Let Leon begin!

Hey Everyone,

So I am very pumped and excited for these coming months because Leon is freaking awesome, super super super hot, but awesome. For the first time in more than 10 months, I ate McDonald's today and I almost cried I was so happy. I also have a ton of cool members that are ready and willing to help in the work, and it is already giving many fruits and we are hoping to have a lot of success here in Leon. My comp is a stud, I am super pumped to be with him, we are going to have a good time together and what not. He is super humble and motivated.

We had a miracle this week, the missionaries here had not baptized this month, and they had nothing going on. They had just been contacting on the street and floating. So my comp and I had a big planning meeting and we decided to work with members every day. And whaddaknow? We found over 30 new investigators, put a ton of baptismal dates, and baptized one young kid of 14 years. It was super awesome, and we are giving everything we got to the work to baptize every week here, and truthfully I believe we can do it. I just keep on thinking of what my dad always told me, "Work Smarter not Harder" you get more done and enjoy it way more.

This city is super cool, super touristy and with a ton of really cool old catholic cathedrals. Say what you will about Catholics and their history and doctrine, but I believe Ron Swanson said it best "Those (people) know how to construct an edifice". I mean our temples are way more gorgeous and holy, but the cathedrals here are quite impressive. I will send more pictures in the weeks to come as I visit them.

This place is so dope and my comp is awesome. We are both super pumped and motivated to be here, everything is just lining up. Both of our last changes were frustrating and we were tired of the way things were going, and now I am here and we are going to baptize a lot together and help a lot of people enter into the waters of baptism. I am very humbled and grateful to be here and know this is where I am supposed to be.

We are getting a lot of food from members, "where there is food, there is testimony" is the phrase here. My comp and I work out a lot in the mornings going on runs and what not. It is my first ward and stake here, and we have left every day to teach with members, many of them RM's so yeah life is good. I am super super psyched to be here, I think I could end my mission here truth be told. And I know this is just my first week and things could change, but it is true. The other night this one young couple that help us a lot, said to me, " now we know why some people go inactive when a missionary leaves, you get attached to the people" Anyway yeah I am happy here. and obviously they said that as a joke, but I know this is where I am meant to be.

I realized that though those times in Jalapa and Ocotal were really really tough, they were my refiners fire for the future. I know a lot more than what I realized about missionary work and with humility I think I can really make a difference here and help the missionaries here. Obviously I am not completely out of the woods, this zone is really low, but I immediately recognized the freak ton of potential here, and I know that we can reach it.


Love you all so much,
Love Elder Morrison

Moving to Leon

Hey everyone

 I did get changed to Leon, it is here by the ocean with a bunch of volcanoes and cool stuff. It is one of the bigger and more modern cities here in Nicaragua, which is a good change for me. I ate some American food for lunch, it was so good! Next Monday I will be eating at McDonald's, the first time in almost 10 months.
My comp is a stud, he has just a month more than me, he is humble and a hard worker and we are going to have an awesome time here in Leon. The church is strong here and the members support the missionaries, so it will be like Matagalpa only better! Sunday Presidente Poncio called me to inform me I am going to be a ZL here.


My last week in Ocotal was awesome!! Thursday Elder Ward and I went to Jalapa, but one of the bridges was in construction, so normally they just have the vehicles cross the little creek, but due to the torrential downpour we had the night before it was a river. So the bus stopped and couldn't cross the river, so Elder Ward and I got the bright idea to cross the river in the back of a pickup truck. But as we were sitting there making fun of this little Nissan that was a 2 wheel drive, saying no way was it was going to cross, but then like the intelligent human I am, we hopped on it to cross. Halfway through the river we were stationary until the current starting taking us, and the water was up to the mirrors. Sitting in the bed I almost fell out and had water pouring in up to my knee. I looked over at Elder Ward and we made eye contact and said in unison "We are going to die." And we were. I was thinking of how that phone call to Presidente would be.

But I know there are angels around us, and somehow this little truck found traction and we chugged right out and onto dry land. I don't think I have ever been so close to death in all of my life, but it was the biggest joy as we are got out of the river.

