July 9th, 2012

Hey family!

Well yep I hit my 10 month mark so that was pretty sweet!  I'll be at a year in no time!  I had a really fun time on the 4th of July.  We ended up not having to knock doors at all.  Some families in the ward invited us to the park for a lunch so we hung out there for a while and then changed into some regular clothes so that we could play some ultimate Frisbee.  It was a blast.  Then we just stopped by less active families and visited a few.  Then we ate a nice big dinner with a part-member family in the ward which was nice.  We just shared a mini restoration lesson but the husband seemed pretty closed off to it.  Then after that we went over to our ward mission leader’s house and ate some homemade ice-cream it was pretty good.  And then on the way home we saw a few fireworks so that was good (ha ha).  As the mission goes on I’m learning how to be more frugal with money so that’s probably something really good that I can use at college (ha ha).  But we haven’t really had any "missionary moments" lately but we seem to help people out more by just being nice to them.  Like there's a lady in our apartment complex I saw the other day that has a cane and was trying to carry her groceries up to the third level so we went over and helped her out and she was really happy and grateful and said for the 3 years she's lived her nobody has ever offered to help.  So now every time she sees us she wants to talk for a few minutes she seems to really like us.  And on Thursday nights we have a bible study that we take turns teaching and a less active member in our ward has been bringing his friend who isn’t a member and he really likes that class.  Because he didn’t live in our area we referred him to other elders but the next time we saw him he said he would prefer to study with us because he didn’t really like the other elders he said there were too pushy and just wanted him to commit to baptism.  So if we get a chance we might just teach him the restoration because he really likes us.  He really likes the bishop too they met and stuff so we will see where he ends up.  But after the class one night he came up to us after and told us that he was just really going through a hard time in his life and wanted us to pray with him so I said a prayer for him and it made him really happy.  Even the next week he thanked us cause he said after we prayed with him things just went better for him so that was cool.  That’s cool all the missionaries that are heading out I can’t believe they are that old.  Well, love you all and have a great week!

Love, Elder Morgensen