Thanksgiving Pictures!

This is what happens when my companion makes me angry.

For Mom and Corey....a little late.

Britt and the Torres Family

With one of her investigators and his grandma.

Britt, her companion sister Peterson, and friend Kayla

Sweet Baptism

hello everybody!

i spent too much of my time uploading photos so there's not time to write much. but they say a picture is worth a thousand words, right? anyway.. lots of important things happened this week. ready?

-thanksgiving was great. we spent it with a few families and it was pretty relaxed. stuffed our faces and ate pumpkin pie.

-we got transfer calls. sister petersen is going to my old area in laredo! i am very excited about that. probably more excited than she is. my new companion is going to be: new girl #1. i am training. somebody straight out of the MTC. i will be meeting her tonight and then picking her up tomorrow. should be pretty interesting. i'm all of the sudden worried that i don't really know anything about missionary work and it's going to be craziness. but i know that the lord will bless me and i'll probably find new talents that i never knew that i had.

-tim came to church! he is still awesome. is in the book of mosiah in the book of mormon. he came in a suit and blended right in with everybody. we worried people wouldn't know he was an investigator and wouldn't come and welcome him. ha. but it was great and he loved it and will be back next week.

-we decorated for christmas! it is still a work in progress. we plan on accumulating more decorations. but we put some lights up outside on our little "porch" and we hung up some random santa door wreaths and things. it's nice.

that is all i have time for. wish me luck with the newby!

love,

hermana morrill

Thanksgiving

hello people!
another warm week here in the rio grande valley. the cold weather has gone away and it's been back in the 80s. people have already started decorating their houses for christmas. it's definitely a different look. instead of glistening through the snow, it blows in the warm night breeze through the palm trees. i could get used to it.
tim is still doing awesome. he got an answer to his prayers about joseph smith being a prophet and now he's just unstoppable. except he didn't make it to church this week because his wife was in the hospital. we also found out this week that his wife is pregnant. that's fun. but he has been reading the book of mormon like a madman and he's great. he'll be getting baptized in december.
christian's baptism was nice/funny. his dad, who is a recent convert, baptized him. and we realized when it was too late that we probably should have instructed him on how to baptize a little better. christian went under the water just fine, but his dad didn't really know how to help him back out of the water. he grabbed him by the back of the neck and then christian just kind of had to splash around until he could get himself back up. ha. but they all joked about it after and it was funny. he will now never forget his baptism.
well, in the spirit of thanksgiving, i made a list this morning of some things that i am grateful for today:
-clean refrigerators
-homes that you can feel the spirit in
-my calling to serve the lord
-the fact that i get to spend my days meeting and spending time with people from all walks of life
-naps
-laughing
-silk chocolate soymilk
-p-days
-christmas songs
-pondering
-my companion
-e-mailing my family

i am going to make a list everyday. what are you all grateful for today?
well, i'm about out of time. hope you're all enjoying scraping the ice off of your cars. happy thanksgiving!
love,
sister morrill

Oh Poop!

hello everybody!

today i got pooed on by a bird. it was horrible, because here we have these huge nasty black birds here that are the size of watermelons and they make these weird alien war cry sounds instead of chirping. so, naturally, their poop is not just that normal white milky poop, but it's like real human poop. only a little smaller. anyway, it hit my jacket (thank goodness it wasn't my face) and it smelled horrible. right in the walmart parking lot after getting our groceries. luckily we had just bought toilet paper so we ripped it open and wiped off. anyway... i was just starting to think that birds weren't so bad. but now i hate them again.

this was a good week. we found these two guys (neighbors) named fred and tim. they should be getting baptized on december 5th. they are super awesome. we'll hopefully get tim's wife, kim, in on it too. but she's seeming to be a tougher cookie. anyway, tim said that he had been praying lately that he could get his life back on track and start going to church again. and then we showed up. he told us he knew it was an answer to his prayers. he loves that we can answer his questions, and that the book of mormon can answer his questions, and he is so gung-ho. he's awesome. he was in the army and was in iraq back when things were pretty bad. he's seen some pretty gruesome things. but he is great.