Saying goodbyes were hard in Ocotal and that day in Jalapa. I am going to miss that place a ton. It was a wonderful time and I learned and grew a ton there and I am super grateful to have served there. But I am soooo psyched to be here.

Love you all very much
Love Elder Morrison

Baptizing the viejo

So hello to all, I hope you are all doing superb over there in Gringolandia, as my ZL calls it every ten seconds then tells me how rich the USA is. Then I just say well, it is the promised land... haha. I love Nicaragua though. I would never live here permanently but a piece of my heart will certainly stay here, maybe more than a piece at this rate.

It was great to see my amazing family this weekend, I have quite the family as many of you know. I love them very much, especially my mom and dad, they do alot for me and my sisters. My sisters look so big and gorgeous and Kenady sounds so old right now it killed me.

As for the work we were able to baptize this week the old guy from the neighborhood that many told me I couldn't baptize people from... haha, how cute of them. Really in the end it was nothing I did, the Lord prepared this man so well that I would have had to have tried not to baptize him. He is super crazy but super cool too, a convert I will never forget. He is also 80ish years old, probably more, so I baptized viejo.

Changes are this week, we will see what happens with me. I have spent most of my mission in the same district so I am probs gone, which would be bittersweet, but I have set the goal to give every missionary behind me at least one free baptism after I leave an area. In Jalapa I left them about 19 people to be baptized, so so far so good with that goal!

Love you all very much
Elder Logan Morrison

Fishers and hunters, but all with the Lord

Hello to all there,

This week was pretty good, we got a lot done and what not. We have been working in a new area here that has been left untouched for 5 years from the other missionaries because it is so far and dangerous. Needless to say we will be baptizing someone from there this week and we will continue baptizing people there for hopefully a nice while. Which is very thrilling to me to say the least.

I thoroughly enjoy missionary work, it is said that some missionaries will be hunters and some fishers. The fishers raking in the success, while the hunters searching high and low for one or two souls, venturing into the most difficult parts. Nicaragua is certainly a fisherman's paradise, but you still have opportunities to meet some people of pure quality. 

For example, a month ago we were able to baptize a family of gold. He will be receiving the priesthood this Sunday and she, unbeknownst to us, was fasting the day she was confirmed, and since then she has had multiple very strong and incredible spiritual experiences!

In the end I have learned this is not my work, it is the Lords. He prepared that family, He touched their hearts and has merely given us the joy and blessing of being the net that brought them in. While at times I feel more of me is frayed than whole, I am always amazed at the way the Lord so perfectly knows us and therefore can use us to bring to pass this marvelous work. 

I would like to wish all of the mothers out there a wonderful Mothers Day! You are the most amazing people ever, and we are all inspired by you and grateful for you. I love you all and wish you all the best.

Including my mom, she is the best, Love You Mom

Love Elder Morrison

Becoming consecrated

Hello to all,

I hope everyone is superb as I am! This week was a decent week with some success, Sunday was a bit of a let down, but that happens, just got to work harder and pray and fast more.

I would like to share with all something about the law of consecration, and as it applies to missionary work. Our mission presidents wife shared with us this in my third week on the mission. She said in every mission there are other missionaries, good missionaries, and excellent missionaries, but only about 3 or 4 consecrated missionaries, if that, in a mission. Consecrated missionaries are the missionaries that give up all disobedience, laziness, sin and doubt, they go the extra mile in all they do. She said that 2 consecrated missionaries can do more than 100 regular missionaries. These missionaries have a devotion and love for the Lord and His work that is almost amazing and a desire and love for the people that knows no limits.

As a young missionary this talk she gave hit me so hard and I felt such a desire to become that missionary. I lack much yet but I am striving to get there. Developing a love for the Lord and His gospel that is amazing, exactly obedient and insanely diligent, losing everything about myself in order to place an acceptable offering unto the Lord. She said that both Cain and Abel served missions, but Abel was consecrated to the Lord in all, for in that his offering was pleasing unto the Lord. I want to be like Abel, I desire with all my being to be the best I can possibly for Him and no one else!!

Ocotal is a battle here but in this work no one can truly lose unless they quit fighting, and I will not stop fighting!

I love you all and wish the best for you all 

Love Elder Morrison