Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
Zone Conference I'm sure nothing compared to Canada or Liverpool but it's pretty cold the humidity makes it seem even more cold. Thank heavens for thermals. They are awesome. And who knew scarfs made you so much warmer? I sure didn't. Anyway, lots of trying to meet with members! They are pretty tough to crack! We have some that are super nice and invite us over but we want to get to know the whole ward and some of the hem are just sooo busy it's crazy! Sooo I got a a thought that we should start to Skype investigators in to member visits! It'll be awesome. Haven't tried it yet but will and will get back to ya'll to let you know how it goes. This week has been a test of our planning skills. We haven't had a ton of appointments this week so we have to fill our entire schedule with finding events and we are going to do an awesome APF with the new Christmas initiative and it should be a great success. We are planning it still but what we've got so far is we are going to make a Facebook page that's all about service and then we'll bring a whiteboard and write acts of service on it, then we will get people to take a picture by the acts of service board and give them hot chocolate and then have them post the picture they just took, use the #LIGHTtheWORLD and tag our Facebook page as well as challenge someone else to do an act of service and tag them in the picture as well! I don't really know if that makes a whole lot of sense to ya'll but it's sounding pretty good in my head. It's kinda like the ice bucket challenge but with service instead of a brain freeze 😊 OK so we are teaching Dante and he is way cool. He has a big boxing match coming up and so we are praying for him cuz boxing is crazy stuff. Elder Buehner knows how good I am at boxing 😂 but this guy is gonna wreck it. He has so much desire to know if the book of Mormon is true and he just hasn't recognized his answer yet! We try our hardest to stay in daily contact with him and we challenged him to the daily act of service with the mormon.org calendar for #LIGHTtheWORLD. It's actually a really good way of staying in daily contact! You can ask them every day what they did for service and it works! Something that happened that was fun this week was we went and did service at this foundation that collects medical supplies from hospitals and then sends them to 3rd world countries. We had planned to go with a less active member but he dipped last second so we went anyway. We had to crush boxes and take them out to the trash and idk why but it was so much fun. Elder Brown and I have a good time together and service is so great! Our zone had interviews with President this week. I love President Smith! He is seriously so flippin in tune with the spirit it is so cool. We had a great interview and learned about being agents of change D&C 58:26-34. Check it out its a cool one! People in the mission say their area is dead but really it's what you make it! We have been working a lot with less active members. On Saturday, we are going to set a date to go to the temple with a couple that hasn't been to the temple ever since they got married in it! They have 4 kids and 2 of them are getting ready to give on missions so we are getting their parents to get to the temple! We also are setting a date with Noel to go do baptisms for the dead it is going to be so cool. I'm stoked! Sketchy things happened this week. We went to knock on this less actives door and we went through the gate and I felt like it wasn't the right address for some reason and so we went outside the gate to check if it was the right one and then the person released their dog on us!! We like quickly walked away from the gate knowing we were very unwanted and apparently we didn't close the gate and the big ol pit bull came out! We were so scared we like ran to the next-door neighbor’s house and knocked on the door instead. It came around the corner as soon as the neighbor opened the door and the neighbor looked at us and then saw the dog and was like "oh no fluffy got out!" And went over to the house with the dog like it was nothing... So, we felt pretty dumb and the guy wasn't interested so that was sad. So yeah! That's my week! Love you all! Elder Murray
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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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