Josie's Journey's: July 2016

Monday, July 18, 2016

"Because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ we can learn from our experience without being condemned by our experience." Bruce C. Hafen

look how fun!

photo bomb!

tempting...

my new beautiful area in Guatemala...

How is everyone doing!? Wow… so this week went from crazy to even crazier!!! We had changes like i think i told you all about last week, and i got transferred with my hija Hermana Huasasquiche to the zone Monserat and i am with Hermana Bonilla! she was just comps with Hermana Medrano, who was my comp for 3 changes! Funny… its a small world in the mission! but wow!! so i go from being a mom(trainer) to being made sister training leader, and then Thursday we were also made district leaders, cause ours got sent to another zone when his companion unexpectedly got sent home!! so now in addition to calling all of them for their dates and stuff, we also have to call our district, and then afterwards our zone leaders!! super crazy!!! but its been looots of fun!!

so i am now in the area called mixco, and it is sooooo huge!! ill send some pictures so you can see, and right now we are writing in our stake center, which is literally the largest stake center ever!! (well... for being here in guatemala! ) they have an indoor gym and everything!! Their soccer court is soooo cool, and i am looking forward to playing this afternoon!! so we have some really cool investigators here, and one of them is hopefully going to be ready for next weekend! yay! also the people that own our house are members, and their daughter called from Kaysville the other day, and she told me to talk to her, and she said she was going to say hi to you guys! super funny! so in this new ward, there are tons of people who actually can defend themselves pretty well in english, so they always run me down to say a few things to practice! super funny! also the members are really awesome here, and i love them so much!! it has been raining like crazyyyy down here, and everyday we take out our raincoats and such, it doesn’t rain a drop, but the three days we happen to leave our stuff in the house, well… we got soaked!!!

i love love love my 3rd area!! hah! its crazy that I’m finally in my 3rd area!! so i hope you all have a great week, and know how much i love you all!! thanks for all you do for me, and look for the tender miracles everyday!! wow!! i know this is the church of God, and i have seen just too many lives change by living by its principles, than in any other way! this is Gods plan for us. we are his children and he loves us. I know he looks out for each one of us! i Know He lives!!! love you all!

Hermana Morris

Mixco

my new AWESOME companion

My new area

Some P-day fun!

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

"If we have faith in Jesus Christ the hardest as well as the easiest times in life can be a blessing. "mountains to climb" mormon messages

So this week has been super crazy!! I’ve kinda known for a while that i was going to have changes, but then when i started saying goodbye to everyone, my district kept telling me i was going to stay, and i was like.. that would be reaaaaly awkward!! well, i gave my testimony in church, and started saying bye to everyone, and then, we got the call , and .... my daughter is going…but i am also going… to my third area, my new comp will be Hermana Bonilla, and we are going to be sister training leaders! so super nervous for that!! we are in charge of like 20 sisters, and we do divisions with all of them!!

Thanks so much for all of your love and support!! This church is soooo true!! i love the gospel!!! President Thomas S. Monson is also a servant, called of God to this great work! WE have such a great responsibility to share this work with everyone!! Hopefully we can all do a little better!!

I was listening to a talk, where a lady always had a book of Mormon with her, and she found sooo many opportunities to share the gospel, and she ended up sharing it to tons of people, and years later they found her and thanked her for what she did, and then she got to go with them to the temple and other such great things! what a cool blessing!! It is sooo great to be a part of this amazing work!! wow!!

Making it to a year in my mission made me realize how freaking fast the mission goes!! what am i going to do!? i feel like i just started, and i have soo much to do!!! but I know Joseph Smith was called of God, I know this is Gods’ work, I know families are forever, i know that every one of us is responsible for our personal salvation, and like one of the presidents said, it is a should to share the gospel, it is what God expects of us! we need to share it with everyone- we received this message free, and we should share it freely!!! give references to the missionaries! WE cannot decide who will accept the message and who will not, and as such, we need to give everyone the chance!

Have a great week!

Hermana Morris