"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith"

Dearest family and friends,

This past week has been a complete emotional roller coaster. It has been a really good week though. On Wednesday we got to go to the temple for my last time!! It was such a beautiful session. I love the Redlands temple and it is beautiful on the inside. It was also a good day though because it was Hermana Buttars' birthday and my roommates and I schemed together and decorated out apartment, I made pancakes for breakfast, etc. after our session we got a doughnut and he. Went off to work! We had a wonderful evening and a lesson that I will explain in the following paragraph. It was just a really spiritual yet fun day!

So Wednesday evening we went to see a part member family. Have I mentioned Teysi, Fransisco, Johanna. Etc? It was them. We were in the lesson and Johanna asked a question about the picture of the first vision. We explained that it was Joseph smith seeing a Heavenly Father and Christ and then Maria and Johanna started arguing with us about how nobody has ever seen Heavenly Father and it turned into a huge argument. Hermana Buttars and I just sat there quietly listening to them. I had no idea what to say so we didn't say anything. At that moment I felt the spirit hit me so strongly telling me that I knew that these things are true and that I wouldn't even be phased by the argument and I would know by the spirit what to say. I sat there and then the argument went silent and the spirit told me to open my mouth and start speaking. That is scary because you don't know what to say but I did open my mouth and the Lord filled my mouth with the words that this family needed to hear and with the spirit. I told them that as missionaries we testify of what we know and then ask everyone to pray about the message so that they can know he truthfulness for themselves. The spirit was so strong and everyone was listening very hard to what I was saying. It was a beautiful moment. They agreed that they needed to pray about it and said that they would. Fransisco asked me what a family needs to go through so that they can be converted and I said that they need to pray, read the Book of Mormon, and go to church. He told me that he believed that and talked "figuratively"

about how sometimes people pray to ask God to guide them and then missionaries show up a month later. The spirit testified to us that happened to him and he recognized the answer to his prayer. It was amazing!!

On Friday we had our Ward Thanksgiving party and that was amazing as well, we had 20 non members from our area and 14 of them were investigators. It was a great party and the members were perfect and fellowshipping them. It was fun to watch them all dance and become friends.

On Saturday we had the baptism of Edith Marrufo. It was such a stressful experience!!! We had been talking about the  baptism for over a month and had planned everything and everyone agreed and said they would come. I kid you not, the baptism was at six and by five about 95% of the people had canceled. It was so frustrating! I had to play the piano and give a talk, Hermana Buttars had to lead and five a prayer, etc. after a whole lot of stress and rearranging Edith was baptized. It was a beautiful baptism and she said that she felt happier than she ever thought was possible. I was so happy for her! We found her by talking to her while she was riding her skateboard.

Yesterday she gave me a letter and in it was one of those finger skateboards. She is the best and going to be an amazing convert!

Yesterday was a busy and sad day. I spoke in sacrament meeting which was really good actually. I know that the gift of tongues is real even when they introduce you as Hermana Monroy. :) then, last night we had our departing devotional. It was such a good devotional. All 24 missionaries shares a 2 minute experience when we knew that the Lord was mindful of us on our mission. It was packed! Almost as packed as a stake conference. It made me less nervous knowing that 97% of the people couldn't understand me! It was amazing because 5 families from my first area came and Marisol and Melissa, and Fransisco, Johanna, and their family came as well. It was wonderful to see all of them and feel their love and support. After I sat down I felt the spirit tell me that I was finished and that I had done a good job. I felt so overwhelmed by the spirit.

I am so very grateful for this opportunity that I have had to be a missionary. Even thou I had hoped that the Lord had other plans for me I am eternally grateful that He let me learn and grow and serve him.

Everyone Says that the mission is the best 18 months or 2 years of their lives and now I know why. It isn't the funnest thing that I have ever done but it has been the thing of most worth that I have ever done. I have been changed by my mission. While before I knew what we believed know I understand and appreciate just how much God loves us.

He truly loves each and every one of us despite our shortcomings and weaknesses. I have never felt more inadequate than I have on my mission but now I can feel the strengthening hand of the Lord in my life. I am grateful for all of the amazing people that I have met on my mission. And for their love and support for me. My mission has never been easy. However, now I can say that with the strength of the Lord not only can I do hard things, but I can do all things.

Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever.

          Alma 26:12

I love this work and will always wear this name tag on my heart. If you ever wonder if you should go on a mission or not, pray about and go! If that is what the lord wants, go!! If you are willing to work hard and be obedient you will not regret your decision!

I love you all so very much!! I will see you very soon!

For the last time,

Hermana Clarissa Morey

8 Days Left

Buenos días mi familia!!

Como están? Ojalá que su semana estuvo muy bueno! This week has completely flown by for me. I have not had a full day of work this entire week! It has been one of the happiest weeks of my mission for several reasons but now I will explain all that happened.

To start out, Wednesday we had our departing temple trip! I can't believe that it already happened. Usually it is the last Wednesday of the transfer but they had to do it before all of the other temple trips were scheduled to happen. So, we went to the temple in the morning with President and Sister Van Cott and it was amazing to be in the temple again. The spirit was strong and it was really cool to be in the temple with a lot of other missionaries. After the temple we took pictures and then went to the mission office where we wrote letters to ourselves while eating Cafe Rio, needless to say I was a very happy missionary, and then we went in and had a 4 hour question and answer session to help us get ready for going home. It was really helpful.

On Thursday we had our Zone Conference. It was honestly the best conference that I have been to on my mission. We talked about how we can become missionaries on fire. It has fundamentally changed the way that we do missionary work and even though it is harder it has already made the work so much better. We are talking to everyone and realizing that we can't keep teaching the people who are not ready to listen to our message. We have seen many results are our working on finding the elect and fearing no man. It was also really nice because the other Hermanas in our Zone brought us chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast because it was the last time that I would see them and Hermana Buttars' birthday is in Wednesday. Overall it was an amazing day.

I think the highlight of my week though was Saturday. In Saturday I got to go to the sealing of The Pineda Family. What a beautiful day that was!! I was a little nervous because the member driving me to the temple could only take me two hours before the session but I walked into the temple and saw them sitting in the waiting room I could feel my heart fill with joy. I cannot describe the happiness that I felt that night in the temple. As I was getting ready for the session to start members from my first area started coming in and it was a joyful reunion. The sealing was beautiful to watch Esmerelda and Israel get sealed and then to watch as their daughter got sealed to them. I will admit that I had tears in my eyes but I was so happy. There is something so incredibly amazing about seeing a family go from not nothing anything about the Gospel to watching them become an eternal family. Before I went into the session President and Sister Van Cott came into the temple for a different sealing and President Van Cott told me that I have the luckiest and best last week that any missionary could have. I could not agree more. I have been blessed in ways that I have never thought possible. I am eternally grateful for that experience. They looked beautiful

I can't believe there is only one week left!! We are going to be working very hard and we also get to go to the temple on Wednesday.

