Wednesday, January 5, 2011

The Church is true in the 3rd world. August 2, 2010

So I was in fast and testimony meeting yesterday and it was probably the most spiritual of my life. So testimonies here are so precious. There so simple, eloquent, and beautiful. They don't tell stories here. They just get up and tell a sweet experience or just say what they believe and sit down. First Sonia talked about how grateful she was the missionaries knocked on her door the week before she started chemo therapy. Then another brother talked about how he was dieing from obesity, and prayed to God for the help he needed when the missionaries came to him. Five years later 150 pounds less. The next a mother crying of how proud she is that her 8 year old son who was about to get baptized had his own personal testimony and the gospel.

When I first got here I remember the awkwardly dressed congregations, and unfilled presidencies in all the quorums and two priest in the whole ward, and no elders quorums and tons of things. I remember saying "the Church is so much less true here."

As I choked back tears in the sacrament meeting as people got up with less then 6 months knowing the true Church and crying about how much it changed there lives I received a great change. "The Church is so much more true here. And that's because this whole country needs it." I know the gospel blesses people, families, lives and countries more then anything else, and I am so glad to be here helping people, The Church is true... and I dare say perhaps a little more here in the 3rd world.
Thanks. Love Elder Morris

Very Third World Lately July 26, 2010

So things in Honduras have been... well... very third world lately. My mission credit card wasn't working so I went broke (now it works so we are better) I think I am getting sick, The current mosquito carried dengae virus is now an official epidemic, and on Sunday morning some one was shot and killed in the street. It is very normal in Honduras, but usually it is not less than a block from my house in front of my favorite area pastry store. So that was kinda of sketchy...

However besides that I had a great week. My companion had to go to a bunch of training meetings, so I got to go in a triple with two other elders. They were having paper work problems so we just went all over the place the whole week traveling and joking. To finish it all off Friday I got to go to a wedding in a little tourist town like two hours a way in a car. A Mini-van! I can't remember the last time I got in a mini-van. So I just got to play like the whole week and didn't even have to feel guilty about it!!! So awesome.

Oh, so I heard we are getting hit with some tropical storms, so yesterday I was walking back to the house to eat dinner with my companion when all of the sudden we just see a gigantic cloud come tumbling over the mountains and begin to swallow Teguc whole! We take off running for the house. It was just a giant white wall of water. We got to the house in time to escape what was the sky literally falling. Roads to rivers in like 3 minutes. It was crazy, and they said more like that is coming... vamos a ver.

I am trying so hard to change myself, and become better. I am finally seeing some real progress and I am grateful for that. I am praying for a real change of heart and I hope one day to achieve that dream. I am so grateful to my Heavenly Father for this chance to find myself, and find out who I need to be. I do feel bad sometimes cause I didn't come to the mission prepared very well at all, and I am not that good at being a missionary, but I am trying and I know my Heavenly Father loves and is patient with me. My hope is is that yesterday in church some one was talking about how sometimes when we change we are the last ones to realize or see our own change. I just hope that's true.

Amen, Elder Morris

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Bus Contact July 12, 2010

I contacted a bus! You stand in front of like 80 people talking while the bus speeds around at neck breaking speeds and give your testimony and hand stuff out. It was very cool to have done.