preachin, praisin, savin souls #bless
Hello family and friends!!
One more week down at the MTC and it has
been a crazy one! This is my last P-day in Utah before they ship me out to
Florida!! I'm so excited and counting down the days. (6 more!!) We got our
travel plans this week and we leave the MTC at 3:30am on Tuesday. That'll be
rough but it's so worth it. It’s crazy to think the next email I send I'll be
somewhere in Florida or Georgia!!
After a LONG day we got our flight plans!! we were very excited and only slightly delirious
To start things out, Thursday after
P-day I woke up and couldn't open my eyes or see really and I was super
confused until I remembered that some elders in my zone had pink eye...and
those stinkers gave it to me somehow!! I went to the doctor and got medicine
and he told to take it easy. I only had to miss a couple of classes but it was
still super frustrating. I just sat in my room and read my scriptures and felt
super useless. Luckily I made a full recovery haha! lAbout half of the elders
in my district are super sick too so it’s been a hard week for everyone. Sister
Stetson also found out she has to stay another week at the MTC and will be with
my district until we all leave. She was really sad and I can't even imagine
having to be here for so long. I'm glad I get another week with her though. She
is one of the life long friends everyone says you meet on your mission! We have
so much fun together and I love her so much. She keeps me sane lol.
Sunday is the best day of the week. It's
the only day we get a break from teaching and just get to go to meetings,
listen to devotional, and watch church movies. We watched this one called the
Legacy and the two main characters kissed at one point and the 500 hundred
missionaries in the room stood up and clapped and cheered so loud. Missionaries
(specifically elders) are weirdoes.
My sweet district on our Sunday temple walk. The sisters are angels and the elders are goobers but I love them all!!! (appropriately)
Sundays we also have an hour-long meeting
called Sacrament Meeting, where different missionaries prepare and share talks
on certain subjects. The only catch is we have all week to prepare, but you
don't know if you are speaking until your name is announced during the meeting.
I was joking around with my district saying "Oh, I'm teaching the lesson
in Relief Society (another meeting kind of like Sunday School) AND I'm giving
the closing prayer in Sacrament Meeting so they won't call on me to speak"
haha nope. Heavenly Father doesn't work that way and I was one of 3 missionaries
to speak in my zone. Luckily I still prepared something and was able to go up
and share my testimony of relying on the Holy Ghost and why it is so important
to have it as missionaries. The MTC is all about humbling us lol. I was also
able to sing in the choir Sunday night and it was one of my favorite
experiences so far. Being in a room of 1500 missionaries singing about God and
serving him is amazing.
A little 2pac motivation while I was doing my personal study. We can't listen to any music in the MTC and its the worst lol. This is the closest I get to having music
Another crazy thing that happened this
week is we had a BAT in our residence lol. After a long day we were out sitting
on some couches in the lobby, when a sister comes up to us and says "we
found a bat in our room and they called animal control but if they can't get it
they will have to evacuate the floor" we were like uhhhh...haha! I didn't
even realize they had bats in Utah (?) but I am very glad it was not in my room
because I would have freaked out.
Gigi helping me stay fit while still enjoying the occasional jelly belly hahaha
It's crazy that it's P-day again. The
days all blur together and I can't believe this is my third Wednesday as a
missionary. I love being here and feel like I have grown so much already! I am
also so amazed by the amount of support I have received since I have been out.
The letters and emails really make a huge difference!! I have a few more days
at the MTC and would love to hear from you guys!! Dear elder is the best and
it’s free so please keep sending them. I'll put my new address in my email next
week!! I love you all! I hope you have a great week!
xoxo
Sister Morrow
THE FOOD HERE STINKS!! seriously. We taught an investigator until 5:30 this day so we were one of the last groups to eat dinner and all the food was gone by the time we got there. The vending machines in our residence have been a life saver.
They don't have any caffeine at the MTC so my brother Adam tried to sneak some in to me. It didn't work. It started to leak in the box and he had to dump it out. But it's the thought that counts! And I got to smell the Dr Pepper. lol