Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
We were filming ourselves roll play the plan of salvation anndddd there is this cool way to take selfies on the Samsung. You basically wave at it and it takes the picture so yeah that was fun! (Pretty funny picture!) Another good week! This week was a good time. I went on the split with the district leader which kinda was the worst. His area is super different than ours because his area is in white plains and Scarsdale which are really wealthy areas and pretty much just normal neighborhoods with massive houses. The district leader and his companion don't really have any investigators right now other than one so we literally knocked doors for hours without any success in the frigidness. It's getting cold here! We talked to a few people but nobody was willing to set up another time where we could come back or listen to our message about the book of Mormon or the restoration sad for them I guess! Any way that's pretty much all we did all day until we had an appointment with their investigator and he is a Jehovah witness and kinda just wanted to bash about stuff. He doesn't quite understand the authority and how it was restored but we went over it and focused on it with him but all he could talk about was how we celebrated Christmas on December 25, and it doesn't say to celebrate Christmas in the bible... so yeah that was a little frustrating! We had a member come with us though and he helped a ton because he is a convert and could relate to him. Anyway the rest of the week is cool.
We had zone conference which was awesome. President smith and sister smith give training and talks and stuff and we got to work on making the restoration lesson more powerful as a lesson in our companionships. It was pretty cool to see all the missionaries in our zone trying their hardest to be better missionaries and be so focused and pay so much attention to President. I got to see elder Norton and Sister Hess from my MTC district as well as a couple of the other guys I that came out with me! They are killin it. Elder Brown and I had a cool experience with a media referral. This lady was on discover.mormon.org and ordered a bible and a book of Mormon so we called her and set up a time to visit. We taught her the restoration and invited her to be baptized. We didn't set a date yet but we are going to on Monday when we meet her next! It'll be awesome! Also we have an investigator on date for November 13th. She is older and wants to be baptized. She was a dropped investigator but one of the ward members wanted us to start teaching her again, so we did and she's quite knowledgeable! Her name is Janice and the only thing that we think is holding her back is her church attendance! Everyone that lives in downtown Yonkers doesn't drive and so there are a ton of less actives there. We have been trying to find her a ride but it's surprisingly really hard! We are trying to come up with a ward plan to get investigators and less actives to church. Maybe some sort of church van service. That would be awesome. Anyway that's pretty much all for the week!
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