Interesting. Over the last few weeks and even months the only word in the English language that I found adequate to describe how it must feel completing an honorable full-time mission was glorious. The quote that you sent seems to describe the feeling perfectly.
[Here's the quote I sent him: "A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain" (from the book Unbroken.]
Speaking of finishing strong, we had two more baptisms on Sunday. We baptized a reference of the second counselor in the bishopric named M. and I., the grandmother of Ma., who we baptized about six weeks ago. M. is the mother and grandmother of many people, so we have a lot of potential to baptize futuristically there.
We started teaching M. about three weeks ago, and she is definitely someone who was prepared by God to be baptized. For her entire life she was searching for the truth. She went from church to church looking for it. She was Catholic, Jehovah’s witness, Evangelic, Adventista do Sétimo Dia and several others, but the first time she went to The Church of Jesus Christ, she “fell in love with it.” It was only a matter of how quickly we could teach her everything she wanted to know.
I., who’s 75, was Catholic since birth, but she has such a great love for Ma. and always wants to be with him that she decided to let us teach her, help her to stop smoking and be baptized. It took a little longer than we had hoped, but everything worked out in the end.
I’m happy to hear that the gramps from both sides with be coming up to visit in October. It will be great seeing them all again. I’m super excited to be home for the holidays this year. Just thinking ahead, my homecoming will be the 9th of October, my talk with be the 19th, fall break is in there somewhere, my birthday is the 27th, Rachel’s birthday is the 3rd of November, Thanksgiving and Michelle’s birthday follow, along with Christmas and New Year’s. Looks like we are going to party like its 1999.
Months and transfers back I was afraid that when I got to my last transfer that I would start to lose the focus, but thankfully the Lord has put me in a such a good area that, as Dad said, I’m too busy to get trunky. There are so many people here with baptismal potential that I don’t have time to waste. Also, the members here love us and are impressed with our work (before A. got here there were only lazy, slacker missionaries for a long time, so the ward didn’t have any baptisms), and all of them are starting to give us references (and extra food too, oh yeah). This area has turned out to be my favorite. I’ll never forget Neópolis.
It’s starting to get hot here, that is true. I’m grateful that I’ll be able to leave the heat of Brazil to go snowboarding in the snow of Utah. I think you all will recall that the summers here are absolutely miserable.
Well, that about does it for me this week. I’m almost there—24 days until I touchdown. Love you all!
Elder Morris
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