Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
1)Elder Murray meets many members of the Church form all over the world. Many of them have sent us texts and pictures sharing with us kind words about how awesome he is. The above photo came yesterday. 2)District: left to right- me, Elder Tabor, Elder Geppelt, Elder Schmidt. Sister Russell, Sister Montemayor, Sister Muhlestein, Sister Evans. 3)homeless peeps. 4)Sunsets are actually amazing at battery park 5-6)oh yeah and we helped this mom and her daughter with her car which "broke down" haha the car wouldn't start because she didn't put the car in park but turned the car off. She asked if we could help her push it back into her spot so we did. We said a prayer asking for help with her car and then she went off to take her kid Halley to the bathroom. Well I started messing with the car and realized she hadn't put it in park so I did that and started it up. Haha she thought we were miracle workers so that was cool! And we are going to set up an appointment with her soon. Sorry for the subject title. I'm a consecrated missionary I promise. This week has been awesome! I got an email from Gabe which was dope. Glad I got to hear from him haha quality guy. Hmm where to start.... So I have been focusing on obeying promptings from the spirit and they can be pretty dang hard to recognize and understand sometimes. However, the most important thing I have learned is that you'll never know if it's a prompting for sure unless you act on the promptings you receive. In preach my gospel one of the quotes by President Hinckley says: “If it invites to do good, it is of God. If it inviteth to do evil, it is of the devil. … And if you are doing the right thing and if you are living the right way, you will know in your heart what the Spirit is saying to you. “You recognize the promptings of the Spirit by the fruits of the Spirit—that which enlighteneth, that which buildeth up, that which is positive and affirmative and uplifting and leads us to better thoughts and better words and better deeds is of the Spirit of God” (Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley, 260–61). So that really stuck out to me and then we had to act upon our promptings. Well guess what? We got to act and we set up two appointments with totally random people. One guy we met was in the apartment of a member and it was going to be the last stop for the day. Then I was prompted to knock on the last door before we left that apartment. I was super scared because it was 8:30 at night and I thought for sure the guys was gonna cuss us out or something... but the guy was from China, and his name was Shbing and was apparently introduced to Christianity when he first got here to the US. He said he got to watch to testament video and was touched by it. It was so cool! We will be meeting with him next Tuesday! The next prompting elder Tabor acted on was another time we were already in an apartment building and was prompted to knock a door. Again it was super late at night and so we were a little uncomfortable doing it but we did and the guy answered the door and he was like "the Mormons! I know everything about your religion!" And continued to tell us stuff about our religion and asked some questions. He had read the Book of Mormon from cover to cover and had highlighted a bunch of things in it. He is an atheist unfortunately and he doesn't quite understand why "believers" put their trust in God. "An imaginary being in the sky" haha but it's whatever. People change and when he closed the door we knocked on his neighbors door which is seriously 3 feet across the hallway. As we were waiting for his neighbor we overheard him talking to his wife and he was like "I've been waiting for this moment for years! To have Mormons come and knock on my door. You know what..." then he opened the door again and he asked us for material we had and we ended up setting up an appointment with him and we are meeting with him on Thursday. Haha we'll see how it goes. His name is Jon. We also met these really happy homeless people an gave them a bible and apparently she is baptized in our church and everything. Our members are so awesome. We are meeting with a couple less actives. One served his mission in Slovenia and then reevaluated why he went to church and it was for the social aspect and so he stopped. We are going to be teaching him about recognizing the spirit tonight I'm stoked. Also we have an investigator named Natsuki idk if I already told you about her but she is an intern from Japan she has been progressing so much and is so interested in learning more. Karren her roommate too her to general women's conference and she loved it and she said she especially loved the music! I can relate to that for sure. Music is sooo powerful and awesome and yeah. She is going to be coming to conference with us on Saturday! I forgot to tell ya'll about Eva the German we met at soccer. She is awesome and we are gonna give her a German book of Mormon on Saturday. Oh and Jack the Chinese guy that is totally gonna get baptized. We just need to ask him to be baptized. I'll keep you updated. So that's about it for the week! Love you all! -Elder Murray
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