I had such a good week as usual. This week went by pretty quick. We are almost to the close of the transfer, and I am kind of excited. Mostly to get out of this office work! We had a Zone Conference and definitely new experiences like always. Also, the internet keeps going in and out so I don't know how long this email will be! Bare with me!
On Tuesday, we had our Zone Conference. This time we had it in the Mission Home. Usually we will have it in a church building, which is always loud and hard to hear who ever is speaking. It was nice to have a change because it was so quiet and so reverent! Our Zone Leaders gave an instruction on Diligence and it was super awesome. They used some examples in the Book of Mormon and the Bible. It was just a solid reminder to always be on my A-game in missionary work.
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| Zone Conference |
Overall, just a really solid Zone Conference. I would say that the topic was becoming converting to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I think that has been a big part of my mission so far - becoming converted. While being here I have truly realized the sweetness of this Gospel and how much of an impact it has made in my life. If I had not come on mission there would be no way I could learn that. It is truly because of the the experiences I have had. I could not have them anywhere else. I am very grateful for my Savior and his atoning sacrifice for me. He loves us more than we can even imagine.
It has been raining here like crazy!!! July and August are the most rainy months in Salone. July was pretty bad, but yesterday was so crazy!! Before I got here I heard people say that it rains sheets out here, and I can affirm that indeed it does rain cats, dogs, cows and not just the sheets but the whole bed! Yesterday was the worst I've seen. It began to rain at about 7 o'clock in the morning really, really hard. After some office work we were able to get proselyting at 12 o'clock and it was pouring. We got into our area and saw some flooding on some of the side roads. We had one appointment and then our next appointment was in the main town. We began to walk and soon found ourselves in about 6 inches of water on the main road! People were running around everywhere and it was kind of crazy! We continued walking with water going up to our mid-shins all the way to our appointments. I wish I had taken some pictures but I am sure it will happen again soon.
People's homes were flooding like crazy. It is really sad because they cannot do anything to stop it or get out of it. People were moving everything out of their homes just to move it back in and have it get all soaked again. It was really sad because we heard that 6 people died because of the flooding. That was a hard thing to see and hear about.
On a lighter note, here's a funny story...
Tuesday night we had gotten back to our apartment pretty late and found a frog. So, as any immature young adults would do we tried to catch it. Elder Hansen was slowly jogging right behind it and was not watching and ran into a pole! Nothing too serious happened, but he sure thought it was serious haha. He went to bed with a headache and woke up with a headache, so he thought he got a concussion. We stayed in on Wednesday to make sure he was feeling better. But don't worry, when I told Sister Moomey, the mission nurse, she said he should be fine...after she stopped laughing! Morale of the story... just let the frog go his own way undisturbed!
Love you guys!!
-Elder Morgan
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