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This actually happened last week (I am catching up)
We decided to take a birthday cake to everyone in the branch (as you know by now). We have about 425 members of our branch and we have been taking each one a cake. It has been wonderful. We will visit every one once and half of them twice before we go home. A lot of these people have moved out and so we are cleaning out the records also at the same time. 99 percent of them are way excited about it. One man said “no one has ever done that for me”. (Degraw’s are also doing this). It keeps us busy and we have to weigh our time working on fellow shipping and giving out cakes.  Our record day was giving out 8 cakes.  We have had a lot of great experiences, I will share one from tonight: sister morgan and I about an hr ago gave a cake to a sister who said she was on the placement program and still keeps in contact with her family in Idaho. She said no one has contacted her here in Eagle Butte In forever. She said she has been visiting about the church with the family that took her in and she had been praying about getting back into the church.  We are going back!!  We are eating dinner tonight with a sister who we have activates and have given the temple lessons to.   It all started out  by getting a branch list from the branch and baking cakes   It really have been fun.
I know everyone is in a different situation so please share ideas you have learned that might help the rest of us.  I know Peterson’s (as busy as they are) have taken opportunities to find people. Life is great!!

Friday of last week:
Sister Morgan and I are headed to a baby blessing in Oregon. On our way from the motel to to the airport on a shuttle we got to talking to the driver. She said “I really respect you for what you are doing”(Native American from fort Yates) she said she “was in an abusive relationship and had gotten into drugs and alcohol”. She said she had gone into the bathroom to take her own life when their was a knock on the door. She answered the door and it was the missionaries. She felt they had saved her life. She is living in rapid city now (drug and alcohol free) and doing good with her 4 kids and two jobs.
Elders and sisters we will never know all the good we are doing out here. (She said she would listen to the missionaries)

On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 6:04 PM Gary Morgan <garymorgan2000@gmail.com> wrote:

We have an update on the cake we gave away last week. We texted the sister we gave the cake to today and asked if we could get together with her and she said she would come to our house this afternoon. She came at 1:00. She brought a friend who is a not member and they both want to come to church on Sunday and they both took a b of m home with them. They are very excited to read the book and the non member asked for the sisters to come teach her. A couple hrs later we took a cake to a sister at the hospital. (she works there) She lives in Red Scaffold. (Close to cherry creek). She was really happy we found her and said she has a son that wants to be baptized   She wants the elders to come teach him

Now the sad news......the Cherry Creek building burned down during the night!  Yes I know, the adversary is trying really hard to keep us from loving and serving the people of Cherry Creek.   (Here are pictures) (And a thought from Joseph Smith) I have visited with the tribe and their is a building in Cherry Creek we can use. I just need to clear it with the church!! We will move forward with faith!!

   Joseph Smith"s quote:

   "The standard of truth has been erected. No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing;       Persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble , the enemy may defame, but the     truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent tell it has penetrated every ear, till the           purposes of Gad shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done!!
   Joseph Smith 1842