Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
Mural, New Comp Elder Newbold, Bridge, a cool Peacock, Dirty work, Balling out (i probably got stuffed but ya'll don't know that 😉 I actually turned that into a front flip dunk) we time lapsed our game Twas good! Murals 😮 More later... So! Elder Tatafu got transferred down to Monticello and I got a new companion! It was actually really cool because earlier in the transfer I recognized that Elder Tatafu was a bit of a follower even though I could see all these awesome leadership qualities in the way he taught. He told me he had never been in a leadership position and he goes home in November. Which honestly it doesn't matter if you served in a leadership position or not to be a leader but he was a little discouraged about it. He thought he wasn't fit for the job or something I guess. But he totally is and I could see it! The spirit prompted me to tell him he was a great leader. So every night or every other night in companionship inventory we discussed and told one another their strengths I would tell him what he did that day to be a great leader. There was not one day that I couldn't tell him what he did to be about great leader. There was ALWAYS something! So when he got transferred he became the district leader which was a cool experience and he is so excited! He will be great!
My new companions name is Elder Newbold and he is pretty cool. He is from Sacramento California and has served for a little over a year. We were talking last night and I asked him if he had any friends out in the mission field and he said Philly and I was like what? Elder Petersen is there! So I asked him what his friends name was and lough and behold it's Elder Commins! Elder Petersen's companion! What are the odds. So that was a cool connection! Elder Newbold is a cheerleader and stuff so yeah! Last night we met a bunch of members to get Elder Newbold acquainted with them we've been trying and trying to get referrals. It's a process lemme tell you. We've been inviting everyone to pray for the desire to share the gospel and find missionary opportunities! Teddy has his baptismal date for the 20th of May (Annas b-day) and we are trying and trying to help him quit. Coffee is not too much of a problem anymore but cigarettes are. Uhg. Miracle of the week! This whole week I have been praying for solid teaching opportunities and to find an investigator that we could work with to help come unto Christ. Well last night we had planned to make a few calls to some potential investigators and some former investigators and we called this man named Chris Bruno. Chris proceeded to tell us his story. He is diabetic and apparently he passed out behind the wheel and his foot happened to step on the gas he was with his dog and they drove off the road and caught three feet air off of a snow bank and bent his truck in haft across a telephone pole. He made out alive and his dog... God has something in store for him wow. So yeah anyway we call and he says I miss you all! And we set up an appointment for tonight! We have planned to do some how to begin teaching and invite him to baptism as well as teach him the restoration tonight! I'm so stoked! Awesome studies this week strong hints that have been sticking out to me most recently is to have more meaningful prayer and to diligently study my Patriarchal blessing. I've found so many scriptures that are neither quoted word for word or directly apply to my blessing. It's been so cool especially with the gospel library app to link all these scriptures and notes to my Patriarchal blessing notebook. Hymns, scriptures, articles of faith, and all! The scripture of the week though has to be D&C 10:5 which reads 5 Pray always, that you may come off conqueror; yea, that you may conquer Satan, and that you may escape the hands of the servants of Satan that do uphold his work. Which may be a typical scripture but when I read it in was like "man the scriptures are just spittin out formulas to be happy and resist temptation and be a powerful servant of God!" So I have been searching for more formulas in the scriptures and there are actually quite a lot! But yeah that's my week! I love you all and thank you for being awesome! Elder Murray
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