# 68

Letter from Mission Pres:

Great letter! Thank you for your thoughts. We are trying to get info. on an addiction recovery program. We will let you know when we hear.

How is the new companion?

Thank you for all your help once again this past week. We will leave you alone for a few days. Until Friday!

We love you. See you soon.

Dear President,

We survived transfers! We all made it out alive with only minor bumps and bruises :) The new missionaries are all fantastic and ready to work. It was sad to see Sister W go. Her example of charity, humility and finding happiness in the work will remain impressed on my heart and mind throughout this next transfer. But I can already tell that it is going to be a great transfer with Sister B. She is so full of life and love! She is very enthusiastic and looking forward to helping each of the sisters find happiness and joy in the work. She is getting along well inthe area and has been able to meet quite a few people already.

We set a few goals for the transfer: (1) Finding a family and working with them to the end goal - baptism (2) Unity within the companionship, assistants and sisters (3) Being a solid rock and friend for each of the sisters.

Our new baptizee was confirmed yesterday at church and her husband cam eto church with her to see it! We had a lesson with them about temples and going to the temple one dayto be sealed together and the husband expressed his interest in being baptized. So we gave him a date (Aug 30) and have now begun working with him as well. It is hard for him to move though because he uses cane. We can talk him and his wife to church, but we don't want him to always really on us (and his wife can get their on her own). If he reads the Book of Mormon and prays, but isn't always able to make it to church would he still be considered a progressing investigator and can be baptized?

I also ask that question for an older grandmother who wants to get baptized with her 8 year old grandson. She can't make it to church, but can read the Book of Mormon and pray. 

Our 13 year old investigator came back from the Youth Conference (which she really enjoyed) and actually came up to us and asked to be baptized this Saturday! She already asked one of the ward members to baptize her. We have this Saturday as her date, and her mother is aware, but we are going to finalize the plans and finish her lessons this week so that she can be baptized. We are hoping that she will be the example for her mother, who will follow soon after and be baptized. 

We also have been meeting with the mother and son that we met on the street. They are very smart and ask a lot of questions. It seems that they expect answers right away instead of relying on the Spirit or taking the time to read first. But they are coming along. They pray and they read the Book of Mormon. They also came to church for the first time this past week. The son seems more interested than the mom, so we are hoping to pass him off to the elders this week.

We haven't met with the lady whose daughters just got back from Georgia yet. We've been trying, but she has had family in town keeping her busy. We are hoping to see her tonight and rekindle her desire for baptism.

We are also meeting with a Russian lady in Yeghvard (village) who seems very interested in the gospel. She had a dream of someone dressed in white. We talked to her about the Restoration and gave her a Russian Book of Mormon, which she will hopefully begin reading. Her biggest difficulty may be coming to church because she lives further away, but we are going to help her set that as a goal. 

It was great to see you and Sister C this week! Thank you for all that you do. I love you both so much! See you Friday!

Love,

Sister Morreall

Dear Family,

 I am in my same area (Ajapnyak) and Sister B(from the group I was supposed to go with in the MTC before I got moved up) is now my companion. We had been connected on facebook before the mission and she wrote me and sent me cupcakes in the MTC, so I am super excited to be serving with her. She reminds me so much of Kendal! I am in my last transfer now, so it will be fun to serve with her until October. We had interviews with the new missionaries this week, assigned them to trainers, had loads of new trainee/trainer meetings and saw the departing missionaries off. It feels good to be back to work with my new companion. We also had a baptism too and I met a lady from Egypt on the street!! That was way cool!! And Alaverdi (I worked in that area when I served in Vanadzor) was opened up to missionaries, which I am super excited about. Things are going well here. I hope you all are doing great as well!!

I love and miss you all so much!!

Love,

Misa :)

Random: I got epilated this week!!! Basically one of our members was like "sisters you need to pluck your arm hairs because it looks pretty" and she took this machine (it looks like a razor) and rubbed it on my arm...well it's really a bunch of tweezers and it took all my arm hair out!! Crazy!! It killed. 

Also, it was water day on Sunday! The national water fight day haha. So we got dumped on by a ton of people...missionaries are easy targets haha but it was fun!!