Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
One world trade center (so sick. thanks fam they are just realllllyly complicated Legos haha) Tractin 2-3 Banana, syrup, jam, peanut butter, pancake.... my comp is LITerally Tongan Elf. He mixes the funkiest foods. Cheaper than cafe Rio! Bronx style pizza from a member! Thank you for the package! Some fun stuff! I love the Nerf football! And that KS Kate and Chloe for the letters! Dang Kate that calligraphy is sweet! Muchas gracias!
Hey ya'll! Was a good week this week. We didn't find a single new Investigator which is a really big bummer because we were feelin it this week! Trying to stay optimistic though! Teddy isn't doing too hot with the word of wisdom. That is literally the only thing holding him back! Ahhhh! Keep him in your prayers please! He really likes to go beyond the mark and complicated everything which is pretty frustrating but it is helping me teach SOOO simply so he just can't complicate it at all. He'll go on rants and we have to cut him off and it's just tough but he is slowing down on the cigarettes. Anywho, this week was the best because we had so many service opportunities! We got to help someone in the branch do some spring cleaning, and Jackson one of our investigators do some spring cleaning, help a lady in our branch break some furniture and throw it in the dumpster and then we stopped by this member in our branch's who is married to a Jehovah Witness and her calling is with the youth and they were doing a bake sale the next day and she was stressin so she asked if we could help her make a bunch of fudge and cakes and stuff so we did! And then she fed us! It was great! We've been spending a lot of time on campus and it has been really fun. There was this one guy we met that is so ready! His name is Rory and we talked to him right after class at 8pm. We stopped him as he was walking out and got to show him the Easter initiative and teach him all about the book of Mormon! He was super interested and said he needed more guidance in his life. Well he didn't feel comfortable giving us his number but we found him on FB and we have been able to keep in touch! Hopefully we can meet him next week! Oh this week we got to teach Aaronic priesthood and it was sweeeet! We got to teach about the importance of the Book of Mormon and did some role plays with the YM about how they would answer questions their friends might have! A couple of the YM told us that it helped a ton after the lesson. Ha ha I got a last minute invitation to give a 15 minute talk in sacrament meeting too! In Spanish! Wow. Ha I'm kidding but it is so much easier to give a little minute talk when your a missionary than when you're not 😂 I got to speak on Christ's love and I wish I recorded it but it went well! It's kinda nice speaking in a branch because you can actually see how they are taking your talk in so that was fun to see! I hope I get more speaking opportunities because I actually really like it. Well that's just about my week! I love you all! Elder Murray
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Dinner at the Kengs wow so delicious! HAPPY EASTER YA'LL! What a wonderful thing to celebrate! His resurrection brings peace to all who follow him! Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world! We got to go to an investigators house for Easter Sunday and man it was amazing! He (Brian Keng) spent over 3 hours making this huge sushi platter and WOW it was amazing. There are pictures to prove it too! He is from Taiwan and is a super funny guy. The first time I met him I asked where he was from and he said "I was made in Taiwan. M.I.T! You know me!" Haha I was super confused at first and then I understood he was trying to be funny and I laughed so hard. Then last night we found some little tree frogs on the door of the church and Elder Tatafu jumped like 3 feet in the air because it scared him so bad hahaha!
We did a cool street display also called an APF. At the University campus and it was cool! Passed out a lot of Books of Mormon and showed the new Easter initiative to a lot of students. We are on the look out for new Investigators and are really working the part member family lists and prospective elder lists. We only need 3 more active Melchezidek Priesthood holders to make this branch a ward! We have one prospective elder working towards getting the Priesthood right now! It's pretty exciting! Teddy is doing well! He is struggling with the word of wisdom though. It's tough. Coffee and smoking! Ahhh. But we will continue to work with him and man members help sooooo much! All ya'll! Go out with the missionaries if you can!!! But yeah that was pretty much my week! I love you all and hope ya'll had a great Easter! Elder Murray I was able to visit with Elder Weatherford T. Clayton this week Hey! So this week has been great! We have really been focusing on being agents for change this week. It's been awesome. The other day we spent way too much time in the car and it was the worst! So we... well the spirit helped us come up with the 10 minute plan. If we have to spend more than 10 minutes in the car at a time we stop the car and get out and try to find someone to teach. It doesn't matter where we are at or even if we are in the middle of nowhere! It has been awesome! We've got to meet so many more people and have seen miracles from acting in faith! We have found people everytime so far! So cool. We had stake conference this week and it was cool. Teddy, our investigator got to come and the Walkers in the branch sat with him. He called us later that day and I'll send you the recording of what he said. Probably the best thing you'll ever hear as a missionary 😃. We went on Splits this week and I went to the district leaders area in Kingston which was cool. It is the most northern area in the mission and is pretty cool! It kinda reminded me of Park City! All the little shops and stuff. Some cool murals on the sides of buildings too! And ate some fried grasshoppers 😝 and I met Elder Weatherford T. Clayton! Like the last week or so I was in Yonkers he came and gave that awesome talk where he said Christ is coming soon. It was cool to see him speak in conference! But yeah! That's pretty much my week! I love you all!
Elder Tatafu and our wee lil chapel Conference was the best! We had our investigator Teddy to every session but he always came like 20 minutes late! So he missed Elder Costas talk! Uhg! We got to watch General Conference in our branch's wee lil chapel. It was a great experience and so many questions were answered and yeah! Now to live it!
My companion is a goofy guy haha its funny most of the time! We get along pretty well. It's fun to mess with him and tease him though. I got him to think dinosaurs still live in parts of the world 😂 thank you for all the voice recordings I love those! We had zone conference too which was fun! Elder Tatafu and I got to do a role play in front of both zones with little jacket mics and all! It was pretty fun! Other than that we have Sunny New Paltz University right across the street from our apartment so we go contacting over there and it was pretty cool! In between sessions we went over there to raise awareness of the prophet speaking to us and in my mind I thought "I wonder if there is some inactive member student that we could save." Within seconds we found one. We tried to stop a group of students and all them kept walking except one! He asked us if this was our area and he ended up being from Sugarhouse UT and was a member and he told us he was off and on coming to church but didn't know that there was a branch here in New Paltz. We gave him the time and address to the church and he said he would come! I am so mad that I didn't ask him for his number but I've gotta learn from my mistakes. It was cool though. God knows the thoughts and intents of your heart. I love my Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ! I loved the talk about unrolling your spiritual sleeping bag haha it was funny and had an awesome message! I don't have my notebook so I'm not sure who it was but it was awesome! I love you all! Elder Murray |
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