We had a baptism Saturday!

An amazing baptism!!

This is Morgans new area.

Morgan with the sisters in her district visiting Antigua!

 President and Sister Brough

Here is Morgan's letter for this week.  She sounds happy and things are going well for her and their mission.  (remember me=green; Morgan=red)

Lisa

Hello,

I have a questions, why is pday one day and email day is another.  Is that right, or do I misunderstand?

Thats right, i have p day monday and email tuesday after district meeting. Not sure why, i think we are the only mission in the whole world that does that! haha but thats ok, we are the only mission in Central America whose Baptism numbers are going up and not down, so thats cool!!

How was your President interview.  How was Antigua? What is your weather like - getting any warmer?

Interview was awesome! He is an amazing man and He told me he has no worries about me, it was a very encouraging letter. The weather is good!! The morning are a bit cold, especially when we have to be up at 4 am, but the days are warm usually, sometimes cloudy and sometimes rains a tiny bit, but the weather is amazing. Antigua was good. It was just the same, i didnt buy anything cause I have so much more time to do so, i just dont want to lug around a bunch of stuff my whole mission, but i will buy stuff for you all, dont you worry!!

Did you get your backpack fixed yet? I'm hoping you found one in Antigua---maybe you will have to get one next time you are in town.

No, but i fixed it with some yarn, so for now its all great! Im surviving with the backpack. Not to worry!

Did you see Amy Funk at the conference with Elder Cook?

YES!! I did, and at changes the last time, which was so fun! I LOVE SEEING HER! She called me Morg, and it was reallllly weird!! hahahahhahahah we just laughed about it!!

Lindsey left for China. She has a blog, so I will follow that. She had some cute photos on it this past week. She said she will be a pro at eating with chop sticks by the time she gets home, but she was off to a rough start with that.  lovesfromlinny.blogspot.com

I cant read it i dont think...im not sure, so im just not going to, to be safe!! You should send me some pics!!

I dropped a line to Becca.  She is cute.  I love reading her letters.  She has cute stories.  Or maybe it is the way she tells them...they are funny.  So are Christines.

She is awesome! LOVE THEM BOTH!!!

It would be fun for you to send a note to Jessie. She is in the MTC for a couple more weeks. She also has a blog: sisterjessiesmission.blogspot.com. if you want to check it out.

I wish i could i just dont think i can look at other websites. But I did email her!! She is so cute!!

Well, we love you.  We keep praying for you.  Take care!! How are your feet holding up?  Shoes doing good? Any sign of kidney stones again?  

I wear my crocs everyday!! They are like the only shoes that i feel great in....i feel bad saying that because we have spent so much money on shoes, but i figure id rather have my knee feel good than have a bad knee...so i switch to the other shoes every once in a while, but the crocs are my favorite...also, my feet and knee are dong amazing. It is a HUGE BLESSING AND MIRACLE! I know that. Literally i am doing great. I can run everywhere, i can walk faster than my comp.

How is your Spanish coming along?

My spanish is coming along! My comp is very impressed with it, she says i dont even have a norte accent. I can understand most of everything people say, in fact sometimes i cant remember words in english. I have to help my comp learn English and sometimes i just cant do it. hahah its kind of funny!!

LOVE YOUR GUTS! Take care of Morgan!!
Love you!
Mom

So this week was crazy!! WE HAD A BAPTISM SATURDAY!! Hermana Amelia! she is incredible. I think i told you about how she received her answer. Well the baptism was perfect. Everything went just perfectly. Also this week we had Attack of the Area. So our district came and we all were in our area for a day. the sisters did divisions, so i led the area with Hermana Guerra. It was really fun. I was nervous because i didnt think i would be able to find my way around, but i did, and everything was great. We found this new investigator...no we found 2, and it was just a really great day. The Elders found 11 new investigators! A FAMILY OF 8!! and so we are going to baptize. I dont know if i told you but we have a goal as a mission to have 400 baptisms in March. Satan is really attacking us. He doesnt want us to meet this goal at all!! But we know he has plans and we arent going to give in. We are going to work harder, with more diligence, and rely fully on the spirit. It is the only way. BUT WE ARE GOING TO BAPTIZE!!

Also we had divisions with the sister missionary trainers. But it was weird cause one of them came with me and my comp. But it was great! We had a great day. The trainer sister told me she is SO impressed with my spanish, and she said they arent worried about my comp and I at all!! It was a good day.

Anyways, ya its been kind of a hard week, but also a great week!! We had a p day with President Brough because our zone had the most success this past change...so we played sports...WHICH KILLED ME! We played soccer and i was the goalie cause I cant quite play with my knee...it killed me. I just wanted to play so bad! But my knee is a little more important than my pride...hahaha its been very humbling to not be able to play sports like i used to. Then Hermana Brough cooked lunch. SO GOOD!! then we played mafia with Pres and Hna brough!!

Oh we are going to start English classes. Theres so many kids here who just love to speak English with me....well they like me to teach them new words, so we decided to start English classes! So i will be teaching once a week!! Seriously though, the gift of tongues is real! So great!

What else....I was teaching this lady how to pray the other day and I said Va a dirigir al padre celestiall....she says, ok, Padre Especial...hahahhaha I WAS LAUGHING SO HARD!! She had a hard time understanding anything that I said! Another funny thing, the people here buy their clothes in these like mini DIs....all these Clothes from the states...and so they all have American words on them...this one man was wearing a shirt that said {im the big sister} hahaha too good. There was a stake dance this past week in the church, the same day as the baptism...so we had the loud music to interrupt the baptism, but the music was all in English. So i was the only one who could understand the words, and they werent very good songs, but the people here dont understand anything, and so they dont know that the songs are bad...hahahahaha its too strange though to hear all these songs...i was just humming hymns...same as in the buses...its awful to hear them! I just sing hymns to myself.

Anyways, I LOVE YOU GUYS! Im going to try to send some pics of the baptism!!

I know that when we are striving to do the will of our Father, Satan is going to attack, because he doesnt want us to succeed. He knows how true this church is, he knows how much power we as members have, and he will do anything in his power do destroy our faith. We cannot for one second let satan win. We need to stay strong, PRAY ALWAYS, and do what we know we should!!
Hermana Oliphant