Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
Sister Lazo, Holy scenery, Derek This week has been AWESOME! It's so funny because here in Yonkers there is A LOT of finding. We have a few member referrals in process but we haven't got to teach them quite yet. Finding can sometimes be a little discouraging when you don't find anyone to teach all day long... but those memories of long days vanish instantly as soon as you teach a lesson and feel the Spirit. Like a couple days ago we had a pretty long day of less active look ups, tracting and all the above finding with not much success. Then we had a lesson with one of our progressing investigators named Derek. I love that guy. He is experiencing the joy the gospel really does bring into people's lives! We had planned to teach him the word of wisdom because he told us he knew he had to stop. Wellll the spirit thought we should go about teaching it another way. First we started with a prayer and followed up with him how his reading and praying was going, he told us he had earnestly prayed and felt the comfort, peace, and strength the Spirit brings. It was great! Then we asked him how he liked the chapter we gave him to read in the BOM. He hadn't read it which was a little but of a bummer but we asked him if he even remembered what chapter we gave him. We gave him 2nd Nephi 31 about the baptism of Christ. But he said, "I think it was something with a 5 in it... " both Elder Brown and I instantly turned to Helaman 5:12 "And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall." We had him read it and his mind was blown. The Spirit was so strong and he paused for a moment after he read it and was like "wow!" And then another moment and he was just in awe and said wow again! He then read it again and ahhh it was sooo cool! The Book of Mormon is such an amazing book! He like went through every sentence and we watched as the Spirit testified to him that he needed to build his foundation in Christ so he could withstand all of Satan's temptations and not be dragged down to the gulf of misery and endless wo of his addictions. It was such a cool lesson.
More funny experiences: My comp rides a bike while we all go running every morning because he somehow hurt his achilles tendon (not sure how to spell that) and we ran (he rode) past this guy walking his pit bull and rapping to his music. And the dude called Elder Brown out hard core. The guy just yells while laughing "He's riding a bike! Boy, you gotta be running too!" I seriously was laughing for the next mile... it was hard, but hilarious. Elder Brown's pride was hurt haha. This week or maybe last... while tracting we knocked on this one door and it's like a straight up gangster party in the house. This guy opened the door and was like "what the cuss are you mother cussers doin here?" But he didn't say cuss. He was genuinely pissed. We were both kinda just like umm mm how are you? And then walked down the stairs becausem he closed the door. We got a good laugh out of that. Oh and on Sundays we bring Sister Lazo the sacrament. She is so funny and so old. But somehow her humor gets me laughing and I can not stop! It's bad! She falls asleep mid joke and I just can't... I needed to pray to stop laughing. Then I got Elder Brown laughing too. Maybe it's just because Sundays are always so tiring or something but I love that lady. She is awesome. And that is my week! Haha good times. Love you all! Love, Elder Murray
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