11-28-11

Hey everyone, I had a great Thanksgiving!  We got to eat a main Thanksgiving meal with a family at 2:00.  They originally scheduled it for 1:00 but i know how that goes (ha ha).  We had a message to present to the members about giving thanks for the atonement of Jesus Christ so that was pretty great.  We went to like 6 different families that day and everyone kept trying to feed us pie and stuff we got pretty full.  And then we ate another Thanksgiving dinner at like 7 so we had a great day.

We started to listen to a bit of Christmas music already and people are starting to get their lights up around town.  Christmas time is definitely the time I am going to miss being home.  I already miss the warm fire and Christmas music that I'm sure your already enjoying. I don't know about my trainer if he is going to stay here for Christmas or not. He goes home the first part of February so only 1 more transfer for him after this one. Sounds like it gettin pretty cold there.  Its been getting surprisingly cold here so i bought a black sweater to wear over my white shirt so between that and the suit jacket we stay pretty warm.  But the lady didnt end up going to the baptism on Tuesday she was in too much pain she has some health problems and she is in a wheelchair and she didn't come to church this week becasue she was feeling sick but we have another appointment with her on Tuesday so hopefully she will be feeling better and hopefully her health improves but as far as we can tell she is making decent progress.  As for the sheriff and his wife we ate BBQ at their house on Wednesday night and then shared a short lesson of the restoration and gave them some pamphlets before we left.  They are looking more and more solid.  We have another appointment set up with them to go over and teach a full length lesson.  Its going to be kinda hard to get them at church every week because he gets every other weekend off and she works at the jail and works 4 weekends and then gets off for 4.  But we will just have to wait and see what happens with them.  I will try and send some more pictures next week.  Christmas season is great to be able to share a message of Jesus Christ with people.  And we are going to try and lift peoples spirits for the holidays since some people don't have much.  I'm gonna try and send home a christmas picture of me and my companion and maybe that one can go on the card.  If you get a chance send me some pictures of the family and maybe even some old pictures.  Thanks for everything.

Love Elder Morgensen! 

11-21-11

Things here in Texas are going good.  I think we will be eating a lot of food on Thanksgiving everyone wants us to eat at least a little bit with them so that will be a fun day.  Luckily we can just be with the members that day and wont have to tract or anything.  We are working with a lady right now that seems to look pretty promising.  She investigated the church like 20 years ago.  Her soon was converted and served a mission but wasnt able to convert his mom.  The missionaries have been working with her in the past but havent had much success.  She is a smoker so she has some health issues and she is in a wheelchair.  She isnt paralyzed but just cant move very easy.  Her son called us Monday and said his mom went to church with him down in San Marcos ward on Sunday and he said he thinks his mom is ready to hear from the missionaries again.  So we set up an appointment with her and her son and taught her the restoration and everything kind of just clicked with her.  She accepted our invitation to be baptized and said yes and would work towards that.  She came to church with us yesterday and really liked it.  She is also going to come to a baptism on Tuesday to watch.  We went over yesterday after church and helped her son put up Christmas decorations for her.  It was good to get to know them and her son is really happy that she wants to get baptized now.  Also out tracting this week we knocked on a door and this lady answered.  She seemed really sad and didnt seem very interested to talk with us.  We were only talking to her for like 30 seconds and her husband came up to the door in his Sheriffs uniform and immediately invited us to come inside.  It was really weird because we didnt even ask if we could come in.  So we sat down not having a clue what was happening.  He said he is about to go to work but wanted to talk with us for a minute.  He said growing up his mom would always let the missionaries come over and she would feed them and he said his whole family loved the spirit that the missionaries brought into their home when he was younger.  So when he saw who we were he wanted us to come in.  He started to ask us how he could receive forgivness.  We just shared a short message with him about the atonement because we knew he had to go.  He asked who he would talk to if he wanted to know more about our church.  We told him we were the ones.  So we have an appointment with him this Wednesday they are going to have us over to eat some BBQ and tell them more about the gospel.  He seemed really sincere about wanting forgivness.  So we are hoping that they will investigate the church.  So that was kind of our week as far as missionary work.