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I cannot believe I have had this opportunity to be a cast trainer. Us six C.T are the most spoiled and LUCKIEST sisters and missionaries on the world. WOW. While all the other sisters are out door knocking and giving tours we are in the MIDDLE of the Pageant...Working RIGHT WITH the cast personally. We are outside from 9-5 all day teaching and going into the tents to practice with the cast members. It feel like I’m at Disneyland kind of ha ha...but I actually LOVE it so much...the outdoor shelter we present at is BIG and its only like a few hundred feet away from us and so through the trees you can see the cast practicing with the LOUD music and explosions and water shooting up and people in the grassy part all practicing the dances and their own parts...ALL WHILE WE ARE TEACHNIG. We teach in segments to the cast not all at once...7 presentations a day. IT’S AMAZING. All six of us sisters got all teary eyed last night as we talked about how amazing our opportunity is to have to do this! Once in a lifetime. Then we did our final workshop today and it’s been the funniest thing I have ever done! I LOVE IT! The lord has truly blessed me in this calling No joke. It has been so fun! Then today we got to watch the WHOLE cast do a quick 10 minute run through of when the savior comes down to visit the people like in 3rd Nephi. WOW no one was in costume and it was BLAZING hot and the music started and the people were all looking at the cast "Jesus" and us six sisters were in TEARS....just the practice...the actual show starts on Thursday night...I can’t believe how good they are!!! They just got their roles not even a week ago... That’s the Lord helping. No possible other way. It’s INCREDIBLE and it’s just hot day practice. Wow. Best MISSION IN THE WORLD.


It’s incredible...and it’s not even the whole thing....spirit is so strong here! Powerful!
So I just want to say I love you all. I know this gospel is true because I feel the spirit testify to me each time I’m here at these sacred sites. I can’t believe in a year will be preparing to go home. Wow....crazy! I’m SO blessed to be a missionary here

Love,
Sister Morrison

KIMBERLYS BAPTISM is SATURDAY!!! She asked me to give a talk =) She is doing amazing... it will be so special...I was talking to a bunch of sisters and they said that NEVER hardly does a sister find a person and teach them and be there for them when they are baptized!!!! I’m so lucky. I found her in March and taught her all the way through and now I will be at her baptism speaking. IT will be special and I’m so happy for her she has come a LONG way!!!!! I know there is a reason why I’m supposed to be on a mission and esp. in my area. Kimberly needed me and we really do have a special connection. Love that girl.

Here is a cool quote from President Hinckley that II found yesterday about sister missionaries....
“Many young women are serving missions. Many are preparing to serve, not because they are not married or have nothing else to do, but because they have a desire to serve. The reason so many are going is because in the next generation Heavenly Father will be sending his Priesthood army to the earth, He wants to send them to Mothers who have been properly trained and taught the gospel and what better training can a women have than that of serving a mission"

Love,

Sister Morrison

June 1st

June 1
The sites are picking up...we are at sites 5 days a week! Its intense...i love it but no time in our area. We didn't have a baptism this week...Kimberly set her date now to June 19 the weekend before the transfer ends. I think that's a pretty solid date so we will see! Then still teaching Beth and she is having a hard time....i feel so bad for her she has 2 kids and living off of 25 dollars a week and we still have to teach law of tithing...I'm scared for that one. but we are not going to teach her that until she can keep the commitments she has already been given...we will see? I love her though. She had a really neat experience last week when she was reading the scriptures. I told her to pray to knew they were true and she said she did and nothing. so we said again keep reading and praying...so we got home that night after we taught her and were planning for next day and in the prayer i said i said help her know the power from the BOM and no joke she called us 3 minutes later and said crying....i decided to pray and i just opened up to Alma 42:30 and it hit me so hard. Its a powerful scripture read it. And she was like wow i have chills and know this is a sign...so we were so excited...then she didn't come to church??? So we went over Sunday and taught her sabbath day and she had a really hard time with that???? strange...cause usually that is easy one for people to accept...so I'm not sure what to think now? Its in the Lords hands.
Saturday we were in a parade. Here in Waterloo is where memorial day started. Its the birth place of memorial day! Pretty cool....so there was a huge parade and the church was in it...so we walked in holding a banner and waved to people....ill send pictures! It was so fun! Its been so HOT here like unbelievable...

Love,
Sister Morrison

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May 25th Letter

We get a call like Thursday i believe...its Sister Stone and she is freaking out....she says ARE YOU COMING TO THE HILL TONIGHT FOR THE MEETING? I said what are you talking about...YOU HAVE TO COME Elder D.Todd Christofferson is SPEAKING TO the site sisters!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a last minute thing he decided to do. Van Den Berghe and i were YELLING and screaming with excitement!!!! So we dropped everything and went up to the Hill Cumorah and there with just about 50 others got to have Him speak to us privately. It was open ended question session. Not one of the sisters was asking questions just the senior couples....so I raised my hand and said Elder Christofferson i know you have a busy schedule but I was just wondering what your most treasured time is as part of your sacred calling. HE smiled and said being with missionaries. HE went off and talked about his love for missionaries. It was a unique experience that i will never forget! He bore his testimony to us and during it said some powerful things i was in tears. After we got to go up and talk with him and shake his hand...I’ll send pictures...he just held my hand in a clasp and just smiled and looked into my eyes and I felt his deep love. It was incredible. What an amazing experience...A sister that is about to go home said that has never happened! I feel so blessed. I'm not kidding when i say that i literally have the BEST mission in the whole world. I'm so lucky.
That was pretty much the highlight of the week! ha ha...pretty good one huh?

Love,
Sister Morrison

april 20th letter

...this morning i got a call from President and i was getting ready and he asked me to do Cast Training this summer and be director next summer!!! This means we work with all the cast members for pageant. There are 800 cast actors and actresses and six sisters are chosen to train them on getting referrals from everyone in crowd, (we set up nine thousand chairs for the production) with that many people coming to see pageant not all the sister missionaries can talk to everyone and we want to receive as many referrals for the people as possible so they train the cast to learn how to get them for us, and that's what i got called to do. I am so excited to do this.

love
sister morrison.