Heeeeyyyyy E'reybody! So I get like 20 minutes to email today because we went to Hermiston, OR for zone p-day. It was seriously so much fun! We had Olympic games (kinda) We had 2 teams (black vs white/ senior vs junior companions)! I was a white of course and Sis. Chatwin was a black. It was weird not being on the same team as her for once. We are the only sisters in the entire zone so that was fun. We started off with soccer. I kicked Sis. Chatwin 2 times in the leg and I feel so bad about it! One of the Elders kneed her in the knee and now she is limping everywhere (so sad). So after soccer we played clean out your backyard with a ton of clothes in the gym. You had to throw clothes over the net to the other side and you had a minute and a half to get as many clothes off your side as you could. Then we ate lunch (pizza)and then we played volleyball. One of our Zone Leaders hit the v-ball and it hit Sis Chatwin in the face. She left the gym so I had to run after her. She got a bloody nose and a head ache. Poor girl can't catch a break. She is super competitive though and LOVES sports so she just walks it off and gets back in the game! What a trooper.
After v-ball we went back outside and played ultimate frisbee. It was SUPER windy and I don't like that game but it was still kinda fun. We went back inside and did Minute- to- Win- It wars. I was chosen to place unsharpened pencils on the back of my hand and then throw them in the air and catch them in the same hand. I did 12 pencils in 45 seconds by adding them 2 at a time. I hope that makes sense. BUT I totally dominated!!! It was sweet! Overall the white team did end up winning!Woohoo! Then we got home late and that is why, I only have 20 min.Like 10 now! Ahh...
I was asked to speak yesterday in Sacrament meeting in the 2nd Ward ( size of Mustang before the split). I found out Saturday, yay! It went well I think. I talked about being a good example and always remembering to take upon ourselves the name of Christ. We both almost got to speak in the Young Single Adult (YSA) branch. There were only about 15 people there. So tiny!
I am so excited for Jakob and being ordained an Elder. It sounds like it went off without a hitch. Great!I have to get going now. Sorry I can't share more. We have been trying to find more people to teach so if any of you former missionaries know of any ways that worked for you, please share! Love you all tons! Have a great week!
Love always,-- SISTER MORGAN BROX
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Happy Late St. Patrick's Day
I don't know why I do this to myself. I take too long reading emails and writing President Greer that I run out of time to write home! BUT I will type what I can! First of all, I hope everyone had a happy St. Pattys Day. Second, happy late b-day to my darling nephew Holland and happy early b-day to Sara! Happy Ordination to Elder, Jakob. I was thinking about the Family almost all day on Sunday!
Saturday was GREAT here in WA! I had my first baptism. Lino Flores. He has been taking the lessons for almost 11 years and finally decided it was time. It was great except for the fact that he had to be dunked twice because the brother baptizing him messed up the words the first time. We asked the witnesses to make sure it was ok, they said it was, so we drained the font and finished everything. Then the Elders called the Zone Leaders and President to see if it was ok, and they said NO its needs to be done again. So we refilled the font, (it was COLD) and he was dunked again. This time the right way. He is a pretty cool dude, so he wasn't upset to do it again. He is a strong man with a great testimony and he will be a great example to his family.
Anyway, we walked a lot lately so I got my first couple of blisters, woohoo. lol And we had a really nice sunny day so we did our weekly planning outside in the sunshine, it was great! We are teaching a lot of elderly widows in our ward. They are sick and so they don't come to church very often. We visit them and they are so excited! I love them all! I love everyone here. Even the people that we tract into that slam the door in our faces. They are usually nicer to sisters than they are to elders though. We saw an old lady who had fallen behind her car and we pulled over really fast to go and help her up and into her house. She is lucky that she didn't break her hip. We actually found out that she lived in SLC a long time ago and they ( her and her husband) invited us back to visit again. I am excited to get to know them more. I am scrambling now, ahh...
The Walla Walla 1st Ward did a production of the Ten Virgins and it was good but not as good as the ones back home! So good job everyone that has participated in it before.
