# 59

Dear President,

Thank you for sharing those scriptures with me. Interestingly enough, Sister W and I talked about change a lot this week and I emailed out some of the same scriptures to the sisters in the weekly email this week. I've thought a lot about change for myself mostly because I'm not content with not changing. As I go to the meeting this week and as a I continue in my missionary service, I really want to focus on changing my view of others. It's generally pretty easy for me to love people, but I really want to be able to just view them with "the eyes of love" as Sister H would say...or in other words I want to act on my love for others so that I can develop a more true and Christ-like love for everyone and keep my eyes single to the glory of God.

This week was amazing. I know there's a hymn about counting all of our blessings, but it's impossible! This week was filled with them. 

The baptism we had went well and afterwards, the daughter of the lady who was baptized came up to us and wanted to be baptized next week. She had been learning from us before, but I think actually seeing her mom get baptized just increased her desire that much more...so hopefully this Saturday she will be baptized as well! We met with her on Sunday for a while and scheduled her interview for Tuesday. Amazingly, she has no Word of Wisdom issues and has had no abortions. 

We also met with another one of our investigators, who has been progressing well and extended a baptismal date to her. She accepted and is continuing to do well with commitments...except for attending church. She wants to come, but her family is in town every weekend and she hasn't been able to attend. We are going to suggest that she invite them to come with her to church and try to get her coming. 

We also met with another investigator who has been hard to meet with in the past because her son was in the hospital. We gave her a Book of Mormon and she has been reading from it well. We also gave her a baptismal date...and she said "That's great, of course I will be baptized! And my son too!" We still need to teach her most of the lessons though, but she has been coming to church pretty frequently. 

We also met with a contact from the street who invited us over to meet a few of her friends. We were able to meet with her a few times to establish our expectations. She's a little...enthusiastic? Is that the right word? Well, she showed us a magic trick and almost caught me on fire because she was so excited... But she is happy and she acts on commitments, so hopefully we will be able to extend a date to her in our next meeting. 

We also were walking home from church yesterday and stopped to talk to a lady on the street. She opened up to us on the street and invited us over and we felt the spirit so strong in her house! We did How To Begin Teachings and she introduced us to her daughter in law, who pointed to my CTR ring and told me that her husband has one....so somewhere along the way they've had connection with the church before. We will be meeting with them tonight to give them a baptismal date and bring them a Book of Mormon. 

There's also a lady in our ward who is moving out of her apartment (which is a pretty nice apartment) to move in with her daughter. She's already talked to G about renting her apartment out, but she just wanted us to let you know about it too. It's in Davitashen about 3 blocks up from the church. 

Exchanges this week were...hard. But it was good to get to know Sister F and see how she is doing.  I talked to her about how she has been such a light to the missionaries and the Armenians.We talked about some ways to ease the stress (like being more obedient, on time, more efficient planning, and working with the members better). I wrote a list of members who've had referrals in the past and of less actives they could work with. I also showed them a few of my old investigators who may be ready to work with again. So hopefully that area will see improvement. When I was there, we were able to visit with quite a few people though, so hopefully they keep it up. Sister F expressed to me that she wants to get better at the language, so I gave her a few ideas for language study and we set some goals. She wants to make sure she is learning all 10 of her words everyday, reads from the Book of Mormon in Armenian during her meal times and also use her language study to focus on the grammar. I'll be following up with her on that. 

I love you both so much!

Love,

Sister Morreall

Dear Family,

This week was a really good one for this area...we had a baptism and will be having one this Saturday too. We picked up two new investigators, who seem to be so ready to be taught. 

When I was on exchanges this week, I had the opportunity to see all of my recent converts from when I served there...even the one who is from the other country! It was a tender mercy to be in that area at the time because he called on the phone and asked to meet...I had no idea he was back in the country and I just happened to be in the area! I also got to meet Elder M (member of the 70) from Artashat. He is so awesome!

We also got some calls from some people in Jordan...that's right the country Jordan, who  had heard about the church and had some questions. So that was amazing! We also contacted a few Jordanians this week who live on the same street as one of our members. 

We had fun playing soccer on the street with some kids for a little bit too...some people were staring and amazed that two American girls in school could play, but it opened up opportunities to talk about the gospel so that was cool. 

I'm grateful for my companion who has been a great strength to me...did I tell you she sounds a lot like Breezy? So when she talks sometimes it feels like I'm talking to Breezy haha. 

Also, we'll be going to Georgia in two weeks, I'm not sure if I'll be able to write that Monday since we will be on the road that day. So do not be worried if I don't write! Dad, you can email the mission office to let me know the updates on everything.

I love and miss you all so much and I was grateful to get an email from all of you this week.

I love and miss you!

Love,

Misa :)

Random things:

I almost got set on fire this week by an investigator's magic trick.

Right before I almost caught fire.

I got flashed by a granny.

This super old grandma in our ward gets happy every time we come visit because she misses her grandkids. She asked this week if she could paint our nails, so we let her and she actually did a super good job! But she got super mad at me because I bite my nails...oops. But it made her day :)