Also... Edith is getting baptized on Saturday! I will send pictures.

I am excited to see you all soon but I am going to finish strong! I love you all and know that this is the work of the Lord!

Love,

Hermana Morey

Faith

Dear Family and Friends!

This has been a long but good week! It almost feels like it has been two weeks because so many things have happened!

To start, we went on exchanges this past weekend and I got to go with Hermana Jaynes. I don't know if you remember but we went on exchanges last transfer as well. This time however, we went to her area. I think we were destined to be friends. For some reason whenever we are around each other we just can't stop laughing. Don't get me wrong, we got a lot of work done, but driving from appointment to appointment was really fun! She is a wonderful missionary and taught me a lot about working with leaders! Their bishop doesn't like missionaries so it makes it hard to work with them, however, they are working around that and still getting wonderful things done. 

Hermana Buttars went with Hermana West and she told me something that really helped me. Hermana West went to Indio right after I left. We literally just switched spots. She just recently got moved back to the Zone. However, she told me that when she went there almost none of the members would let them in. I was SHOCKED! They were so nice! Why weren't they letting them in?! Then she explained that almost every single one of them said "Well, you aren't Hermana Morey and we are busy." Wait.... what did you say?! She told me that ward loved me so much that they didn't want to meet the new missionary and since they didn't like my old companion.... they didn't see a reason. However, they did eventually start letting them in and listening to them. I felt terrible! But I also felt overwhelmed with love. I thought that area didn't like me very much but little did I know that whole ward knew who I was and appreciated the hard work that I was putting in. It reminding me of a part in my blessing that set me apart that said that others will be converted because they can feel the love of the Lord through You. 

Yesterday was also a marvelous Sunday. We had the Primary program at church and the little kids were adorable!!! The spirit was so strong and we had 7 investigators at church. A lot of people invited their non member families! It was wonderful! Then, that evening we held the baptism of Marisol Angulo. It was such an amazing baptism. The spirit was so extremely strong and she told us after that when she came out of the water she felt that she had just entered heaven. I am so happy for her and for her example. The first things that she said to me after the baptism was "Guess what!!! I am a Mormon!" We just laughed and told her that she was. I got to play the piano for the baptism and it was really nice to be able to add that little bit of testimony to the program.  

The thing that I would like to talk about right now is about the announcement that was made this past week. When we heard about it... we literally just said, that makes sense and moved on. I was shocked to hear that isn't how everyone else has been taking it. As Hermana Buttars and I talked about it this morning we realized the change that has happened while we have been missionaries. Before my mission this may have made me hesitant and confused. However, now, I understand a little bit more about what it means to follow the Lord. I also understand why returned missionaries offend people when we get home. It is because we have learned to be bold. Now, what I say comes with the deepest love for all who will read this. First, I feel like a lot of people who are angry and upset about this announcement don't understand two things. 1. The Restoration and 2. The Mercy and love of God. 

1. The Restoration. 

We believe that the church that Christ established while he was in the earth has been restored by a modern day prophet. We believe that the church is run by Jesus Christ through a living prophet and apostles. If we truly and honestly believe that then we know that this change did not come from the laws of Men but from God. God knows everything. We don't. We have to accept that and even if we don't understand why He makes this rules, we have to trust Him. He has the bigger picture! He loves us and knows what is best for us. Now we have to have faith to follow what HE says. 

2. God loves every one of his children more than we can understand. Now, we have to trust him! He has been so merciful that he is doing everything possible so that He is not condemning anyone. He gives every person a chance to keep His commandments. 

I know that this church is true. Even if I don't understand why God does what He does I will follow Him with every breath that I take. If you don't understand or you are now feeling lost or concerned about this change, just remember, is the Book of Mormon true? Do you believe that this church is run by God? Then go forward with faith and defend God. There are only two options. To sit back and murmur or to defend God. We each have to choose what side we will take. This morning I finished The Book of Mormon, not the whole book but the book my Mormon. I loved Mormon 9:25-27. Please go read it! 

I hope that you all had a wonderful week!!! Time is going far too quickly but I love this work and I am willing to defend this work and I am grateful to be given this opportunity! I love you all so much!

Love,

Hermana Morey

Not a Perfect Missionary

Hello family and Friends!

Oh my goodness. I never thought that I would actually survive until November! It seemed like one of those things that is so far in the future that it won't ever actually arrive. Guess what... now it is here. For some reason it finally hit me this week that I am coming home soon. For a long time it just felt like I would just stick around here forever however I realize now that it is coming. Also, 3 weeks seems a whole lot shorter than 4 weeks! I am sad about that. I am really excited to go home and see all of you but it makes me sad that this part of my life will be over. Even though the mission is hard, it has been a wonderful experience for me.

This past week was a little interesting... We went on exchanges with the Oleander Sisters and I got to go to their ward with Sister Pauslen who was my roommate last transfer. She has been having a very hard time. She has only been out for 5 months and is the Senior Companion in a new area that needs a ton of work! I was able to share some advice with her that Zack shared with me before Sterling went through the temple. It just talks about taking one day at a time! After I spent the day working with her I was amazed at everything that she has done for that area in just 3 short weeks. I could just feel that she has changed a lot of things and that the members, investigators, less-actives, etc, all trust her! They can tell that she is a good missionary and that she is there to work hard even when it is hard for her. It was a good experience to work and learn from her this week. I realize that I have so much to learn from all of these younger missionaries and it is a little hard because I feel like I should know these things by now. Shouldn't I be the perfect missionary?! Haha nope! I still have such a long way to go. 

This past weekend was a very sad weekend. On Saturday we went to visit with Aileen and she told us that she won't be getting baptized on the 14th anymore. It is so sad but she let the fear of her sister overcome her and she started to question everything that she knew. I was heartbroken. I have never heard of someone receiving as many answers and she had done and it broke my heart that she was using her agency to go against it. For one of the first times in my mission I was unfearingly bold with her. I told her that as missionaries we were there to help her. I also told her that at that moment we were there to warn her of the consequences of her decisions. She still decided no and the spirit left and there was nothing else we could do. It made of a sad Halloween. After that we had to go home and we got to have 3 hours to study, write in our journals, etc. I started and almost finished writing the invitations for the Departing Devotional which was good!

