Where to begin?? I guess I'll start off talking about our new Mission President, President Stratford. He is from Ogden, and is super friendly!! When I got set apart one of the blessings I was promised was that my mission President and I would have a good relationship...already I can see that to be true. :) his wife, Sister Stratford, is also incredibly sweet!! Haha they both cry really easily, so we will definitely have that in common. ;) they bore amazing testimonies when we met them, and they said how very excited they were to be here with us in the Great OCM. Well, President Stratford has already had inspiration that has been a HUGE blessing. He was extremely impressed with how obedient all the missionaries are, and felt very jjmpressed that the adversary was working his butt off on us to get us discouraged, tempt us to be disobedient, etc. He felt very strongly that in order to help give us strength, our apartments needed to be rededicated. Wow...words cannot explain the difference that made. The priesthood is sooo amazing!! After that happened, Sister Gibson and I realized how much Satan had been affecting us even in our apartment! The Spirit has been so much stronger in here since it was re dedicated, and we have not been getting as discouraged when facing so much rejection everyday. :) so that was the first miracle that happened this week! Thank goodness for inspired mission presidents! :)
On the fourth we helped with the parade! :) haha I thought we were going to be handing out balloons to little kids...nope. We were holding those ginormous balloons!! Haha it was SO hard!!! 😂 not at all what we were expecting, but it was still very fun. :) every time members saw us they would freak out. That's probably what it feels like to be a missionary in Utah haha ;) after the parade we came back to our apartment and fought a very intense battle...with the bed bugs. Don't worry, we won!! :) it was pretty nasty, but thankfully they hadn't multiplied too much so it wasn't impossible to exterminate them. :) that was another tender mercy! :)
The work here is going pretty slowly, but we are trying everything we can to find those who are prepared!! :) Sister Gibson has been here for 3 transfers already, and has found a few prepared souls! Unfortunately their spouses are very much not prepared. :( it's a lot of heartbreak that you experience in Dublin, because you find someone who seems like they're genuinely interested in learning more, and then they drop you. :( good news though! We have an investigator named Brenden, and are planning on teaching him tkmorrow!! He had to reschedule the lesson from last week, so we are really hoping he doesn't again! I'm excited to see at least a little conversion in him. :) he told us when we met him, "yeah, I'm actually interested in investigating your church." Ahhh!!! Please don't lose that desore!! Our investigators in Plain City are doing well! We had a lesson with them on Saturday! It was the first planned lesson that I helped teach! :)) we taught them the restoration, and they liked it a lot. :) they said that they felt really good as we were teaching, and Charlie, the 7 year old girl said that she wants to come to church to meet other girls her age! :) Carol and Josh are still a little hesitant in going to church, but we have faith that their desire will grow as they learn more by the Spirit.:)
During our companionship study yesterday, Sister Gibson and I were talking about how we feel like Dublin is sooo close to experiencing a miracle of baptism, but we felt like something more needed to happen. Sister Gibson immediately remembered a talk that someone had sent to her about a missionary who did a 40 day fast, and was given a lot of added strength. We read it and felt very strongly that we needed to do a 40 day fast. Don't worry, it's not from food, ;) we made a list of different things that take our mind off of missionary work throughout the week, and have made commitments to fast from those things. :) it was crazy because as soon as we started the fast we felt a stronger spirit, but we also felt Satan trying even harder to get us down. We went out tracting and for no reason at all I was sad and Sister Gibson was frustrated. After about 20 minutes of almost complete silence between the two of us and everyone telling us they didn't want to talk, we said a prayer. I realized that the reason we were randomly feeling that way was because of the devil. After the prayer was said, we were given a new sense of strength. :) also, almost everyone else the rest of the night was super friendly to us! (Another tender mercy:)) haha it was funny, because we ran into a man that we had met last week who was not super kind, and he had an incredibly friendly conversation with us!! :) he said that he was even happy that we talked to him again. :) it was just an awesome moment realizing how God works...He helped us become much happier and we were able to help that man feel a sense of peace and happy (aka the spirit) and he was able to cheer us up as well! It's amazing seeing how God places people in your path every single day for you to help them, and for them to help you. :)
Sorry this email is so long!! This week was very good...hard, but good. :) thank you all for your prayers!! They help every minute of every day. :) I love you all!! Have an amazing week wherever you are in the world!! 😊 enjoy the summer heat!!
Love,
Sister Morris
PS
Another tender mercy is that almost every member family feeds us watermelon...it is glorious 😊🍉
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