Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
Zone and district pics First injury of the mish We got to play sports at the Scarsdale chapel. Twas fun! That pic on the bridge was a ten second timer so I had to run and get to the river from the bridge and the bridge to the river. Twas fun like running around. The cemetery First, shout out to the awesome ward and ward members for the birthday wishes. Love you all! I would send you all a letter back but I won't have enough time today!
Hey! This week was pretty great! Other than the fact that we had to move Janice's baptism back because she never can make it to church. We had a ride all set up and everything and she somehow still didn't make it... but we had some more cool experiences! So, transfers happened and I get to stay with Elder Brown! It'll be a good time. He's great. It's sad because elder Bentley and Harris went home. But now we have new elders. Elder Cheney and Elder Wadsworth. They are cool! I am now the district leader for our area so we will see how that goes! Now I know that the Lord doesn't call the qualified, he qualifies the called. We had some pretty awesome lessons with our investigators Dante and Derek. We are helping Derek overcome his smoking addiction and he us going from 9 cigarettes a day to 4 so he can be baptized. He is an honest seeker of truth and he found and watched the restoration video all on his own and everything. He's great. Dante is this guy we met street contacting. He is one of our most normal investigators and said an awesome first prayer! I read the talk that speaks about ponderizing scriptures and it's an awesome talk! My Heart Pondereth Them Continually challenge each one of you to pick a verse of scripture each week and ponderize it. It really does bring blessings and joy! Oh my goodness. Heavenly father answers prayers. I knew that already but just a testimony builder experience. We had prayer in companionship study to just find 1 new person to teach that day because we had a lot of tracting and calling planned for the day and most the time people are not interested but we can teach them and then they don't want to see us again. Well we completely forgot that we had prayed about that and we were knocking doors and this kid opened it. He looked about 12 or thirteen and we started talking to him about the book of Mormon. He took a copy and we asked him if his dad other mom was home. The kid called his mom and asked where she was. She told him she was about 3 minutes away from home so we waited. She got home and let us in and we were able to teach the whole restoration and she explained to us how she has been looking for a church to be a part of and as we taught her the restoration she became more and more interested! It was so cool! We taught her about church and she is super interested. She will hopefully come with us this Sunday! She wants to raise her kids in a place where they will be able to have good standards and things. God does answer prayers. I felt totally guilty because that day we did not deserve any tender mercies. It was not a hard-working day neither of us had much motivation so that gave me a ton of motivation to work harder so I will actually deserve those tender mercies. We were able to have another delicious dinner at the Collazo home and that family is awesome. Sleepy hollow was awesome and super colorful! I'll send pics love you all! Elder Murray
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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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