Baptism

buenos dias!


another hot week has gone by here in sunny texas. cinthia got baptized this weekend it was so nice. AND. turns out her boyfriend is realizing that he's crazy about her, so they're going on tuesday to get the marriage license and will hopefully be getting married by this week's end. it's amazing how heavenly father just makes everything work out if we do his will. cinthia is an amazingly prepared person and is just so willing to do whatever it takes to be happy and to live with god after this life. she's going to be the best member missionary ever.

this week we made great strides with our investigator, francisco, who i probably have not told you anything about. he is such a great guy. he is here from mexico.. he had to come because things at his work got very crazy with the drug cartel. so his family is still there and he's here laying low for a while. for about a year now he says he has been searching to find god and to find his true church. he had been praying about it a lot the week before we showed up at his door and he knows that god sent us to him. he has been reading the book of mormon like a mad man and praying and came to church this week for the first time and LOVED it. we set a date with him for the 19th of june. he is the coolest. he's been telling his wife and kids in mexico about it and wants to send the missionaries to them too.

hmm. what else has happened this week. oh i got to see a bunch of the young single adults who would come out with us all the time from laredo (pictures)... they came down for some YSA conference and came to church here in harlingen. it was nice to see them.. and weird that it has been more than a year since i had seen them. man i am old.

well, i would just like to challenge everyone out there in cyber land to write me one more letter before i get home. you have five weeks. yes, i do still exist, and it does still suck to not get mail. help me. p.s. if your name is kate or marni or bonnie you are excused from that because i still need to write to you.

anyway. hope that you are all doing well.

love,

sister morrill

No Trunky Transfer

She told me in her letter to me that she did not get transferred, so she will spending her last 6 weeks in San Benito with sister Martinez.  She's happy about that as they have a baptism coming up they both wanted to be there for.  Here's her letter:

hello, people!


this week it got up to 105 degrees here in the lovely valley. it seems that all of the states around us are getting torrential downpours of rain but we are looking like we're having a drought here. looks like i won't be getting a "mormon helping hands" t-shirt for hurricane clean up this year. sigh.

anyway, this week was great! cinthia is amazing! her boyfriend started being lame about getting married and wanting to wait until june. and so it looked like she was just going to put off her baptism and wait til june when they got married. (the thing is though, for the past year they've been "planning on getting married" and it's always "next month.") so we were worried about her. but. she came to church and got her baptismal interview anyway. and at the end of the interview elder wells had her pray and ask God what she should do. and she said, "the answer comes so clear every time. i'm going to move out." and she did it! she talked to her boyfriend last night and it's for sure. we're going over tonight to help her pack and plan the baptism.. she's moving in with her mom in brownsville until boyfriend will marry her. she is so happy! i've never seen her face just glowing. i think it's because she's known all along what she needed to do but she was fighting it. so when she finally decided to just do whatever heavenly father asked her to do, all the worries went away and she could just feel joy. it reminded me of myself.. fighting going on a mission forever, but then when i finally decided to accept whatever heavenly father told me, all of my doubts and worries went away and i knew it was the best decision i had ever made. i feel so humbled to be able to find people who are actually willing to act in faith and do what it takes to follow god and live his standards.

hope this email finds you all happy and well. until next time.

brittany

Short one...

hello, everybody and happy mother's day!


it was a good week here in the heat. if all goes well, our investigator cinthia should be getting baptized and married next weekend. pray that her boyfriend doesn't do something crazy...

anyway. i used too much of my time today looking at pictures and talking to the missionaries in here distracting me. so. i will have to write more next week. but i hope you all had a great mother's day and cinco de mayo.

hasta la proxima vez

hermana morrill

Faith, Pure and Simple

hello everybody!


this was a great week of learning. we had interviews with president trayner and a zone meeting where we watched another elder holland talk. man he is the bomb. pres. trayner talked with me about being a "finisher." i don't know why though, i still have another year left of my mission...

we found some great people this week and i learned a lot about the power of faith. it's amazing how much our attitudes really shape the things that happen to us. we noticed that after we started losing all of our investigators we went into this crisis mode and all we could focus on were the negative things and how much we needed and were lacking and the things that god was letting us down on. but we came to the realization that the reason it was all happening was because of our attitudes. we were doubting ourselves and our abilities and our investigators and worst of all god. we were forgetting to rely on him 100%. so, we rededicated ourselves to being positive and having faith and sincere prayers and the changes happened immediately. we found 6 new investigators in the last two days alone. faith really is power. and if we want good things to happen in our lives, we just need to think about good things.

so simple.

anyway. i am completely out of time. but i hope that you are all staying happy and positive. happy mother's day!

love,

hermana "morrill of the story"

(people call me that down here.)