What a New Year's Eve!!!

January 7, 2013

Dear Family,

This week has been a lot different than last week.  It was not as spiritually uplifting, mostly because we had no time to work in our own area.  On Monday, we had to be in at 6:00.  We played Jenga for a little bit and I caught up on some journal writing.  Our Jenga game got pretty intense and at the end there were no more blocks to take out without it falling so I decided that I would take out two at a time from the bottom of the tower.  To our surprise, it worked!  I pulled two pieces out and the tower stayed standing and we have it all on video.  We were in bed by 10:30.  What a New Year’s Eve, haha.  

On Tuesday, we had some paper work to get done for zone leader council.  After doing the paperwork we went on a blitz with the missionaries in Lewisbury which is where all four of us were working their area.  Our visit to Lewisbury was good except for the fact that I had to sleep on the floor.  It was either the floor or a broken couch with a nail sticking out of it.  I couldn't win!  It was just a bad sleep.  

On Wednesday we went to Lewisbury's district meeting which went well and we did some role plays which help a lot in teaching our investigators.  That night we went back home to our area and tried to see some of our investigators but we didn't have much luck, they were all busy that night.  We also had a Book of Mormon class that night where Elder Spohn and I taught the plan of salvation showing all the places in the Book of Mormon that talk about the plan.  

Thursday, we had district meeting with our district in Gettysburg.  After our meeting we started our journey to Pittsburgh.  We rode with the Harrisburg Elders in their little truck.  It was a long drive but we talked a lot and Elder Ward told us a funny story of them doing service the other day.  I guess Elder Ward and his companion were helping two guys move into a second story apartment.  The first thing that they tried to move up was a headboard.  After trying to push it up the stairs for a while and destroying the wall, one of the men realized it wasn't fitting so he said "I'm going to break it in half".  He then proceeded to beat on the headboard with a hammer for about 20 min not accomplishing anything.  While that was going on, one of the men’s father was yelling "I'm locked in the bathroom! Let me out".  They finally let him out and the move kept going.  As they were moving the couch up the stairs, Elder Ward said “watch out for the light!”  One of the guys ran up the stairs under the couch and said, “We have plenty of room”.  One of the guys’ friends who was lifting at the bottom gave the couch one good push and he knocked down the light.  Elder Ward said it was a fiasco.  Everyone was yelling and the guys’ father was saying this was the worst move he had ever seen organized.  We all got a good laugh out of it mostly because we have all had similar experiences and could picture the whole thing in our mind.  

We spent the night with Elder Nelson which is always fun.  The next morning we went to breakfast at Elder and Sister Warnock’s which was delicious.  We then went to the zone meeting.  After the meeting we drove home.  I was very glad to get home to our great apartment.  

On Saturday, we tried to visit with people but had little success.  We did, however, have a lesson with Paul and talked about the law of tithing. 

On Sunday we had church from 9-12 and then went to a lesson with Christina and Brian.  It went really well and she is reading a lot.  She is in 2 Nephi 6.  She had some good questions and we were able to talk about the atonement with her.  

I love you family so much!!!!!

Elder Mouritsen