Vancouver Washington

I did get to tell you a little bit about transfers though. Like I said
I will be going to Vancouver WA to serve in the Mountain View Ward and
the Clark YSA branch in the Vancouver Stake. I am excited to be going
over there in the dryer season. I will be serving with Sister Faamau
from American Samoa. She has been out a little over a year and I hear
that she is a very good missionary. So I am excited. I leave Wednesday
morning and its a 4 hour drive, non-stop. We will be stopping at the
transfer site so it will take a little longer with that, but not too
bad.

I was a little nervous about transfers and so I was praying that the
Lord would give me peace about it and this entire last week before I
found out I was leaving I was telling everyone that I knew I was
leaving and then it wasn't as much of a shock once we got the call.
Sister Chatwin and Lush will be staying in Walla Walla and this is
Chatwin's last transfer so she goes home on June 26th. That makes me
the most sad out of everything! I will miss her SO much but she said
she would write me so we will see how that works out, haha!

On Saturday we went to the Walla Walla balloon stampede! About 30 hot
air balloons were all around us! It was so cool. I will send some
pics! We also went that night to see the "night glow." It reminded me
of the lanterns in "Tangled!" Except the hot air balloons didn't take
off at night...I will send pics of that too!

We are teaching a lady named Margaret. She is so awesome but she has a
lot of health issues. She has a granddaughter that is a member of the
church and has shared a lot about the gospel with her. Margaret wants
to go to the temple but she is not sure if she is ready for baptism
yet. We tried to put her on date for June 23rd and she said that she
would pray about it. We encouraged her to do that and we will be
praying for her as well. She will be baptised because she has felt the
Spirit so strongly, she is just nervous to say yes!

Anyways, I gotta go! have a wonderful week! I love you all so much and
it was great to see and hear you!

More Pictures!

Pictures

 Sister Lush, Sister Chatwin, Sister Brox at the temple.

Morgan and Elder and Sister Christensen

 Morgan with her favorite color.

Sister Chatwin is an amazing guitar player and singer!