Sunday was also a bummer. Nobody came to church. Not a single investigator, or less active. We were so sad. How does that happen?! One week everyone had a ton of potential and we are all excited for them and the next week is just the opposite. We were really bummed but the rest of the day got a lot better. We had dinner with Aileen's mom and Aileen hid in her room. But we were able to help her mom a lot since she is a recent convert. Also, that night we went to visit a part member family that we are teaching and it turns out that it was Francisco's birthday! (In that family there is the mom Matilde, her daughter Johanna and her four kids, Johanna's husband Fransisco (a less active), and his sister Teysi.) They had decided to wait to cut the cake until we got there and since we had to leave to be home on time they have us a HUGE slice of cake to take home and share. It was the perfect ending to Sunday because the cake was delicious! It amazed us how this family that we met a couple weeks ago had so much love for us. I gave them their invitation to my Departing Devotional and they told me that they would do everything they can to be there. What a wonderful family!

I don't know if any of you remember that I got an ear infection. I have more news! So when I went to the doctor there was so much liquid in my ear that they couldn't see my eardrum. They gave me medicine and I went back this week and they were able to see that I had actually ruptured my eardrum! How fun! It was just a small hole but it makes sense why I can't hear very well. They were asking me if it hurt and I said yes and they were just surprised that I wasn't complaining more because it should hurt a lot. :) Yes! I finally have a high pain tolerance. Woot!!!

That is about everything for this week. Sorry it was little long! I hope that you all had a wonderful Halloween and got lots of candy that you are waiting to share with me when I get home. ;) Thank you so much for your love and support!!! It means the world to me. 

Love,

Hermana Morey

FYI....

Buenos dias mi familia!

Como estan? I hope that you had a great week! This week flew by so quickly I think that I may have gotten a little bit of whip-lash! I don't know where all of the time seems to be going. On Saturday I hit my 17 month mark. How crazy is that?! Hermana Buttars wanted to celebrate my last month mark on the mission so she made us all pancakes for breakfast and put the number 17 on mine. One of our roommates is new on the mission and is about to hit her one month mark so she was stunned that people actually make it that far. I feel the same way! I still feel like I have 9 months or so. It goes by so quickly! It doesn't help that we got our flight itinerary, invitations for our departing devotional etc. I am still the only Spanish missionary going home this transfer so that will be fun.

Nothing super exciting happened this week. Hermana Buttars and I were discussing what we would email home and there wasn't too much to say. We got to eat something new and exciting! On Friday we had Nepalis. I thought it was just soup with the giant chile in it but it ended up being cactus. Let me tell you, cactus is weird! It has a rubbery texture but it actually isn't gross. The soup that we had it in wasn't very good but now I can officially say that I have had Cactus! 

On Saturday we had dinner with a family in our ward and they gave us these amazing little tacos with carne asada and mozzarella cheese. The only bad part was that they gave us three so that was a lot of food. They were so good!!! However, after that we had another dinner with Aileen and her family because they were celebrating their birthdays and they fed us a ton as well. I was so extremely full. I decided that it is much more manageable to be hungry than super duper full. We practically had to roll home and Hermana  Buttars ended up throwing up. Poor thing. Good thing the  food was delicious!

The best part about this week was yesterday. After church we had Marisol have her baptismal interview! She was so nervous. Marisol is Melissa's sister, the girl who got baptized over conference weekend. She is getting baptized the 8th of November and we are excited for her! She passed her interview and is getting ready. We should also have Aileen's baptism the 14th. She finally told her mom yesterday so it is official! yay! This is going to be amazing. Also, the Pineda family will be getting sealed on the 14th as well so this next month is going to be the best month ever. 

I am so grateful to be here right now. I love you all so very much and your love and concern and support for me means the world. I could not have done this without all of you! If there is anything that I can do for you please let me know!

Love always,

Hermanita Morey. 

P.S. In our church building we have the Spanish ward and the Tongan ward. After Marisol's interview someone in the tongan ward came up and started talking to us. She was a little weird but she mentioned how she had a friend going to Texas on their mission speaking Mexican.... FYI don't ever call it Mexican they get really offended if you say that!!!! 

Loyal, Strong and True....

Buenos Dias!!

Uff. I am TIRED!! This has been a crazy busy week and then today the departing sister missionaries and companions went on a hike with Sister Van Cott. It was a hard hike but today was a wonderful day to do it because it is a little chilly! The hike was stunningly beautiful though. I didn't know Redlands could be so pretty! I had a blast though.

So, I understand you a lot more mom! My ear had been hurting a little bit for the last couple days and then on Saturday night I Felt like something was crawling out of my ear and then all of this liquid just started coming out. It made it completely impossible to hear from my left ear. It also hurt a lot! On Sunday during church it got so bad that I texted the mission nurse and she has me to go a members home in Redlands who are ear specialists. She was shocked because you couldn't even see my eardrum it was so full of liquid. Needless to say... I have an ear infection and I had to go get medicine. I am feeling better now but I still can't hear out of that ear. I most,y pretend like I understand what people are saying. It makes things difficult!

This week was really good though. First off.... Transfers. We were slightly frustrated because we didn't find out about transfers until Tuesday after studies. However, I get to stay here with Hermana Buttars!! We are so happy! Also, this transfer we have a temple trip, zone conferences, my departing temple trip, and interviews. It is going to be super busy because we are also having several baptisms! I am so happy. We have a ton of investigators right now. Last week we had 16 commit to come to church! Granted only two of them came... But those two people are amazing! The Ward was really friendly and they enjoyed it. There is just a ton of work to be done.

I am really happy. Even though some days are harder than others. We are seeing such amazing things happening here. So many people ready to hear the gospel and almost more work than we can handle! I would so much rather have this problem than not having anyone. I have always joked around with my companions saying that someday we will have too many investigators and we won't know what to do with them... I was right! It almost felt like all at once everyone started praying for the missionaries. We aren't the only ones seeing this success but our font is booked every weekend next month! The work of the Lord is rolling forward and "the labor is great and the laborers are few but if we're united we all things can do." I am so grateful to be a part of this work right now. I can't think of anything else better!

Thank you all for your support, love, and prayers. They mean the world to me! You are all amazing and I love you all with all of my heart!

Keep moving forward and trust In The Lord!

Love,

Hermana Morey

P.S. My ponderizing scripture of the week was 3 Nephi 21:29 "And they shall go out from all nations; and they shall not go in haste, never by flight, for I Will go before them, smith the father, and I will be their rearward."

