Hey Mom!
am doing just great! We had a really good week. We didn't teach a whole ton of lessons but we found quite a few new people to teach. Me and Elder Jensen are trying REALLY REALLY hard to really get the work going here in Villeneuve d'Ascq. We have been doing a lot of finding and also passing by old investigators in the area book to try and bring them back to be solid progressing investigators. Both the finding and the Passbacks have proven to be very effective. Yeah, I'd say its getting to be time for me to get a new area and or a new companion. However I will be completely happy with whatever happens. But we find out the transfer info on Saturday! I cant believe that is already here. Time is really flying by here.
I think I am really starting to love and appreciate the mission. Its kinda sad that it has taken me so long to get to the realization but I guess later is better than never! My stomache has been just fine. I did go and see a doctor. He said he thinks I have ulcers but before I he can give me anti-biotics I need to be tested for the bacteria to prove that I NEED the anti-biotics so I went and had a test done. They gave me some weird drink and had me breathe into a test tube. And then they had me drink another glass of the same citrus tasting drink, wait a half hour and then breath into another test tube. The samples were sent into Paris and I should have the results sometime this week. Once I have the results I go back to the doctors office and If they come back positive I can get the anti-biotics. I will let you know next week what happens. Actually I can probably let you know on Saturday. BUT for the time being I am have absolutely NO PAIN. Which is very very very nice.
Me and Elder Jensen had a pretty cool experience yesterday. We were fasting, specifically to find people and set baptismal dates in our area. And yesterday when we were getting on the metro we noticed a guy getting on the metro that was looking curiously at us. However he got in at the opposite end of the metro car. So we sat down at opposite ends. Well after about one stop I got up and went and sat down by him. I pulled out the Boof of Mormon and started reading a little bit. After a couple minutes I felt like I should put the book away and as soon as I did the man started talking to me. He is a cool younger african man named Alex and he seems EXTREMELY interested. We were also able to set up a Rendez-Vous with him for tomorrow just before our English class. But I am really stoked about that.
That is soo cool that your wedding is so soon! I am SO EXCITED FOR YOU. I hope its amazing. I really wish I could be there for it. Of course you can count on the fact that I will be thinking about you on your wedding day! :) And I will be sooooooo happy for you! Ofcourse I will be praying for you and for everything to go smoothly with your wedding and your reception. By the way, I got your wedding invitations on Friday! Thank you soooo much! I loved it. I cant believe you are having so many receptions! That sounds like so much fun!
I am glad you had such a wonderful Sunday! Me and Elder Jensen had a pretty fantastic sunday as well! We had a great time at church. We had three people who said they were coming. Sadly we waited for them but nobody showed up :( But Church was still great! I am also glad you are making friends there AND you got you membership records moved! Your friend sounds sweet and I am glad you have a new friend there. Its a good thing she is on the younger side. That fits your personality better. You and I both know that no matter how old or young people are they have a hard time keeping up with your energy level/motivation and determination to get things done! Ha ha.
Thanks you SOOOO much for the No-bake Recipee! I am sooo excited to make those. I think we will make them on Saturday or next monday! YEAHHHHHHHH I AM SOOO EXCITED! I also appreciate you putting together that package for me. However can you hold off on it for a week or two? The end of the Transfer is coming up and I will get it sooner if we wait untill I know where I will be serving next transfer. Otherwise I have to try and organize some way to get it from Villeneuve d'Ascq or the mission home to my new area. I guess you probably want to do it this week since the next week is your wedding and the weeks following that are is your honeymoon and reception! However I think I would rather wait a few weeks even if you can just send it to my new area. There are also a couple books that I was hoping you could put in the package when you are in Utah! I will Make a list this week of the things I would LIKE to recieve in a package and send it to you on saturday when we check the transfer email okay?
Thanks so much for everything though! I appreciate you being so great about the package thing. You are the Best! Everybody Needs a mom like you :) Anyways I should probably get going. I will continue praying for the family! I love you MOm! thanks again for everything! I will email you on Saturday!
