Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
Well here it is the last post for Elder Murray's mission. The time went fast! We are so excited to see him this Wednesday!! He will be sharing thoughts about his mission July 29th at the church on the corner of 2700 East and 4500 South (2675 East 4430 South to be exact) Sacrament meeting starts at 12:50 pm. We are all so grateful for your love and support over the past 2 years. I know Matt is exited to see you all!! The district bro Riley and Elder TYRELL We sang this song in church the other week and I heard this line and was just hit with a ton of spiritual bricks. In all reality it will never be over until I'm dead. However, as a missionary for the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints the battle will soon be over and my oh my what a battle it has been. We're winning. And we already know who will win! How good does that feel?! Now we just have to use our God given gift of agency to not dribble out of bounds. I feel like when life is hard we have the ball. Its in our possession. You've got pressure, you've got the opponent all over you trying to stop you. Now what you do is up to you. You could save the pain and stress of it all and just turn over the possession, you could kick it out of bounds, OR you can think back on the days you practiced for this moment. Draw on the talents and skills you've developed! Go and score the goal! Maybe you'll trip. Maybe you'll miss the goal. However, you might just score. If you do trip or miss the goal, now you know what you need to practice. You've gained something very important. Experience. So remember, when times get tough you've got the ball and better yet you're not alone. You've got the absolute best coach in the universe (Heavenly Father) and the absolute best team captain in the universe (Jesus) and all your good teammates (friends, family, bishops, stake presidents, leaders) to help a brotha or sista out. Just a cool thought! The cool thing is if you have the right teammates you'll have a whole lot better of a time. Never choose a bad line up. Choose people who respect and listen to the team captain. So now that this is officially too long for anyone to read I will end it. Seeya in a few!
Oh and I will be speaking in church on Sunday July 29th! Y'all are more than welcome to come! Love you all and thank you for the support! Elder Murray Omni 1:26
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This is Matts Dad... I need to add a preface to this email...
Monticello is pretty cool! Not as cool as my companion though! He's a stud. He's from Spanish Fork and was trained by my MTC companion elder Bradley In New Paltz! We are In another branch here so it's pretty cool! In the 5 days we've been here we found 4 new investigators with real intent. It's been awesome. We just go out and find all day. We are dead Every night. It's the best feeling ever! There are alot of interesting people here in Monticello! 50 Percent of the population is Hasidic Jews! It's kind of cool! I stray away from talking to them but hey it would probably be good to chat with one of them. Tell them how the Book of Mormon is supposed to convince them of the living messiah. What's the worst that could happen right? They might just say no... but other than that we saw a bear! I'll attach the video here! I'm feeling great! I feel like I'm just figuring everything out! I could probably just do this for life 😉 jk I'll come home to see see y'all. Elder Norton just sent me the video of him getting home and I just cried through the whole thing. He was an awesome companion. He taught me how to love people. I'll be forever grateful for him. I can do my homecoming on the 29th. That's fine with me! I miss the smiths already! |
MissionariesElder Murray called to serve in the New York New York North Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 6/22/2016 through 6/22/2018 Write to Matt
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