# 37

Dear President,

Thank you for conducting interviews this week! It is always good to see you and Sister C! (I was spoiled when I was in Yerevan, as I got to see you both frequently.)

Vanadzor is doing wonderful! When I first got to this area, I told Sister T that I felt that I was in this area to teach families. Well this week, we found TWO families! An investigator introduced us to his wife and 7 year old son and asked that we continue meeting with them. We established our expecations with them, gave them Books of Mormon and a children's Book of Mormon as well. On Saturday night, we made phone calls and invited our street contacts to church. We met a man last week (taxi driver) who knew one of our members...he showed up to church on Sunday and invited us over to meet with his family afterwards. He has a very sweet wife, an 8 year old son and a 3 year old daughter. They want to begin learning from us. None of them have ever been baptized before. In 2006, the father was in an accident...he was in an auto shop when it exploded. He has severe burn marks and grafted skin, but he told us that it was such a miracle that he is alive and that he feels he that God has a greater purpose for him in this life.

We also went up to Vanadzor this week to meet with the new members and less active members there. We invited them all to church and had a great turn out on Sunday. Thank you for giving us permission to visit the family up in Alaverdi every week. We really want to see them progress and reach their baptismal date together. 

We have an investigator who has been investigating the church for a few years that has a baptismal date for this Saturday. This past week, we invited him to pray about his baptismal date and if it feels right. We got on our knees and were there for about 20 minutes. It was an awesome experience to hear him pray about his concerns. He acknowledged after that he felt good, but he just wants a more direct answer I think. We are confident that he is ready...he just seemed very non-committal because he wants an answer. So we are going to see how we can better prepare him and will let you know if he will be getting baptized this week.

On Friday, Sister H held an auxiliary training meeting for the women in our ward. We went to help translate and I thought it was very well done. The Relief Society, Young Womens and Primary presidencies were able to talk about concerns they have, ways they can improve and they scheduled dates when they can meet together as a presidency. We, as missionaries, are going to be working on reactivation less active members with them.

I love you! Have a great week.

Love,

Sister Morreall

Dear Family,

This week was a great one! You'll here all about it in my letter :)  Thanks for keeping me updated on everything. I was so happy to hear Mom's health has been improving. It sounds like everyone had a fun time with Lisa visiting. Can't wait to skype you all in a couple of weeks!!

Love,

Misa :)

Fun/cool things:

Armenian taxi drivers + snowy and icy roads = probably the scariest ride of my life

Also, some boys were giving us some trouble the other night (followed us into store/tried to follow us home and doing inappropriate things...) but we called the zone leaders (one of them is like 6'3") and they came to the rescue. We ended up getting in a taxi and driving around for a bit (so they didn't know where we lived) all while dancing to the awesome Armenian music the driver had!! But it was a little too fun, because the police pulled us over...and then we went home...everything is all taken care of though and we are safe haha :)