Love,
Elder Morgan
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
Hey mom,
Soo just a heads up..... Dont think you are going to be getting a video this week. Sorry :( Things just didnt work out today and I dont see it happening. But I just wanted to say thanks so much for your email. Tell Brad that I appreciated his email as well.
Things are going really well here. Kinda frustrated right now with all the computers here in France. Its totally our fault. We wanted to start using the computers at the church instead of paying to use computers at an internet cafe because.... well they are free. But I dont think we are going to be able to do that anymore. I tried sending the video for this week, there were 2 actually, but because the computers are so horrible here, It ended up deleteing one of the videos off of my camera in the process. So in the end, I wasnt able to send either video and one of them got deleted. I will try to send the other next week. Sorry :/ Me and Elder Jensen decided that we are gonna just go to the internet cafe from now on so it should be easier to send the videos!
Anyways, on a happier note. Things are really going great here. Yesterday, church was great. I had promised myself at the beginning of my mission to bear my testimony every fast sunday, but yesterday there just wasnt enough time. And I figured since I had already shared it several times in this ward, that I would make sure that everybody else who wanted to share their testimony would have the time if they wanted to. And it ended up that honestly, I didnt have time! At first I was kinda bummed but then I realized there was no reason to be.
Grae..... Can you please make sure that she is there so I can have some time to talk to just her? I would really like that. I know she just got a job and she might not be able to make it so tell her I understand if she cant, but that I would really love it if I got to talk to her!
Andy! Oh man I am SOOOO excited for Andrew. I think about him and how happy he will be when he gets out quite often. I will continue to pray that he will be able to go to Ohio for the wedding! Have you gotten a video camera yet?????
The weather here has been pretty mixed lately. We had a week where it was pretty hot, and then a week straight of wind that led into thunderstorms and rain showers. Which I loved. It always smells so good right after it rains for the first time in a while! Yesterday and Today have been perfect. Not too hot, not too cold, and a nice little occasional breeze.
Me and Elder Jensen are working really hard. Yesterday gave out 4 book of mormons after church. It was a pretty successful day. But After all that sunlight, walking, and fasting, we were pretty tired at the end of the day! We have been trying to exercise more in the mornings and be EXACTLY obedient. Its not always easy but Elder Jensen and I are doing really well.
Some people can be a little tough to love sometimes. But the people that we get to stop and talk to I think its fairly easy to say that I start loving them right away. Its probably something I need to work on. But, occasionally there are people that well..... just make it a little tougher than normal.
Dinner with the Toulemonde family was amazing. Veronique is so sweet. She always makes a big HUGE meal whenever we come over. And because we were there on Easter Sunday she really went all out. Clem was not there but his little Brother Pierre was there and we had a great time all together.
As far as teaching and amies. We have been having lots of encounters with Jehovahs Witnesses here. Our one main super strong ami Li decided to invite us and the Temoin Jehovahs over for the same rendez vous. That was a little awkward but we must have done something right because he said he didnt plan on inviting them back. Other than that, church was pretty cool yesterday and I felt the spirit really strongly at a couple points. One of the members that we taught Li with bore her testimony on how it strengthened her own testimony and it was cool to see how much she enjoyed teaching with us. I am really loving this ward here. There are some great people. I am excited for you to meet some of them after my misison!
Anyways mom, I should get going. I am going to try and reply to Brads email really quickly. He asked some interesting questions and I am going to do my best to answer them. Hopefully he will let you read them :p anyways I love you so much. I hope you have a WONDERFUL time in Ohio and Iowa! Tell everybody I say Hi and that I love them and miss them. Feel free to share my email address with anybody who wants to send me and email or even my snail mail address if they want. But once again I love you and have a great week!
Love,
Elder Morgan
Monday, April 23, 2011
Hey momma!
