Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
You guys seem to be having a quality summer! Is everyone doing well over there? I miss yall. This week went by fast but nothing too exciting happened this week. We met a couple new people and set some return appointments and the people we did meet seem pretty solid! A lot of people cancelled on us last minute which kind of sucked but that's ok because we found new investigators! One of the people we found was named Tashiema and she had some really rough experiences in her life and we sat down with her on the steps she was sitting on and taught her how the gospel brings happiness and by the end of the lesson she had a book of Mormon in her hands and a smile on her face. She even said she wanted to come to church with us! It's awesome. It made me so happy. Then the other family we taught weren't religious at all and we taught them about how families are blessed with the gospel and we set a return appointment with them. They were black and awesome and her baby was the cutest kid ever! She gave me a high five and bones and I finally got her to smile after like 5 minutes but it was fun! Black people are the best. A lot of people in lower Manhattan have seem the Broadway play the book of Mormon and they always sing this song in it when we walk by and it's pretty funny. Other people like yell MORMONS! At us and we're like "yup! You're right!" Also pretty funny.
We had zone conference and it was way cool! It only happens every once in a while but we learned lots. I felt the spirit a bunch during the musical numbers and my testimony of charity and love grew. President was telling us how much he loved his family and how he would never let them stray off the straight and narrow and if they did he would be there for them to get them back on. That's what you (mom and dad) do for us and that's what I will do with my family too. Love, Elder Murray Answers to some questions about what it’s like here: I have no idea if it’s sketchy here “like downtown SLC” haha I guess it might be at night but I honestly can't really tell. Everyone here is pretty nice! If you start talking most people will carry on conversations and everything! It is sort of sketchy in Harlem and by the project buildings but I don't feel like threatened or anything haha We went to Harlem on accident when we got lost haha. It’s not in my area right now. We haven’t really been sightseeing on Pday yet. My comp has to do a bunch of stuff for school so we don't get to do anything but clean, laundry, and email on p days until he leaves in 3 weeks. Our apartment is tiny! And multiple very large cockroaches and a few mice too... probably because our roommates never clean up after themselves! Uhg we meet them clean today and it finally looks good! And I didn't take pics of the dead cockroach haha and we live with 2 other elders-they are cool. Elder Geppelt and Elder Schmidt. They both weigh over 200 pounds and are pretty funny dudes. The food is usually great unless they cancel on us! Then we just eat rice and chicken burritos for dinner haha. My short sleeved shirts are heavenly they are thin and comfy. It is soooo hot here. It's like worse than Florida. Everyday.
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