Mission stories for days :)

Hello family!!!

This week has been so amazing!!! SOO many answers to prayers this week!! Get ready for some stories!!!! 

So starting off with where we left off last week,

Monday night we had our FHE lesson with Russells which was incredible as usual. We watered plants in their yard with Kloe before our lesson and got to hold their baby bunnies!! Kloe also gave us an invitation to her baptism on the 22nd!!! 

We had a lesson about our "Spiritual CPR"! We had their son, Lincoln, do push ups and then had him pretend one hand is Church, the other is Prayer and his feet are Reading the Scriptures. We told him to take one hand out and try to do push ups and he realized very quickly how hard it is. We have to have all three in our life! I know that for me on my mission, those three things have been key for me. I am so grateful for the peace and guidance that comes into my life when I focus on reading the scriptures and praying.

On Tuesday night we had the coolest lesson with our friend, Julia, and her friends! It's so hard to describe what even happened but the girls had just gotten home when we got there from doing a homecoming proposal, sooo they were pretty hyped and going crazy. haha. Sister Baggett and I were wondering how in the world we were going to bring the Spirit there enough for the lesson and calm everyone down. haha. We decided to just start the lesson. Julia offered the opening prayer and then we started teaching them about the Restoration. We shared with them our testimonies of how much God loves all of us and then told them or prophets in the past who have led people and have helped them to feel of God's love by giving them the gospel of Jesus Christ to live to be able to feel of that love the most. We were teaching them of how this priesthood authority that the ancient prophets had was lost and people were confused and then shared with them the story of Joseph Smith. He was trying to find out what church to join and he said a prayer and asked God which was correct. He then saw a pillar of light exactly over his head above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon him. When the light rested upon him, he saw two personages whose brightness and glory defied all description. Standing above him in the air, one of them spake unto him, calling him by name, and said, "this is My Beloved Son, Hear Him!"   ... The Spirit was so strong. I know that each of you were able to feel a portion of that peace that filled the room during this lesson with these girls. "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance." I came to know that that is so true Tuesday evening. I was thinking of each of these teenage girls during this lesson. That night for the very first time they were getting the opportunity to hear and feel this message that brings me so much PEACE and JOY. I literally cannot even imagine where my life would be right now without this gospel. It is so precious to me. I hope that you and I will never forget the peace that this gospel brings into our lives. 

We got transfer calls Wednesday morning and Sister Baggett and I get to stay together for her last transfer!! and then.. it will be mine. so crazy! I do not feel like I have been a missionary for over 16 months. We said goodbye to our friend Sister Linda Petey Wednesday morning at Departure Breakfast at the VC and then had our Jail farewell that evening. Costumes and all! They also transferred the elders out of our ward and closed down their area, which is super sad!! I loved finally having elders in our ward for those short 6 weeks! ha. 

Thursday morning, Sister Baggett and I got to take the new missionaries through the jail, aka, I got to see SISTER DRAPER!!! I only accidentally called her by her first name in front of President ONCE! haha. we are still adjusting :) It is so fun having her here in the mission. She is such an incredible person and missionary. She is also starting her mission in the Celestial Kingdom, aka Independence 4th ward <3  I love that ward with my whole heart.  I am still praying that we can be comps next transfer!  

We had an awesome Friday Service Day again :) They are becoming a weekly thing which is awesome. We scrubbed a members kitchen floors with her in the afternoon and it was so fun! Sister White is the best! We also helped our Relief Society President, Sister Jensen, set up for the neighborhood barbecue they were having Saturday night, which was awesome!!!!!!!  This family is seriously they best member missionaries ever!!!!  They have been telling us about this neighborhood barbecue that they were having and they have been making sure that we can make it for weeks. We have been super pumped for it. There were like 70-80 people at their house that night. Half were members of the ward and others were their neighbors. It was perfect for us to be able to get to know others in the community. We made sure to plan to get our food last so we could pick who we wanted to sit by out in the backyard and we sat by their next door neighbor and literally, every other neighbor of theirs that weren't members came and sat at our table and we got to get to know them all! It was literally so inspired. The barbecue was awesome! They had an awesome smore bar there too! :) The members in this ward are literally so incredible at missionary work and just living the gospel. They just get it. I hope to be like them one day. 