Soooo guess what!!!!!????? Something absolutely crazy happened! I am staying a 4th transfer here in Villeneuve d'Ascq! It is completely unheard of for a missionary to spend more than 3 transfers in his bleu ville (first ville in the mission). And whats more, its even more rare for companions to go 3 together. And well this will be me and Elder Jensens 3rd transfer together!!! I cant believe it. Everybody was caught by suprise that me and Jensen are STILL together in Villeneuve d'Ascq as was I to be honest. However I asked president to stay in interviews. I will tell you more about those later but just know that they were wonderful and I learned so much and appreciated them so much.
I did talk to president and He gave me permission to Skype you the weekend Andy gets out. I am so excited. Do you think you could decide with Grandma a time and a place that we could skype? I could do it any day after 11 o'clock here and I would just need to be home by 9:30 pm. (other than sunday that is) And it doesnt have to be on P-day either. Anyways I will email you all about Interviews on Monday.
For now I just wanted to let you know that, unbelievably, me and Elder Jensen are staying together AGAIN in Villeneuve D'ascq.
Oh and something else. We are going to visit the Toulemondes on Sunday afternoon right after church. I will tell them you say Hi :)
I didnt get an email from Max. I'm not sure why I am so worried about him. I guess its because he hasnt emailed me back or written me for such a long time. But I am glad to hear he is alive and doing alright :)
Thanks so much for your email. It was great! I loved every bit of it! Anyways I gotta run. Love you and talk to you next week :) Have fun In Iowa and if you get the time I would love to hear from you again on Monday!!!
Love you momma :)
-Elder Morgan
Soooo guess what!!!!!????? Something absolutely crazy happened! I am staying a 4th transfer here in Villeneuve d'Ascq! It is completely unheard of for a missionary to spend more than 3 transfers in his bleu ville (first ville in the mission). And whats more, its even more rare for companions to go 3 together. And well this will be me and Elder Jensens 3rd transfer together!!! I cant believe it. Everybody was caught by suprise that me and Jensen are STILL together in Villeneuve d'Ascq as was I to be honest. However I asked president to stay in interviews. I will tell you more about those later but just know that they were wonderful and I learned so much and appreciated them so much.
I did talk to president and He gave me permission to Skype you the weekend Andy gets out. I am so excited. Do you think you could decide with Grandma a time and a place that we could skype? I could do it any day after 11 o'clock here and I would just need to be home by 9:30 pm. (other than sunday that is) And it doesnt have to be on P-day either. Anyways I will email you all about Interviews on Monday.
For now I just wanted to let you know that, unbelievably, me and Elder Jensen are staying together AGAIN in Villeneuve D'ascq.
Oh and something else. We are going to visit the Toulemondes on Sunday afternoon right after church. I will tell them you say Hi :)
I didnt get an email from Max. I'm not sure why I am so worried about him. I guess its because he hasnt emailed me back or written me for such a long time. But I am glad to hear he is alive and doing alright :)
Thanks so much for your email. It was great! I loved every bit of it! Anyways I gotta run. Love you and talk to you next week :) Have fun In Iowa and if you get the time I would love to hear from you again on Monday!!!
Love you momma :)
-Elder Morgan
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Hey everybody!
Sorry I dont have time to write you all Individual emails today but just wanted to give you an Update! I found out that I will be staying ANOTHER 6 weeks in Villeneuve d'Ascq up here in the North of France and will be serving With Elder Jensen again as well. If you want to mail me or send any letters do so to this email address or you can use my snail mail address which is still the same :
Elder Morgan
223 A05, Blvd de Valmy
59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq
France
Anyways I hope you are all doing well. Sorry to those of you who I have not yet mailed or returned your emails! :( I promise I will try and get those letters out as soon as possible.
-Elder Morgan
Sorry I dont have time to write you all Individual emails today but just wanted to give you an Update! I found out that I will be staying ANOTHER 6 weeks in Villeneuve d'Ascq up here in the North of France and will be serving With Elder Jensen again as well. If you want to mail me or send any letters do so to this email address or you can use my snail mail address which is still the same :
Elder Morgan
223 A05, Blvd de Valmy
59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq
France
Anyways I hope you are all doing well. Sorry to those of you who I have not yet mailed or returned your emails! :( I promise I will try and get those letters out as soon as possible.