I Love To See The Temple

     What's up!? So I hope you noticed that I am writing on a Tuesday
instead of Monday our normal p-day. We got to go to the Columbia River
Washington Temple today. I was so excited to get to go! It was funny
when I was telling Sister Chatwin how excited I was she told me that
on her mission she has found that when the time comes around for our
temple trips she has definatly found the need to be there and feel
that peace and love. This is the second time in this temple. Its so
pretty! Its alot like the one in OKC but just a tiny bit bigger. I
have been told to go to the temple with a question and I couldn't
really think of anything besides recieving futher knowledge that the
Lord had in store for me today. I have been feeling kind of nervous
about transfer calls this Saturday. I have know idea what is going to
be happening other than that I am 99.9% sure I will not be with Sister
Chatwin anymore and I will no longer be a greeny missionary! This
makes me so nervous! So I decided that while I was at the temple today
I would feel peace when transfers come. I didn't get a mighty
spiritual confirmation or anything like that, but for simple purposes
I just feel like everything will be ok. I am so thankful that my
Father in Heaven knows me so personally and that I can depend on him
to answer my prayers.
     As for transfers there is pretty much an unlimited amount of
possibilities as to what could happen. We make transfer predictions in
our district and everyone predicted that I will be leaving Walla Walla
and that is what makes me so nervous I guess. I stinkin' love it here!
I love the people; the members, the investigators, the college
students (there are 3 colleges in Walla Walla), and even the all the
crazies we get to meet!  This is also going to be Sister Chatwin's
last transfer of her mission. Its so interesting how this is all
working out.
     Anyways, our tripanionship is still fantastic and we are still
preaching the gospel. I love reading the Book of Mormon. It is quickly
becoming my favorite book ever! (As it should be, haha)
     We had exchanges this last week with the sisters in West
Richland. They were Sister Crandall and Sister Call. Sister Chatwin
has been companions with both of them and she even used to serve in
West Richland. We decided that Sis Call would come to WW and Chatwin
would go to WR. Call served in WW and so it was returning to the old
stomping gounds for both of them. This is Call's last transfer so she
will be home in less than a week! So weird! She is a hoot! She is
pretty loud and very pretty! She was one of the sisters that took me
out my very first night in Washington, before I was with Sister
Chatwin. It was a fun day and full of visits. She wanted to see a
couple of people that she had taught when she was here a few months
ago. I don't know if I told you that my area used to be an Elders
area. Sister Call and Sister Hudson were the lucky sisters that got to
open the area for the sisters in September last year. Chatwin and I
were the 3rd set of sisters in this area since 6 years ago. The
members were pretty excited to have sisters, to say the least! haha!
Anyway, it was pouring rain the entire day of transfers so I am glad
that we had enough people to see and things to do so that we didn't
have to go knock on doors in the down pour!
     After church on Sunday we had a linger longer at the church for
the break the fast and that was a lot of fun. Tons of people and not
enough food, so we ate scanty and went home at the end of the night to
finish eating some dinner.
     We did some service this week for a lady in our ward that has a
jungle for a backyard. We 3 and the RS pres and her 1st counselor were
all there and we did a man's job! It felt awesome. I pulled a muscle
in my thigh though so that doesn't feel to good when I stand up or sit
down, but it helps me remember that I did a hard days work! I love it!
       We are teaching a 27 year old named David. He is the fiance to
Stephanie one of the girls in our singles branch. She wants to get
married in the temple so she told him he better straighten up his life
or she wants to break up (this was before he proposed.) Well he is a
miner in nevada and he said that one day he was at work and he pulled
his rig over to the side of the mine and looked up towards the ceiling
and said to God, "Why? Why is my life so hard right now?" He said that
he heard a voice tell him that, "The road he is on is the road he is
supposed to be on." And that was a confirmation to him that he needed
to start looking into the church. He works 7 days on for 12 hrs a day
and then 7 days off. So on his week off he comes to Walla Walla to
visit Stephanie and her 2 year old daughter Savannah. We taught David
3 times this last week and we will teach him again when he comes back.
He is already committed to baptism. I have never felt the Spirit this
strong while teaching on mission. Everything we teach him its like he
has heard it all before but he couldn't remember it. They are worried
that her family will think that he is just getting baptized to make
them happy but I can see the difference, he is doing this for himself
and his own salvation. He is what we call a "golden investigtor" its
truely a miracle!
     Anyway I am going to attach some pictures and get off for the
day! I can't wait till Sunday when I can skype home and see everyone!
I can't wait till you get to meet Sister Chatwin and Sister Lush! They
are so amazing! And you might even get to meet Brother and Sister
Young since we will be skyping from their house! I love you all so
much and I love getting mail so keep it coming! haha, See you soon!
The church is true! The Savior lives and loves us. Read the Book of
Mormon daily and feel the peace and love that it brings! Share the
gospel and find people for the missionaries in your area to teach!
Tootles!

