Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
1-2 thug shots/salvation... at the same time! 3-5 clean up crew (trying to get the Samsung to take a pic with the motion sensor... it finally worked!) 6-8 Manhattan and subways for days and the Manhattan Temple Matts Current Bishop... Look familiar? So, it all started with Zone Conference! Good times! We learned a lot and the main thing I took from Zone Conference was how to do a door approach for a less active pmf and less active prospective elder, and help them remember their spiritual experiences. It was really cool! We all real played (another way of saying role played) these door approaches with other missionaries and it was a really cool experience! Then on Wednesday Elder Lusk and I got invited to go to the temple with President which was so dang cool! We got up at 4:15AM headed over to the mission home. It was awesome! So, in the celestial room we got to talk to president and it was sweet! He said something that I really liked. He said "this is the real world everything outside these doors is fake" and if you think about it it's true! I had never really thought about it that way. It's sweet! So, president drove us there but he said he had to get ourselves back to our area. Good thing I know Manhattan! We hopped on the subway on 72nd street and headed up to our area! All the way there we subway contacted people. We got like 4 people's contact information handed out all our books of Mormon (which we only had three on us unfortunately) but I miss subway contacting sooooo much! We contacted literally everyone on the subway until there were no more people on the subway... then we just took a couple of pics because there was only one stop left. It was fun to try and help Elder Lusk too see that joy comes when you share the Gospel even if it's as awkward as ever! It's so awesome to get to meet so many different people and get to know their stories!
Then we had Reynaldo's baptism on Saturday! And my goodness. Such an incredible experience. I have never seen him smile so big! (The pictures do not do this sentence justice... apparently Hispanics don't smile for pictures 😅) We had Brother Call who is one of his fellowshippers baptize him and that was cool too! Reynaldo ended up forgetting his towel and tie so Brother Call gave him his tie and they shared a towel after... some good bonding time for those two hahaha. Oh and the baptismal suits! So there is no such thing as a big enough jumpsuit anywhere... We wasted too much time looking for one and ended up with a large that we thought would be big enough 😞 the baptism went quite smoothly though and it was great to see ward members there! Reynaldo invited his mom and he came! She had some concerns but they were resolved and she had a really good experience! also got one of our investigators Joe there! It was awesome! Joe is studying to be a Catholic priest but each time he meets with us his doubts about his church keep coming up which is really cool! Sorta sad too but cool! We had a less active give a talk about baptism at the baptism and man it was great! He has just been coming back to church and he is preparing to get married in the temple so it was really cool to get him to give a talk! Reynaldo got confirmed a member of The Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints on Sunday and man that was cool! He came to church in his white shirt and tie and he was looking dang fresh! He set up his own appointment with bishop to get the Aaronic priesthood and he will be getting that next Sunday and wow. Words can't describe how amazing this work is. It has again been so amazing for me to watch Elder Lusk change. He has changed so much. He has been an incredible teacher for Reynaldo and I have seen Elder Lusk's countenance change as his attitude towards the work change. It's amazing. So yeah that's pretty much our week! I love you all so much! Is there anything I can do for any of ya'll?
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