Wow! What a crazy week. Sorry I am writing so late. Your trip sounded awesome!! Did you guys end up going to the cirque show in Canada? What else happened in Canada? How did Sydnee do with you guys gone for so long? Did Whitney come down and watch her?
My apartment is getting better. We deep cleaned the kitchen and the bathroom this week so it is a lot better but it is still nasty. Mom, I met sister Chapman and she started saying all this stuff she knew about me and I had never met her before and she was saying all this stuff like she knew you were in Canada for a conference and all sorts of other stuff, it kind of caught me off guard at first but then I realized that she must of talked to you I put it all together pretty quick but I didn't let her know so she just kept telling me stuff she knew about me and you it was so fun and funny. Then she tried to call you and tell you what I needed. I need some normal shoes my Sperry's, some different jeans, my vitamins, and a normal jacket like my nice one with the fir lining in it.
This week we had a mission tour and companion exchanges which is when I leave my area and go be companions with another elder in our district which was fun and a good experience because I got to learn how other missionaries work and learn from them.
While we were on missionary exchanges we ran into a guy who graduated from MIT university it was so awesome to because it was the last house of the day and I felt that we should knock his house out all the houses I chose his and he excepted us and he let us come into his house which was huge by the way and we got to teach him the first lesson right there and give him a book of Mormon. It was the first time that I actually got to teach the first lesson for real’s but before we left we got a return appointment and hopefully everything works out. Also that night after we had finished exchanges we taught a guy named tom that is huge he owns a supplements store and probably weighs 300 lbs. mostly muscle about 6.6 tall. Anyways we got to teach him about the plan of salvation which took forever because he had so many questions but at the end of the lesson he said a prayer and it was so powerful it brought a huge smile to my face and I could totally fill the spirit in the room.
The mission tour was great too a quorum of the seventy came and his wife, elder Zwick and sister Zwick they had so many stories that really helped want to make all of us missionaries be better and not to fill discouraged. I like the story that sister Zwick shared the most about her oldest boy Scott who couldn't read or write because he had a handicap but Scott wanted to serve a mission really bad but never could because of his problems. There youngest son was serving in Thailand at the time and he was about done with his mission and elder Zwick had business out that way and so they wanted to pick their young son up on their way back and the mission president said you can only pick your son up early if you let Scott be his companion for two weeks so they agreed. Scott was ordained a missionary and was able to serve and he was given a challenge to give someone a book of Mormon but he couldn't speak the language so he finally found some English speakers and went up to them and bore his testimony saying " I can’t read but my parents have read this to me and I know this book is true" the people took the book. Later they found out that the people he gave the book to were baptized and said they would've never read the book if it wasn't for Scott’s testimony.
Also this week we taught a Spanish lady named Cathy. It was so cool! my companion and I practiced the lesson so many times because neither one of us speak Spanish that well so we got to Cathy’s and started teaching her and she was so interested and so nice she really love god and loves talking about Jesus you can just tell by the way she was talking to us. Teaching the lesson was very hard though and when we asked her to read she said she couldn't read which we thought that was odd but then when we challenged her to read the book of Mormon she said she didn't speak Spanish and has been trying to learn Spanish her native language is Mon which is another dialect in Guatemala. I think she understood most of the lesson though she seemed to and she is going to come to church with us on Sunday and she was really excited about it.
My companion and I are starting to focus on teaching Spanish people we fill we are in this area that has the most Spanish speakers in it for a reason and we think we need to get enough Spanish members to open a Spanish branch. This is a daunting task but I know we are here for a reason.
I love you family so much I hope everything is going great at home I wish I could write you guys all day long but I can't:( I am learning a lot the Spanish is very hard I just want to be able to say the things that our on my mind but I cant and that is very frustrating.
Love you tell everyone hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love Elder Mouritsen
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