Luke's Letter Dated May 27, 2013

Hey!

Last monday I was riding the Front Runner back up to Layton after going to the Salt Lake Temple. I heard from a guy on there that a guy from Elk Ridge named Cody Towse got killed in Afghanistan. I felt absolutely horrible. I wish I could do something to help his family. I knew his brother from school. And had met him a couple times. At this hard time in their lives It's really comforting to know the plan that god has for each one of us. 

We have been working a lot with our investigators, as well as finding new ones. One thing we've been focusing on is part member families, and less actives. One of the part member families we have has some trees in his backyard that we're gonna help take down. (Sounds like the past 4 years in Springville) So that will be a really good opportunity to get to know them better, and provide some really good service. I'm pretty stoked! 

One of our investigators, Susana, is going to Peru for a few weeks, and is going to get baptized as soon as she gets back. She's super excited, and I'm super excited for her!  This is gonna be so good for her! She's the one who we helped stop smoking after 42 years of the habit. She stopped in one week. Really pretty amazing! 

My companion is going home this transfer, and I just might be going to Argentina at the end of this transfer, so we're both trying our best to not get "Trunky" and keep focused. 

Love you all.

Elder Luke Morgan

Letter Dated 05/20/2013

This week has gone pretty good! I had my first baptism!!! A sister named Maria Herrera. The reason she decided to be baptized is because she says that she was reading in the bible and it says that you need to be baptized in the name of The Father, The Son, and the Holy Ghost. And when her prest baptized her, it was just in the name of Jesus Christ. So she said that she needed to be baptized into the Mormon church. It was really really cool! The bishop was the one who baptized her. It was a really cool experience for all of us there.  Also this week we put a sister named Susana on date to be baptized. She had been smoking for 42 years. And after the missionaries taught the stop smoking program, she stopped. She's been clean for a month and one day now. She is an awesome lady, and we love her so much! She's really excited to be baptized, she's got quite a few really good friends in the church. This step will change her life forever.  On sunday we went to her graduation from the Daily Dose program. Which is a program that is taught by senior missionaries, that helps people learn English as a second language.  She was so proud and happy of that!

 

Friday was an interesting day. It started out with a trip to walmart to buy a tube for my bike, because I had popped it the night before. Later that evening, we were on our way home when it started pouring. While we were riding our bikes through this downpour, I go to pedal, and the whole pedal just falls off. So now we're pushing our bikes the two miles back to our house. Luckily, a man stopped and gave us a ride. We were a little more that frustrated, but it was still really fun!

 

I love you all, and hope taht everything is going good for all of you.

Love,

Elder Luke Morgan

Lukes letter dated 05-13-2013

Hello everyone!

This week has been a little hectic! On tuesday we found out that the other visa waiter and I would be leaving Kaysville to go somewhere else. And that the other elders in the house were also moving out and there would be sisters moving into our house. So we were up till about 4 cleaning. We went to transfers on Wednesday, and  I found out that i would be going to Layton with Elder Pratt, Elder Verges (The old AP) and Elder Blotter (the other visa waiter) We're loving it up here, and finding a ton of work. It's really awesome. The first couple days we were stuck on foot because our bikes weren't here yet. But we now have bikes, so we can get from place to place easier. We've got a good investigator pool going, but we're working really hard on finding new investigators. Saturday we had a mothers day talent show. Which made my companion a little trunky, so we left. He's going home this transfer, so we're working hard on not thinking about home or anything.  On sunday we got to go to Elder Blotter's house to Skype and have dinner. The skype wasn't working very well for me at first, but we got it all figured out. It turns out it was going slow because we had 3 of us on skype at the same time!  It was really good to talk to a lot of you back home, and see how things are going there! 

I love you all, and hope everything is going good back home! 

(sorry for the short letter, the computers here at the library limit our time)

Love you,

Elder Luke Morgan

Lukes Letter dated 05/06/2013

Hey! 

I hope everything is going good with everyone! With it getting into summer i hope you all are planning to do fun things! I miss you all, and all the kids!

