Week 5: My companheiro ate a piece of paper

Tiny track to run around.

Lots of meat, and my own concoction of soda.

Ice cream cones for win.

Thursday-I am grateful for support from my family and friends

Friday-I am grateful to be able to read emails everyday and for blessings the Lord gives to me.

Saturday-I am so so so grateful that hard days pass and for google photos

Sunday-I am grateful for the testimonies of my FAMILY and friends.

Monday-I am grateful for church music and the Christmas DEVO.

Tuesday-I am grateful for successful lessons.

Wednesday-I am grateful for ice cream cones and happy people.

Pdays are great and talking to my family and friends is even better.

So the title of this group email is explained like this: We heard that we had to teach 3 TRC's each day for multiple days in a row. I felt like it was a lot but I knew that everything was going to  be ok, we just needed to prepare. Anyways my comp sat there and then ripped off a piece of paper from his notebook and started chewing on it. A lot of weird things happen in my district so I was just like why are you eating paper and all he said was its fine. A couple of long seconds later he rips off another piece of paper and starts eating it and just stares into the distance, I don't know what to do, so I tell him to stop eating paper again and he just like ignores me or says something that dismisses my comment and then swallows that piece and rips off a new one. Anyways he keeps on going until he finished that piece of paper, I just sit there thinking what is wrong. I tried with all the focus I could to sit there and prepare for lessons. Everyone knows your not supposed to eat paper. Later when I talk about how he went crazy and ate paper he completely denies that that happened OR he says that he was just very stressed. For you future missionaries out there please do not humiliate your companion and eat paper for 10 minutes.

I am officially more than a month into my mission! and nearly done with the MTC, I am ready to get out, don't quite know if I am ready to teach and speak Portuguese but I know that the Lord will be with me through it all, it is when I choose to rely on him that I am most happy.

So there are a ton of changes as I have been saying and basically they are talking away like all of the strict rules sort of and making everything more of an agency sort of thing, like you decide what missionary you are going to be, I personally really like it because I haven't liked being micromanaged all the time. I am excited for the field and to be a missionary in a time of such big changes.

Keep the Sabbath day holy! It can be such a blessing to you if you use it correctly, use Sundays to focus on heaven. They are my absolute favorite days...if I could talk to my family haha. Sunday is the day to refocus on what is important and be out of the world for a little bit. 

2 Nephi 5:27- Live happy

I saw stars here for the first time so that is good.

I taught a tonnnn this week, like 3 different lessons a day for different people. The lessons I taught on Monday were not too good and we weren't very prepared and my Portuguese was just not understandable. Tuesday was a different story, I felt to pray before we started preparing for the lessons and so we did and we got answers right away on what to teach it was amazing! The lessons on Tuesday were astronomically better than Mondays and my Portuguese was understandable and the lessons just flowed very well, it was very relieving after the difficult teaching day on Monday. I leave to the mission field on Tuesday! 

I watched the Christmas Devo and it was soooo good, I loved the songs that the choir sang and the message of how I am able to give people the best gift ever. The gift that keeps on giving, The gift of the Savior! I hope that you all recognize the real meaning of Christmas and find more ways to serve others.

The rain here is pretty sweet, there is just a big crack of thunder out of nowhere and then it is pouring buckets outside. It is pretty crazy and kinda scary but ya know what it's not too bad.

I had 3 ice cream cones on Wednesday so that was a big win.

It's the thought that counts!

Love,

Elder Morrison 

Handmade leather scripture cover.