Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
Wow! What a solid week! I'll kind of go from Wednesday to Wednesday so here we go! Last p-day was awesome. We got together as an 8 Elder district and played soccer. So fun! We even had these mini 6 by 4 goals. Perfect for 4 on 4. That was a blast! Then that night we had a member referral lesson with dinner! So awesome! So We have been setting goals with the members to have someone ready to be taught the gospel by certain days and alot of members chose the beginning of the harvest of their set dates is here! We were able to teach him the restoration and were able to use a lot of the How to begin teaching points in preach my gospel. I love those! We talked a little about baptism but didn't invite him to be baptized... I'm kinda mad at myself for not doing that. I totally should have. It's gonna happen next time! #repentanceiscool
Then on Thursday we had another member dinner referral lesson. So sweet! We got to teach the restoration and invited him to be baptized and he said yes! We will be setting a date with him in our next lesson! I love the feel of the room when we teach the first vision. It's awesome. So yeah these last two member referrals were from cadets here at West Point. We just went over to member families for dinner and a place to teach and they helped a ton! Then we had another member dinner referral lesson at the Merkley's. Their friend is more curious than anything but "Faith is power, and it can cause things to happen that need to happen" -President Nelson On Friday we had MLC which was awesome as usual! There has been some contention in our zone due to some misunderstanding and we pretty much got that all solved. Phewwww! It felt like a load just got lifted off our shoulders. Then on Saturday it was Roberts Baptism! Such an amazing experience! We probably had around 50 people come to support him! We got to share the restoration as part of the program and it was the best! It was so neat to feel the whole rooms atmosphere completely change when we taught the audience the first vision. After we had taught the restoration we invited anyone who was there who didn't have a cop of the Book of Mormon that they were welcome to co e up to us after and get a copy! So Roberts niece came up to us after and asked for a copy of The Book of Mormon. We gave one to her and set up an appointment with her for Monday night with Robert and his dad. Then on Saturday night we got transfer calls! Elder Peterson and I are staying! We had a new area open up in our district so now it's a ten elder district! It's a party. On Monday night We went over there and did a little recap of the restoration and now to begin teaching. We invited her to be baptized and she accepted and then set a baptismal date with her! She is so prepared! The field is white already to harvest! (D&C 4) On Tuesday we met with Shane. He's a 14 year old boy we have been work I g with. He came to church the past two weeks and seems to really like it! We had a great lesson with him yesterday and set a baptismal date with him as well! We are so excited for the transfer! Our goal is to have 3 baptism by the end of the transfer and we have already been guided to two of those souls! God is good ☺ Something cool from studies I learned this week was from the book of Mormon Reading challenge we are doing. In 1 Nephi 8:13 and 1 Nephi 15:27. 13 And as I cast my eyes round about, that perhaps I might discover my family also, I beheld a river of water; and it ran along, and it was near the tree of which I was partaking the fruit. You will see in verse 13 that Lehi didn't even see that the water was filthy. He didn't even realize that the depths of those waters were the bitterness of sin and all that bad stuff. Then in 15:27 it says: 27 And I said unto them that the water which my father saw was filthiness; and so much was his mind swallowed up in other things that he beheld not the filthiness of the water. So as our minds are focused on helping others we won't have to be be scared of the filthiness of the world. We can be so enveloped in the good and in God that that alone will help lighten others loads will help you be a light unto others. It was a pretty sweet chapter! So yeah it's been a great week! I love the mission! I love the people here and I love the gospel of Jesus Christ. I know that there are living prophets today. They truly are lead and guided by the spirit of God and I am so blessed to be a part of this great work! I love you all! Happy Birthday to Eva! Thanks for being an awesome sister! 😊 Elder Murray
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