Just in case you were wondering, guess who got accepted to BYU starting in January?!

And thus begins the last transfer...

Dearest Family and friends,

Hello! I can't believe that this month is already flying by. I think the weirdest thing that happened was that all of the people that I went to Bolivia with, went home. I have to admit that was really hard.

From the moment I met them I was excited to have the going home adventure with them! However, I am so grateful that I still have six weeks to work. Don't worry, I am really busy here.

So, today starts my final transfer. That is weird. The hard thing is that starting today we won't find out about transfers until tomorrow morning. So, I have no idea where I will be for the next six weeks.

Hermana Buttars and I are praying really hard to be able to stay companions here for my past transfer. We just work really well together and this area needs us. I guess I will let you know next week.

I am going to start with the creepy story of the week. Yesterday at 3pm we were trying to visit some investigators and they weren't home.

As we walked back to the car a man, about 50 years old, stops by our car and asks for a dollar. We are very poor missionaries who don't have money so we told him that but we offered him a Plan of Salvation Pamphlet, like very good Hermanas. He then asked if we were North Americans and when we answered yes he said "I want to marry you."

Umm... Eww. Hermana Buttars looked taken aback but I Just told him that as missionaries we teach people about Christ and tries to give him the pamphlet. He then turned to me and asked if I hadn't heard him and repeated himself. After that he interrupted my annoyed response by asking me if I liked his face while he ran his finger down his face like a tear. Now we were super creeped out and we could start to smell the drugs that he was on. I just said Nope! And we hoped in our car and drove away quickly. It was funny because Hermana Buttars got in the seat behind me since I was driving. We got away safely through!

Now, for the miracle. Last night we had a lesson with Aileen. She is the one who went to conference and her sister doesn't want her to get baptized. We spent an abnormally large amount of time at their house yesterday. We had dinner with her mom, she was asleep, then her moms twin stopped by, after Lupita, the mom left, the twin talked to us for an hour. That was a very long time! But she left and we were finally able to talk to Aileen alone. She asked if yesterday was fat Sunday, which it was, and was super sad that she had missed it. You would have through the she had missed a test! We asked why she hadn't gone and she had been planning on returning from an early morning home in time but they ended up getting back right as church ended. She was very sad at that point. We started to ask her what was going on. She has received so many answers to her prayers and we pointed out every single one. She hadn't realized that she had received to many huge answers. As we pointed them out she admitted that she knew this was all true but what should she do about her family who would hate her if she got baptized? This is the amazing part. I literally felt this glow come over me. It was honestly like I sat back and someone else took control of my body and spoke through me. The promised blessings were real and they were there. They were exactly what she needed to hear and the spirit was stronger than anything ask have ever felt in my life. You could almost feel the Angels on the room pleading with her to accept the promises.

She did. I can not even describe the feeling in the room. It was so powerful. I know that Aileen is going to change the lives of hundreds of people and that she just needs to be brave enough to take the first step. She picked a baptismal date for November 14th. We will be fasting and praying with her for the strength to keep moving forward.

I am so excited about that!!

Other than that we just had a really good week. Melissa got confirmed yesterday as well. Oh what joy this work brings!! It was Marisol's birthday on the 9th so we stopped by to give her a card and they gave us some homemade blueberry lemon cake. It was wonderful.

I have seen so many tender mercies of the lord this week. I can't even put them in one email. I just hope you understand how amazing this work is. I hope and pray that I will get to stay here for another transfer with Hermana Buttars. I will let you know!

I hope you have an amazing week!! I love you all so much!

Love,

Hermana Clarissa Morey

P.s. My ponderizing scripture from last week was D&C 10:5 what was yours!?

God Loves Us

Buenos dias!! Como estan?

How was your week?! This past week was crazy busy because about a million and half things got done! I can't believe how quickly it flew by. Fortunately this week I have a little more time to tell you what happened! Now, where to begin?

I guess all of the busyness started on Thursday. We had MLC which is the Leadership council with President up in Highland! We were there almost all day but it was a really good conference. We talked a lot about using Facebook! We talked about good ways to use Facebook through the members, for example, having them share a scripture on Facebook. create an event for our activities and invite friends, add our investigators as friends on Facebook, etc. This will be good right now because everyone can share their favorite conference quotes! The hardest part will be picking their favorites! We also talked a lot about having the faith to achieve our goals. Last week we were challenged to have every companionship have a baptism in November and December. Then we talked about raising our vision, troubling the Lord through prayer, and having the faith to have it happen! It was so good and we all left really excited to achieve these goals.

On Friday we had exchanges again. Fortunately it was our last one! I felt like we were always on exchanges! This time I was with Hermana Jaynes in my area. She is from Riverton, and we actually have apparently been super close by each other our whole lives but have never met until the mission. She was super fun to be around and I laughed harder than I have in a long time. It was a blast! Not only was it fun but we learned so much! In her area they are struggling with their relationships with the members. Apparently due to some really rude missionaries their ward doesn't like them! How sad is that? They are the sweetest sisters. We talked for a long time about how to fix that relationship and finding people to teach. we both learned so much and I was so grateful for the chance to work with her.

On Saturday, conference started. What a blessing! How does each conference get better? I seriously saw miracles worked during that conference. My questions were definitely answered and the spirit showed me ways that I need to improve so that I can progress! I just want to spend another two days and just watch them again. One of the miracles that we saw was with Aileen and Natalie. I don't know if I mentioned this but they got to go to the Saturday afternoon session of conference. The night before they left we stopped by and read the scriptures with them. We read 1 Nephi chapter 15. We talked about recieving answers to your prayers, etc. It was a good lession. However, the miracle happened at conference on Saturday. While they were there James B. Martino read the exact same verse in 1 Nephi 15 and talked about conversion, recieving answers to our prayers etc. It was amazing. We both felt the overwhelming feeling that they will be getting baptized soon. I wanted to cry I was so happy!!!

Another thing wonderful that happened was we got Melissa and Marisol to come to conference. After the last session yesterday Melissa was baptized. Can you talk about amazing?! The spirit was so extremely strong. She was sad earlier this week because her mom had said that she couldn't come and I prayed all week that her mom would show up. She did. She took a late lunch break so that she could be there for her daughter. She isn't a member but the pride and happiness on her face as she watched Melissa baptized was enough to melt any heart. It was amazing. Now Marisol her sister said that she wants to get baptized in November! After we cleaned up the baptism Hermana Buttars and I were just overwhelmed by the love that Heavenly Father has shown to us and to all of his children. Since yesterday was a stunningly beautiful rainy day we went outside and just sat for a moment with our hearts full of gratitude.

