8: Tengo Gozo en mi Alma Hoy

There is sunshine in my soul today! These past 8 weeks  have been hard, but I have found so many reasons to rejoice every day. And every day just gets better and better. I find myself singing this hymn throughout the day, when Im happy, when Im frustrated, always. I frequently reflect on the talk given by elder holland this conference about this song, especially the line "and Jesus listening can hear the songs I cannot sing!". When we feel like nobody can understand our problems, the Savior hears us, and He understands perfectly.

This week was lots of fun! We had a lot of surprises, random new investigators showing up to church, investigators starting to progress, interesting doctrines to dispute...all of it. We are teaching one man named Pedro and we spent an entire lesson trying to explain the Peter was not part of the God head.

Nonetheless, lots of hopeful baptisms! The hardest thing here is that nobody gets married, so we find a family and they start to progress and want to be baptized but they never do because they dont think they have to get married first. So when we find someone who is single and not living with anyone and willing to listen to listen to us we RUN to them. They are gold.

Anyway, the adapter isn't working so Ill have to send my pictures next week...lo siento!

Hasta el fin

Hermana Morgan

Laundry: all ourselves. Hna Ordoñez and I switch off every single day and do a little at a time otherwise we would spend all of pday doing it ourselves. In this mission, pretty much unless you live with a member who has a washing machine, you do it all yourself and do it by hand. Kinda hard when I want to be using that time for studying spanish or something but Ive got a system down and all my clothes are fresh and clean always :)

Small house. I guess I can send you pictures, youll see some of it in my big email today. Its actually pretty big for just us two, kind of lonely actually, but the only other sisters in our zone live pretty far away. Well I guess we have a few roommates, frogs, lizards, giant spiders, ants...

Hna Ordoñez is great. Her spanish is very clear and slow and I was able to understand her from the start which is a blessing. She opened the area for sisters herer just 3 months ago with another sister that she trained. She has 9 months.

Lots of Elders in our zone and district but again, our area is one of the largest and the only time we run into people is when we come up to Choluteca for Pdays and district meetings.

We are in the ward, honestly I didnt know there was also a branch, but all through central america the wards are small. Lots of inactives, about 100 people who come regularly. Also I am the unofficial official ward pianist for...everything. I think I was even volunteered to play something at stake conference so plz pray for me 0 time to practice.

Just out of curiosity, Dad what did you do to help you learn the language faster? I've got a good system going and Im learning and understanding really fast, but do you have any cool experiences with it or with gift of tongues?

The biggest thing for me this week was being able to understand what the people are saying. Here its really hard, especially with so many people that cant read their spanish is broken and unclear, but Im really starting to understand everyone which is HUGE!!!!! I have worked so hard, I really did do over 100 words a day in the CCM, and I finished half of the BOM in spanish in 3 weeks, and now you can always find me memorizing vocab on the side of the road on our way to appointments. It really is hard, and sometimes my companion and other people dont get it, but its worth it.

Not going to lie the week before last was really hard, but this week was so much better. Every day is hard. But every day something happens to remind me why Im here. The other day when I was playing The Spirit of God during sacrament meeting I got a little choked up. It is truly a pleasure to be a part in the building up of Zion. Beofre with all of our family, here on my mission, and with my future family. Before we left the CCM, President Morris showed us a slideshow of missionaries that worked hard on their missions, pictures of their baptisms, and then pictures with them and their wives and husbands and children after their missions. Nothings matters more to me than that. I am so blessed because I have the gospel, and have so many people to share it with.

Lots of love! Tell all the niños I love them!