Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
Here are a few fun pictures of Matt at the Temple, good bye 1st apartment, Goodbye Elder Tabor, and Hello Yonkers and Elder Brown It was awesome to see Kaela singing in conference! Haha I knew she was gonna be singing so it was sweet. Miss my cousins, and lacrosse, and guitar, I got to play ukulele and I can still play that so that's good! I got to play don't worry be happy and that was fun! Ahhh. So I got transferred to Yonkers... my new companions name is Elder Matthew Brown from California (The Last Picture). I will miss Elder Tabor for sure. Elder Brown has been out 7 weeks so I am finishing his training. Training is 12 weeks. Yonkers is crazy different from my last area. We have cars and there's houses and trees and grass. Greenery is awesome here in Yonkers. The leaves have not started to change yet. We got up to go running this morning at 5:45. It was great I loved it. Probably ran like 2 miles but my comp was dying so we had to head back. It really has been so cool getting down on our knees in people's front rooms and praying and listening to our investigators praying and asking if God is really there for them and then asking them how they feel. They tell us they feel more secure and more at peace and have more clarity than ever before. It's insane!!! But anyway going back to when I was in Manhattan... Conference was awesome! Man if we could have got all of our investigators there they would also get baptized. Seriously every question they had would have been/was answered. So awesome! Natsuki got to come to a session the one Kaela sang at and we talked about baptism with Natsuki and then they sung a song about baptism and Natsuki said all the songs touched her heart. We had a lesson with Natsuki right before the session and we established our purpose with her and asked what she wanted to get from us meeting with her. She told us that at first she was meeting with us to get to know about our religion but now she actually wants to know if this is the right path for her. It was sooo cool to see that change of heart! The member that came with us to that lesson bore her testimony and it was so spiritual! The members name is Karen Shamo and is Natsuki's roommate. Later on in the week we met with Natsuki again but this time with a member named Oliver. He hasn't received the Melchizedek priesthood yet and nobody knows why. He is such a solid guy and he helped a ton in the lesson. We taught her about how to recognize answers to her prayers. Oliver used the phone analogy how when you call someone you don't just say hi and then hang up. You say hi and then you wait and listen to what they have to say. That clicked for Natsuki and it was so cool! We got to walk Oliver home and built a good relationship with him. He is 23 so we are trying to get him on a mission. 😉 We were meeting with our other investigator named Jack as well. He is from China and is totally gonna get baptized. He has so much real intent and already has a testimony of the book of Mormon and Joseph Smith. We teach him over Facebook because it works better for him. We record an opening prayer and then the lesson and ask him to send us his question regarding the lesson then we record a closing prayer and send it to him. When he gets the time to listen to it he sends us his questions and we go from there! We are on lesson three with him and Elder Tabor and his new comp will commit him to baptism tomorrow. Another one of our investigators name is Alfie we got to meet with him on Friday night over dinner with Mia who is also a member of the YSA and is a recent convert. She has been a member for a year so she is preparing to go through the temple. She referred her friend Alfie to us. He is awesome. He has read so much of the Book of Mormon already and is so into it. He used to be in the military and was a big drug addict. He told us that nothing was stronger than the pull of the drug methamphetamine except the book of Mormon. He said that it is so much stronger. That was so cool to hear from someone like that. He is so cool and he committed to Baptism but we haven't set and date yet. Other than that I got to say bye to my friends in the ward and yeah! Yonkers will be good I'm excited to try my hardest to build this ward and train Elder Brown! I love you and I miss you! All of you!
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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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