I hope that you all had an amazing week and that you were also able to feel the strength and the spirit that comes from conference. I know that now comes the hard part of applying it but we can do it. :) God loves us. He is our father. He wants us to progress and to have joy! I hope that spirit stay with you this week and remember that you are in my prayers.

Love,

Hermanita Morey

P.S. Thank you so much for the letters of love and encouragement that I recieved this week. I am so grateful for every single one of you!!!

Conference

Hello family and friends!

I am so sorry but I really don't have much time to write but I will do my best to get it all in even though this will be short.

This week was hard. Hard, but amazing. I think that one reason that it was so hard was that sometimes Satan just wants us to feel like we aren't doing anything and that we are failures. I am working so hard on getting over that and I can tell that Heavenly Father is answering my prayers. Even with Women's conference! I love how they talked about how we are daughters of God and that he loves us! These are things that we know, but we just needed to be reminded sometimes.

Another way that the Lord helped me this week was through exchanges! This week we went on Exchanges with the Rialto 3rd Hermanas. Usually we don't go back to old areas on exchanges but I had a strong feeling that I need to go. So, I went and worked with Hermana Orr. It turns out that night we had dinner with the Pineda family. If you don't remember them they were my first converts and one of my favorite families in the world! As we went to dinner I heard someone yell "HEY! What are you doing here!" I looked up to see Isreal and he turned and yelled in the house "Morey's back!" Everyone came running outside and they were so happy to see me! But I was even happier to see them! Yayis just had a baby and I got to meet her! While we were talking at dinner I learned that Israel just got the Melchizedek Priesthood, he is serving in the Young Mens, the baby got blessed in the church, and they are all preparing to be sealed as a family in November. I was so overwhelmed with the spirit. To see the amazing changes that they have made and to know that God let me be there to be a part of it. I was so extremely happy. They are also making sure that I will be there for their sealing and said that they would drive all the way down to Indio to pick me up for it. I am so blessed.  

Also, Melissa is getting baptized this week! I will tell you more about that next week.

I am so sorry but I am out of time! I am so excited for conference and hope that you all get a chance to watch it! Also, if you want to get excited for it watch the video "Why conference matters." I love it and I am super excited!!

Have a wonderful week!

Love,

Hermana Morey

Bitter & Sweet

Buenos dias!!! Como estan? Como le fue con su semana? Ojala que todo esta bien con ustedes!

This week was such a good week!!!!! Remember how last week wasn't? Yeah, that didn't last long! I feel like so much has happened so I will try my best to tell you everything and not just jump around all crazy-like.

To start out, we had our mission conference this past Tuesday! It. Was. POURING. Rain. Seriously, the roads were super dangerous and a lot of people don't know how to drive in the rain so we had to be extra careful. We felt terrible because during that conference we had Representatives from Salt Lake City putting in the new TIWI units into our cars. The TIWI is this little black box on our windshield that watches our driving. If we are going faster than the speed limit a loud voice says "CHECK YOUR SPEED!" Talk about mini heart attacks! You then have 6 seconds to slow down or you will get a mark on your driving report. It is also programmed to make sure that you are doing dumb things. I feel like that is the best way to describe it. It can tell if you are going too fast around corners, if you catch air in the car, that you are wearing your seat-belt etc. Now we are really good drivers! But the reps had to stay outside in the pouring rain and put those in.

Other than that the conference was really good! We talked a lot about working with members, and working harder, with more faith, to achieve our goals. I really liked the conference and I always feel the spirit!

This week we also went on exchanges. I went to Rialto with Hermana Lutu. Have I talked about her before? I think so. Either way, she is amazing. She is honestly my best friend here in the mission and this exchange was something that we both needed. She started crying in the morning about the stress of training, fixing an area where missionaries had been super disobedient, etc, and then we went out and had an amazing day of teaching, and then I broke down later that night as we talked about the mission. I didn't realize how deeply my feelings of inadequacy, and failure were rooted into my heart. I guess that most of the time I just feel like I am failing the Lord. Hermana Lutu was perfect and said exactly what I needed to hear. Since we have served around each other our whole missions it helps that we know what the other person has gone through this whole time. It was just really good!

I thought this was hilarious. While we were on exchanges we tried to visit this investigator but his wife wasn't home so we couldn't go in. However, this little girl darts out of the apartment and gives me a big hug while saying "Hello! My name is Daisy!" Then... she darted back inside and quickly as she had come... I wanted to say "Hey! Me too!" 

This week we had the most amazing street contact in the history of street contacts. We had an impression to go visit a referral, who is NEVER home, and we had to park around the corner and walk a little bit to get there. When we parked their was this girl sitting on a little fence, she was probably about 18, hipster/goth mix, smoking, etc. We decided to go and talk to her. When we started to introduce ourselves she said that she new who we were and that the missionaries stopped by every Thursday to talk to her sister. She started to tell us how her sister was recently baptized and that her mom was a member when she started to sob. Literally sob. It was so sad! She went on to explain that her mom died a month ago, that they were now living with their aunt, and that she was really struggling. We talked to her about the Book of Mormon, which she has seen help her sister during this time, and talked about how Christ understands. She accepted a Book of Mormon and said that she would listen to the missionaries the next day. When we stopped by to check up on her she was doing so much better and was planning on going to church. God really does prepare the way!

Last thing, sorry this is so long!!!! This past week all of the missionaries in our ward decided to fast for 2 of our investigators. In the end only 4 of 6 did it but the outcome was amazing. While we were all fasting yesterday.... miracles happened. I have never seen the church so full in my LIFE! There wasn't enough room for everyone to fit. We had a ton of investigators there, and a TON of less actives, members decided to bring their friends, etc. It was the best sacrament meeting in the whole world. I have never had such a strong testimony that fasting brings blessings. Usually, to be perfectly honest, I just fast because I know I should, this past week I truly saw the difference. The Lord can honestly work Miracles but sometimes he waits for us to truly sacrifice until He will give us the blessings. I realized that if we hadn't had such a bad week last week we wouldn't have been able to feel the extreme joy that we felt yesterday when we were able to see the blessings from our labor. I felt like Ammon in Alma 26, I just wanted to praise God for His mercy that he is always giving us. It was amazing.

Thank you so much for reading all of this... and for your prayers in my behalf. I can feel them strengthening me and changing my life and the lives of those we are teaching. I love and pray for you all! Have a wonderful week!!!

