Hi Mom!
Thank you so much for your letters and constant unyielding support! I love you so much. I love hearing from you and seeing all the awesome pictures you sent. You are forever in my prayers and thoughts along with the rest of the family. This week has been much more normal than the previous week. We've mostly just stayed super busy with good old fashioned missionary work- lots of tracting, teaching, meetings, etc. Three of our investigators were baptized this past weekend. Their names are Eretia, Boutu and Tabuia. Eretia is 20 years old and daughter of a Catholic missionary. It was a humbling and awesome experience to see her gain a testimony of Joseph smith and the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon. Boutu is 10 years old and recently adopted into a family from the church. Tabuia is 44 years old and has changed his life around more thatn any other investigator I have met thus far. At the time we started teaching him his wife had just left him because he would get drunk and beat her all the time. He smoked 15-20 times a day and struggled badly with several other addictions. Despite all these things he was able to gain a testimony that he was a divine son of a loving Heavenly Father and has a divine potential. We experienced one miracle after another through praying and fasting together as he was persecuted by his friends and family, worked to overcome addictions and bad habbits and summoned the courage to repeatedly come to church. He's super extremely smart. He reads out of his English encyclopedia for fun and knows more about Utah and church history than any of us missionaries. Eretia was baptized by our recent convert Naeke. Boutu and Tabuia were baptized by Merika, our ward's Elders Quorum President. We had four other investigators that were going to be baptized this past Saturday but have now postponed their dates until this upcoming week. The hope is that these four with a few others will be baptized this upcoming Saturday along with several others, which should be exciting. Being able to witness these people in Eita and elsewhere be baptized and take upon themselves the name of Christ has been a very special blessing to me for which I will be forever grateful. As always please send my love to the family. I don't really have any needs. If you are sending something though I would love to get some letters from the family! Also something I think would be way cool is if you could print out and send some of the pictures I've emailed home from my mission but more importantly pictures from you guys at home. Ever since coming to Tarawa I've been able to see the pictures you send, but only get to see them ever so briefly on the computer. Having tangible pictures of you guys would be great! I love you so much Mom! Please send my thanks and appreciation to everyone at church and my love to the family! Elder Morphonios
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About MeI'm Elder Joseph Morphonios, and I've chosen to serve a 2 year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Join me as I share my adventures about serving the good people of the Marshall Islands, and sharing the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ with them. Archives
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