Week Seven

herro.

this week has been crazy. it's one of those weeks that has just become a blur and i'm actually not really sure what happened this morning and what happened last week. but i will try to remember things.

first of all... funny story. so. at the fireside this week stephen. b. allen came to speak again. and he had people stand up for various things.. like, stand up if you're waiting for a visa. stand up if you've received a dear john since being here. etc. well he had these 9 elders stand up and say something that they have sacrificed to be here on a mission. the first elder that got up said, "marriage." so brother allen kind of laughed and asked more about her... "so were you engaged?" and the elder said, "almost." and brother allen said, "well, tell us.. is she waiting for you? where is she now?" and he said "she's here." WHAAAAT! so then every single missionary in the mtc was screaming and laughing. and then we start to see in the back a huge crowd of people pointing. pointing at a sister. and everybody was laughing and gasping. then the sister stands up, and the camera zooms in on her. so apparently they had been dating.. almost engaged.. then decided to both go on missions. brother allen said "where is she serving?" and then the missionary totally blanked and didn't even know where she was serving. ha. oh my goodness. it was the weirdest thing. people were applauding. i can't imagine being at the mtc at the same time with somebody that i was/am in love with. and had like kissed and been intimate with. and then to see them at the mtc every day and not even be able to touch them. haha. what a bunch of weirdos. so. that's the crazy story of the day. those mormons.. sure are a peculiar people. :)

i am feeling much better this week. i'm on some inhaler that the main drug is steroids. so it has been fun joke this week. my district jokes about the day that i will have 'roid rage. or that my muscles are starting to look bigger. meh. that's probably not that funny to you all. but i think i've said before, my sense of humor has been altered here. i laugh at anything.

i had a neat story at the referral center this week. we've been making calls in spanish which is just absolutely frightening. it's hard enough to understand native speakers speaking spanish as it is, then throw in a barrier like a phone where you can't read lips or see facial expressions to read, it's impossible and scary to understand what is happening. we've done the spanish calls a few times before and no one in our district has had any success. we've been pretty down about it and didn't want to go this week. we've had lots of people not be able to understand us or vice versa so the calls just went nowhere. so this week we were all pretty bummed, but we went. and the teacher at the RC gave us a beautiful little thought and then told us to just keep talking to people. to find out about their lives and love them and testify about christ.the first few calls were a little shaky for me but then i got in the groove. i talked to a woman named Martha. we were calling because she had ordered a "lamb of god" dvd so i called to make sure she received it and how she liked it. she said that she loved the movie. she loves learning about christ. she had been meeting with the missionaries about a year and a half ago but then her missionaries went home and never transferred her to another missionary. she had been interested in the discussions and had even been to church a couple times but then somehow just fell under the radar. it was neat because i was able to help her with some questions that she had, read some scriptures about christ with her, bear my testimony, and then she asked if i could send some more missionaries to keep teaching her. it was so neat. i am going to keep calling her to make sure that the missionaries came and see how she liked the discussions and stuff. but it was so neat. and it's amazing how the language just comes to you if you open your mouth and are trying to communicate with your heart.

i love being a missionary. it's amazing. sometimes you feel really discouraged. but then you always receive some encouragement. i have had so many prayers answered here already. it's amazing to see how much heavenly father really does love us. and he's waiting for us to talk to him. and ask him for blessings. and he is so eager to give them to us. he wants us to be happy. and he wants us to learn about him and find truth and talk to him. anyway, i am out of time. i hope this email finds everyone well. vaya con dios! :)xoxohermana morrill