Love,

Hermana Morey

P.S. Melissa and Marisol are getting baptized either October 3rd or 10th!!! Miracles!!!!

Testifying of Christ

Buenos Dias!!!

Hello my dear family and friends! How are you doing on this lovely September morning? I hope that you all enjoyed your labor day and that you got to rest a little bit! 

This week was good. I honestly can't really remember what happened. It all seems like a blur. How does that even happen? You live through each moment but when you go back to remember it... it is just a blur. Oh well! I can tell you what I do remember!

This week we worked really really hard. Aileen had a baptismal date for the 19th and we realized that she had kind of forgotten about it. We had an AMAZING lesson with her by going through the baptismal interview questions, answering any questions that she had, and helping her realize that she is in fact ready. She told us that she knows that everything that we talk about is true. She knows it! She said that she also would get baptized but she is still worried about what her extended family and friends will think. It is hard because her 15 year old sister said that she won't talk to her again if she does get baptized etc. we know that isn't true but I don't think that Aileen realizes that. She said that she wanted a little more time to pray about it by herself and that she would let us know. We realized that she meant that she wanted to talk to her sister but we bore our testimonies and left. The next day, Sunday, she didn't come to church. I was so extremely sad. We had dinner with her family and when we asked why she didn't come she said that she didn't want to. That was when her mom saved everything. Her mom is a recent convert and it is usually hard to have lessons with her there because she can talk! However, her mom just finally stood up and said "Which hour of the church is the most important." Both girls started to think and one said the 2nd hour and the other said the 3rd. The mom just said NO and then proceeded to talk about the importance of the sacrament, all that Christ did for us, how He only asks a little of us, etc. It. was. amazing. I couldn't believe it. It was PERFECT! We still don't know when she will get baptized but now we know that her mom will help her understand the why behind it.

On Saturday night we had a lesson with Marisol and Melissa at their friend Maggie's house. We had pizza and watched Meet the Mormons while her brother made us homemade cookies and cream ice cream. It was such a good lesson and Marisol and Melissa understood a lot more about what we believe and what we sacrifice as missionaries to be here teaching them. It went really well but then they also didn't come to church on Sunday. we still haven't figured out why but we will see them tonight. Why does Satan work so hard on the best people?!?!

This week was really hard because Satan really attacked me on feeling like the worst missionary in the world. I felt like a failure and at one point I even was just praying and felt that instead of being an instrument for God to work through that I was just a hindrance. It was super hard. Then when nobody came to church it just made everything worse. However, as we went about our day yesterday litterally the only things we taught were about Jesus Christ, the Atonement, etc. I realized that is what we do as missionaries. We testify of Christ. All of the lessons are good, but the most important thing is Christ. He is why we are baptized, why we take the sacrament, why we read the Book of Mormon. As I realized that an overwhelming sense of peace just filled my whole body. Even though I am so extremly far from perfect, He chose ME to be here right now, in Fontana California, being His representative. He knows my weaknesses but he will make them strengths and I keep working hard to be better. I hope that is something that you can all realize as well. Heavenly loves us even though we make mistakes. He just invites us to come unto him so that we can overcome these weaknesses. I am so grateful for the humbling experiences on my mission because that is when I feel the most that I am relying on my savior and am becoming who God wants me to be.

Sorry for the little rant. The mission is still good! We start going on exchanges this coming week so I will let you know how that goes! I feel like an STL (sister training leader) is just a normal missionary who goes on more exchanges. :) I am excited to learn from these sisters and try to help them as well.

I hope that you have an amazing week! I love you and am sending prayers your way. Please let me know if I can do anything for you!!!

Love,

Hermanita Morey

Labor Day

Hello family and friends!!

This week has been crazy busy!! It all started with a call last Sunday from the APs. They called to let us know that not only would we be staying together but that we would be the new Sister training leaders!! We couldn't believe it. We are the first Spanish STLs In Over seven months. We are in charge of the Northern Spanish sisters and it should be really fun! Then we had the mission conference in Monday, wow. That conference was Amazing! I felt the spirit so strongly and was left with such a desire to do better with all aspects of missionary work. One thing that Elder Gaye talked about that I loved was mobilizing all missionaries. He talked about how we aren't the only missionaries in our area but that the members are as well and that we have to activate them. We have been working hard but we need ideas. What would personally help,you to want to do missionary work?

We don't want to be annoying, we just want to help people understand!

This week was also a good week with investigators. On Sunday Aileen, Marisol, and Melissa all came to church..... Not only that..... But they all came fasting for an answer to their prayers. We had amazing lessons with them this past week and they all chose to fast. It really was so amazing to know that they sincerely want an answers to their prayers.

On another note, we got 2 dinners 2 days in a row. I was so extremely full!! You know when you feel so full that you just think that you might die? Yeah. That happened 3 days in a row. Good thing it was fast Sunday! I wasn't even hungry! Speaking of fast Sunday... I was sitting in sacrament meeting when I had the feeling that I needed to go up and bear my testimony. I have never felt that in my life! I ignored it and said not today. Then Hermana Buttars turns to me and says that she had a feeling that we needed to go and bear our testimonies... Oh dear. I knew I was in trouble at that point. But we gathered up all of our courage and went up and bore our testimonies. I was still so nervous.

It went well though and my Spanish worked... Miracles!! Then after we went another elder went up to share his testimony. Afterward he said that he had the feeling to go up there but ignored  it until he saw us go up there. Then he could only think about how scared we must have been up there trying to speak in Spanish and since it is his first language he should be willing to go up there without fear. I thought that was a really cool story.

Thank you so much for everything that you are all doing for me. I love you all so very much! I hope that you have an amazing week and know that I am praying for you daily!!!

Love,

Hermana Morey

Saturday P-Day

Buenos dias mi familia! Como estan?

It feels REALLY weird to be having a p-day on a Saturday... first off, it feels like we JUST had one, and also, it actually feels like a Saturday. For example, we got up and cleaned the apartment. We all just feel a little off. 

I wish I could tell you that I knew what was happening with transfers but I have no idea! We won't find out until Monday and if I get moved I will have been there for about a week by the time I write home. However, I am hoping to stay here with Hermana Buttars! She honestly is the best companion in the world.