-Elder Morgan
Monday, April 18, 2011
Hey Mom :)
Thanks so much for the email. And please dont worry about last week.
I did get your email I just didnt have time to respond.
I have tried to send Grae countless emails and I have even sent her a video on her gmail. Can you please tell her I am sending her stuff.... But I am really really excited to hear she is doing better.
Thanks so much for looking after my money! 4.25 percent!? Thats awesome! Where/how did you find that? My invested money is locked in for a year but if I am still only making 4 percent interest on it and you can find a better account then of course we should move it!
Okay I am glad you got the package! I happy you liked it. Sorry again about the videos recently. Its been a little frustrating because some of the computers here in the internet cafe are not in the best of shape and If we dont get her early enough on p-day we end up getting stuck with the slow bad computers which just cant get the job done. Sorry about that!
Conference Talks..... To be honest with you I havent really studied any of them yet. It is so much easier for me to read them. I love listening to them but reading them makes it easier to remember for me. However I did listen and read a great talk by Jeffery R Holland recently that I really want you and Brad to listen or study! Not for any particular reason, I just think its a great talk. Here is the link below.
http://www.byub.org/talks/Talk.aspx?id=3403
It really is an amazing talk. One of my very favorites I think. Dont forget to tell me what you think/liked about it, okay?
I really am so excited for you and Brad to get married. And I am stoked about your job. What a blessing that job has been for you and for Me. But how are things between you and Brad? I seriously cant wait for you and Brad to get married. I just want you to be happy together.
So Sunday May 8th is Mothers day?! I cant believe its almost time to skype again!? I am so excited. I am not sure which day I will be able to talk to you. It will most likely be Saturday or Monday. But I wanted to start talking about it now. Another Idea I had was maybe we could wait one week so I could talk to you when Andy is there? Let me know what you think. Does Grandma have internet? I would really love it if I could skype Andy at the same time that I skyped you!!! Anyways let me know if you think we could get something like that to Work. We have interviews with President Staheli this week and I will ask him what he thinks about it. I love Andy a lot. I sent him a letter this past week. I hope he gets it soon. I cant wait to come home and spend time with him either. It means a lot to me what you said about us being brothers. I really respect and Love Andy a lot.
But that reminds me, Did you ever get ahold of Max?
I am excited for you and Grae to go on your exercise and diet program. I have a good feeling that it will be really good for you and Especially Grae. You are such a great mom. And yes I will pray for you and her. Maybe you could have her email me? I have been using the citrusyfresshh@gmail.com email address for her but I havent seen
any sign that she is reading or even recieving my emails....
Anyways Momma, I gotta go. But I love you sooooo Much. Thanks for the wonderful email this week. I hope you have a fantastic week.
One last question though. Do you use my ipod regularly? I think I am gonna ask dad to get me an Ipod for my birthday but before I ask him to go out and buy anything I wanted to make sure you are still using mine. People update their ipods all the time here and it would be really nice to have something that I could upload conference talks and Devotionals onto and music ofcourse too. Anyways If you are using it at all I want you to keep it, but if not let me know.
OK, I love you soo much. I will probably be sending you an email on saturday seeing as its the day we recieve the "transfer email" and I find out if I am staying or leaving. I will most likely be leaving. But at any rate I will email you on saturday. But I hope you have a wonderful week.
Please tell Grae that I say hi and that I love her and Miss her soo much. Tell everybody else that I say Hi and I am thinking about them and love them as well.
Alright mommma Love you!
Love,
Elder Morgan
Thanks so much for the email. And please dont worry about last week.
I did get your email I just didnt have time to respond.
I have tried to send Grae countless emails and I have even sent her a video on her gmail. Can you please tell her I am sending her stuff.... But I am really really excited to hear she is doing better.
Thanks so much for looking after my money! 4.25 percent!? Thats awesome! Where/how did you find that? My invested money is locked in for a year but if I am still only making 4 percent interest on it and you can find a better account then of course we should move it!