this week our investigator christian is finally getting baptized. have i told you all about him? we've been teaching him ever since my first week here in mission again. so, almost three months. anyway... it has been lots of drama but he is finally doing it and he is so excited and so awesome. he is going to serve a mission.. i know it. he's 21. he's legit. both of his parents are converts as well. and his sister one day will get baptized too, i know it. anyway, we've seen lots of miracles with him and faith building things and answers to prayers and he's awesome.

that's about all i have for today. it's cold here. like 68 degrees. i've been wearing scarves. hope everyone is doing well. until next week!
love,
me

Pictures

Petersen with the smokes Isaac gave us to throw away for him.


Our favorite Philipino mango juice.


My roommates at transers.

We saw this little guy on our way to an appointment. Welcome to the Texas country!

Me and Petersen

Me, Eisley, and Carlos in Brownsville.

My district in order of who goes home first. (what the, I'm second??)

Oh puppies

hello everybody! i actually have no time to write but please enjoy pictures instead.
updates:
--our favorite potheads are not actually that awesome
--we sang christmas songs already at church
--it's actually getting cold here. like 75 degrees in the day.
--i am going to go eat indian food today.

love you all! until next week
-me

p.s. that picture of me and the girl is genesis, the girl we baptized in september.

Funny quotes

hello everybody!
this has been a crazy week and i don't have much time. but let me just tell you about my two favorite/craziest investigators right now, isaac and rigo. they are really sweet and trying to change their lives around. they are actually making tons of progress. they came to church this week and have been cutting way back on their substance abuse. but just let it be known that they are breaking about every single commandment known to mankind in every way possible. i will not tell you much more about them, rather, i will write a list of quotes they said from this week. sister petersen and i thought about the best ones and made a list:

the other night we drove down their street to visit with one of their neighbors. we see them walking across the street, book of mormon in hand. we asked them where they were coming from:
"we were just sitting at the canal, sharing verses, relieving stress."

us: do you know what a prophet is?
"yes, prophets are like.... they're like god's soldiers."

talking about weed:
"i'm not addicted to it. i just have to have it every hour on the hour. i can stop it whenever i want."

us: are you both sober right now?
"yes."
5 minutes later:
"i'm sorry, i'm high."

"is it bad to have three girlfriends?"

"wait, you're going back to utah when this is all over? can we come with you?"

"if somebody gives you girls crap, we'll beat their @#$. you're our homies."

"i think that this bible, and the holy bible are the only ones i will ever read."

"can i like.. give you a hug?"

"wait, we can't do any drugs? what about cocaine? what about chronic? what about xanax? what about virgin mary's? what about ex? what about...(random other drugs my naive brain doesn't even know)"

"@#$!"

"i feel like.. this big right now (holding his fingers really small). you just dominated me."

"my brother is the anti-christ."

"i just need someone to slap me around."

convo, telling them not to fight people:
"wait... what about boxing and UFC fighting. is that okay?"
-yeah, you can box. go for it.
"cool, because there's this underground cagefighting that i want to do on weekends. you can get lots of money."
-wait.. is it illegal?
"yes."
-no you can't do it.

"i mean, you mormons are actually legit. walkin' around, rain or snow.. helpin' a thug in need. you don't see any other #$%#rs doing that."

after we made a quit smoking plan:
"can i sign it in blood?"

"i'm in a band now. rap. we flow. we're called mac-town thugs."

"i'm sober today!"
-good job! (high five) i'm so proud!!
"nobody's ever told me that before.."

end.

those are just a few of the ridiculous things that have come out of their mouths. we've made a lot of progress with them this week though. their quotes make them sound more hopeless than they really are. they are great guys and they are really trying hard to change their lives around.

anyway, the baptism went through this weekend. little jacob estrada. he's so adorable. so we ended the month with a baptism. this week was super long. we worked really hard. we got five people at church though which is a miracle in itself. we're excited for november and i know that some more miracles are coming our way. hope everyone is doing well in your side of the country/world.

love,
britt