"I testify that bad days come to an end, that faith always triumphs, and that heavenly promises are always kept. Jeffrey R. Holland

Sorry my e-mails are always really lame!  We have so much to do, and not much time to do it! The first Friday of September, we had mission counsel, and it turns out that Elder Ochoa from the 70's was invited, and i was assigned to give a 6 minute talk on the atonement of Jesus Christ. Wow! it is incredible how much Christ does for us! He is my HERO!  The more we learn about Him, the closer we grow to Him. And like Alma said, we will develop the desire to sin no more. We choose to follow him more closely, and not cause him any more pain!

Elder Ochoa gave an amazing talk about how we can find the answers to life if we can answer 3 simple, but very important questions! 

1. Is Jesus the Christ, the son of God and the Redeemer and Savior of the world?

2. Is the Book of Mormon the word of God?

3. Is Joseph Smith a prophet, seer and revelator? 

When we can know for certain that these things are true, we can answer the questions to any of life’s problems! 

He invited us, that if we don’t know, or if we are unsure, to study these three questions…and when every missionary in the world has a conviction of the truthfulness of these things, we can teach with the power and authority of God and we will baptize hundreds more investigators each month! Then he gave us a super awesome blessing, the spirit was sooo strong that I didn’t ever want to leave! Super awesome! so also, i gave a talk in sacrament meeting about......... missionary work!! surprise!! We use 3 questions before we listen to a talk or have a meeting,

3 questions that change us from not only hearing, but changing.... 

1. what have I heard? 

2. what have I felt?

3. what will I do differently?

I invite all of you to ask yourselves these same three questions before everything!!! General conference, talks, testimonies…as we do so we will be changed! We will become more like our Savior!!!

I love you all and hope you are doing well!! This weekend we should have the baptism of Alfonso!!! He is sooo super awesome and has been ready to accept this message for a long time!!! He is so prepared, and it’s been neat to see him study and change, accepting the challenges, and making the necessary changes in his life!

Love, Hermana Morris 

Be careful judging others...you don't know what battles they are fighting!

WOW!!! So many things to say, but sadly.... not much time!          

So a while back if you remember, we went to the temple as a zone- 18th of august -on our way back home something really crazy happened!!   .... after taco bell, we all got on a bus to take us to another stop before getting on one that would take us back to our areas... so here go a whole bunch of latino and norte companions piling onto a bus, all talking about the temple, and the photos we took,  and before long we reached the stop where we had to get off and change buses.... me and my companion, Hermana Bonilla, and two other companionships joined us on a bus that went to Mixco, while the rest of our crew got on the bus behind us at the front of the bus   We quickly realized that 3 large, rough looking men got on our bus, and one stopped at the front, one headed to the back door, and the largest of the three men started walking up the aisle, looking everyone down, and i assumed, seeing what expensive things we had.... then, the guy that was sizing us all- got a phone call, and as he lifted up his jacket to talk on the phone, a gun showed  and as he hung up, he shouted to the other two men that had gotten on the bus with him, and said, " a whole bunch of greengos just got on the bus behind us, lets go!!" and then all jumped off the bus, and caught the one behind us, and we all look at each other and are like "the elders!!!" so we sat there, not knowing what to do, we didn’t want to call them, because we thought that it wouldn’t be a good idea to show them that they had phones as well, so we said a prayer for them, and about 15 minutes later we called them to see what happened... the elders told us that when the men got on the bus, 3 elders had their cameras out and were looking at photos that they had taken when the big guy approached them, and asked an elder to see his camera! well.. he said no. The other guys walked up to them, and at this point everyone on the bus had stopped what they were doing and were watching what was going on, Then Elder Baldwin walked over to his companion who was being asked for his camera, and asked what was going on, and when he approached, the man saw his nametag and looked over all of the elders, seeing that they all had nametags. The robber then looked at the bigger guy and said, “they are elders, we don’t touch elders”. Let’s go. So without taking anything from anyone, they all got off the bus and didn’t say a word. Super crazy!!! But evidence that God looks out for his missionaries!!  When we are obedient, we are protected!! He loves us, and i am forever grateful for the atonement and the power that it is in my life!!!

love you all!

Hermana Morris

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