Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
Hi! I miss you guys very much. This week has been pretty good! We get fed by members pretty much every day and it's great. There was one lifesaving dinner that we had though. We had been working with members and talking to people on the subway pretty much all day. We didn't ever have time to go home and eat lunch so we didn't... we were both starving and we were going over to this less active guys house named Edward. He's actually a way good guy. We taught him the restoration to remind him of things and we had his old young men's leader come with us. It was a really good lesson and he asked some great questions. Haha we made it very clear that we were going to ask him to come to church with us on Sunday so when we asked him to commit to come he knew what was up. Then he came to church with us the next day to the YSA ward and he loved it. He said he will come the whole time he is visiting his parents. Which is the next three weeks.
As you know I had to give a talk on Sunday. In the YSA ward. I had my talk prepared 2 days before but it somehow got deleted off my tablet... sooo I woke up early Sunday morning and rewrote it again. Luckily it seemed to have went well! It was literally 1000000 degrees in the chapel that day and everyone was dripping sweat. Then I always get nervous and I started sweating even more excessively... it was nasty. Plus we have to wear suits all day. It was just grand. Then for the Morningside heights ward it was also way hot. We cover two wards so we go to the Lincoln square YSA ward at nine and then the family Morningside heights ward at one and boy it's a lot of church. It's not as bad as I thought but still is a long time. In-between the different wards we have meetings with investigators and stuff like John. John Gomes. He is our main focus this week. He is a lawyer and is a way good guy. He hasn't struggled with anything until we taught him about tithing. Everything has made sense to him logically except tithing. We have taught him everything we know and it's tough because you can't have a testimony of something you've never tried. He is choosing not to act in faith and it's a little bit frustrating. I don't know what else I can do to help him. I kinda just wanna baptize him real quick nacho Libre style. He'll never see it coming 😉 I'm kidding but really he is so prepared and ready! His baptism is supposed to be this Saturday! I really hope everything works out and YEAH. we have the whole thing set up and everythinggggg. We had a really cool lesson with a part member family we found. We took a member out with us to visit them and it was an awesome and very energetic lesson. It's so nice having members with us when we teach it helps so much. We were originally going to just teach the mom of that family but we stopped by a little last minute and her daughter was there and her husband! We had a great lesson about the restoration and that family is crazy. They seriously yelled at each other the whole time. It was pretty funny. And it wasn't like rude yelling but yeah it was interesting. They all said they would read the BoM and it was sweet! In lessons you are supposed to ask if they will be baptized when they come to know of the truthfulness of the gospel. Then when they say yes you give them a date. It's cool because they get a little scared but then they say they will and it's sweet. The street food here is pretty amazing. There is this place called halal food and it's sooo good. It's called street meat. Then there is dollar slice pizza which is also way good. So if we don't get fed and don't have enough time to go make dinner we just get that stuff. It's sweet! Have a great week! Elder Murray
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