Yeah tomorrow hits and I am home in six months, yikes! I seriously can´t begin to explain how intensely bittersweet that is to me! The mission keeps getting BETTER every day, every experience just seems sweeter and more real, back in Nam´when I was beginning it seemed like I was in a dream when crazy strange or insanely awesome things happened! Now it seems so real and I love it.
I don´t like to bash on other churches, but one church, The Jehovah´s Witness, believe that we live in hell here on earth due to the transgression of Adam. That is so sad to me, I absolutely love my existence on earth! Yes it is not all easy, it is a grind, but contrast that belief to the message found in the Book of Mormon "Adam fell that men might be, and men are that they might have JOY." (2 Nephi 2:25) Just reading that I feel hope, true hope that I CAN BE HAPPY. The mission has been no less of the best, I have been tried, big time, and it has really been so difficult, but I realized this week that I smile a lot more, just walking down the street I smile! When I teach I smile, I love teaching, I get so wrapped up into the lessons I have with people. I feel genuine joy when I have a killer lesson. When the investigator literally says "Wow I needed to hear that, thank you so much!"
This week we taught a family and when we taught them that families can be together forever the wife's jaw dropped and she teared up and her husband, who is a hardened man, cracked into the biggest smile!
Or to a youth this week, we taught from Ezekiel 33:14-16 14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; 15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. 16 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
The hope and the joy that ALL of our sins can become as though we had never committed them, is a reason for joy. And such forgiveness is only possible through my Master, Jesus Christ, and His all powerful Atonement. Our Joy is through Him. That young lady was impacted and happy to know she had hope to be better and have a future! and she has a baptismal date for February 3rd!
Love you all Love Elder Morrison
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