Luke's Letter Dated October 6, 2014

Wow. What a great week!! Well, first off I had my birthday!!!!! My last birthday here in Argentina was honestly kinda lame.. But this one rocked! Pretty much the members here in this area love me. So I had three Birthday Parties!! So basically all the exercise that I've been doing in preparation for the end of my mission just went down the drain. haha. 

The rest of the week was fairly uneventful except for this weekend. CONFERENCE!!!!!!!!!!! So as you may know, in utah when the prophet speaks he's on just about every channel. There's a better chance of seeing him when he speaks than seeing the President of the United States when he speaks. So nobody has any kind of excuse for not watching conference. Here, however, all the members have to go to the stake center to watch it. The two saturday sessions were awesome. We got to watch it in a little room with a tv so that we could watch in English. On sunday the weather was really rainy and ugly, but there were still a ton of people there. About halfway through the session the satelite signal cut out and we were left with a black screen. One of the counselers in the stake presidency came and asked us to pray. We had a whole zone of missionaries in a little room knelt down each offering up silent prayers. It was a really really special spirit that could be felt in that room. After we had gotten done praying, we just stood up and waited. About ten minutes later the signal came back on!! It was a little spotty, but we were able to listen to some of the talks. What a great blessing in the lives of these people to be able to hear a prophets voice!! 

That whole experience is just another testimony for me of the power of faith and prayer! 

I love you all!!

Elder Morgan

So this week was a little bit of a week of miracles!! 

One of our awesome members, Cecilia, has a daughter named Chiara that always complained about her baptism, she said that the water was freezing and that there were bugs floating in the font. So with that whole story we kinda assumed that she was a baptized member. Well, it turns out that the baptism wasn't ever recorded, so we arranged everything and baptized her this weekend! She was really excited for it!!! We planned with the bishop and had the baptism after sacrament meeting yesterday.

After the whole service was done we had quite a few people tell us that the spirit was stronger in the baptism than in the sacrament meeting! It was really cool to take what would have been just a normal baptism and see it turn into a really spiritual, edifying experience! It'll be something that Chiara and her whole family will remember for a long time!! 

So in other news, transfers are this week. I'll find out on tuesday if I am staying or leaving. I really don't wanna leave! But I might be going! I really hope not, but if I do leave I'll love the new place I have! 

Anyways, I love you all!! I hope you all have an awesome week!

Luke's Letter Dated September 15, 2014

Buen día a todos!!

Here in Argentina we are coming out of winter and into spring! Everything is starting to get green and I'm loving it! 

This week we had the opportunity to go to the temple!! We were able to go with our converts and investigators and enjoy the gardens that they have there! It really was an awesome experience to enjoy the temple and feel the spirit. My companion and I had a little bit of time to just go and take pictures of the temple. That was really cool, I love how beautiful and peaceful the temple is. 

The temple is something that we often take for granted back at home, we have a number of temples within a short distance from our house. These members here have to plan a whole day to go with their ward just once a month. In some places the members don't even get to go once a month. It makes me think of something that President Monson  said,“Those who understand the eternal blessings which come from the temple know that no sacrifice istoo great, no price too heavy, no struggle too difficult in order  to receive those blessings."

I hope to be able to treasure the temple like we should when I finish my mission. I hope that all of you would treasure it like we should.

I love you all!!

Have a great week!

Elder Morgan '

Luke's Letter Dated September 8, 2014

​This week was pretty awesome!! We were able to see the baptism of two of our investigators this week!

This family is really cool. We found them knocking doors one day and it turned out that the mom was a less active member. Right off the bat she told us that she had a few people to baptize, but that it wasn't going to be easy. We accepted the challenge. We met her husband and the rest of the family​. The family loved us, but the husband was a little shy and didn't want to talk to us that much. Well, after a while of trying to set up a lesson with them we finally were able to teach him. In the lesson he said that he didn't want to get baptized. My companion told him "Well two years ago you didn't want to get married either, but look at you now!"  That was all he needed to change his mind. He accepted a baptisimal date for two weeks from then. We also invited their daughter to be baptized, she accepted like crazy! The parents wanted to wait for a little while. Well the bishop had some different ideas than that, so he had a talk with them, and they decided that Ariel and Lucia needed to be baptized ASAP. 

So we got them all interviewed and baptized them on saturday night!!

Sunday morning was the time for their confirmations. But before the confirmations three of their four kids recieved baby blessings, then Ariel and Lucia were confirmed. What a great sacrament meeting!! 

They have a goal to be sealed in one year from now. I'm so glad that we were able to help them and work with their family!! It was really a blessing and a lesson for me!!

This saturday we are going to the temple with them and with the ward, it should be an awesome experience for everyone!

Anyways, that's pretty much my story for the week, 

I love you all!!!!

Elder Morgan  

Some pictures of the baptism!!

Luke's Letter Dated August 18, 2014

Hola everyone!! 

So transfers were this week!! My Mexican companion left!!!!!!!!! I now have an american companion!! Elder Steinke from Clearfield Utah. It's really weird having an american companion and talking English again. I dunno if I like it that much. haha. But it's going awesome with him! We're working like crazy and loving it! 

Last week we had made an appointment with a less active, then we couldn't go. I didn't really see it as a big deal. But later on, the bishop, the ward mission leader, and the less active all kinda chewed me out. I realized that when i didn't go to the appointment that I had set, I was being dishonest.  So I have made a new commitment to myself to be completely honest in everything, with myself, others, and the lord.

I love you all! 

I hope you all have a great week!!!!

Elder Morgan! (:

Luke's Letter Dated August 11, 2014

Hey everyone, 

Things are goin pretty great here in Argentina! We're workin hard and having a blast while doing it! This coming week we have transfers. It's very likely that my companion will be leaving. Kind of sad, but that's how the mission is. Life goes on! 

These past few weeks it has been hitting me just how short the mission is. The sisters that were in the MTC with me are now heading home! It's been 18 months since I left home! It really feels like just yesterday that I left home! 

I started to read the Book of Mormon this week. As I read Lehi's dream, he said:  "12 And as I partook of the fruit thereof it filled my soul 

with exceedingly great joy; wherefore, I began to be desirous 

that my family should partake of it also; for I knew that it was

 desirable above all other fruit."

It really hit me the great desire that he had to share this fruit with his family. It made me realize that right now, in my mission, my only job is to share this fruit with the people!! I have the responsibility to share this fruit with others! What a great opportunity that it is to be able to help others know of the love of god! 

I hope that you all can find ways to share this fruit with the people who surround you! 

I love you all!!

Elder Morgan

Luke's Letter Dated August 4, 2014

Hello everyone! 

This week has been kinda crazy. We didn't have like hardly any time to work in our area. We had meetings two days this week, and had to spend a bunch of time the other days cleaning and preparing the chapel for those meetings. Kinda crazy, but everything turned out good! 

Our ward had an activity this friday, they turned the cultural hall into a movie theater and showed the movie rio 2. We got to go and watch it too! It was pretty fun! They're planning on doing a movie night at least once a month! That'll be really sweet! 

We are still teaching Jessica, our blind investigator. She is doing really really well and is making the changes that she needs to so that she can be baptized at the end of this month. She has a lot of hard things that she needs to change, but she has the desire and the help from the members, so I know she will be able to do it! 

I love you all! Pray for missionary opportunities! 

Elder Morgan