One of my favorite stories this week is about a sister in the ward who is also amazing at missionary work. She was fasting a part of our Ward 40 day fast to be able to have missionary opportunities. She texted us and said, "ps. I just totally had an awesome missionary moment handed to me and I botched it. Insert sad emoji" So we asked her what happened and basically she was at a yard sale and got talking to the woman about how she has a big family and so does this member and at the end the woman says to the member, hey do you know of any churches around here, we just moved here and we need a church to go to. OKAY GOLDEN.

So this missionary moment was right in her face and it just shocked her!! Hahaha so she stuttered out an "I'm ..uh... Mormon...and we go to the church by ... the temple..." she goes why would I said I'm Mormon first thing!?!? And we don't even actually go to the church by the temple either, we go to another building...well this is awkward.  She was like I don't even know what I was saying and it just got so awkward and I know she thought I was crazy so I just got her number and decided I needed to fix it later!! Hahaha so later on in the week she invited her family over for a movie night on the lawn and they came! She told us how this lady was telling her husband where she was going that night and her husband (who had to work late) was like, you met this girl for three minutes on our driveway and now you want to go over to her house with our kids?! Haha. The lady told her husband that for some reason, she just felt really strongly that she needed to go over and she wasn't sure why. (Aka, already following spiritual promptings!!) And they're also having a play date today! So if you ask her it wasn't the best contact ever...hahaha but that's why it's Heavenly Father's work and not ours!:) He definitely makes up for our mistakes. So keep trying everyone!!

Before the barbecue on Saturday, we went to another baptism in KC1. Joyce got baptized!!!! It was such a special day. After she was baptized, she was walking out of the font and she just said, "I'm so happy!" It was the sweetest thing. We met Joyce like a month before I left Kansas City and she has been so prepared for the gospel ever since. She was actually introduced to the church by members in her old town. She met some members like 2 weeks before she moved and she just never stops talking about them. The light that they had and how they helped her organize her move (which is when we met her). It is so amazing to see the influence that we can have on others by simply being an example to them! 

Anyways, that's all I got for you all this week. Keep living the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is how we can obtain the most happiness! I promise!! :)

Love, 

Sister Morgan 

Picture time! 

- first four pictures are from the Russell's ❤️ t-11 days till Kloe's and mine birthday!!

- departure breakfast when we found out we got to stay together!!!!! Yessss!!!!

- selfie with the new missionaries on their second day in Missouri! (I spy Sister Draper!)

- SISTER DRAPER in person!!! 

- Joyce ❤️

- Liz showed up to the baptism in kc :) 

- smores at the barbecue on Saturday!! 

 

Conference Weekend!!!

Hello family!

This week has been so full of miracles!! Where do I even begin?! First, I am so grateful to be a missionary. I love every second of serving the Lord full time. 

Monday evening we had our FHE lesson with the Russell family. We taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ to their family. Kloe who is 7 years old is getting baptized on October 22nd! And we found out that is a day after her birthday!!!! Aka birthday buddies ☺️  I have learned so much from this family. I love them. 

Tuesday we had a huge miracle! We have been praying and praying and fasting and fasting to find people to teach in our area for weeks and we are teaching another active family the lessons, the Marbles. We went over to their house Tuesday evening for dinner and Julia Marble, who is a junior in high school, texted us and said she was goi to bring two of her friends home from cheer practice to introduce to us. She comes strolling in a little after we got there with FOUR friends! We had such a fun visit with them. Sister Baggett and I got a taste of how clueless we are about worldly things. Haha. I still can't believe you don't have to press and hold a snap to watch it. Lol. Afterwards we had a lesson with them about the Book of Mormon and they were so excited to start reading it! They were trying to make it to conference yesterday but things came up. We are seeing them all tomorrow though. 