Okay I am glad you got the package! I happy you liked it. Sorry again about the videos recently. Its been a little frustrating because some of the computers here in the internet cafe are not in the best of shape and If we dont get her early enough on p-day we end up getting stuck with the slow bad computers which just cant get the job done. Sorry about that!
Conference Talks..... To be honest with you I havent really studied any of them yet. It is so much easier for me to read them. I love listening to them but reading them makes it easier to remember for me. However I did listen and read a great talk by Jeffery R Holland recently that I really want you and Brad to listen or study! Not for any particular reason, I just think its a great talk. Here is the link below.
http://www.byub.org/talks/Talk.aspx?id=3403
It really is an amazing talk. One of my very favorites I think. Dont forget to tell me what you think/liked about it, okay?
I really am so excited for you and Brad to get married. And I am stoked about your job. What a blessing that job has been for you and for Me. But how are things between you and Brad? I seriously cant wait for you and Brad to get married. I just want you to be happy together.
So Sunday May 8th is Mothers day?! I cant believe its almost time to skype again!? I am so excited. I am not sure which day I will be able to talk to you. It will most likely be Saturday or Monday. But I wanted to start talking about it now. Another Idea I had was maybe we could wait one week so I could talk to you when Andy is there? Let me know what you think. Does Grandma have internet? I would really love it if I could skype Andy at the same time that I skyped you!!! Anyways let me know if you think we could get something like that to Work. We have interviews with President Staheli this week and I will ask him what he thinks about it. I love Andy a lot. I sent him a letter this past week. I hope he gets it soon. I cant wait to come home and spend time with him either. It means a lot to me what you said about us being brothers. I really respect and Love Andy a lot.
But that reminds me, Did you ever get ahold of Max?
I am excited for you and Grae to go on your exercise and diet program. I have a good feeling that it will be really good for you and Especially Grae. You are such a great mom. And yes I will pray for you and her. Maybe you could have her email me? I have been using the citrusyfresshh@gmail.com email address for her but I havent seen
any sign that she is reading or even recieving my emails....
Anyways Momma, I gotta go. But I love you sooooo Much. Thanks for the wonderful email this week. I hope you have a fantastic week.
One last question though. Do you use my ipod regularly? I think I am gonna ask dad to get me an Ipod for my birthday but before I ask him to go out and buy anything I wanted to make sure you are still using mine. People update their ipods all the time here and it would be really nice to have something that I could upload conference talks and Devotionals onto and music ofcourse too. Anyways If you are using it at all I want you to keep it, but if not let me know.
OK, I love you soo much. I will probably be sending you an email on saturday seeing as its the day we recieve the "transfer email" and I find out if I am staying or leaving. I will most likely be leaving. But at any rate I will email you on saturday. But I hope you have a wonderful week.
Please tell Grae that I say hi and that I love her and Miss her soo much. Tell everybody else that I say Hi and I am thinking about them and love them as well.
Alright mommma Love you!
Love,
Elder Morgan
Monday, April 11, 2011
Hey mom,
Gonna have to go here pretty soon. I missed getting your email this morning but I know how CRAZY busy you are! I hope everthing is going good for you. I am gonna try and check my email again later today to see if you emailed me, but no worries if you didnt have the time. I am in the middle of sending you a video right now so hopefully that will tell you a little more about our week. Ive been thinking about you a lot lately and I hope you are happy as ever.
Please let me know if you have any new news on Grae and how she is doing! Anyways I sure Love you! Tell everybody that I say hi! Oh and have you heard anything from Max lately? I havent heard any news from him for a couple of weeks. Kinda worried about him. If you get a free minute and you feel like it. Could you give him a call for me?
If not its no big deal but I would sure love to hear how hes doing.
Alright momma I gotta go! But I love you soo much!!!
Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Morgan
Gonna have to go here pretty soon. I missed getting your email this morning but I know how CRAZY busy you are! I hope everthing is going good for you. I am gonna try and check my email again later today to see if you emailed me, but no worries if you didnt have the time. I am in the middle of sending you a video right now so hopefully that will tell you a little more about our week. Ive been thinking about you a lot lately and I hope you are happy as ever.
