Here's surprise #2!!!! I hope you will like it! We wont be able to make the next ones as long. But we are going to try and make it a p-day tradition to make a short video about our week before we go do emails. JUST FOR FUN :)
Alright I think I am gonna get off now! I hope you have a super fantastic day momma! I love ya. I am sorry things are a little tough right now with Debbie. But you are amazing! Thanks for all that you do for me and Grae. You really are the best mom ever and everybody really does need a mom like you. Love you mom!
Elder Morgan
Click on the link below to download Mason's mission video!
https://www.yousendit.com/dl?phi_action=app/orchestrateDownload&rurl=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.yousendit.com%252Ftransfer.php%253Faction%253Dbatch_download%2526send_id%253D1021226449%2526email%253D7cc6b4b40a3bac5a9a44ede424755e3d
Monday, January 17, 2011
Monday, January 10, 2010
Hey mom!
Here is suprise one!
http://onedriven.smugmug.com/Other/Mission/15309174_2hhC9#1145458329_e6LRL
Love you
Elder Morgan
So I dont have a whole lot of time today to email. I have been super busy trying to figure out how to get the pictures up onto Smugmug and all that fun stuff. I hope you enjoy them! :) Me and Elder Butel Have also made you a video that shows a little bit of our apartment.
I am having so much fun with Elder Butel! As for the house, PLEASE dont worry about it! I am not worried about it one bit! I hope that everything is still going good there for you! Have you started working on you invitations at all yet!??
Yes I did get the package.... HOW COULD I FORGET IT WAS THE MOST AMAZING THING EVER. I Loved Everything. I use everything.. the Jam is almost gone already. I wear the slippers and all the rest of the clothes EVERY DAY. I was unsure of you sending the blanket at first BUT I LOVE ITTT SOOO MUCHH.... Words cannot express my love for that PACKAGE. THANK YOU SOOO MUCH.
This past week was great for us heree! We are having a Soiree Cinema on saturday night and we are gonna show the new Joseph Smith Movie to 3 wards here. The Lille Ward. the V-D'ascq ward and The Valencienne ward. I dont remember how to spell the last one sorry :p Anways, that is our district. There are 10 missionaries in our district and we are all helping to organize this. We are all super excited! Anyways thats our update for right now!
I hope you are having a wonderful week. Please tell everybody to feel free to email me at mason.morgan@myldsmail.net and I will do my best to snail mail them back. Also Tell everybody to check out those pictures! I am gonna try and keep it updated! But I should probably go. I do have one question though. Can you please send me Liz Tuppers email address and if possible her snail mail address. I would prefer to send her a letter.
Anyways I love you SOO MUCH. Please tell everybody I say hi! Especially Grae! Love you Mom
Love
Elder Morgan
Here is suprise one!
http://onedriven.smugmug.com/Other/Mission/15309174_2hhC9#1145458329_e6LRL
Love you
Elder Morgan
So I dont have a whole lot of time today to email. I have been super busy trying to figure out how to get the pictures up onto Smugmug and all that fun stuff. I hope you enjoy them! :) Me and Elder Butel Have also made you a video that shows a little bit of our apartment.
I am having so much fun with Elder Butel! As for the house, PLEASE dont worry about it! I am not worried about it one bit! I hope that everything is still going good there for you! Have you started working on you invitations at all yet!??
Yes I did get the package.... HOW COULD I FORGET IT WAS THE MOST AMAZING THING EVER. I Loved Everything. I use everything.. the Jam is almost gone already. I wear the slippers and all the rest of the clothes EVERY DAY. I was unsure of you sending the blanket at first BUT I LOVE ITTT SOOO MUCHH.... Words cannot express my love for that PACKAGE. THANK YOU SOOO MUCH.
This past week was great for us heree! We are having a Soiree Cinema on saturday night and we are gonna show the new Joseph Smith Movie to 3 wards here. The Lille Ward. the V-D'ascq ward and The Valencienne ward. I dont remember how to spell the last one sorry :p Anways, that is our district. There are 10 missionaries in our district and we are all helping to organize this. We are all super excited! Anyways thats our update for right now!
