Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
My week has been pretty slow. Our investigator John basically dropped off the planet and nobody hears from him anymore. Our other investigator Ashley and her family did the same thing and it's a bit discouraging. Being a missionary is hard. I've said the most sincere prayers I have ever said in my entire life this week. It's been crazy.One of the recent converts in our ward is helping us teach one of her friends and it's gonna be awesome. We had our first lesson with him yesterday. He gets extremely serious when he talks and he is actually kind of dark. It's a little scary but it'll all turn out great! He's going to come to church with us and hopefully he'll feel the spirit and lighten up! I love this gospel because it makes it so I can be happy. If I didn't have a knowledge of the Gospel I'd probably be more like him and it wouldn't be good.
We visited a bunch of cool families in our wards and got to know them a little better. The people in these wards are absolutely awesome. They are so willing to learn how to do missionary work and be member missionaries! We had a YSA devotional with Bishop Waddell. He is the 2nd counselor in the presiding bishopric in the church. It was awesome. He talked about getting answers to our prayers and the process of getting answers to our prayers. I learned that when we want answers to our prayers we must study plan out and map our answer that we think will work best and then we present it to our heavenly father and he will let us know of it is right or wrong. And it really does work! It's so cool. Oh and we are working with this less active man named Brother Laneaud and he is awesome. He bore his testimony to us about the temple and he seems so solid! He has a busy work schedule so that's why he is less active. We invited him to bear his testimony this fast Sunday and he said he struggled Speaking English in front of the congregation so I told him no matter what language you speak the spirit still will testify truths even when others can't understand what you are saying. It was an awesome lesson! I got to go on splits with elder Kirkham again and Elder Matson. Going on splits is always fun with Elder Kirkham but going on splits with Elder Matson was rough. Not the most obedient missionary but it was a good learning experience! OH I ATE CUTTLEFISH. IT WAS NASTY. Cuttlefish is Weirdest thing ever. Sister Sultana was like, hey I'm taking you guys to dinner you choose where to go! And this was in Grand Central Station and we hadn't been there for food yet... we were like "hmm what's good?" And she's just "ooh let's go to this oyster bar! I love oysters!" And yeah that was just great. Gotta love agency. Central park is cool. I've only been there once and it was as humid as can be. But it was cool. It's just kinda quiet in there and peaceful. All the tourists go there and people go there to exercise. That's about all for this week! Thank you for all the emails and letters you are all so awesome!!! Have a great week! Elder Murray #1 picture of my cuttlefish #2 Elder Tabor shared this with me and it's awesome.
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