing as a missionary for a little while and gave me some good insights.  It's called "Becoming Perfect in Christ" by Gerrit W. Gong. What I liked  about it was that it lets us know how to be diligent... Diligence is using our time effectively! I will leave yall with that and you can read the rest later.

Anyways it was a good week we are all just waiting in anticipation 

for transfer doctrine to see where everyone goes!! 

LOVE YALL

Elder Morris

Loving it to the max!!!

Hola, amigos,

No, I am not becoming a Spanish-speaking missionary if that is what you were thinking!! This week was a quick week; I cant even believe that its Monday again. We had an awesome week, we had tons of lessons and some really cool experiences.

So (investigator) Rebecca is super cool, I don't know if everyone knows the story, but the 1st day Elder Balch and I were companions we were tracting and came across this old Victorian home so we knock on the door and out comes Rebecca and she says, "Hey, Elders." We got to talking and she believed the Book of Mormon was true, but she just didn't ever get baptized.

Elder Balch, left, and me being goofy at Rebecca's house.

Well, we knew that we needed to come back and now a couple months later she is getting baptized. We set a baptismal date with her for the 6th of September, that is the Saturday right after transfers so we are hoping that none of us get transferred!!! We had an awesome church tour with her and some awesome lessons this week and she is super stoked!!!

Another miracle that we had was that 7 of our investigators came to church yesterday!! That was such a miracle to see and it was stressful and hard to make sure everyone enjoyed it and went to the appropriate classes!!! 

Sorry this week is a shorter email.Things have been crazy awesome here and we are loving it to the max!!! That means we are also very tired, haha!

LOVE YOU ALL!
Elder Morris

WE ARE THE WATER BUFFALO!!!!!

This week was pretty swell, it has been fun and exciting this week we have been able to teach more lessons in Guthrie than have been taught in a while!! We are excited to continue to see the area grow and the miracles continue to happen.

From left, here's me, Guthrie Ward member Dakoda Rollins 

and my former companion, Elder Wilcox. Dakoda had just 

gotten the Aaron Priesthood on this day, June 29, 2014.

A couple stories from this week:

We had dinner with a part-member family this week and the non-member husband was really cool and didn't know too much about Mormons. Well, we had a great and funny dinner conversation with him and gained a great relationship with him and are hopefully going golfing with him sometime soon! During one conversation with him he mentioned something funny! He was talking about members of the church and was saying "Ya'll are like water buffalo." 

We looked at each other with confusion and then he went on to explain that he had seen a video about water buffaloes in the wild and that when one of them got attacked the others herded around the one to protect it! Haha it was pretty funny but we were excited because he has a good taste in his mouth for the members of the church!!!

I was on exchanges with Elder Bender in Stillwater, where oklahoma state university is, on friday and it was sorority week there and we were on guard the whole day making sure the little females stayed away from us, and elder bender has been in the area about 2 weeks so he didn't know the streets because we were driving from dinner and we ended up on sorority row... 

There were so many women out there I was about to stab my eyes out.  I just started screaming in the truck and we made it out alive!! 

As well when we were in stillwater we drove by a car wreck that happened right before we got there and it was pretty bad. it was on a main road and we saw the body lying there in the middle of the street,  It was really sad and we said a prayer that night for the family but a really cool experience for at least me happened after that, we were on our way to teach a family about the plan of salvation and that made me think of the accident and how that boy isn't really gone he is just in the spirit world and possibly being taught the gospel by some other missIsonaries!! I love the plan of salvation and all the questions it answers for me!! I know it to be true without a doubt!!!

I know that the Savior is watching over us, even if we aren't perfect because he loves us so much and I know that this work is directed by Heavenly Father and its a joy to be able to be a part of such a great work!!! I love you all.

Elder Morris

P.S.. My current mailing address is:Elder Morris, 2000 Woodlawn, #H4, Guthrie, OK  73044. 
OR, email me at kmorris@myldsmail.net 

Nooooo, it's a giant thumb... HAHAHA

As far as this week we have had a funny week!

Monday we made a music video to a funny Mormon song and it is hilarious. Dakoda Rollins, a ward member, put it online so everyone can see it. The link is at the bottom of the paragraph.  That was a really fun P-day and then in the evening we had dinner with the Larson family and a FHE afterwards and brother Larson was talking to us about his leg.  

Brother Larson, a couple years ago, got in a really big motorcycle accident and unfortunately the damage was so bad that he had to get his leg amputated. Well we were looking at a bunch of the pictures from the surgery and everything with the accident and we got to the end and it was a picture of him with his leg gone (it got cut right below the knee) and had stitches all around it and he was laughing in the picture so we were like why are you laughing? He said he remembers him thinking it looked like a giant penis! 

So we all got a good kick out of it and then we see Beckham their 3 year old son next to us shouting, "IT LOOKS LIKE A GIANT PENIS," and it was the funniest thing ever and his mom looks at him and says "no it looks like a giant thumb" and tries to get everyone to laugh so he thinks its funny. Well that didnt work and he said "no mom its a giant penis" haha ah good times

http://youtu.be/LNHD4_qpj3A

This week was good we did a-lot of service for some really cool people and we were able to teach some good lessons! We have 2 investigators that are super close to being really solid they want everything that the church has to offer its just they dont want to change. I get it I mean its hard to do but we are hopefully getting somewhere. We think we are 'cause things seem to be getting better with them!! I'm too impatient. I need to be OK with progress! We are needing to find a lot because we have lost a couple investigators, but we were able to find some really cool people this week, so things are looking upward for us!!!

We had a really good lesson with Billy, though. We both, afterwards, while we were talking about it felt like that was the best lesson we had with him thus far. He says he wants to make a change but he needs to get to church!!!! That's always the kicker!!! He has an awesome family, though, and they would be good members of the church!!

Something sad that happened was one of our investigators is going to move to Texas and we are bummed about that, but a cool miracle happened. As she was walking around an apartment complex, she told us that she saw 2 missionaries and walked up to them and exchanged numbers with them; that just shows me that God is guiding this work and that He always is helping us and those who want to hear the message!!

So steady progress is being made! I know that the Lord doesn't expect perfection, he just expects progress, and as long as we are doing our best and giving it all to Him He is happy!!!

I'm happy. I love the work and the great blessings I see from it!

LOVE YA'LL.

Elder Morris