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.

Letter- March 23,2010

A tour walked in and so we gave it and i got to the end where it talks about the Book of Mormon stories and i usually bear my testimony at that point and when I got there I paused while bearing my testimony and just was overwhelmed with emotion and I had this burning feeling come over me. The people on the tour were a family two parents and young girl about to go on mission and I said I love being a missionary. This book is true. My lip was trembling so much ha- ha and I just poured out my soul to them and the mom and girl were in tears and i said love this time with your family because it will be shortly gone before you will not have them with you but there is nothing like teaching people about this book. Most Amazing feeling when the spirit literally speaks through you. That’s how i feel. I’m brought to tears just thinking about the power of this gospel and how i get to share it with people and how much out Savior has done for us and i owe everything to him. My whole life. I’m truly starting to get comfortable with this work, its special but i know the lord guides me in all i do and I'm so thankful for him. I could go on forever! Sorry that was churchy coming out of me!! ha ha ha okay i love you have an amazing week! I love you love, your missionary Kiersten! kisses!!!!

03-08-10

I am happy here but i miss you guys so much, But when i feel like things are hard i think of the life these people I'm teaching have. I'm so blessed. These people have Nothing some of them and are addicted to all kinds of things and have no love at home and no support in life and NO GOSPEL! I cant believe Heavenly FaTHER has given us so much! Honestly. We are healthy, have so much love and support from each other, food at every meal, and have the blessing of the gospel in our lives.

So Monday we were out tracting and we got let in!!! My first time someone let us in and i sure bore testimony as strongly as i could! We had another meeting with this younger lady...but she ditched us. That was very upsetting! I was praying and preparing and trying so hard to have the spirit with me all week so we could teach with power and then NO! She was not there!!! So sad. I will not give up on her though i will tract her down! ha ha!

-Sister Morrison

Vistor Center Training

So starting on Wed we started Visitor Center training. Its so fun. I love it. I am so lucky im in a VC!! So we had our first practice training last night. We decorated a class room like a big VC and we had people from community come in and we had to act like we were in NY. I was so excited and pumped and had so much faith...
I know ill be so great in the VC and it just takes practice! But after the last few days of VC training im SOOO excited to get out to NY and start teaching!!!
just know that i love this gospel and everything in it. Im so glad im a missionary! kissesssssss Sister kkk