Journals=Annoying! And Tomorrw is my 3 Month Mark

Hey Everybody! So to explain the reasoning behind the title of
this email is that I have been a very bad missionary because I have
not been good on keeping up with my journal and I am disappointed in
myself for it! I was given small tidbits of advice from many people
before my mission and something that most people said was to make sure
that I kept up on my journal, and well I was great at it in the MTC
and most of my first transfer and then I just stopped writing...I
didn't write from April 1st till April 26. On that day I decided that
I would stop being lazy and to start my journal again! I have been
good at it for the past 4 days and I WILL be better at it the rest of
my mission! I just have to remind myself that they don't always have
to be 5 or more pages long! haha! I know how important it is to keep a
record of my daily life. Heavenly Father has taught that keeping
records is important to him, otherwise why would he require the
prophets to write down their prophecies or why would he command Nephi
and his brothers to return to Jerusalem after they had already left,
or why would Moroni bury the gold plates in the hill Cumorah if they
were not important. My journals may not be meant to teach nations
about Christ and Heavenly Father and the Atonement and the Gospel but
I hope that they will be of benefit to me and/or my posterity someday.
     Moving on: This week has been full of fun! Haha!  We got a whole
bunch of lessons and visits in during the first couple days of the
week and then we didn't really have anything to do on Thursday so we
decided to go out and visit some of the Elderly sisters in the ward
that live in nursing homes or assisted living centers. We met a Sister
Helga Piver. She is 75 and she is on permanent dialysis. So she has to
live in the center because she has treatment on Mon, Wed, and Fri
every week. She was born and raised in Berlin Germany and moved to
America when she was 21. She has a very very thick accent still and
she was so much fun to talk to and get to know. Her roommate was
asleep when we got there and through most of our visit. Then she woke
up and started to sit up. Helga looked at us and said, "Don't let her
kiss you!" and we were like, "okay." Margie, Helga's roommate, got up
and walked straight to Sister Chatwin and tried to give her a kiss!
haha it was so funny and cute. Sister Chatwin did was Helga said and
didn't let Margie kiss her but just gave her a hug instead. Margie has
Alzheimer's and never said a word to us except....as she was moving
away from Sister Chatwins arms she leaned back in really close and
said with a very distraught face, "I gotta pee!" So we escorted her
very quickly to her bathroom. We sat back down with Helga and chatted
then Margie came back out of the bathroom. She was trying to make it
back to her bed so we helped her along and she gave Sister Chatwin
another hug, (Helga said Chatwin looks like a family member).
Apparently Margie wanted to go roam the halls so we gave her her
walker and when she saw it she said, "well hello there" and she was
off, around the corner and down the hall! It was so funny, kind of sad
at the same time. Helga said that there is really only one other
person in the entire place that had a sound mind and that when Helga
tries to talk to her she doesn't really want to because Helga "talks
to much about Germany and that she doesn't like Germans." Helga said
that she tries to not talk about Germany but that is where a lot of
her life happened so its hard for her not to. Helga was very excited
that we were there and is even more excited that we said we would come
back and visit her this week.
     After we saw Helga we went to meet a referral that a member of
the ward gave us. Brother Faaumu was baptized a little over a year ago
and was recently able to go through the Temple. He and his wife share
a car so he does a lot of walking around while she has the car at
work. He is from Samoa and is a very very nice guy so he talks to
anyone and everyone! He told us about this really nice old lady named
Mary that he met that we should go and talk to. We said ok and so that
is where we were headed after Helga. We knocked on Mary's door and she
immediately let us in. It didn't take us long to figure out that Mary
was a few french fries short of a happy meal. (As Sister Chatwin would
say!) Mary was very nice BUT she definitely has an extreme case of
Alzheimer's or just insane. We visited Mary for about 20 minutes and we
had the same 7 sentences/thoughts repeated over and over again. She
had a bowl of baby carrots on the table and she would take a bite of
one and chop her teeth at us and say, "I just washed these up and chew
them up and they are good for my teeth! They don't have to be cooked
or nothing! Have you ever had them like this before?" We would say
"yes" and then she would say, "REALLY?!? Then I'm not crazy!" She also
liked to talk about 2 notes that she had on the wall by her telephone,
her dog named "penny or billy" the dogs tag said, "Matilda", she liked
that Sister Lush wore glasses just like she did and that we all had on
watches like her. She LOVES to sing, she sang Ave Maria for us a
couple times and I was scared that she might bite me if I got to close
while she was singing...She also talked a lot about how she was from
St John's Newfoundland Canada and when she asked me where I was from
and I said Oklahoma she said, "Oh that's where I'm from, Its right by
St. Johns Newfoundland Canada!" I really appreciated the opportunity I
had to meet Mary M. Bull...Her name was written on a pad of paper and
I asked her what the M stood for, She said, "I don't know its just
always been that way." There was one point that Sister Chatwin and I
could no long control our laughter and we laughed so hard that we had
tears running down our cheeks! I wish I could have recorded that 20
minutes of my life! Anyways, we left Mary's house and went to give
Brother Faaumu a report and told him that unfortunately we would not be
able to teach Mary about the Gospel but that she would get her
opportunity to hear about the Gospel in the spirit world.
     My time is almost up! Craziness! On Saturday we went up to Dayton
(an hour or so I think east of Walla Walla) to a service project for
our stake and two other stakes. The church owns a camp ground there
called Teancum Timbers and we were getting it all cleaned up and ready
for the coming summer of girls camps and scouting trips. It was a lot
of fun. The YSAs were in charge of blazing a new trail up one of the
hills/mountains. We three followed behind them making the path wider
and more walkable. While I was doing it I felt like Heidi in the Alps!
haha Its definitely not like any camp grounds back at home! I will try
to include some pictures from that fun day. We were all muddy, tired,
and sore! I got a big splinter in my hand which was a lot of fun! I am
finally able to stand up and sit down without wincing!
     Sunday/yesterday was great! The talks and the lessons were all
amazing and we had quite a few less actives that we teach and some
recent converts and an investigator there! It was wonderful! But even
with all the wonderfulness it was so hard to stay awake because we
were so tired from the day before!
     I need to get going, but I love you all and I miss you and I love
hearing from you! Keep up the good work and pray for missionary
opportunities as well as people that you know that are ready to hear
the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The missionaries in your area need more
people to teach, I can promise you that! Hugs and Kisses! See you
soon! Love you! The Church is True!
Sister Morgan Brox

 Giving Sister Chatwin a ride through the apartment.

