Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
We saved a turtle that was crossing the road. Super cool! Also sad because there are a ton of smashed ones too 😭 Caught a toad outside a look ups house Member had a toilet outside their house Temple trip Hey ya'll! I just wanted to start with a short quote from the best movie ever. I asked one of the young men to send it to me because I didn't remember what it was word for word.
"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift. That's why it's called the present." -Master Oogway I've learned a lot about living in the moment this week! Sometimes we get so stressed about what's going to happen we don't even bother doing our best during what's happening now! We need to take advantage of the present! If we are doing our best in the present the future will all fall into place for our good. If we are doing our best in the present we will learn from our past and change! A fantastic scripture to go with that would be D&C 90:24 Search diligently, pray always, and be believing, and all things shall work together for your good, if ye walk uprightly and remember the covenant wherewith ye have covenanted one with another. I LOVE IT! I learned that Reynaldo got ordained an elder on Sunday which was awesome to hear! Then bishop took him to a members house who was sick and Rey did the anointing and Bishop gave the blessing! Bishop said he did awesome and Rey told me he felt awesome doing it! So yeah that's the update with Rey. So today we went hiking with the zone! It was sooooo cool! It's up in Woodstock (yes the land of the hippies) and it's called overlook mountain! Man it was beautiful! At the very top there is a fire lookout tower and you can climb to the top and see LITrally everything around you. OH and I caught a snake and a newt at least I think it was a newt. It was so dang cool! The greenery though! So refreshing. Right before the hike we got to go to a Buddhist temple. I feel so cultured now haha. We had to take our shoes off and sit in the back but it was called a shrine or something. It was a pretty cool experience! The coolest miracle happened this week! We have a prospective elder that isn't on Facebook and doesn't have a number. So we stopped by his mom's house to ask her if she knew where he lived and she told us that he lives in the colonial apartments which is our apartment complex and she described where he lived to be our side of the gate. Nobody has been able to contact him or find him! So we decided to map out our side of the gates apartments there were 15 different apartment buildings with 90 apartments all together. We we prayed and prayed specifically to lead us to this prospective elder. Elder Newbold received his answer which was apartment building 35 and I received a prompting to knock apartment C. We went straight there and nobody answered... well we knocked apartment building 35 and asked around if anyone knew him. The last man we talked to knew him and said they went to high school together! He said he lived on the 3rd floor. There were 2 apartments on the 3rd floor one we knew wasn't him and the other one was apartment C! Which is where he lived! Wow. The spirit is so real. Out of 90 apartments the spirit directed us to the very one we needed to go to. What's even cooler is Elder Newbold has a goal to recognize the spirit and he definitely did! SO AWESOME WEEK! #I❤NYNYN Elder Murray
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MissionariesElder Murray called to serve in the New York New York North Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 6/22/2016 through 6/22/2018 Write to Matt
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