On Wednesday we had district meeting! Sister Baggett gave such a good training on this talk called "The Tongue of Angels" by Elder Holland. I seriously recommend all of you to read it. It is so good! It was given in the April 2007 conference. The Spirit was so strong during her training and it inspired me to to pay more attention to the words I say to others but mostly the thoughts that I say to myself. 

All weekend we did so much service. It was so awesome and so many miracles. We cleaned some houses, helped with some piano lessons, did some painting and gardening. It was awesome!

Conference was so amazing as well. We went to our favorite families' houses to watch conference. We ate breakfast at the Russell's house yesterday morning and watched the morning session there and then went to the Marbles for the afternoon session! 

I have so many pictures from this week so I will end it off there because you all probably like the pictures better anyways :)

Love you all so much!! I hope you enjoyed conference weekend and received the inspiration, guidance, and answers that you needed. Check out lds.org to catch up on sessions you missed! :)

Also, shout out to Sister Draper who will be in the MIM on WEDNESDAY!!!! Everyone pray that she serves at the jail her first transfer!! :)

Sister Morgan

Pictures!

- the coolest zone with our awesome new zone shirts! Pre frisbee game :)

- temple baptisms with Royce and Gabriella from Olathe. Sister Baggett taught Royce and this was his first time doing baptisms 

- Sister Flake and all of her companions past and present! Haha

- our new friends! Aka the Marbles and Julia's friends :)

- Liberty District!

- picnic in our kitchen for dinner!

- KC Mudhole BBQ for dinner with the White family. Their family is the best. Never seen boys with better manners than theirs. They have the cutest southern accent too

- breakfast at the Russell's!!! (Brother and Sister Russell are on the right :) 

- the breakfast :) so yummy!!

- conference with the Marbles... our besties :)

- conference Polaroids thanks to Julia Marble :) 

I owe to my mission..

This week has been amazing as well! Seriously, I just love being a missionary. I cannot believe how fast time is going. It is making me so sad but I am loving every second that I have left of serving the Lord here in Missouri. 

Last Monday, we had our FHE lesson with the Russell's. I absolutely love that family so much. We taught them the first part of the plan of salvation and are going over tonight to finish it up :)

On Wednesday we had interviews with President and Sister Vest during our district meeting. I feel so incredibly blessed to be serving in this mission with the Vests. Yesterday, they brought all their extended family into the jail in the evening and I got to take them through on a presentation! I have learned so much from both of them and know that I needed to be in this mission because of them.  Yesterday, there was a couple from Shoal Creek Valley that we were starting to teach before I left that came into the jail too! They came in with one of my favorite families! It was so much fun to go through the jail with them. The wife of the family came up to me afterwards and said that she has been through the history presentation at the jail countless times but never understood the history as well as this time when I took them through. That is huge coming from her if only you knew. Haha. So yesterday was very good! 

Thursday we went on exchanges with the sisters in the Liberty 1st Ward and are done with exchanges for the rest of the transfer now. I was with Sister Anderson in Doniphan! She is such an amazing missionary!! That morning, Sister Baggett and I both gave trainings at TMTM. I gave a training on the miracle of a mission. I jus talked about what being a successful missionary means and then I quoted some of the talk by Elder Holland called "The Miracle of a Mission". This is one of the parts of his talk that has been meaning so much to me recently...

"In two years my life was changed forever and forever and forever. Everything I hold dear, everything I cherish in one way or another, I owe to the experience that converged from my childhood, my lovely parents, and my good home. Converged and passed into my soul on a mission. Everything — my marriage to Sister Holland, my children, the fact that they have been on missions and all married in the temple and now are raising children to go on missions and be married in the temple, my education, and my chance to have a profession in education, my church assignments—everything that has ever blessed me I owe to the gospel, collectively, broadly, and to my mission specifically."

