Hi family,
How is everything going? I hope everything is good. The weeks are starting to go by very fast. I can’t believe it’s already Thursday again. The days are very long and hard but it makes the weeks go by fast. Mom I might need you to send me some more T-shirts to wear to gym and to bed because I don’t have very many. I hope you received my card for Kate’s birthday and wish her a happy birthday for me and tell her to write me. Dad, you need to follow my routine that my companion and I do in the morning at six before we are supposed to shower. All we do are sit ups push-ups and dips for thirty minutes. I can’t believe you got Sydnee the white iPhone! No fair haha, jk. Good for her she'll be the coolest girl at school, just hopefully it doesn't get stolen. I hope she is feeling better. I thought I was getting sick last week because some of the sisters are sick and our teacher but I loaded up on the Vitamin C and I seem to be doing fine now.
On Sunday we had a devotional. It was probably the best devotional we have had here. His name was Brother Heaten. He reminded me of Grant Anderson, that’s how good he was. He started out by asking people what a successful mission is and how you know if you had a successful mission. It’s not about the Baptisms. That’s for sure. He seemed to stress that a lot. After talking for a while he got into the topic of being promised. As missionaries, we expect good things to happen to us all the time and we think we are promised good things but, that’s not how it works. He said that it should be put as this, I as a missionary will put forth all my efforts to convert someone to the gospel and PERHAPS they will be converted. I will serve with all my heart might mind and strength and perhaps I will have a baptism in my area. He brought up the scripture Jacob 5 and, if you have time, read it. It’s kind of long but very cool and notice the word perhaps. Also look at Alma 29: 9 and Mosiah 28:2 and look for the word perhaps, it’s really cool. One more example, I will go to college and perhaps I'll get a well-paying job. Brother Heaten also said a quote that I liked "The seed you plant doth bare fruit". We might not have one baptism in two years but we do make an impact in some peoples live and hopefully they will come unto Christ one day.
This week we started teaching our new investigator who is also our teacher. It’s way hard because he expects so much of us and doesn’t let us use any English at all, not that we have in the past so I guess that doesn’t matter, but he does ask questions that are hard enough to answer in English let alone Spanish haha. My companion and I try and speak as much Spanish as we can throughout the day and I think it is helping. It’s hard to see your own progression but, I’m sure I’m starting to get a little better, I would hope haha. Yesterday we taught our investigator Ofelio and we got him to take the Book of Mormon and he committed to read and pray about it so perhaps he will haha.
That’s crazy how close the fire was to Bonnie’s house but I’m glad their ok. Keep me updated on Colton's shoulder. It’s amazing how many missionaries injure themselves in the MTC and are sent home. Nate from engineering tore his ACL and was sent home for eight weeks as an example. Well family I love you very much and I pray for you constantly.
Have a great week and I hope to hear from you soon. Keep sending the packages of goodies haha they are great!
Love Elder Mouritsen
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