Tues, 28 Jul 09

Well golfing was fun. Elder Stewart and I beat Elder Page and Elder Hoopes by one point. It was awesome. We got some good pictures too. The Golf carts were by far the best part. By the way I'm planning on learning how to play the ukulele. You know the little Hawaiian guitar. Yeah, Elder page had one and I thought it was pretty cool. Don't worry it won’t affect the work at all. I'll only play it during the free time that we have.

Tomorrow we're going on splits with the Zone Leaders. I'm pretty excited 'cause I'm going with Elder Page. He is so cool. I'll get pictures of us to send home. Zone Conference is this week and I haven't seen a package from home on our porch yet so hopefully I'll see one at Zone Conference. But if you haven't sent one yet that’s ok. Elder Hoopes gets packages from his mom every 2 weeks that has a news letter about all the missionaries from his home town and what’s going on with them. His Sister went to France and sent him a beret which I wore golfing. He also gets cookies from his sister which are pretty good but I'm sure Mallory’s are better. Not to say that mom should get together a news letter and sugerie goodies and send it in a cardboard box. I'm looking forward to seeing the next installment in the Fingerpainting Missionary Stories. (We were told after he some time in May that he didn't want any treats, misses them now I think! I'm baking tomorrow before it gets too hot.)

Wondering about Lisa. I wish I could say she is doing great...But she is very bipolar. She was very depressed this weekend wallowing about how she is such a bad mother and how she needs to get out of those apartments she's in. They are not good apartments, lots of drugs involved in that place. She was saying how if it weren’t for the motivation of having her kids back she would have committed suicide which kind of scared us. We thought we saw her last night with the "drugies" and we knocked on her door today and one of them answered (A guy we've been trying to meet with) and said she was at work, which is good 'cause she needs to work to get out of there. She knows what’s right and wrong. Thanks for the scripture dad. Next time we meet with her we will defiantly share that with her. Pray for her. She really is a good woman. She’s just like the rest of us.

Don't worry about making me trunky (We told him that his gramma & grampa’s release date from their mission was on his birthday). I didn't even know what that was until I met Elder Brumwell who was the most trunky missionary I've met. He's been home for about 2 months now but, I consider trunky to be shoving things in missionaries faces like "I have less weeks then you have years" or "How far away do you think that plane is up there?” “I don’t know maybe 2 miles?” “ Nope, 2 Months baby!" That’s what I call trunky. But talking about stuff you’re going to do after your mission I don't consider trunky. We talk about that all the time.

Any way time is short and Elder Hoopes wants to play B ball today. Talk to you next week. THE GOSPELS TRUE!!! Elder Morgan

21 July 09

I have decided that I can't get caught up, so I'm just starting where I am. I sent him an email this morning, and as I was writing, Mike got the email. He is such a great kid!

(Random photo from his card taken in April)

"We had a baptism Saturday and finally got Tymes under the water! That was great!

This morning we had a breakfast at Stake President David Palmers house and Ty came along with a few priests in the stake and President Palmer stressed the importance of a mission. It was wonderful and I'm full. Sister Palmer makes the best buttermilk syrup I've ever had!

Yes it's been extremely hot this week we got to 119 degrees. SO HOT!! But I had my first couple Monsoons this week and one dust storm. That was cool. When the dust storm came it was like a wall of sand coming at us. We watched the sun slowly disappear behind it as we took cover in an investigators house. The Monsoon last night was cool, until the lightning strikes right outside our house woke us up at 4am and kept us up till our alarms went off. INSANITY!! But the good news is the temperature this morning was 84 degrees. Perfect for golfing! Elder Hoopes and I called the Zone leaders yesterday and asked if they wanted to go golfing. They said I don't think we have the money. We said they let missionaries golf for free. They said “Hey Elders let’s go golfing”. So we're going golfing.

We had a lesson with Lisa Sunday night. We went in there having no idea what we were going to teach her cause we'd taught her all the lessons. So I had this thought. She's had about 3 or 4 set baptism dates and all of them fell through so I felt like we should teach a lesson on baptism and stress the importance of this covenant. We shared 3 Nephi 11 where the Nephites cry Hosanna to Jesus or Save Us Now! And what does he do? He calls Nephi forward and gives him the authority to Baptize. We said “Lisa, you need to be baptized.” And she said “I know, no more screw-ups this time. I'll try my hardest to keep the Word of Wisdom, read my scriptures read the Ensign, say my prayers” and all this stuff is basically what she committed herself to. Elder Hoopes gave her my favorite talk in April General Conference that Elder Holland gave about being alone. ( None Were with Him ) And she read the whole thing. This woman is awesome. If she keeps her commitment to be baptized on the 8th of August, she will be my first baptism where we taught her from the beginning. You can do it Lisa!......

...Anyway, got a letter from Elder Ward, He pretty much was going through the same hectic first week in the MTC as I was but says "I'm actually starting to enjoy myself" Oh Jason. Jason. Jason.

Happy "perfect weather to go golfing on a P-day".....Day.

Elder Morgan"

He is doing just fine. Thanks for reading and being patient with me. Love, Jenn =)

(Random photo, thought it might go with the "sand storm" story!)

I've got another one set up ready to post tomorrow, too. Waiting for a piece of information from relatives.

Here is a picture from the MTC of singing in the hallway.

Our call for Mother's Day was awesome! Melany and Logan were here and we all sat around the speaker phone hanging on every word we said to each other. Ok, just me! He sounded so happy and good. Anytime someone asks me, "How is Jacob doing?" I always respond, "He is doing FABULOUS!!!! He is so happy, loves the hot weather and working hard." And I truly believe that he is. All his letters are up beat telling us how busy he is. We are glad he is writing us back every week, knowing he has other emails to respond to.

Here is one of my favorite flower pictures from the MTC, there are a few from when it snowed in April. I bet he wishes for some snow now! (It was 110+ this past weekend!)

Love to all, Jenn =)