I can't even begin to describe how true that is. Here was an elder who served out here like a year ago that said "everyone says that missions change you. Missions do not change you, the Atonement of Jesus Christ changes you. The mission is just a greenhouse for the Atonement to take place". I am so grateful for this little greenhouse that I get to live in for these 18 months to help shape who I need to be. 

Yesterday, we were also asked to help in primary by telling the kids how we prepared for missions and we came in a little early and got to listen to end of their singing time and they were singing the song, "Gethsemane". It was the sweetest thing ever. The chorus of the song goes like this: 

Gethsemane, Jesus loves me, so he went willingly to Gethsemane. 

The strongest battle that ever was done. The hardest fight that ever had won. 

The fight was won by Jesus. Gethsemane, Jesus loves me. 

So he gives willingly, in Gethsemane. 

I am so grateful for my Savior. I am grateful for His Grace and for His love for ALL of us. 

Saturday, we had some awesome opportunities to do some service before our shift at the jail. We did lots of gardening and cleaning! I love getting to do service. Our bishop was talking last week to us about the importance of serving and letting others serve you. He said that one the most meaningful home teaching visits was when his home teacher asked what he could do for him and the bishop told him he had to do a lot of lawn mowing to do and asked if he could come help for his home teaching visit. So, instead of a formal family lesson, they mowed lawns together! He said there were two very important needed things that made this one of his best home teaching experiences... 1. his home teacher caring enough to serve him/letting him know that and 2. him allowing his home teacher to serve him.  Letting other serve us keeps us humble and also allows others to receive the blessings of service. I am not the best at letting my companion, friends, others serve me but I love serving others. I have been realizing more and more that others need to be able to feel that love and peace of serving too and I can help others to feel that Christlike spirit! 

Picture time! We took like no pictures this week, so this is all there is. Haha 

Exchanges!

My sweet companion 😍

Sister Morgan

Thank goodness for Grace!

Hello family!

This week has been a crazy one. We had two exchanges, MLC, zone
training, TMTM (Thursday Morning Training Meeting) at the jail, shifts
at the jail, etc. I love these weeks though. I feel like it is during
all of this that we get to experience Grace - the enabling power of
the Atonement of Jesus Christ. We are able to do things that we would
not be able to do on our own.

Monday night after our intense game of frisbee with our zone, we went
to a members home to teach FHE :) it's the Russell family and I just
love them. We were praying of how we can help the members and we
wanted to teach the missionary lessons to a few active families and we
felt super prompted to start with their family. We taught the
Restoration and the Spirit was so strong. It was so cool, before we
started teaching the lesson, we were just getting to know their family
better etc and Sister Baggett told them how we didn't really know why
we needed to be there but we just felt like we needed to be there.
Brother and Sister Russell looked over at each other and just smiled
and then said, "there is definitely a reason why you are here". they
said they would tell us afterwards (ps.. Still haven't found out.
Biggest cliffhanger ever). The lesson was so led by the Spirit. I love
sharing the Restoration to members. The Spirit is just so powerful and
my testimony of this gospel is strengthened so much. We were talking
about the importance of prophets and how grateful we are to have
prophets back on the earth because of the Restoration and I was
thinking about what President Monson said in April. I love that he
said that "if we choose Christ, we will have always made the correct
choice". That is so true! I am so grateful for that I know the purpose
of this life. It has helped me to know why my choices are important
and what choices I need to make in order to live with my family after
this life with our loving Heavenly Father.

So Tuesday we went on exchanges with the sisters in Liberty 2nd Ward.
I was with Sister Peterson for the exchange. She is so incredible! I
learned so much from her. I think e biggest thing I learned from her
was about prayer. It is always a good reminder that when we pray, we
are literally communicating with Heavenly Father. I am so grateful for
the love that I feel from Him when I pray sincerely. That love is so
needed to have confidence in ourselves, and not confidence based on
worldly standards but inner confidence because we know God loves us
and we are his daughters and sons.

