Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
Purple flowers Irish village Diagram of the strait and narrow Yeahhhhhhh what even happened this week? Not sure I'm gonna check my area Book. Time went by too fast! It's a blurrrrrr. So oh! Last Monday night I got an impression to go to a single sisters home even though we just went there a few days before. We almost didn't because I didn't want to go over because we were just barely over there. We'll it was like a battle in my brain and I finally decided to yield the enticing of the Holy Spirit (Mosiah 3:19). We just did it and she needed us! She was like "Elders! I've been thinking about you all day! I needed someone to move my dresser from upstairs to downstairs because I'm selling it and they are coming to pick it up tomorrow." So, we couldn't go inside but she lives in an apartment building so we told her if she and her daughter stood in the hall outside of her apartment then we could do it! So she did. It was great to be able to serve the members!
We went on Splits this week again! I went with Elder Norton up to his area. We FROZE. It was so cold and windy and I only brought my jacket. It was awesome. We had a long talk about how to become better missionaries. He struggles a little with obedience. But is an amazing Elder. I love that guy. Since he is training he is starting to see that his disobedience is rubbing off on Elder Visaya and he wants to change that. We talked about the small and simple things and I challenged him to work on one small and simple things right now to work on to progress! It was cool and do I love sitting down for a while and talking how to get better by doing small and simple things. (Alma 37:6) We've been praying so much this week and it helps so much! Every time we get out of the car we pray, every time we do anything we say a prayer. Prayer is such a small and simple things but it brings great things! What small and simple things will you do today or even this week to help you have an optimistic attitude? Write it down! Do it! God will bless you with more happiness! Reynaldo passed the sacrament yesterday! Such a stud! It was amazing to see that. He is an incredibly dedicated guy. We found this cute little Irish village and I got excited. I've never seen anything like it! Oh, and we saw some really vibrant purple flowers too. Nature is cool. Elder Clayton of the seventy came to our ward on Sunday and it was awesome. He gave a talk and he gave us an update on president Monson's health. He said he was doing everything the Lord needs him to do. He doesn't give long talks but he tells us exactly what we need to hear. He also was in a meeting with all the general authorities the other week and he said President Uchtdorf's hair is always perfect, President Eyering cries in every conversation you have with him, and then he stopped for a second and looked around the congregation and said "Christ is coming soon." And the spirit just rushed over my body. I know that's true. "He gave the ward one piece of advice. He said to those of you who are married, love your companion. Just love them." It kinda got me scared because I wanna get married and be a dad in this life! He made it sound like the end was REALLY close and wow! Mixed emotions about all this! A little testimony builder that happened that I never mentioned was when I was sick I got the worst bloody noses and one night it wouldn't stop. I was up until 11:30 with blood running down my throat and I put all the pressure in the world on it and it WOULD NOT STOP. Well I tried waking up my companion do he could give me a blessing but he like legit wouldn't wake up. So I finally ally got the courage and the faith to ask Elders Wadsworth and Perry for one. They gave me one and no more bloody noses! Went right to bed and slept great! It was so dang cool! Well that's all folks! I love you all!
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