I hope you are having a wonderful week. Please tell everybody to feel free to email me at mason.morgan@myldsmail.net and I will do my best to snail mail them back. Also Tell everybody to check out those pictures! I am gonna try and keep it updated! But I should probably go. I do have one question though. Can you please send me Liz Tuppers email address and if possible her snail mail address. I would prefer to send her a letter.
Anyways I love you SOO MUCH. Please tell everybody I say hi! Especially Grae! Love you Mom
Love
Elder Morgan
Monday, January 3, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
Hi momma!
I was bummed I didnt get to hear from you today! But I am sure you are super, super busy so I totally understand.
This past week was a lot of fun. Not a whole lot of missionary work just because it was New Years and Elder Butel got pretty sick. But we are both super excited to have a normal week this week without any sickness or holidays so we can just get to work.
I didnt know this until about Wednesday but our area actually goes all the way up into Belgium! So last Thursday we went to teach somebody who lives in a Belge City Called Mouscron. It was a lot of fun. It was funny though cause you take a bus across the border and there arent even any signs that tell you that you are officially entering Belgium or Leaving France. Ha ha!
I am currently working on 2 suprises for you. both should be ready by next Monday! So get ready!
Me and Elder Butel are getting along just great still! We are having a blast and working well together. Something I have really been enjoying is cooking our own meals! We dont have Mangez-vous's very often but that is not such a bad thing. We have been eating a ton of pasta. Last night we had some fish with rice and peas and carrots.
Last night we got to teach for the first time in a while. We talked with an older man named Joseph. It felt so good to actually being doing work again! The holidays are kind of a rough few first weeks to spend in the mission. I dont understand at all how somebody could serve their 2 years and not work hard. It would be completely Miserable! Working hard is what makes missionaries happy, and in a sense it's what makes a mission possible. I have been given some pretty great oppurtunites to see just how working hard either makes or breaks you on a mission. And I am greatful to have learned that and been given those Experiences so early on in my mission.... Some of them before I ever even arrived in France!
My French is still coming along just great. The members are all fairly impressed and say that it is evident that I am making a lot of progress just based on speaking to them these past 2 Sundays. I am understanding more and more every day.
I finished reading Mathew yesterday and I am halfway through Mark now for my personal study. There is so much to read and to learn on your mission and I am going to really try and take advantage of my personal study! I'm pretty lucky to have somebody who speaks such good french for a companion! He has really been helping me. We are constantly setting new goals that we feel will help us be better missionaries and one of those happen to be speaking French ONLY outside of the apartment.
Anyways I wanna hear all about your new years and how everything is going for you! so make sure and email me back before next Monday! Tell me how things are going with Brad and the rest of the family!
Oh so my new years! We ended up doing Finding as a District on Friday Morning at Republic De Beauxarts in Lille for about an hour. We mixed up all the companions and I was with Elder HIll for a little bit. We passed out a few Book of Mormons (which is actually tougher than you think it would be here) and then after that we all went and got Kebabs. (That is the fun thing to do here... go to a Kebab shop and get Sandwhiches.) They are super good. Anyways after that Elder Butel was still kinda sick so we headed back to the apartment for a while. Our P-day officially started at 6 pm on New Years Eve so once that hit Me and Elder Butel went over to the Lille Elders Apartment (there are 4 elders who all live in the same apartment there) and we had a cheese and champony (fake champagne kinda like sparkling cider) party. It was pretty fun. But we had to be back at our apartment by 9:30 so we had to leave the party a little early. But oh well.
The next morning we got to sleep in and we actually both slept in until about 10:30! It wasn't a good sleep and I really had to try hard just to sleep in that late but it felt good.... Well not really I was tired for the rest of the day. But it was fun to be able to sleep in and be lazy for a morning. That was pretty much the extent of my New Years. So yeah! Tell me all about yours!