I have to get going. I will make sure to write more next week! I love you and I love getting letters! :) Have a wonderful day! Read the Book of Mormon daily, you might be surprised with how is changes your life!
-- SISTER MORGAN BROX
Saturday was GREAT here in WA! I had my first baptism. Lino Flores. He has been taking the lessons for almost 11 years and finally decided it was time. It was great except for the fact that he had to be dunked twice because the brother baptizing him messed up the words the first time. We asked the witnesses to make sure it was ok, they said it was, so we drained the font and finished everything. Then the Elders called the Zone Leaders and President to see if it was ok, and they said NO its needs to be done again. So we refilled the font, (it was COLD) and he was dunked again. This time the right way. He is a pretty cool dude, so he wasn't upset to do it again. He is a strong man with a great testimony and he will be a great example to his family.
Anyway, we walked a lot lately so I got my first couple of blisters, woohoo. lol And we had a really nice sunny day so we did our weekly planning outside in the sunshine, it was great! We are teaching a lot of elderly widows in our ward. They are sick and so they don't come to church very often. We visit them and they are so excited! I love them all! I love everyone here. Even the people that we tract into that slam the door in our faces. They are usually nicer to sisters than they are to elders though. We saw an old lady who had fallen behind her car and we pulled over really fast to go and help her up and into her house. She is lucky that she didn't break her hip. We actually found out that she lived in SLC a long time ago and they ( her and her husband) invited us back to visit again. I am excited to get to know them more. I am scrambling now, ahh...
The Walla Walla 1st Ward did a production of the Ten Virgins and it was good but not as good as the ones back home! So good job everyone that has participated in it before.
I have to get going. I will make sure to write more next week! I love you and I love getting letters! :) Have a wonderful day! Read the Book of Mormon daily, you might be surprised with how is changes your life!
-- SISTER MORGAN BROX
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
The Work Continues
HEY OKLAHOMA! And other places! The work is grand here in the big town of Walla Walla! We have quiet a few investigators who are slowly but surely working their way to following Chirst's example. We have a baptism this Saturday for a guy that has been talking to the missionaries for about 11 years and he is finally ready. It is very exciting! We also found 4 families that we are teaching by tracting! Amazing!
Anyway, funny story, We went outside Saturday morning at 6:30 am to excersise for our required amount of time everyday and as I was about to go back in to do some more stuff inside, I looked at Sis Chatwin and said, "Did you bring the keys outside?" She had gone outside first and then I did and we left the door open because it locks when you close it. She had gone back in to grab her jump rope and then shut the door behind her. WE WERE LOCKED OUT. There was no way in because all of our windows have locks on them on the inside. We tried all of them with no luck. We had no phone and no keys, in our work out clothes, all sweaty and looking wonderful. =) We knocked on our neighbors door to see if he could help and he couldn't, so we walked 2 miles to get to the senior missionary couples home. (the Christensen's) I love them! and they called our property managers and then finally 2 hours later, at 9:30 AM we got back into our appartment. It was CRAZY! The guy charged us $50 bucks. That was an expensive learning experience!
BUT I would like to leave you with something to think about, ( Sorry this email is so short, my computer is soooo annoyingly slow) Anyway, here is my analogy, If we need keys to get in to our homes and cars and other things, why would we not need keys to get into Heaven also. Heavenly Father has given us those keys. We have the Priesthood power, and with it, the keys to the Kingdom of God. Never forget why we want those keys, its not fun being locked out of your house. Hope you enjoyed that, use it how you will.
We also did exchanges this week, I got to go to West Richland and serve with Sister Brown ( a for real cowgirl, her family owns a ranch) for the day and then switch back at the sister conferance the next day. The sister conferance was amazing, we have 24 sisters in the mission and they were ALL there! I will send you picures next week. Exhanges are fun, but I know with all my heart, might, mind, and soul that Sister Chatwin was meant to be my trainer and that walla walla was meant to be my first area to serve in.
