"I am just so happy here. I feel like I am in heaven."

Here is Morgan's letter for this week. She is busy as can be and doing well--great actually! 

"Look what i found here in Patulul." 

(The truck, just like she used to drive here at home. -- That's what she found!)

Ok, well i just hope you are excited for an amazing email because this was an amazing week!! First though i will try to respond to your email. I love the busy week. Busy is better than boring. I'm glad all worked out though. I'm glad all went well with Spencer's surgery. Prayers were sent out for him clear from Guatemala. Also i am glad Ashley's foot is all better. Tell her to take care. Typical Spencer not taking pain pills. hahaha that doesn't even surprise me. He is too funny. I wish i had seen him all loopy. I remember when he had his wisdom teeth out and was singing Elmo! HAHAHA oh my, that was too funny. I had it recorded on my phone for ages. For the shoes go ahead and sent the grey ones because what comes in this month is the HOT season and i think grey will be a little better maybe. THANK YOU. I AM SO EXCITED FOR THE RINGS! Seriously! And the journal tell Nicole and Eric THANK YOU!!!! I am almost out of the journal pages. I sent a pic of my companion and i last week with the baptism photo...she is the one on the other side of Imelda.

OK WHAT A WEEK FULL OF MIRACLES!!!! Lets just start off by saying that Sunday was a day full of smiles and I cant seem to wipe the smile off my face still. We went in the morning to pass by for a ton of investigators to go to church and no one that said they would be home were home. So we were a little bummed but we went for Manuel and Lucy and Manuel was sick..but Lucy and her little sister Jennifer came. We got to church and turned out we had ELEVEN investigators there. We were just in shock. Totally in amazement and I know that it was just one big miracle. We had some miracle people who had never been before but made the decision that this would be the week. We were so SO excited!! Oh also another little plus of the week is yesterday. We had zone p day and played soccer. I still cant play like i would like to...it kind of kills me to not be able to give it my all, but it was still fun. I was loving every second. I got sunburned for sure, but it was fun.

So i want to just tell you about the people here and what is going down with them. This Sunday we had 5 confirmation in the rama. Imelda being one of them. It was special, to see all of them sitting there together. Also, Juanito is all ready to be baptized this coming Sunday. We are so excited for him as he is SO EXCITED!! 

LUCY AND MANUEL!!!!! I am obsessed with them. Literally. I love them so much. They have had a rough week. Manuel spent the last week working, which was something amazing for them because he hasn't had work for a LONG time. Well he found work and was gone all week until Saturday night came back. Well Friday some people came and took their bed...because they hadn't been able to pay for it, they got it taken away...and Lucy was so sad, but when Manuel got back and we went to visit them he just cried. We just sat there trying to comfort them both just crying. I told you how we saw Manuel drunk and that was hard, but i think it was harder to see him crying, Completely feeling helpless. He just amazes me though because yesterday as we were sitting there with them and the Roche family in the family home evening, and he got word that this week he would not being going to work. Again, they were both SO sad. He stayed strong this time as Lucy was really down. During this whole family night as we would read scriptures and ask questions, Manuel had the answers for everything. He was the only one out of the whole group who had read in his Book of Mormon in the past days. Well as he received the word about his work, he didn't get down. They really are using this as an opportunity to grow closer to their Savior and Father in Heaven. He is focusing more on the spiritual side of things. They have committed to being baptized the 9th of November. We have to get them married first, but I have faith we are going to see this miracle. Lucy told us that she knows the church is true. She is all but ready to be baptized, but they have to be married first. Manuel is changing amazingly. We are just so happy and so excited for them. The other day we went to a members house with them for a lesson and Lucy asked me if we were going to go visit the family Roche after and I asked her why. She told me she wanted to continue to be with us and so if we were going there she was going with us. I am just so happy!! We are now teaching Lucys little brother and sister, Bryan and Jennifer, who are LOVING IT! Jenny went to church Sunday and Bryan was going to but was sick with a fever. We had given jenny a Book of Mormon and when, by miracle we found where they lived and taught their mom and Bryan, Bryan, at the end of the lesson looked at us and said, what do i have to do to get one of those books? Hahahaha he was so excited to receive his own. He is 11 and jenny is 9. 

As this week was fast Sunday during testimony meeting, Henry, remember him, the less active family that came back and Emily their daughter is getting baptized Thursday!!! Well Henry got up and bore his testimony and started to talk about how they had been very inactive and then a change happened suddenly in their lives that he had never expected. He said, the elders left the area and then came the sisters and talked about how we had a special something that their family needed, and that now he is happier than ever to be able to baptize his daughter. He just talked about how grateful he was. In this moment I felt strongly that i had been sent to this area not by accident. Although it was a very unexpected transfer, i know it was for a reason. I love that family and i am so excited for Emilys baptism!!

We met this great girl Stephanie. We knocked on her door and she and her mom and sister left, well her mom and her sister didn't want any thing to do with us but she was very interested. She is 19 and we taught her and it was a great lesson and at the end of the lesson as we challenged her to be baptized she said yes and said...I am going to be honest, from the moment i saw you two, i knew....WHAT!!! We were just amazed. These people are being prepared. LOOK FOR THEM! They are everywhere! It was such a miracle. She lives with her family though and said she has to have permission. But i know we will see another miracle with her.

i don't know if i told you about Kevin. We found him about 2 weeks ago. Well he is awesome. His dad is a little bugger because just likes to cause contention well the other day we found Kevin without his dad and we started talking. He has such a desire to prepare for when Christ comes again. He told us that he wants us to visit him this week and we asked him when and he said not Tuesday because my dad will be home, so Wednesday. Hahaha its just great because he recognized that his dad is just trying to cause contention and Kevin really has a desire. He is always there waiting for when we get there to teach him and loves it all. He was for sure going to go to church Sunday but had to do something. He had to go to the capital with the cops to get some paperwork or something. But this week we will see a miracle i am sure!! 

Well it was a greatttttt week!! I am just so happy here. I feel like i am in heaven. We only have like a week and a half left in this transfer and i am praying i get to stay. I would love to end my mission here. As i only have 4 more transfers it could happen, but we will see. I just love this are and the people and i know i am here for a reason and i feel such a need to find EVERYONE! And as we keep seeing miracles i know there are more in store. But i just am grateful for the hand of the Lord in all things. I know that i don't do anything, but that the spirit changes the hearts of the people. I am grateful for all the experiences that i have. I just sometimes feel like i am in a dream. I feel like its not real that i am in Guatemala, speaking Spanish, with the most amazing people in the whole world. I feel like the most blessed person in the whole world. I don't know what i did to deserve to have such an opportunity but i am forever grateful!! I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!

HERMANA OLIPHANT!!