Wednesday we had MLC and wow! I missed MLC last transfer. Those
meetings have had such an impact on my life. President Vest talked
about the importance of the desires of our heart at MLC. I was reading
this scripture in the Book of Mormon earlier in the week that talks
about why our desires are so important. Enos 1:12 says "And it came to
pass that after I had prayed and labored with all diligence, the Lord
said unto me: I will grant unto thee according to thy desires, because
of thy faith." If we have righteous desires, we will accomplish
righteous things and same for the opposite. It is so important that we
are centered on Christ.

Friday we double zone trained in independence. Haha. Meaning we
trained at a zone training from 9:30-12:30 and then again at
3:30-6:30. So spiritually exhausting but it was so good. So the first
meeting, I trained on Grace and how the ought the Atonement of Jesus
Christ we can truly change and become better. It is something I am
super passionate about. I am so grateful for my Savior because He has
enabled me to become more than I could have become on my own. Anyways,
so we were about 30 minutes into the second zone training, and I did
not feel good about giving that same training to this second group of
missionaries which is what I had planned on doing. So... That
completely freaked me out but I followed the Spirit and got up and
just relied on the Spirit to tell me what this second group of
missionaries needed to know and feel about the Atonement. I love the
feeling of feeling the Spirit work through me. Even though it was
terrifying to get up and train with nothing prepared, I am so grateful
that I did that. The Spirit was so strong and whatever I said
(literally can't even remember) was needed for that different group I
guess! I love being a missionary long story short.

Saturday, we went on another exchange. We went with the Shoal Creek
Valley sisters. I went with Sister Eraso, a new missionary who has
been out two weeks, and I got to go back to my old area! Sister Eraso
is such an incredible missionary. She loves serving others. It was
definitely exchange that was inspired. I love her dearly.

Church on Sunday was amazing as always. I can't tell you how much we
need the sacrament and the whole sabbath day to renew us! I love it.
Also, I can't remember if I told you all last week how much I love
this Ward, and especially this Ward council. It so amazing. They all
(especially the bishop) has such a desire to improve as a Ward and is
constantly thinking of how they can progress more. It is the coolest
thing to see how humble they all are and how that spirit of humility
changes the whole Ward to be better and to have a more united spirit.
They also love missionary work which I know affects the Ward so much.

Anyways, I hope you all have a great week! I love you all so much!!

Sister Morgan

Picture time!!

- after our intense game of ultimate frisbee :)
- heart attacking members with Sister Peterson on exchanges!
- party with the Wilsons, our favorite senior couple, at the jail
- more Sister Peterson exchange pictures :)
- my lovely companion Sister Baggett ❤️ we went to our favorite
grilled wrap place Thursday night because we were craving it for
dinner so badly and we got their dessert s'mores wrap. So perfect
while we did a little preparing for our trainings :)
- selfie with Sister Eraso on exchanges!

Oops. The rest of the pictures.