I am so grateful to be on a mission and it gets better everyday. I miss home and I miss everyone, but as I throw myself into the Work, I forget that I am far from home. I know that the gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored to the Earth and that we all have the opportunity to return to our loving Heavenly Father. Reading the Book of Mormon has brought me so much joy and I am happy to share it with everyone around me. Keep the letters coming, please! I LOVE LETTERS! :)
--With all my love, SISTER MORGAN BROX
Anyway, funny story, We went outside Saturday morning at 6:30 am to excersise for our required amount of time everyday and as I was about to go back in to do some more stuff inside, I looked at Sis Chatwin and said, "Did you bring the keys outside?" She had gone outside first and then I did and we left the door open because it locks when you close it. She had gone back in to grab her jump rope and then shut the door behind her. WE WERE LOCKED OUT. There was no way in because all of our windows have locks on them on the inside. We tried all of them with no luck. We had no phone and no keys, in our work out clothes, all sweaty and looking wonderful. =) We knocked on our neighbors door to see if he could help and he couldn't, so we walked 2 miles to get to the senior missionary couples home. (the Christensen's) I love them! and they called our property managers and then finally 2 hours later, at 9:30 AM we got back into our appartment. It was CRAZY! The guy charged us $50 bucks. That was an expensive learning experience!
BUT I would like to leave you with something to think about, ( Sorry this email is so short, my computer is soooo annoyingly slow) Anyway, here is my analogy, If we need keys to get in to our homes and cars and other things, why would we not need keys to get into Heaven also. Heavenly Father has given us those keys. We have the Priesthood power, and with it, the keys to the Kingdom of God. Never forget why we want those keys, its not fun being locked out of your house. Hope you enjoyed that, use it how you will.
We also did exchanges this week, I got to go to West Richland and serve with Sister Brown ( a for real cowgirl, her family owns a ranch) for the day and then switch back at the sister conferance the next day. The sister conferance was amazing, we have 24 sisters in the mission and they were ALL there! I will send you picures next week. Exhanges are fun, but I know with all my heart, might, mind, and soul that Sister Chatwin was meant to be my trainer and that walla walla was meant to be my first area to serve in.
I am so grateful to be on a mission and it gets better everyday. I miss home and I miss everyone, but as I throw myself into the Work, I forget that I am far from home. I know that the gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored to the Earth and that we all have the opportunity to return to our loving Heavenly Father. Reading the Book of Mormon has brought me so much joy and I am happy to share it with everyone around me. Keep the letters coming, please! I LOVE LETTERS! :)
--With all my love, SISTER MORGAN BROX
Sunday, March 11, 2012
I hit my First Month Mark!
So, I have officially been a missionary for one month and four days! That is kind of crazy, isn't it!? And I will have you know that today is my half birthday today! Woohoo! lol I would answer the questions that people have been asking me, but I think I got the majority of the questions after I emailed last week and I had already answered most of them.
This week was a lot less crazy than last week. Our teaching pool is pretty low so we have decided that we are going to add more tracting into our schedule to hopefully boost up our numbers. We are busy from the time we wake up in the morning till the time we get to lay down at night. Sometimes Sister Chatwin has a hard time staying awake when I am teaching my part of the lesson. I don't know if it's because I am boring or because she is so tired.
This weekend was Stake Conferance for the Walla Walla Stake and we sat on the front row for both the Saturday night session and the Sunday session. It was great. We had Elder Maynes from the Presidency of the Seventy speak to us. I got to shake his hand both days and it was great. He shared lots of personal experiences about traveling with President Hinkley. He also taught that the choices we make develop into habits then to our traditions and then into our culture. He said we need to make sure that our traditions are Celestial Traditions and not False Traditions while we are here on this Earth. He also talked a lot about how important the Holy Ghost is in all things. Never think that the Holy Ghost isn't as important as Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. He is the 3rd member of the Godhead for very important reasons.
