How to Write Brittany

Okay, now that she's out in the field here are some updates for writing:







Physical Address

110 Edgewater Circle

San Benito, TX
78586







Her email address has changed to brittany.morrill@myldsmail.net.

Monday, September 27, 2010

Miracles

hello everybody!

i am staying nice and cool here in texas. yes, that's right. we got a cold front this week. so instead of being 96 all day every day it's going to be in the high 80's. i may need a jacket so i don't freeze.
this was a week of miracles! there is this girl named genesis that we are teaching. in fact, missionaries have been teaching her since the beginning of may. she origanally was going to get baptized the first week in june, but her mom wouldn't let her. she's 17, so she needs parental permission. apparently after asking a few different times, after a fast by the whole young womens in the ward, and lots of praying, mom still wouldn't budge. so finally we decided to try and talk to her. miracle number one was that she showed up one night while we were over with genesis. usually her mom is ALWAYS working. the missionaries had only met her twice in the whole 4.5 month period of teaching her. so anyway, she shows up. we help her carry some groceries in. we ask her if we can set up an appointment to visit with her. she said yes. that was miracle number two. so after a couple days the appointment rolls around. she was actually home. that was another miracle. we then just laid it all out. that genesis wanted to get baptized and that we wanted to share with her what we've shared with genesis so that she can understand a little better why it is genesis has been willingly making these changes in her life and coming to church and early morning seminary and youth temple trips even though she couldn't go inside the temple. we taught a little bit to her mom and she completely opened up to us. told us her whole life story. she's had a very tough life. she also expressed her concerns about her daughter joining the church. they were all pretty much misconceptions. she thought that the second she got baptized we would send her off to some foreign country to be a missionary and she'd never see her again. she thought that her daughter wouldn't be able to get a job or do any of the things that she wanted to do in her life. so, two hours and many tears later she finally agreed to let genesis be baptized. she got baptized this weekend, her mom came to it and it was beautiful. her mom sadly expressed that she does not believe in an afterlife and that no book or saying a prayer could ever make her believe otherwise. so teaching her right now isn't much of an option. but i know that with time genesis' example will have a big impressionon her mom and one day she'll find a little more happiness to her life as well.

we have added more troubled youth to our teaching agenda. one girl who we found this week is 15 and has been locked up three times. she is hopefully getting baptized in november (it will take longer because she's on probation and there's lots of paper work and meeting with her parole officer involved) but she is awesome.

anyway. i'm out of time and p-day is a burnin'. today we are trying out a new thai food restaurant to celebrate the baptism. hope you are all doing well!

love,me

Monday, September 20, 2010

Humbled

hello, hello.

this was a long and eventful week. first of all, we had a conference with elder richards from the quorum of the seventy. it was awesome. the theme of the conference was becoming a tool in the hands of the lord. it really built up my faith and confidence and helped my love for the work grow. second of all, we found some really neat people this week, and set three baptismal dates with people for october. caleb is doing alright. we taught him the word of wisdom and he has been having a hard time quitting smoking, so we are really going to try and support him through that this week. sister petersen and i have had some really good lessons this week. really powerful ones where we could just feel the spirit working through us and we've seen lots of good things happen. i continue to feel humbled and tried as i have no idea what i'm doing as far as missionary work goes, and neither does sister petersen. but i think we're running off of pure faith fumes and it's working well for us.

did i tell you all about the crazy old guy investigator named oscar? he's really adorable actually. he's like 84 and he made us pancakes the first time we went over to visit him. he has a few screws loose. he wants to get baptized but he won't quit breaking the word of wisdom to do it. nevertheless, he comes to church every sunday and argues with the sunday school teachers and wreaks havoc. he's very sweet though and the people are patient with him because they know he's not quite all the way there. he calls and says weird things like, "yo quiero casarme con dios" which means i want to marry myself with god." hah. adorable. slash crazy. but we love him.

anyway, i am running out of time but i hope everybody is doing well this week. until next time..

love, brittany

Monday, September 13, 2010

Another great week :)

hello mis queridos!

