Elder Malachi Morgan: Service, Chick fil A, and a Gun!

Hello everyone! I hope you all are having a great Labor Day weekend!!

This week has been good, we have still been teaching a lot of member lessons and trying to do a lot of service to keep us busy. I have a quick story for y'all.

The Thurman's are an older part-member family who we got the chance to do service for this past week. They are both old and can't do much maintenance on there 3 acre lot. Brother Thurman had a brain bleed awhile ago and his memory hasn't been the same since. So we went to help them with some service We loaded up everything in his truck, but then he couldn't find his keys! We asked him if they were in his pockets and when he checked he pulled out a gun! It was a little shotgun pistol, and it totally caught us off guard. Elder Peterson and I asked him about it and if he had ever had to use it. He told us that he doesn't even know how to use it (due to his memory loss) but that he brings it with him everywhere, and he wanted to show us the bullets but didn't remember how to open the gun. So there he was fiddling with the gun and trying to open it, with the gun loaded, all the while pointing the gun in our direction. Elder Peterson and I took a step or two back since we didn't want to get shot by this old man! Eventually after a while of him struggling, we asked if he wanted our help, and we opened it up for him. He then proceeded to tell us that he has over 100 guns in a safe but he can't remember the code to get in! Elder Peterson and I laughed so hard. But we have grown close with them over this week.

Service with Brother Thurman

Elder Kline has a friend back home that we have been able to teach. He just graduated and has done research into a lot of different religions. He has read a lot of anti letters and so we have had two lessons with him so far. It has been good talking with him. He has had a lot of family issues and really challenging situations. But it has been cool to see his perspective change on certain things. We are going to teach him again this week so we are excited for that

We had zone conference this week! That was on Thursday and it was so good! It was nice being able to meet other missionaries and hear from president call. Besides the unfortunate news of no sports and no member meals whatsoever it was a super spiritual conference. I learned a ton, and am grateful for the leadership in the mission. The local Chick fil A donated lunch!