 The Three Stooges

We taught this little girl and her family. She just turned 8 and this
is at her baptism on Sunday. Her name is McKenna Hart and she is the
sweetest little girl ever!

Howdy Everybody! Sorry there is not a funny story to start this
week out with, maybe I will think of one as I go. This week was
another good one! (They are all good...) haha! It was the same ol'
life of a greenie missionary! I do feel like I am getting the hang of
things though. Tracting doesn't scary me as much as it used to but its
not really my favorite thing to do either. One thing exciting is that
I have been able to start driving, woohoo! Its just like getting back
on a horse/bike/whatever you want to compare it to. So far so good! We
have a bright red 2011 Toyota Corolla with only 6000 miles on it!
Super nice! But I still look forward to coming home and buying a
crossover/mini suv...if I can afford it!
     Ummm...thats about it, haha! I don't really have much to say
today about this week. Although, I did receive lots of letters this
week and I LOVED IT!!!!! Please continue to show me the love!
Hopefully that doesn't sound to greedy! lol
      We did put someone on date for baptism this week. Its a family
that is inactive in the church. The mom and dad are already members
but they haven't gone to church since their early teens. They have two
boys, Kaleb 9 and Ryan 6. Kaleb is super excited to be baptized even
though he doesn't know too much about the church. So we are teaching
him so that he can be prepared to be baptized on June 9th. They are a
way awesome family and they have a pet tortoise that it is the size of
a basketball! and it will get bigger, I got to hold it! I should get a
picture with it! Yay!
     Last week I wrote about the guy named Cody that we are
teaching...He is a super nice guy. He has tatoos all over and his ears
are pierced, and he is very macho. We went by to visit him again this
week and we talked about the plan of salvation and his beliefs on
those types of things. He has had a hard life, he found out that his
son is not his, his dog (baby) got hit by a car and cost $4000 to fix
him, his car got totaled while parked in front of his house, he has
very few friends, he is a full time student, and other things, the
list could go on. We were talking about his life and he said how funny
it was to him that the missionaries or members always seem to come
around when ever he is having a super hard time in his life. He said
himself that it must not be a coincidence, and we assured him that is
was not! The Lord has his hands in all things and he knows when we are
ready and prepared and willing to hear the Gospel. We will be teaching
Cody again this week and I will let you know how it goes.
     We had almost all of our dinners cancel on us this week. Ususally
we are fed dinner every night which is absolutly amazing, but because
we are fed so much we usually don't have too much food at home, other
than left overs that people send us home with. So our dinners
cancelled and we were left to fend for ourselves. It was a lot of fun
actually. Sister Chatwin is an amazing cook and she can whip up some
yummy concoctions with whatever we can find in our cupboards! We are
not starving by any means! Anyways, after we found out on Saturday
that our dinner was cancelled that night and that Sunday night was
also cancelled we thought what food do we have in the house? We were
trying to figure out what to do for dinner for the next two nights
when a sister in the ward called us and said, "Are you girls alright?
For some reason I felt the need to call you and check on you." We told
her that we didnt have much food at home and that we didnt have a
dinner planned for Sunday/tomorrow night and we could really use
something. (We had enough to get by on Saturday) She said that she
would be happy to have us over after church for dinner. She was truely
an answer to an unsaid prayer. It was amazing and I love the tender
mercies that the Lord gives us!
     I think that is all I have for this week! I hope to have more
exciting things to write about this next week...I love you all so much
and I hope to hear from you soon! Keep up the good work. Serve those
around you: Mosiah 2:17 The Book of Mormon is amazing, share it! Their
salvation is worth the awkwardness...lol Lovin' Life!
--
SISTER MORGAN BROX