Hi, Hi, Hi!

Hello, lovely people! :)

Yep! I made it to the lovely, flat land of Ohio!! :) it really is very beautiful here!! :) let's start off talking about my trainer. Sister Gibson is amazing!! :) she's been out for 10 months, she's super funny, she is encouraging, she's a great teacher, and she's got amazing curly hair. It has been great getting to know her and learn from her! :) she has left me really nice and encouraging notes on random objects the past few days, which has made adjusting a lot easier. :) small tender mercies! We are in an area called Dublin. Let me set the scene for you. Okay, so picture yourself walking around the neighborhoods up around the Draper temple, add humidity, take away the temple and the church and members, take away mou rains and replace them with ginormous trees. Congrats! You're in Dublin, Ohio!! :) most of our area is like that. Haha I think 90% of the houses we knock on are owned by multi millionaires. So you can guess what happens when they open their door to see two missionaries smiling ear to ear at them. They frown, ask us what we want, then say to go away. It is so sad seeing people reject something so amazing!!! :( they this k they have everything they could ever want, but they have no idea what they are missing! :( it is heartbreaking when they answer their doors and tell you that they know enough about Christ, and for us to go away. You can never know enough of Christ!! Haha I'm starting to understand what missionaries mean when they say that they wish they could take people's agency away lol! THERE have been some people who will smile and listen to us, though! :) it's amazing when they do, because you can see in their eyes when the Spirit touches them. :) I'm so excited to find a millionaire that will accept Christ's message of happiness that we have to share with them. :) I know they are out there somewhere!! :) we do have some pretty poor areas in our area too, I'll tell a story about that area now :)

we are helping re activate a couple right now, and they are absolutely AMAZING!!! THEIR names are Tracy and Travis Hamm, and I could seriously go on and on about them! Travis grew up a member, and Tracy got baptized about three years ago. Unfortunately Tracy's family is extremely anti Mormon, and that caused some contention, and caused them to stop going to church. They have been visited by home teachers and visiting teachers and missionaries for the past few years, and have started coming back to church!! :D they said TO sister Gibson and me on saturday that they had talked to each other and decided that if they came back to church, they were coming back for good. :) they both quit smoking a week ago, and their countenances are SO bright!! Mom, if you heard the prayer Travis offered during our lesson with them you would have cried your eyes out!! ;) he was so sincere in expressing his love and gratitude for Heavenly Father and for all the missionaries. He is a super funny and sarcastic dude, but holy cow...his prayer was probably the most amazing prayer I have ever heard!! They both bear testimony all the time of how grateful they are for Heaven,y Father. :) it was so funny listening to Tracy as she was talking about her new dresses. She said, "we don't have any money to buy church clothes, so I just thought I was gonna wear my nicest jeans to church! Then mom came home with five dresses from the food pantry!! They never in all my years here have had dresses in my size!! Someone complimented me on this one and I said to them, 'thanks, Heavenly Father gave it to me.'" Haha it was so sweet!! They have seen Heavenly Father's hand in their lives multiple times every single day!! (They are in their 40s, but Tracy's mom lives with them:)) they are so happy to be coming back to church, regardless of family disapproval :) we are going over on Wednesday to teach them about family history so they can find names to take to the temple in a mknfh!! They are so excited, and so happy. I'll have to ask if I can take a picture of them so you all can see for yourselves how much they glow. :)

Also, I want to let you all know how hard it is to ride a bike in a skirt!! Haha it is waaay harder than you would think! At least way harder than I thought it would be 😂😂 it is very fun at the same time, and people look at you like you're completely crazy...which is not all false. ;) 

Ohio is wonderful!:) I really love it here, and am so so happy! :) thanks everyone for all of your prayers!! :) I hope you all have a happy week!! Love you all! 

Love,

Sister Morris