this was a looong week of finding people to teach. but i would say we had some success. since we're both so new here, we decided the best plan of action would be to look through the former investigator records and go back to people and find less active members. so we were on a hunt most of this week. it was great because we hardly found anybody that we were initially looking for, but as we were actively searching and going about a good cause, we found other prepared people that were placed in our way. at one point we were clear up in the middle of the country in this trailer park and we were seaching for a less active family whose lot number we didn't have. we just decided to knock on every door. we met a sweet girl named dulce. she is 22 and has a two year old son. she and her boyfriend live in a tiny little trailer. she was doing the dishes and we helped her clean. she was able to open up to us about her beliefs in god and how she wants the best for her son and doesn't want him to grow up in gangs or violence and drugs like so many people around here do. she expressed her desires to get back to a church and strengthen her relationship with god. we were able to testify of the gospel and how following jesus christ is the best thing for a family and she asked us to come back and talk with her and her boyfriend this week. she is so sweet and humble and we are excited to work with them more. we were also able to teach a girl named steffany. we were walking down a street, on the hunt for another less active member and we were awkwardly walking exactly the same speed and direction as somebody a good 15 feet in front of us. we decided we could either creepily follow them and not say anything or creepily speed up and harass them with our message. we decided on the latter and started talking to them. she turned out to be the neighbor of this girl who had just been baptized in our church that we didn't know had moved into our area. the conversation with this woman didn't go anywhere, but we did decide to stop by the recent convert and talk to her since now we knew where she lived. when we stopped by the house, recent convert wasn't home, but her sister who has been to church a couple of times and is just awesome was home. we taught her a lesson, gave her a book of mormon, and she is excited to learn more. we're meeting with her on tuesday.

i have a feeling my favorite family in this area is going to be the sanchez family. it's a husband, wife, and three kids who all got baptized in july. they are so amazing. they used to be doing drugs and crimes and had all sorts of problems but have now completely changed their lives around and are going to convert the whole neighborhood with them. well, brother sanchez has an 18 year old son named caleb from another marriage who was living in houston but just moved in with his dad this week. he wanted to leave houston because he was getting in a lot of trouble and wants to change his life around. go back to school. etc. so we taught him twice this week and he came to church and he is just awesome. brother and sister sanchez's testimonies are so strong and they have been such a help in their son's life and process of changing. he's praying about baptism and will hopefully be baptized in october.

anyway. this area is great. the members are awesome, we have at least one food appointment every single day this week. they are treating us well and we are figuring out how to work with the people here. i am continuing to love being a missionary and seeing the hand of the lord in people's lives daily. i know that he really is mindful of his people wherever they are and that we are all numbered to him. he loves us. i have been able to feel a tiny little glimpse of his love for others here in south texas. he is constantly preparing and humbling people to be ready to come unto christ. i know that we have never sinned too much to be able to turn around and come back to him. i know that we will never be able to pay back the things that he did for us, but as we have faith and repent and are baptized as he has asked we can find more happiness in our lives. i know that god answers every humble and honest prayer and that as we seek for truth and light we can find it. i know that today is the day to do it. i know that one day we can all return to live with the savior and jesus christ and i hope to be clean and spotless and have them welcome me into their arms. i know that every single person can have that. i hope that you are all doing well. thank you for your thoughts and prayers.

love,brittany

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Back to Mission

hello everybody!

what a long and great week. we had an awesome lesson with hilaria's husband who has never been to a church since the day he got married. the spirit was very strong and he came to church the next day and read from the book of mormon. he is awesome. their whole family was there for the lesson, including the daughter that is already married, her husband and baby. they all were listening intently and asking questions about the book of mormon. i have a really good feeling about that family. also, i don't remember if i had told you all about ernie but he is awesome. we've been teaching him for a little bit now and he has been afraid to pray about the book of mormon. but we finally convinced him to do it. he did it sunday morning and got his answer. he said that a little while after he prayed he was just sitting and reading a little more and meditating and then all of the sudden a big gust of wind came and the rain started pouring. and then he just felt this overwhelming sense of peace and warmth and he knew that it was the answer to his prayer. he came to church for the first time that morning and he wants to be baptized in october.

sister eisley, carlos and i saw a lot of miracles this past six weeks. it was a little bit sad to find out i would be leaving. yes. i got the call saturday night that i would be transferred on tuesday. but... guess where they sent me? back to mission! i'm actually very excited about it. i am currently writing you all from mission. i'll be serving in a different area so i won't get to go back to all my old people, but it's close enough. my companion, sister peterson, is new to the mission.. she has a good six weeks under her belt. she is so sweet. she actually is from south jordan and went to bingham and we have a few friends in common. she is very sweet and i'm excited to see what happens down here. we're pretty much starting from scratch with 0 baptismal dates right now and about 0 progressing investigators.. so if anybody needs extra things to pray for, you can pray for us to find the people who need us. we'll need some miracles around these parts.

anyway... things are well with me. the weather is cooling down a lot and i'm just adjusting to the changes. i love changes though. hope things are well with all of you. until next week...

love,brittany