This week has been pretty crazy! This wednesday is transfers, so everyone is excited and nervous for what is gonna happen! I'm pretty sure I'm going to stay here in Kaysville, but you never know!  My companions are the Zone Leaders, so i'll get to find out transfer info a little while before everyone else! We think that we're going to get 2 more visa waiters in our house, that'll make 8 elders living in a little townhouse! That's a ton! But whatever happens, we're gonna have some fun with the new elders!  I got to go on exchanges the other day and teach a part of sharing time in an english ward. That was pretty cool! We just got to talk about missionary work, and how awesome it is! Those little kids are really excited to go on missions!  I hope they never lose that excitement and light!! Last p day we got to go to the batting cages at Cherry Hill. That was really cool! There's  a lot of businesses up here that let missionaries in for free, It's pretty sweet! We are still working with a lot of people to help them get ready for baptism. We should have some people who will in a week or two! 

I love you all! 

Luke

Pictures from the Mission Blog

Luke would have to explain these pictures.  These were taken off the Mission blog. 

Elder Morgan and Elder Thevenin

Elder Thevenin will be training Elder Morgan.

They will be serving in the Farmington Zone.

Luke's Letter dated 04/29/2013

Hey everyone!

This week has been really fun! A lot of up's and downs, and a few miracles! I've been having a lot of fun! working really hard, and looking ahead to what is in store for me, both here and in Argentina.  I've wondered a lot why the lord needed me here in Salt Lake before I went to Argentina. And I believe that there are a lot of reasons. But through a lot of study, pondering, and prayer i've figured out at least one of the reasons. I'm here to prepare me to go to Argentina. I know that there's a ton of work to do in Argentina, so I need to be prepared to hit the ground running. I also know that there's people I need to meet here, and things I need to do here. I'm focusing on making sure not one moment of my mission is wasted.  

This week we had one really solid guy ready for baptism on saturday. We were planning on doing the interview on friday night so he would be ready for saturday. We called and texted him, but he didn't answer. We were really disappointed that he wasn't going to be able to take this step in his life this weekend. On Saturday we got a hold of him, and he explained that his dad didn't want him to get baptized yet, he wasn't against it, but just didn't want him to do it at this point in his life. So this guy is going to work with his dad to get all this done. While we were down and a little discouraged, we had a miracle happen. The lord sometimes waits till the last moment to give to you what you need, kind of like a trial of your faith. There's this family who wants to get baptized, but can't because they're not married yet. But they can't get married because they are in the process of getting citizenship papers. We found out this weekend that the last step in the process of getting their citizenship is getting married. So they're going to get married and baptized in the coming weeks. This was a true answer to our prayers! Just goes to show you that the lord has a plan for every one of his children.

I walked past a car show this week and I saw this Yellow Camaro. I get looking closer and this Camaro has black stripes. I look again, and it has black rims, a big tail, dark windows, and what looks like an autobot logo a little behind the front tires. I'm sitting here thinking to myself no way. there's no way that Dad and Susan are here. I go up closer to the car, and sure enough. 2013 Camaro T3 2SS. But I looked at the name of the owner in the car, and it was some guy from Hill Air Force Base. It was still cool to see buzz's twin though!

I hope everything is going good back at home. You're all in my thoughts and prayers! Thank you for everything you all do for me!

Love you!

Elder Luke Morgan

Letter from Luke dated 04-22-13

Hey!

So this week has gone by so fast! On tuesday we had a referral competition which was really fun, and we got a bunch of referrals. Even a few Golden ones. On thursday we went to Temple Square with a family. It was a really awesome experience! We watched the "God's Plan For Families" Presentation. Not gonna lie, I cried a little at the end. But this family really enjoyed the experience, and they are really coming to love the church! On friday night we went on splits with the Assistants to the President. My companion and I were down in the Young Single Adult area in Salt Lake. We didn't know that we were going to temple square, so we didn't bring our suits. So we both felt like super out of place just wearing the white shirts! But it was still good! Then we went to a YSA comedy night. The comedians were awesome! One of them had his bishop there, which was absolutely hilarious! We have a couple people who should be getting Baptized next week! I'm really excited for them! 

One thing I learned this week is that if I just make my mind shut up, and really focus on listening to the person we're teaching, the words to say can be given to me. It says many times in the scriptures that the words will be given to you in the very moment. I have a testimony of that! It's so cool to see the spirit work on people through me, and through other missionaries.

Sorry for the short letter. The computers weren't working. So I didn't have too much time today!

I Love You All!!

Elder Luke Morgan