February 20th, 2012

Hey family!

Glad that you all had a great week and a good Valentines Day.  We had a pretty good week this week.  Right now we have kind of dropped Wanda but we are still going to try and talk to her some more.  We aren't sure if she is really interested or just likes to talk to us.  We teach a lot of people tho each week.  We have been finding inactive members lately and their records aren't here so nobody knows about them.  So we are trying to do less active work and keep finding people to teach.  First lessons are pretty common but getting those second and third lessons are the tricky part.  We are working with a few people though.  Nobody came to church yesterday we really thought that at least one person would come but oh well maybe next week.  It rained and poured a few days this week.  It sucked too cuz I just got my suit dry cleaned and then that Wednesday, Thursday and Friday it rained pretty good and there's always mud on the sidewalks and stuff so it gets my pants dirty a lot of times but my rain jacket works pretty well and keeps my suit and stuff dry.  We had a zone conference this week it was pretty good.  The assistants and the zone leaders did some trainings and President Jones talked to us.  Now we have to keep track of all the people that we contact each day.  Its crazy we have to track so many numbers and now one more and this will be the hardest one.  Anyone that we talk to at all in the day we have record.  He did this whole equation thing up front of all these numbers trickling down to a baptism.  Cuz out of like 10 contacts the average is getting 1 QGC (quality gospel conversation) and out of like 10 QGC's the average is like 1 1st lesson.  And out of like 20 1st lessons an average of one person gets baptized.  So he went over the mission goals for baptisms and stuff.  But the zone conference was good I got a letter from James and Bryce.  You will have to thank Natalie for the package she sent me she has given me 20 bucks every month that I've been out.  It's really nice of them to send me stuff.  But yeah the street name is Babcock sorry if I told u wrong.  I noticed that they were all saying Badcock but they still made it to me haha.  I also got the Valentines card from Chan with the pic of Ava in it she is really cute.  But yeah that cd should be able to copy u will have to send me one when u get a chance.  I hope the basketball teams do good at state that will be fun to go watch.  Next time u see Rhett tell him to email me.  James just baptized a girl he got permission from his mission president and got to go back to his old area and baptize her so he said that was cool.  I guess Josh's old girlfriend Kelby is getting married.  Oh well it will be good for when we get back and go to college haha.  thats funny about Tevan he always wanted to be the one in charge and I guess now is has chance haha.  Is Beeker still there or did he leave?  Sounds like Courtney has been playing some really good basketball--thats awesome Courtney!  I'm sure your gonna love all stars--you'll be great!  That was cool that u made both your foul shots to go into overtime. I bet u were pretty nervous haha. Keep having fun and doing good in school!  Hey Monkey you are gonna love the Parade of Homes. I remember when I went it was way sweet. There are houses that u would never imagine could be so big and nice.  I remember when I went I left knowing that I wanted a house like that haha.  It's crazy that your birthday is only a few weeks away and you'll be the big 16!  What are u gonna do for your birthday?  Well anyways thats all I got for this week. I love you all very much!  Have a good week!:)  and tell Grandpa Morgensen hi for me!

 

Love, Elder Morgensen