Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
The creation of a street board It seems like just yesterday we hopped on the bus to the airport at 3am and boarded our flight to NY! I remember flying by the city and seeing the skyline and I was like wow! This will be awesome! And boy it has been! I'm just glad I still have another year!
This week was pretty good member wise but we didn't find a single new investigator 😐. Which has been really hard to do lately uhg. HOWEVER, we did have a super awesome experience with our investigator Jackson Rogers. He has been meeting with missionaries for a long time. He is good friends with the branch President, and he has said to continue meeting with him even though his progress is slow. He made progress this week though! Jackson has never said a prayer with the missionaries before... like ever. And we've tried so many times! This week we went over there and he always get stuck on the question of why does God let bad things happen. I have a testimony of not knowing the answer 100 percent and opening your mouth to teach. Just letting the spirit work with you and having Faith that what he is directing you to say is exactly what the person you are teaching needs to hear. It was a really incredible experience! Jackson asked the question about why God let's bad things happen, and because of the spirit we were able to answer his question to exactly what he needed to hear! He had just finished reading the first few chapters of the picture scriptures from the gospel art book, and he expressed his concerns about God destroying Jerusalem. God didn't technically destroy it He just let Babylon destroy it. He doesn't think God is a God of justice. We were able to explain that God warns, and warns... and warns the people and then he kind of let's off when they continuously reject him and his prophets. In a way that is still how it is today! His question was answered and it was really cool to see his understanding grow. Then at the end he offered to say the closing prayer and it was amazing! Short and simple but he opened with addressing Father in heaven and closed in the name of Jesus Christ! The spirit was so strong. These are the experiences that I will never forget! This week we had a district project we did and it turned out pretty great! We finally finished the Book of Mormon street display board! Yesterday I went on a split with the new Elder in the district, elder Howard. He is a great guy! He is from Orem Utah and has been in the city most recently. He has a brother over in Orlando on his mission and he said he is happy to be here in the NYNYN mission (probably because it's the best😁🗽) because it is blazing hot in Florida. He is companions with one of the elders in the district who is going home at the end of this transfer and I asked him what his goals are and he said his goal is to help elder Hughes have the best last transfer ever. So he will be sending me his plans soon! I just thought it was awesome of him to be so supportive! Ohhhh last thing. We had branch mission correlation and the branch mission leader is Brother Walker (from Jamaica) well apparently he has dentures and none of us knew... So we though he just got a bunch of teeth pulled! He came to correlation with NO TEETH! He must have been getting his dentures cleaned or something because yeah! Nothin. He was super self-conscious about it too! I felt so bad for him I wanted to cry! He was trying so hard to talk normal and he was covering his face and his mouth when he spoke. Ahhh I just felt so bad! And them after elder Newbold was like, I almost asked him if the tooth fairy came! Man it was a very funny/sad meeting. But the next day at church he had teeth again! We had the coolest leadership meeting this week. I love meetings with President. I always learn so much. Something I learned this week was about the atonement and decisions we will make in our lives. I was reading in alma chapter 12 and these 2 verses really stuck out to me! 14 For our words will condemn us, yea, all our works will condemn us; we shall not be found spotless; and our thoughts will also condemn us; and in this awful state we shall not dare to look up to our God; and we would fain be glad if we could command the rocks and the mountains to fall upon us to hide us from his presence. 15 But this cannot be; we must come forth and stand before him in his glory, and in his power, and in his might, majesty, and dominion, and acknowledge to our everlasting shame that all his judgments are just; that he is just in all his works, and that he is merciful unto the children of men, and that he has all power to save every man that believeth on his name and bringeth forth fruit meet for repentance. I love this because our sins cannot be. We must repent to find lasting happiness and joy, we must repent because we want to stand blameless before God at the last day. Can you imagine? Being able to stand blameless before Him? I am so thankful for the Savior Jesus Christ in my life. My awesome trainer Elder L'esperance sent me something that was inspired. I think that’s probably the most valuable thing I learned on my mission, that you can’t be perfect alone and shouldn’t even want that. More than anything else in life what we need is to be connected to the Savior, and the only way for that to always be a necessity is for us to be created imperfect. I have a testimony of that! I love you all! Elder Murray
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