This week went by pretty quickly but I think that a lot of things still happened! Last week I talked a little bit about Marisol and Melisa. They are still my favorite. When we stopped by to see them this week we taught the restoration and they loved it. We asked them to read the 1st chapter of the Book of Mormon and not only did they read it by themselves, but they read it together, discussed it, and wrote down questions. They are perfect. On Thursday we had an appointment with their parents but the dad, the member, wasn't there. Usually the mom doesn't invite us in if he isn't there but she invited us in and talked to us. She told us that she really wanted a church to go to on Sundays, her family to be centered on God, and the peace of the spirit in their home. We did a how to begin teaching lesson with her to explain our purpose as missionaries and what we teach and she got really excited. She loves the fact that we are teaching her daughters as well. So now we will teach the daughters in English on one day and the mom in Spanish another day.

 Yesterday we taught Melissa and Marisol the Plan of Salvation and they got really excited to know that there is actually a purpose to this life! I realized just how sad this life would be if we didn't know that there was a purpose for all of this. Thanks to my wonderful family I have known about my purpose my whole life! I have always understood that when we go through hard times it is to help us become better, I have understood that Jesus Christ died for me so that I can live with God again.... how many people don't know that?! It made me so extremely happy to be able to share that message with them and help them see how God loves them so much that he created a plan for them. I just wish I could go and teach every single person this wonderful message. I am trying my best but I just need to wait and find the prepared people. :) I am learning so much!!!

These past couple weeks I have really been studying a lot about the Sacrament. I know why we take it, but I realized that I didn't really understand it. I was reading in the scriptures, old conference talks, etc to find anything I could about it. It has been an amazing experience for me to be able to understand the sacrament better in my life. I don't know if you remember the talk "The Sacrament and the Atonement" by Elder James Hamula but that talk really changed my understanding of the Sacrament and made it so much more real in my life. It has shown me what it means and why it is so important. It was a really cool experience. It also taught me that when we don't understand something, we can actually study it out! That is how the Lord can answer our questions. I had been praying about it and then He guided me to the answers. The sacrament is important in our lives. It is vital that we take it every week so that we not only have the opportunity to repent, but to be clean. It makes me so sad that some people deny themselves of the opportunity to take the sacrament because they are offended by someone's actions. We don't go to church just to socialize... but to become better, become clean, and serve. 

This week was a really good week. I love looking back on the mission and seeing how much I have grown. Before I knew the gospel, now because of the things that I am experiencing, I understand the Gospel. I can apply it a lot more in my life because I understand why these things are so important. I hope that each and every one of you have time to remember, and understand why these things are important to you.

I hope that you have an amazing week! Thank you so much for the package and the really cute shirt!!!!

I love you all so very much!

Love,

Hermanita Morey 

UPDATE: We found out that this transfer she and her companion were named the new Sister Training Leaders!

"Umm say hello to the brand new Sister Training Leaders!! First Spanish STLs in 7 months!"

Following the Spirit

Buenos dias!!! Como estan? Como fue su semana?

So... where did August go? I feel like it is still June. I feel like I say that every week but time just seems to keep getting faster and faster. I can't believe that today I hit my 15 month mark and that I will fly home in just 3 months. Didn't I just get here? I feel like there is so much to do before then!

Before I forget.... I will NOT  be emailing next week!!! We are having a mission conference with Elder Gay so our P-day got moved to THIS Saturday. So I will have 2 preparations days this week and none next week. I feel like I am back in the MTC. Do you remember how weird that schedule was? I just wanted to remind you so that you can email for Saturday. :)

This week has been a really good week! I feel like I have learned and grown so much. I get a lot of questions on how I am doing and how is my companion. She is wonderful. Seriously, she is one of my favorites. We both just try and find ways to serve each other and it gets a little crazy sometimes. For example, I have made it a habit to get make her bed all ready before she goes to bed, I have time because she always showers at night. However, last week she did mine for me. So, last night I unmade them both and then quickly went to grab something. When I walked back in I was surprised to see that she had actually made my bed. As in, how I would make in the morning. For some reason it was so extremely funny that we laughed for a good ten minutes. I think she really enjoyed the look of confusion on my face. I love her so much and really hope that we get to spend another transfer together. She is a great missionary and she has taught me so much about making sure we use our time 100% effectively. I can't even express in words how much I have loved this transfer.

This week I have also learned a lot about listening to the spirit. There have been several times when I have felt the need to do something and then talked myself out of it.... and then things went really badly. For example. We have one investigator named Jesus. He is 25 and he is super smart and really nice. However, he is addicted to Alcohol. When I first met him he was drunk for about 2 weeks. It was really sad. However, he completely turned around decided to build up his life and then... Friday. We decided to stop by and visit him on Friday and he wasn't there. So we called him to make sure he wasn't there before we left, he answered and sounded nervous and said that he was with his "homeboys." That didn't sound good. I had a very strong feeling to say "Jesus, DON"T DO IT!!!" However, I told myself, he is doing well, he would get super offended if I said that... etc. So, I didn't say any of it. The next day he called us SUPER drunk. I was so upset with myself. We saw him that night and he was a little better and I had a good talk with him. I could feel the love that the savior has for him and then I felt that God was disappointed in me for not following a prompting. I felt terrible. Then yesterday, we had an appointment with Aileen and Natalie. We confirmed it, we were super excited. So, Aileen is 17 and wants to get baptized, Natalie is 15 and doesn't like mormons. She is super nice to us but doesn't want to listen, their mom is a recent convert. Yesterday we got a text from Natalie saying that they weren't going to be home so we shouldn't show up. (Usually she is super nice so we didn't think anything of it.) We both had a feeling that we should text the mom and make sure but we talked ourseves out of it by saying, they would be offended that we are doubting Natalie, etc. At 8:45, over an HOUR after our appointment the mom called and asked why we didn't show up. I felt terrible. I couldn't believe that I had ignored 2 major promptings of the spirit. Last night I prayed for so long pleading for forgiveness and I realized that I had my President Monson moment and committed myself to never ignore a prompting no matter how bold, or weird it may be. 

Yesterday was also good because we had a lesson with Marisol and Melissa. They are 21 and 17 and they are the BEST!!!! They are so interested in learning and they are the most prepeared people that I have ever met. I love them so much. They listen sincerely, they pray sincerely, and they believe that this is true. I have never felt the spirit so strongly in a lesson in my whole mission. I love knowing that God and his angels are preparing the people before we even talk to them. I know that there are so many people helping us on the other side that I feel God loves so often in the mission. I can't explain it but it is the best feeling in the whole world!!! I wish everyone could feel this way. I just feel so good!!!!

I am sorry this is a little long and I ranted a little bit. I hope it helped you as much as it helped me! I love this Gospel. I know that it is true and that it is the only way that we can have lasting happiness. I am so excited to keep learning and doing the work of my master. 