Please let me know if you have any new news on Grae and how she is doing! Anyways I sure Love you! Tell everybody that I say hi! Oh and have you heard anything from Max lately? I havent heard any news from him for a couple of weeks. Kinda worried about him. If you get a free minute and you feel like it. Could you give him a call for me?
If not its no big deal but I would sure love to hear how hes doing.
Alright momma I gotta go! But I love you soo much!!!
Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Morgan
Monday, April 4, 2011
Hey Mom,
This email is going to be a little on the short side. Im trying to catch up on some of the Conference Talks that I missed or didnt understand! Ha ha!!
I just wanted to say that I was thinking about you ALL weekend. I hope you had a wonderful Birthday! I liked what you said about singing the Hymns in the Conference Center. I liked the same thing when I was in the MTC!
In conference, like you I noticed the focus on Service. However, above all else I noticed a focus on getting Married (in the Temple) and just Temples in General!
But General Confernce on the mission is AMAZING. I Loved every second of it. I decided I wouldnt take any notes but rather let myself Relax and soak in the words and take notes as I read the Ensign Later. I think its much more Enjoyable that way for me. All the missionaries from Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, and Valenciennes which is about 10 missionaries in Total. It was almost like a little party every session. Between sessions we brought lunches and snacks and ate together. It was great!!
And as for Jarom, yeah I sent him a letter! That would be great if he wrote me back!
And now the last the that I wanted to mention was our investigator Li. Li is AMAZING! He is so nice and sincere. I was thinking last night about how as me and Elder Jensen talk with him and how I feel like he sincerely brings the best out of me as a missionary. He is amazing to be able to help him along his path. He came to conference yesterday and took quite a few notes, and then we talked for a little with him about his questions afterwords. His baptismal date is currently set for Sunday April 24th. And in our talk with him last night he even mentioned potentially serving a mission after his baptism. He is 25 years old but I think its actually quite possible if he choose to
Sadly, I really gotta go But I love you so much Mom!! I am so excited that you got to go to Conference! It sounds like you had a wonderful time!
I havent thought of anything else that I really need at the moment, but no pressure about the package. Just send it whenever you can! :) Love you so much!
-Elder Morgan
This email is going to be a little on the short side. Im trying to catch up on some of the Conference Talks that I missed or didnt understand! Ha ha!!
I just wanted to say that I was thinking about you ALL weekend. I hope you had a wonderful Birthday! I liked what you said about singing the Hymns in the Conference Center. I liked the same thing when I was in the MTC!
In conference, like you I noticed the focus on Service. However, above all else I noticed a focus on getting Married (in the Temple) and just Temples in General!
But General Confernce on the mission is AMAZING. I Loved every second of it. I decided I wouldnt take any notes but rather let myself Relax and soak in the words and take notes as I read the Ensign Later. I think its much more Enjoyable that way for me. All the missionaries from Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, and Valenciennes which is about 10 missionaries in Total. It was almost like a little party every session. Between sessions we brought lunches and snacks and ate together. It was great!!
And as for Jarom, yeah I sent him a letter! That would be great if he wrote me back!
And now the last the that I wanted to mention was our investigator Li. Li is AMAZING! He is so nice and sincere. I was thinking last night about how as me and Elder Jensen talk with him and how I feel like he sincerely brings the best out of me as a missionary. He is amazing to be able to help him along his path. He came to conference yesterday and took quite a few notes, and then we talked for a little with him about his questions afterwords. His baptismal date is currently set for Sunday April 24th. And in our talk with him last night he even mentioned potentially serving a mission after his baptism. He is 25 years old but I think its actually quite possible if he choose to
Sadly, I really gotta go But I love you so much Mom!! I am so excited that you got to go to Conference! It sounds like you had a wonderful time!
I havent thought of anything else that I really need at the moment, but no pressure about the package. Just send it whenever you can! :) Love you so much!
-Elder Morgan
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