Sister Morgan

> On Sep 5, 2016, at 2:41 PM, Cydne Morgan <cydne.morgan@myldsmail.net> wrote:
>
> Hello Family!
>
> This week has gone by super quick!
> Happy Labor Day!!! I hope all the family who is hanging out in St.
> George this weekend have been having a blast!
>
> Church yesterday was so incredible! I love fast Sundays, really just
> Sunday's in general.
>
> Last pday, we got a little surprise when Sister Helmbold and her comp
> came to our PDAY to hang out for a bit!
>
> I am having such a hard time even remembering what we did this week
> but it was so good. I love the Liberty Jail so much. Our Ward is
> amazing as well. We are starting a 40 day fast with he Ward tomorrow.
> Every day for 40 days, a member (or more) has signed up to fast to
> help someone hey know come closer to Christ. The Ward is super pumped
> about it! Seriously this Ward is celestial. I was sitting in PEC
> yesterday morning just completely in awe. Every PEC/Ward Council is so
> spiritual. Our bishop is incredible.
>
> At FMTM this week at the VC, President Vest did a whole training on my
> favorite story in the Book of Mormon, ether 2-3 about the Brother of
> Jared. It was so incredible and just what I needed to hear. I love
> learning how our Heavenly Father answers prayers in those chapters. He
> will sometimes tell us exactly the answer. Other times, He trusts us
> enough to have us tell Him our ideas and do everything we can first. I
> love that our Heavenly Father has so much faith in us and wants to
> help us grow. It is something that I have seen so much on my mission.
> In others and in myself. 15 months ago, I never thought I would be the
> person that I am today. I never thought that the Atonement of Jesus
> Christ could change my nature this much - truly changing my desires.
> But through Him, everything is possible. We can become more like Him
> and strengthen our weaknesses so much. I. Love. This. Gospel.
>
> And I love all of you!!! Have such a great week!
> Sister Morgan
>
> Pictures!
> -pday!
> - when Sister Baggett underestimated how far this guy's house was and
> we ended up walking 3.5 miles to an appt. one night. Haha
> - after TMTM! We trained on the history of the jail and did some role
> plays in the rotunda! :)
> - when you love your companion so much that you have to cover your
> eyes so you stop distracting her during her language study by just
> wanting to chat. Haha.
> - at the Emmett's house. They make "man cakes" for all the
> missionaries. Pretty much a giant pancake the size of a whole griddle.
> Haha. Sister Baggett and I passed this time and watched the elders
> suffer. I absolutely LOVE this family though. Hey are the absolute
> best.
> - we crashed FMTM at the VC too when President and Sister Vest came. I
> just love the Vests.
> - driving back to Liberty and our poor baby, Sister Eraso, was soo sleepy ☺️
> - tryi toto remake that video of that cute little girl... But, got
> interrupted by people comin out of their house. Haha
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He changes us!

Hello Family!

This week has gone by super quick!
Happy Labor Day!!! I hope all the family who is hanging out in St.
George this weekend have been having a blast!

Church yesterday was so incredible! I love fast Sundays, really just
Sunday's in general.

Last pday, we got a little surprise when Sister Helmbold and her comp
came to our PDAY to hang out for a bit!

I am having such a hard time even remembering what we did this week
but it was so good. I love the Liberty Jail so much. Our Ward is
amazing as well. We are starting a 40 day fast with he Ward tomorrow.
Every day for 40 days, a member (or more) has signed up to fast to
help someone hey know come closer to Christ. The Ward is super pumped
about it! Seriously this Ward is celestial. I was sitting in PEC
yesterday morning just completely in awe. Every PEC/Ward Council is so
spiritual. Our bishop is incredible.

At FMTM this week at the VC, President Vest did a whole training on my
favorite story in the Book of Mormon, ether 2-3 about the Brother of
Jared. It was so incredible and just what I needed to hear. I love
learning how our Heavenly Father answers prayers in those chapters. He
will sometimes tell us exactly the answer. Other times, He trusts us
enough to have us tell Him our ideas and do everything we can first. I
love that our Heavenly Father has so much faith in us and wants to
help us grow. It is something that I have seen so much on my mission.
In others and in myself. 15 months ago, I never thought I would be the
person that I am today. I never thought that the Atonement of Jesus
Christ could change my nature this much - truly changing my desires.
But through Him, everything is possible. We can become more like Him
and strengthen our weaknesses so much. I. Love. This. Gospel.

And I love all of you!!! Have such a great week!
Sister Morgan

Pictures!
-pday!
- when Sister Baggett underestimated how far this guy's house was and
we ended up walking 3.5 miles to an appt. one night. Haha
- after TMTM! We trained on the history of the jail and did some role
plays in the rotunda! :)
- when you love your companion so much that you have to cover your
eyes so you stop distracting her during her language study by just
wanting to chat. Haha.
- at the Emmett's house. They make "man cakes" for all the
missionaries. Pretty much a giant pancake the size of a whole griddle.
Haha. Sister Baggett and I passed this time and watched the elders
suffer. I absolutely LOVE this family though. Hey are the absolute
best.
- we crashed FMTM at the VC too when President and Sister Vest came. I
just love the Vests.
- driving back to Liberty and our poor baby, Sister Eraso, was soo sleepy ☺️
- tryi toto remake that video of that cute little girl... But, got
interrupted by people comin out of their house. Haha

Doniphan Ward and other tender mercies :)

Happy Monday from Liberty!

