Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
Hey ya'll! Oh man. Too much finding this week with wayyy too little success. It's been a long week let me tell you what haha. On the upside however, a while back Elder Brown and I were prompted to go speak to this man on the street. We later found out that he had just been kicked out of his apartment. We shared a short message with him about how God is our father in heaven and he wants the best for us. The words "God loves you" were so powerful in this lesson and they made this guy cry too. Wow! The spirit is awesome. So we got his contact info and everything and didn't really think to follow up with him because he was homeless and you aren't really supposed to teach homeless people. Well just this last week we were prompted to text him and so we did. It ended up being his birthday which was pretty cool and we were able to set up a appointment with him! We met him at the public library in Yonkers is which is surprisingly probably the nicest building and thing in the city of Yonkers and had a fantastic lesson where we invited him to baptism and he said he would! This guy is willing to give the gospel a try and I know that answer he does he will see the biggest blessings in his life! I'm so excited for him!
Other than that my companion Elder Lusk is doing great, he's had some pretty bad homesickness but as we've got to work and try our hardest to ALWAYS be busy it's left! The coolest thing is he Atonement is applicable to all stages of life, at any point in time, whatever tough thing you may be going through. Realize that Christ went through it all so you don't have to! I mean you still have to but it's just something you get to grow! Nothing has to make you sad! Love the gospel. Oh and this awesome family fed us breakfast last morning! They acre sort of a less active family and have super strong testimonies. They just have a tough time getting up on time! So we went over there for dinner and the dad (Brother Collazo) asked us if we could go over to his house early Sunday morning and bang on their door until they woke up. So we did! Haha it was an we some. Sister Collazo opened the door and all she said was "We are up...😴" she looked so pooped. But then we were leaving to go to the church and we were going to be 20 minutes early to our ward missionary correlation thing and brother Collazo texted us and all they text said was "you are hungry" and he pulled up next to us in his car and said you want breakfast? It'll be 15 mins. And we were so down. He made THE best breakfast sandwhich! It had eggs and ham and bologna and cheese and mayo and dang I woulda payed 8 bones for that sandwich! Well I love you all! Thank you for your support! -Elder Murray
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