Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
Hey ya'll. Twas a pretty solid week! We are doing a 100 day challenge of reading the book of Mormon and right now I'm reading about Abinidi. Such a cool story. Nord was telling me about how cool the student manual for the book of Mormon was and so I have been using that as I have been reading too. It's so cool and you really do learn so much from it! We have a few really cool investigators. Ones name is Joseph, he has the cutest little daughter and she is seriously so tiny and she talks so fast you can't understand a thing she says! Haha she is always playing with my tie whenever we are teaching her dad. They are progressing and he reads and loves the Book of Mormon. Jay Lee is the daughters name. I'm hoping to gets pics with them next time we meet. We were supposed to meet with them yesterday but apparently Josephs ex-wife is in the hospital so we couldn't go over there yesterday.
We also have this way cool investigator named Dante. So we stopped him on the street and started talking to him. Elder Brown and I have this super easy way of stopping people. So one of us will walk just in front of the other and the elder in front will say hi and try to stop them and if that doesnt work then the elder in back will either introduce himself or say what's your name? And stretch out his hand to shake the strangers hand. It works probably about 90 percent of the time. Hopefully that makes sense. So Dante! He is awesome. He had met with missionaries before and has read a little bit of the book of Mormon and has the like base knowledge on how we got it. We were able to teach the restoration to him yesterday and it was actually a way awesome lesson! It went super well thanks to the spirit! We set up a return appointment and everything. We asked him to read and pray about the book of Mormon and he said he would. He said he wants to feel that peace that we were talking about. Soooo Yonkers is straight up sketch. So ghetto hahaha it makes me so happy to look gangsters strict in the eyes and say hi! Have a fantastic day! I know Heavenly father is protecting me and they all look like they need some cheer so yeah its so much fun. Seriously love how ghetto this place is. Everyone will listen to you! We got 22 other lessons this past week which is a ton for our mission. An other lesson is teaching a principle, committing them to do something, (such as read this chapter in the book of Mormon, or come to church) and then get contact info such as phone number, address, social security, and all those fun things to ask for 😉 it's a blast. For all yall that know the movie Creed, like the part when he is running down the road and the street bikers are following him doing wheelies and stuff? Well those guys are here and they are cray. They just ride their bikes around with their squad and run red lights like they're nothin... haha so there's that and also everyone in Yonkers couldn't give a poop if the light was red or not... we watch people roll through reds probably 5 times a day. It's hilarious because they'll be stopped and then they see that nobody is coming so they'll just sneak through it. People are insane drivers here. And these neighborhoods are actually sketchy. At least in South Yonkers. We had those media referral and this lady had ordered a bible and so we brought it to her and she was telling us this story of her son and how he got shot and killed right outside her apartment and stuff... We got to have a cool lesson on the plan of salvation! It's sad though. Anyway some super funny things happened this week. Our pad (apartment) has some quality dudes. One of which is going to BYUI this winter. We have this powdered peanut butter stuff in the cupboard and it like turns into peanut butter slowly after you get it wet. I challenged him to eat a spoonful of it and he did it... which I didn't expect him to actually do it but it's like a fine powder like cocoa powder (Elder Buehner) and it was coming out his nose and mouth and I was just yelling at him to just eat it! Not like mean yelling but like just ya, playful yelling if that's a thing. And he was yelling back "MY MOUTH IS LIKE A DESERT, I CAN'T BREATH". luckily he didn't die and it was hilarious so yeah good times. We run 4 miles every morning and that's fun except we get up at 5:40... uhg. So yeah that's pretty much life here. It's fun! Halloween rules are I think we have to return to our apartments by 6. Enough time to make some quality cookies and have a party. Oh sleepy hallow is in our area. Pretty sick.
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stein paulsen
10/24/2016 10:30:09 am
your a stud
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