December 12

December 12, 2016

Buenos dias todos, espero que esten felices y bendicidos!

Anyway this week was just weird. Kinda boring too. So Monday early I went to Ocotal to pick up my new Comp, then stayed with the ZL's and then woke up at 2 to go to Managua for a training for the trainers, rolled into to Ocotal for the night because Wednesday we had a multi zone meeting in Matagalpa (so nice to head back to my birthplace) where we got to hear and talk to Elder Ochoa of the Seventy, so sweet. He said some awesome things, talking about developing perfect faith. One thing he said that touched me was that Love casts out fear. So True!!

So yeah, this week I spent 24 hours on a bus, and in the space of 4 days I slept maybe 12 hours. Kinda brutal, but it was for a good reason. It was a real confidence boost to know that I am now capable of traveling across a foreign country with a companion that doesn't speak a ton of Spanish and turn out fine!!

So Thursday we finally rolled into Jalapa and poor Elder Carlisle. I went freak mode because we missed three whole days of work I decided that we would make up for it. And we did.

Also we baptized another person, a young girl named Francie. I let Elder Carlisle baptize her and it was super super sweet to watch. I believe that brings my baptism count almost to 15. And I honestly love every one just as much if not more than the last.

Our new house is bigger but our bathroom sucks. Last night I heard a scream to find Elder Carlisle nearly in the fetal position. There was the biggest frog I have seen in the shower. Kinda hilarious, poor Sinclair (Carlisle's nickname one of the Elders in our district kept calling him) he also has a mouse that has been pestering his bed and luggage. He is sweet though, we get along super well and I am hoping to show him a better example, his last comp was a bit lazy.

Love you all, enjoy the Christmas Season with family and serve others and you can't go wrong!!

Stay Sweet Elder Morrison

I emailed Logan asking him to send me a few things he has learned on his mission so I can share it in sacrament meeting this Sunday when I update the ward on how he is doing. This is what he sent me:

Mom I can and have written about 200 pages of journal already of just lessons I have learned, touching on any and all gospel topics. I have thought about what is most precious of those lessons a lot. And there are a couple that really stick out.

1. This is Christ's church. The doctrine, the organization, the power within it is not of man, and it is perfect.

2. I have learned that to be is more important than to do. We become when we are obedient and obey out of love and personal conviction

3. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is infinite, perfect and amazing. There is no heart that can't be mended and no soul that can't be saved. It stretches into it all. Currently I have seen it in the converts I have been so blessed to be the median for them to receive the eternal gospel. Also in myself. I am changing, becoming more accepting and loving, trying to be more patient. Not gonna lie, this is tough being fresh out of training to be training a white dude that doesn't understand a thing and to be opening an area that is brand new where I only have two members which both just got baptized and a couple of investigators. But I am learning to trust more in the strength behind me than in the mountain in front of me.