I love ya mom! Hope you are doing just great!
-Elder Morgan
I was bummed I didnt get to hear from you today! But I am sure you are super, super busy so I totally understand.
This past week was a lot of fun. Not a whole lot of missionary work just because it was New Years and Elder Butel got pretty sick. But we are both super excited to have a normal week this week without any sickness or holidays so we can just get to work.
I didnt know this until about Wednesday but our area actually goes all the way up into Belgium! So last Thursday we went to teach somebody who lives in a Belge City Called Mouscron. It was a lot of fun. It was funny though cause you take a bus across the border and there arent even any signs that tell you that you are officially entering Belgium or Leaving France. Ha ha!
I am currently working on 2 suprises for you. both should be ready by next Monday! So get ready!
Me and Elder Butel are getting along just great still! We are having a blast and working well together. Something I have really been enjoying is cooking our own meals! We dont have Mangez-vous's very often but that is not such a bad thing. We have been eating a ton of pasta. Last night we had some fish with rice and peas and carrots.
Last night we got to teach for the first time in a while. We talked with an older man named Joseph. It felt so good to actually being doing work again! The holidays are kind of a rough few first weeks to spend in the mission. I dont understand at all how somebody could serve their 2 years and not work hard. It would be completely Miserable! Working hard is what makes missionaries happy, and in a sense it's what makes a mission possible. I have been given some pretty great oppurtunites to see just how working hard either makes or breaks you on a mission. And I am greatful to have learned that and been given those Experiences so early on in my mission.... Some of them before I ever even arrived in France!
My French is still coming along just great. The members are all fairly impressed and say that it is evident that I am making a lot of progress just based on speaking to them these past 2 Sundays. I am understanding more and more every day.
I finished reading Mathew yesterday and I am halfway through Mark now for my personal study. There is so much to read and to learn on your mission and I am going to really try and take advantage of my personal study! I'm pretty lucky to have somebody who speaks such good french for a companion! He has really been helping me. We are constantly setting new goals that we feel will help us be better missionaries and one of those happen to be speaking French ONLY outside of the apartment.
Anyways I wanna hear all about your new years and how everything is going for you! so make sure and email me back before next Monday! Tell me how things are going with Brad and the rest of the family!
Oh so my new years! We ended up doing Finding as a District on Friday Morning at Republic De Beauxarts in Lille for about an hour. We mixed up all the companions and I was with Elder HIll for a little bit. We passed out a few Book of Mormons (which is actually tougher than you think it would be here) and then after that we all went and got Kebabs. (That is the fun thing to do here... go to a Kebab shop and get Sandwhiches.) They are super good. Anyways after that Elder Butel was still kinda sick so we headed back to the apartment for a while. Our P-day officially started at 6 pm on New Years Eve so once that hit Me and Elder Butel went over to the Lille Elders Apartment (there are 4 elders who all live in the same apartment there) and we had a cheese and champony (fake champagne kinda like sparkling cider) party. It was pretty fun. But we had to be back at our apartment by 9:30 so we had to leave the party a little early. But oh well.
The next morning we got to sleep in and we actually both slept in until about 10:30! It wasn't a good sleep and I really had to try hard just to sleep in that late but it felt good.... Well not really I was tired for the rest of the day. But it was fun to be able to sleep in and be lazy for a morning. That was pretty much the extent of my New Years. So yeah! Tell me all about yours!
I love ya mom! Hope you are doing just great!
-Elder Morgan
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Hey momma!
I didn't get to email yesterday cause I ended up going over to the Toulemondes for Lunch! It was great! Gonna email dad and tell him to call me next Monday if he can. But I am really having a blast here. We had district meeting today and we planned some cool stuff. Our district is awesome. Anyways I'm gonna email Dad and Grae really quick, But I love you and hope work went alright for you and that you got to enjoy your Christmas. Tell Brad I say hi! And Tell everybody I was thinking about them ON Christmas and I wish them a Happy New years!
Love ya momma!!
