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Monday-I am grateful to vent to my family and for being protected by angels.
Tuesday-I am grateful for small reminders of home.
Wednesday-I am eternally grateful for my family, being together forever, and the strength they give me.
Thursday-I am grateful for the comfort of the spirit when times are rough, my MP3 player, and to have been raised in Utah.
Friday-I am grateful for messages from friends, volleyball, and taking my shoes off.
Saturday-I am grateful to be blessed everyday-cars, sun, and a new investigator at the very end of the day.
Sunday-I am grateful for spiritual experiences to fall back on.
My Christmas started earlier than I thought it would with about a million fireworks going off at exactly 12 Christmas Eve night. It woke me up real fast and then I realized that it was Christmas and that I was in Brazil and went back to sleep.
My Christmas was a solid 90 something degrees, quite an interesting Christmas. We had some amazinggg barbecue for lunch and just talked with members all day at their houses. I was able to give the Christmas message at a members house and that was awesome. We ate so much food. I came up with a great phrase to describe a missionaries night. I'm not going to translate so you'll have to figure it out yourself hahaha.
Chorar, orar, dormi
Yeah that's all I have to say.
The Relief Society gave us a huuuuuuuuge box just full of candy and treats, so guess what, I am not starving yet, nor ever.
Update on the rat: has returned and took revenge on Christmas, he got into my bread bag and just took like 2 massive bites out of 2 of the 3 rolls I had. I wasn't happy. I need to kill that thing asap because my comp is too scared of it and doesn't think that its a problem.
Also they have wafers here all the time and I didn't realize how much I love those things but now I have a wafers drawer in my desk, so that is great.
Turns out we got another Christmas present and it was the sun!! It hasn't rained in days! Well it's a good and a bad thing, ya know but I like to see the good and I am always thinking of how tan I am getting, wahoo!
I got my first denial for baptism, so that was great, I guess, no not really. We are pretty sad for her now.
We have a new investigator and it was pretty amazing how we found him. A super old contact book that hadn't been updated for like a couple years and we have been trying to find the people in it and just update it, was our only source to find old referrals. We only had one more hour Saturday before we returned home and we had never had one of the contacts from this book lead to a lesson. We get to this guys house, JOSE, and it's this super nice old guy and we talk to him and are about to ask if we can come back later and teach him but he invites us in to teach right away!! Rosa and I are pumped and we teach the Restoration and he is super focused and receptive on everything. I taught about Joseph Smith but I don't know how well he understood me. He took the pamphlet and said that he was going to study it and we are going back to teach him more Tuesday. He has a big family but they were all busy running around the house and what not, so hopefully we can get them to sit down and listen to our lessons too. After we left his house Rosa and I were soooo happy. The joy of bringing others unto Christ.
Our neighbor, who is a member, keeps on smoking marijuana outside our bedroom window, so that's pretty annoying but we just close the door and turn on the fan and it's all good.
Ya know how Old Town Road was a song that was played for like maybe a month or two, well it is still going very strong here in Brazil and everyone loves it, and they have since it has come out, LOCOS! Entao nao bom por e Espirito
I miss Cafe Rio burritos.
I got myself a ukulele, so that's pretty relaxing and fun, now I just need to learn how to sing hahahaha.
It's the thought that counts
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Love,
Elder Morrison
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