I hope you all had a wonderful week. if there is ANYTHING that I can do for you please let me know!!! I send all of my love from here in SoCal!!

Love always,

Hermanita Morey

Zone Champion

Malo e lelei!!!

Yes, I speak Tongan. Didn't you know? Fefe hake?  How are you doing?! I can't believe that August is already half way over! You probably didn't knotice but I accidentally typed in May and then caught my mistake and fixed it.. awkward! 

This week has been really really good! To start out, I went on Exchanges and I got to go to the Tongan ward with Sister Peterson! It was a blast. Everyone was super nice and I learned how to say a couple phrases in Tongan. I am super not good at them but it was fun. I also got to try Lamb. I think the best part though was the fact that we got to leave the mission boundaries! Since the Tongan area is HUGE it covers up to Moreno Valley. I never thought it would be so exciting to leave the area but Riverside is pretty nice.  It was an exchange full of experiences. Sister Peterson is one of the most loving people that I have ever met and is really good at making everyone feel loved and that she is genuinely interested in you. I really need to work on that!

Also, today we had a really fun P-Day. We get to play Zone sports once a transfer and we did that today! This was my first time because my other zones haven't done it. We played soccer outside but it was too hot so we went into the Stake Center and played Chair soccer. It was so much fun! We were all just running around and laughing. It was good exercise! I am also please to announce that the last two people in were my companion and I and she let me win. :) She is the best. I love her so much! so now I can say that I am the Zone Champion at chair soccer. 

This week we had a mini missionary for a day! It was a last minute thing but on Tuesday night our roommates got home and told us that we would be having one of President Van Cott's niece come out with us on a day long "mini-mission." Her name was Adria. She is from Utah and is 17 years old. She came and did studies with us and then came to a couple lessons. it was a lot of fun to have her and we really hope that she enjoyed her experience... It was a little odd having her because she was in jeans and was really shy so she didn't talk much. However, she was a really good sport about everything and made it a fun day.

This week has been my miracle week. I have been praying very hard that we might be able to find people to teach and in one day we found 3 people who live on one street who have all been prepared by the Lord. We had great conversations with them and even though they said that they aren't interested right now, I know we made a difference in their lives. All of them were super friendly and told us to come back whenever we wanted. It was amazing because it showed me that the Lord really does have control of His work. Things don't happen in my timetable... but in His. Doesn't that make more sense? Why do I always want things to happen in my time?! 

Also, our investigators area progressing really well!!! We have an investigator named Bishop who is 17 and not religious at all. however, this week he was really able to notice how the Lord has been preparing him to accept the gospel and be baptized even though his family makes fun of him for being religious. Another investigator named Aileen had a dream that she and her sister died. They went to the other world and got a card. They were super happy because they got the same card until they saw that everyone else around them had a magical card. They had something that Aileen didn't. Unfortunately in her dream she had to go to what she thought was Hell. She woke up super scared and had a very strong feeling that she needed to work harder to find out if our church is true or not. Now she is reading the Book of Mormon, praying daily, coming to church, etc. She wants to get baptized but is worried because she knows her extended family will make fun of her.

I am so extremely grateful for a family that supports and loves me. I can't even imagine going through what they are going through. They are youth but they are so much stronger than I am. We are really trying to help them notice the answers to their prayers and helping them recognize the spirit. This work is amazing!!!! There is really nothing else that I would rather be doing right now. I would wish that it were 20 degrees colder... but I can live with this.

Ofa Lahi Atu! I love you all so very much. I hope you know that I know that this church is true. I would not still be here if it wasn't. I hope that you all have a wonderful week! You are all such great examples to me. :)

Happy Birthday Zack!!! I hope you have a great day!!! I know it isn't until Sunday... but... I get to be the first to say it!!!

Love always,

Hermana Clarissa Morey

Menudo

Hello family and friends!!

How are you on this beautiful August afternoon? Happy birthday mom!!! I hope that you are having a wonderful day and that you get plenty of "Love mom time" from the girls. 

This week has been really good! It has been a little hard but overall it has gone well. We have continued trying to contact people and we even almost had luck with one of them! She invited us back and then found out that we were LDS not Christian, and then didn't want us to come over. We talked to her for a little bit about our religion and she basically called us false prophets. For some reason I wasn't mad, or upset. Just sad. I was sad because she was so nice and I wanted her to be able to have the gospel in her life. I felt sad that she was turning it down. 

This week we had some really good food. We had Papusas, sopes, and Seviche. Seviche is a dish where they cut up shrip, and other fish, and cook it in lemon. then they mix it with cucumbers, onions, cilantro, tapatio sauce, etc. It is SO good!!!! It is one of my favorite things that we eat over here. I need to learn to make Mexican food. 

So, fun experience of the week.... Actually I wouldn't use the world fun for this one... In spanish the phrase "a menudo" means often. However, the word Menudo means a soup with boiled cow stomach in broth. I was super excited because I had made it through my WHOLE mission without eating it. Most people understand that we don't like food like that, however, yesterday was when it all changed when a bowl of menudo was placed in front of me. So, one thing I have learned in the mission is that you eat everything whether it was good or not. However, it was the worst thing I have ever eaten. I would rather sit there with everyone putting there feet all over me than to try and eat it again. I think the texture was the worst part. One side of it was fuzzy, almost like tongue. Ugh. It was the only time that I didn't eat most of it. I did try, but in the end it just made me throw up. I felt so bad! We told the story to some members and they just laughed and laughed! It is really funny to look back on! Hermana Buttars couldn't even try a piece of it. It is super funny now. :)

We need people to teach. That was the theme of the week. Some of our investigators asked us to stop coming, others just aren't progressing, etc. We are working so hard to find people to teach. Some people may think that is because we want more baptisms. that is not true. We want others to be able to have the happiness that we have seen in our life. That has been something that has really stood out to me this week. We aren't here to tell people that they are wrong, and that we are right. We just testify to them of what we have done, and felt, and that we know is true. We literally just try and guide them to be able to have their own personal relationship with God. That is the most important part of missionary work. We want people to know that they have a loving Father in Heaven. I hope that you all know that as well!!

I am so happy here. As much as I miss all of you I absolutely love serving the Lord. Is there really anything better than I could be doing right now? I know that this work is true. I know that God loves each one of us and that he will always be there to fight our battles. Sometimes we try and fight them alone, however, he will always be waiting until we are ready to let him help us. 

I hope you all have an amazing week!!!!

Love,

Hermanita Morey