President and Sister Greer also spoke at Stake Conferance and they did amazing. President even called Sister Chatwin up to receite The Missionary Commission by memory in front of everyone. He asked her to do it like 2 hours before conferance started so she was cramming it into her memory. So because she did such a great job on it, WE get to receite it at our young sister missionary conferance on Thursday. There are 24 young sisters in our mission and we get to have a conferance with everyone 2 times a year. I am so excited to meet all the sisters. I memorized the commission this morning so I will keep working on it all week till then. You need to look it up. It's by Bruce R. McConkie, called "My Missionary Commission".
After Stake Conferance we went to eat lunch with a family that owns a mansion/ bed and breakfast. You have to look it up! The website is cameoheightsmansion.com! I was there! Its amazing! And I want to go back!
I am out of time already! I have lost my speed in typing! We got to go to the Temple this last week for a sister that was baptized a year ago. She is in her late 70s and she was so excited! Her 11 yr old grandson that lives with her was baptized at the beginning of February. They are an awesome family and I am so grateful that she asked us to join her at the Temple. We rode out to the Tricities with the Relief Society President and her husband and the Bishop's wife. So that was fun! The Temple is a lot like the one in OKC but a little bit bigger. I loved the Celestial Room! It was so beautiful! I can't wait to be with my Father in Heaven again.
I really need to go now. We are striving to be exactly obediant in all things and that means email time too! lol
I love you all so much! Please write me! Mail time is a big event during the day, but I understand if you are busy because I am busy too!
Have a wonderful day and a great week! ~ Sister Morgan Brox
This week was a lot less crazy than last week. Our teaching pool is pretty low so we have decided that we are going to add more tracting into our schedule to hopefully boost up our numbers. We are busy from the time we wake up in the morning till the time we get to lay down at night. Sometimes Sister Chatwin has a hard time staying awake when I am teaching my part of the lesson. I don't know if it's because I am boring or because she is so tired.
This weekend was Stake Conferance for the Walla Walla Stake and we sat on the front row for both the Saturday night session and the Sunday session. It was great. We had Elder Maynes from the Presidency of the Seventy speak to us. I got to shake his hand both days and it was great. He shared lots of personal experiences about traveling with President Hinkley. He also taught that the choices we make develop into habits then to our traditions and then into our culture. He said we need to make sure that our traditions are Celestial Traditions and not False Traditions while we are here on this Earth. He also talked a lot about how important the Holy Ghost is in all things. Never think that the Holy Ghost isn't as important as Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. He is the 3rd member of the Godhead for very important reasons.
President and Sister Greer also spoke at Stake Conferance and they did amazing. President even called Sister Chatwin up to receite The Missionary Commission by memory in front of everyone. He asked her to do it like 2 hours before conferance started so she was cramming it into her memory. So because she did such a great job on it, WE get to receite it at our young sister missionary conferance on Thursday. There are 24 young sisters in our mission and we get to have a conferance with everyone 2 times a year. I am so excited to meet all the sisters. I memorized the commission this morning so I will keep working on it all week till then. You need to look it up. It's by Bruce R. McConkie, called "My Missionary Commission".
After Stake Conferance we went to eat lunch with a family that owns a mansion/ bed and breakfast. You have to look it up! The website is cameoheightsmansion.com! I was there! Its amazing! And I want to go back!
I am out of time already! I have lost my speed in typing! We got to go to the Temple this last week for a sister that was baptized a year ago. She is in her late 70s and she was so excited! Her 11 yr old grandson that lives with her was baptized at the beginning of February. They are an awesome family and I am so grateful that she asked us to join her at the Temple. We rode out to the Tricities with the Relief Society President and her husband and the Bishop's wife. So that was fun! The Temple is a lot like the one in OKC but a little bit bigger. I loved the Celestial Room! It was so beautiful! I can't wait to be with my Father in Heaven again.
I really need to go now. We are striving to be exactly obediant in all things and that means email time too! lol
I love you all so much! Please write me! Mail time is a big event during the day, but I understand if you are busy because I am busy too!
Have a wonderful day and a great week! ~ Sister Morgan Brox
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