AHHH I'm totally stoaked about being here! I have no clue half of what I just went through, but no worries a new message is on its way for you in the mail completely explaining my first day. I'm typing as fast as my little fingers can go (boasting an impressive 80 words a minute) haha just playing. Anyhow I LOVE IT HERE it's so incredibly AWESOME!!!! I love it so so so much. The Spirit is ALWAYS here if you're doing the things you should be doing. Really, all the little rules aren't that hard to follow. Really, it's not bad. cause they give you 8 hours to sleep!!! I don't think I EVER pulled that off at college (oops :( ) anyhow.

My days! I've been here 5 days this is starting th 6th. It's been nuts. My district is way neat comprising of Me, Elder Reid (comp), Elder Barnes, Elder Hansen, Elder McDonald, Elder Covey (yes, the grandson of Steven R.), and elder Allred (muy muy muy comico y amable). And we just had the pleasure of gaining a new addition to our distrito! 3 hermanas!! ellas estan muy muy alegres y simpatico tambien. Hermana Brown, Voigt (also going to Mesa Arizona), and Hermana Tracy. They are such an awesome strength to our distrito. I love hearing their testimonies, and you just can see the shining goodness in their eyes. Ok. Class description. I have 2 maetros (teachers). Hermana Hawley, and Hermano Stanfield. Hermana Hawley served in Spain and yes renae she speaks spanish with the lisp and everything. I'm glad you spoke like that cause it makes it easy for me to understand her while everyone else is having a really really hard time. Hno Stanfield served in Argentine and he has some FUNNY ways to say things. He's very helpful, as they both don't speak in english to us whatsoever, Hno stanfield especially is good at acting out the word, or explaining it in simpler terms. I love it. loooove it. So as I said, we are basically a no-english distrito. Class lessons are 100% spanish except for when we are COMPLETELY LOST. Which believe it or not doesn't happen much. We're all pretty darn good at spanish. The first day, we were extremely blown away, but now that we've been here 5 days, the spirit is definitely helping us out in the translation department. Yesterday, I understood every single thing Hna Hawley said. what a blessing! I know I don't know all the words, or how she was using them, but I know that I understood the entirety of her messge, even down to the little details, and for that little glimpse into the gift of understanding, I'm incredibly grateful for.

This is my longest e-mail probably because I have more time cause I don't get to read anything you have tried to send to me. Any messages from family and friends need to be sent to this address, or I won't be able to read them. shae.d.morgan.mes@myldsmail.org or wherever this message is coming from. maybe it's .net. oh well. just try and get any messages to me. Dear Elder.com is AWESOME. use it my box number is #105 and my estimated leaving date is Aug. 24 ( no early release here!) So I have 8.5 weeks to go insane and learn a ton of spanish and discussions in spanish and how to teach and everything else in the world. I've already learned so much!

I know mom probably wants a play by play of everything I do each day so here it is. 6:10 I wake up to beat the 6:30 rush to the showers. This gives me more time to feel the spirit in the morning instead of being rushed here and there to get to class on time. So, I wake up, pray for me, my companion, and my district. Shower, brush, change into awesome white shirt, slacks, and a DARN good tie, then I head to class by 7:00 personal study until breakfast at 7:45. Then class for 4 hours, till lunch, then lunch class for near 4 hours, then dinner, then comp study, and MDT (missionary directed time to study, language study, use the teaching evaltuation center, or referral center) That's pretty much it.

Seralyn just left for EFY huh....goodness you better keep those boys away from her Matt! Have an AWESOME time counselor-ing, it's going to be great and I hope you never ever doubt for a second if a prompting from the spirit to talk to a boy or girl is of God, because you may just be the thing that starts them changing for the better. That's what happened to me, and I'm forever grateful for that moment of my life.

ok I'm pretty ADD cause I just threw that in mid-schedule. So, After MDT is comp inventory (where we talk about our day and what we can do better) and then after that is study time, praying time, comp prayer, then lights out at 10:30. We also usually have a gym period (which is heaven here.) and sometimes we have devotionals and other stuff.

Ask me questions I'd love to answer anything next week!! Make sure this makes it to the blog and I'm starting to run down on time, but we'll see what I can do.

Sooooo Devotionals! that's something to talk about. This week alone, we had Jeffery R. Holland come speak to us. That was SUCH an awesome lesson about divine companionship, and how if we strive to be obedient, then we're a companionship of 3 not 2 and one is a member of the Godhead....wow. I think of the miracles performed and the converting power of the spirit when Lehi and Nephi in the book of mormon (the end not the beginning) preached and brought in TONS of people into the church. I'm so grateful for that ability to have the spirit as a companion when things get hard. Cause things get hard, really hard, the days are long, 100% spanish when you don't even really speak it gets discouraging sometimes, but "lo I am with thee " and the Lord will go before me and follow behind me so long as I am obedient to His commandments. Mi testimonio? En espanol? pues. Yo tengo un testimonio que el Evangelio de Jesucristo esta restaurado a la tierra. Tenemos un profeta viviente, se llama Thomas S. Monson. Yo se que Jesucristo es mi Salvador y Redentor...y que a traves a la Expiacion, podemos ser limpios de pecados. Y yo digo estas cosas en el nombre de Jesucristo Amen.

I love you all very much,Thanks for your support,My time is goneHurrah for Israel!-Elder Shae D. Morgan P.S. Mom, don't worry about my health. I only live on the top floor of the Quarantine building with 3 floors of contaminated elders with the Swine Flu...er...H1N1. haha No all is well there's a ton of hand sanatizer here so it's all good, and we're taking major precautions. Thanks Love ya! Bye