Hey there family!
Hope everything is going well for you all. well, ive spent a week in the field now. its really hot here. sounds like you're having good weather. just so you know, i dont know where Elder AndersOn (alex)went. all i know is he's in a country area. good to hear that hockey stuff is going well. let them all know i miss playing with em and stuff like that. so i saw a sign for gas.....2.79! can you believe that? its pretty important for us especially because we're a fulltime car area. we get the car for everything. just 1100 miles a month. now with all that stuff out of the way...here's some good stories for you.
1. Jeanie Trulove. the one person with a baptism date with us right now. she's so great. i wish you could meet her. she's just so willing to accept the gospel, and is totally prepared to receive the gospel. i'm way excited to be teaching her. she's worried about her baptism, but a lot of it is that she doesnt want to look dumb if she doesnt go all the way under the first time, and about what she's gonna look like. she is a funny lady and was like "i'm gonna be barefoot? i better get a pedicure" and "can i put concrete shoes on or something?" Great lady.
2. fun experience: we were tracting and ran into this guy named matt. obviously he loves contention. we got into his house to take this survey (which really just gets us to talk to people) and after the survey he just starts going off with all these random questions that really dont matter in the long run. he was 'saved' and wanted to know if we were 'saved' and then it started. he got all animated, snapping his fingers, and yelling, and smacking his Bible, and pointing in the air and all this stuff. eventually he told us that we had plagues over our heads and that we needed to throw our Book of Mormon trash away. oh, well. he's the one that's missing out. it's true, isnt it? then what else matters?
3.we met this lady tracting that had her house arsoned by an associate about a year ago and was just moving back into the remodeled house. as missionaries, we stop and help if we can. luckily she let us help her and we got to talk with her a little bit. hopefully here in the next couple days she'll get with us again. she's a busy lady.
we got to go to the st. louis temple today. that was a great experience. i hope you are doing your temple work over there. there is so much that needs to be done.
above all, and to each of you, i want to let you know that the Church is true. everything about it is true, and real. no other way can we return to our Father in Heaven, and by no other way can we be happy. i hope you all make good decisions, and follow the counsel of the prophets. tell everyone you can about the gospel. President Hinckley said something along the lines of "if you knew how urgent this work is, then you'd run to every door. and when you couldnt run, you'd jog. and when you couldnt jog, you'd walk. and when you couldnt walk, you'd crawl to every door." i hope you find great peace and joy in the gospel and by living and sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
hope you have a good week, and i'll be typing at you next thursday!
Elder Morrison
by the way, we cant chew gum, so if you were planning on sending any of that...i'd keep it for yourself.
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It's so fun to read Mackenzie's letters! Thanks so much for posting them, what a fine cousin I have :) (Mackenzie I mean....well, you too Craig :)
I can't believe you have a son on a mission! It seems just like 23 years ago I was on mine. He will be a good one thats for sure!!
Good to hear from Mackenzie. He sure sounds like a good missionary. We are proud of him that's for sure. By the way we sent him some gum ha ha. Love mom
You know he's a good missionary if he's already calling us to repentance. I better get to the temple.
You guys should be proud. what a great kid. thanks for posting his letters, it makes it easier when we send him one from us. that way we can make comments about what he's up to.
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