-Elder Morgan
I didn't get to email yesterday cause I ended up going over to the Toulemondes for Lunch! It was great! Gonna email dad and tell him to call me next Monday if he can. But I am really having a blast here. We had district meeting today and we planned some cool stuff. Our district is awesome. Anyways I'm gonna email Dad and Grae really quick, But I love you and hope work went alright for you and that you got to enjoy your Christmas. Tell Brad I say hi! And Tell everybody I was thinking about them ON Christmas and I wish them a Happy New years!
Love ya momma!!
-Elder Morgan
Mason has lunch with close friends from Lille
Mason's first area conincidently includes Lille, France where he has spent a great deal of time in the last few years. Our sweet friends, Fam. Toulemonde, live there and Mason has been in contact with them. This tremendous family became part of our own when their son, Clem was an exchange student in our home in 2003. We have since visited back and forth many times and count them among our closest friends. We love them and I am so grateful to have them nearby as Mason is beginning his mission experience in France. :)
Following is a brief e-mail I receieved from Clem on December 27th. :)
Hello,
First congrats for your engagement ! I'm really happy for you!
Also, I just had lunch with your son and one of his Elder.
He contacted me through Gmail, and I invited him for lunch with his elder.
It was so great seing him again! He looks in really good shape and happy. He really gained in maturity and wisdom.
He got the chance to meet the whole family, with the latest addition (Octave).
Anyway, I hope you are doing well!
xxx
Clément
Following is a brief e-mail I receieved from Clem on December 27th. :)
Hello,
First congrats for your engagement ! I'm really happy for you!
Also, I just had lunch with your son and one of his Elder.
He contacted me through Gmail, and I invited him for lunch with his elder.
It was so great seing him again! He looks in really good shape and happy. He really gained in maturity and wisdom.
He got the chance to meet the whole family, with the latest addition (Octave).
Anyway, I hope you are doing well!
xxx
Clément
President and Sister Staheli
Don Hansen Staheli, 58, France Paris Mission; Val Verda 1st Ward, Bountiful Utah Val Verda Stake; temple sealer; former regional representative, stake president, bishop and missionary in the Franco-Belgian Mission. Personal secretary to the President of the Church. Born in Spanish Fork, Utah, to Gerald Douglass and Nadine Hansen Staheli. Married Cynthia Anne Bodine, five children.
A member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Sister Staheli has served in stake Primary and Young Women presidencies, as ward Young Women, Relief Society and Primary president, and seminary teacher. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Harold Shiblon and Marian Stuhff Bodine.
President and Sister Staheli began their service in France in July 2008 and will complete their mission in July 2011.
A Welcome from President Staheli
Dear Sister Morgan,
Sister Staheli and I were delighted to welcome your son, Elder Mason Taft Morgan, into the France Paris Mission on Tuesday, December 21, 2010. He and his MTC companions were enthusiastic and all arrived in good health. He spent his first day eating some home cooked food, napping, visiting with me, contacting non-members in the heart of Paris, and sharing testimonies in our home. We enjoyed his spirit.
The next morning, after a mission orientation, Elder Morgan left for his first assignment to work in the Villeneuve D'Ascq Area with Elder Butel, Jean (DT), who will be his trainer. Their apartment address is:
Elder Morgan
Les Missionnaries
223 A05, blvd de Valmy
59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq
France
We feel very privileged to work with your son. We also realize the responsibility we share with you to help him continue to grow spiritually as he faithfully performs his duties. May the Lord inspire us all to sustain him in this challenging and exciting assignment. We hope you will join Sister Staheli and me in praying each day for your son, his companion, investigators, and all of us serving in the France Paris Mission.
A positive, supportive letter from home every week does wonders to sustain a missionary’s morale. Proverbs 25:25 states: As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. If you have any questions, or if we can assist you in any way, please contact us at our office (001-331-3480-0483) or home (001-331-3976-8402).
Sincerely,
Don H. Staheli
President, France Paris Mission
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