This was a cool week. We got a lot done and are having a lot of success as a zone. I am super grateful for the missionaries that we have here, they are working hard and working miracles in their area. As ZL's we have focused on unity, we set high goals but placed very simple but effective plans to achieve it. And, WE ARE KILLING IT!!!
My most humbling moment on my mission so far was in my first area, Matagalpa. We were talking about lunch and I said that I could spend like 10 dollars on a lunch easy back home. Then a very humble and wonderful man said "I don't have 10 cords for lunch" (30 cords is 1 dollar).
I have had so many incredible experiences teaching that I can't begin to count them, but one this week was when we were teaching a family about the restoration and it was really spiritual, then they opened up to us just poured out there heart. We were able to help them, they came to church the next day, the two of them fasting, and she had already read up to 1 Nephi 14.
Being a good teacher has been a focus on my mission and I try to always improve my teaching everyday.
But today I want to share a small story I heard from Elder Holland, one of the Apostles of Jesus Christ.
One day a 15 year old boy from Idaho decided he had enough, so he ran away from home. His home was that of a "normal" LDS family. Upon running away he found the wrong friends and years later he was living in all sorts of drugs and immorality in Southern California.
On a hot summer day he was sitting on his porch and he sees two missionaries walking down the street. Immediately he recalled just a profound burning hate upon seeing them. In his yard he had two Doberman dogs, they ran up to the fence barking at the two young missionaries, trying to bite at them, the man laughed and said some choice words at the Elders.
Then it happened, suddenly the dogs went and laid down, The Elders enter the gate without saying anything and walks up to this lost man. They begin talking.
The Missionary asks where he was from. He replied, "I am actually from Pocatello Idaho"
To which the Missionary replies, "Me too, do you know such and such family?"
The man replies stunned " Yeah they are my parents"
The Missionary replies " They are my parents too, Mom and Dad have been praying for you every morning and night for 20 years and have sent me to find you and tell you to come home"
In the end the man went home and repented and was eventually sealed in the temple for time and all eternity in the temple of the Lord to his wife.
This story´s theme, is that all of us missionaries have the same goal. Our Father has given us this calling to invite His children, our brothers and sisters to come home.´
We are his Children this is His Work and Glory that they Come Home,
Love you all I am so grateful to have this calling.
Love Elder Morrison
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