We had transfers on Thursday and I got transferred to the Doniphan
Ward (which borders my last ward) with Sister Baggett! We are STLs
over the Liberty Jail and the sisters there. Sister Baggett and I met
before our missions at byu and served the first 6 months of our
missions together, so it is super fun to be able to be companions with
her now :)

But before I crossed the border into Doniphan, I had to say goodbyes
in Shoal Creek Valley. Goodbyes are easily the hardest part of a
mission. I put my whole heart into SCV and it was so sad to leave, but
I am excited for everyone that is going on in the area.

We said goodbye to Will and Mandy Wednesday night. I LOVE these two
people. I needed to meet them. I learned so much from them, so saying
goodbye was not the easiest. Will let us have some of his favorite
apple pie before I left that he only gets once every 4 months from
Mandy's grandma to show us his love. ☺️

We have a fun tradition at the jail where the nit before transfers we
all dress up in the old fashioned clothes they have downstairs and
take pictures in the jail and "kill" the sisters leaving in a few.

Thursday was transfers like I said. Sister Taylor came into the
mission this transfer! It was a happy little Church History Tour
reunion!! She is serving at the VC right now :)

Okay, cool thing I learned at the jail this week during a presentation
Sister Baggett and I took at the jail.... We were talking in the
history room about the importance of centering ourselves on Christ
because that is where a majority of the problems come from to the
members of the church in Missouri. Then in the rotunda, I was praying
to know what to share with this couple and the revelation about being
chosen stuck out to me from the sections that were revealed there. D&C
121:34-35
"34 Behold, there are many called, but few are chosen. And why are
they not chosen?
35 Because their hearts are set so much upon the things of this world,"
Then all of a sudden the words "tender mercies" came to mind. I was
talking to another sister this week and asked her why missionaries see
so many miracles and tender mercies. As you all are well aware that
there are miracles every week! Haha. The scripture in 1 Nephi 1:20
came to my mind.
"But behold, I, Nephi, will show unto you that the tender mercies of
the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their
faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance."
As I was sharing this scripture with the couple we were taking through
the jail, I realized that this scripture says that tender mercies come
to those who are "chosen". We learn from that D&C scripture that this
means that if our hearts are not set too much upon the things of the
world, we are "chosen". Receiving the maximum amount of tender mercies
in our lives is completely dependent on our obedience to the
commandments, faithfulness, and consecration. In essence, how centered
we are on Christ. Anyways, the jail is awesome. The scriptures are
awesome. The gospel is awesome.

Saturday morning during our Saturday Morning Training Meeting that
Sister Baggett and I trained at, I shared that scripture and did a
training around it. If any of you all are looking for a super awesome
talk to read look up "Tender Mercies of the Lord" by Elder Bednar from
Oct 2005 conference. It's so good!!

Well, that's a whole lot for you all from my week, I have lots of
pictures to send though!

- Almost 18 months later! From volunteering at the Mtc together to now!
- last day in SCV!
- Will and Mandy <3
- Summer came to visit me at the jail which was so fun!
- cute Sis. Peterson during our dress up night
- jail hangout.
- I would definitely be too tall for this jail. Ha.
- first day of our companionship!
- transfer selfie! (With Elder Anderton, the AP, running to get in the
selfie while putting up the transfer roster. Lol)
- CHT reunion with Sister Taylor!
- all of the jail sisters after SMTM :)

I love you all so much! I hope you all have a great week!
Sister Morgan