Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
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1. The awesome Newburgh zone! 2. Studies after general conference (Elder Peterson was sick on the couch behind me) It's been five months and the ward finally called a ward mission leader. His name is Kendal and he served in Nathan Morris' mission. He just got back at the beginning of the school year and is a cadet here. He's great! Last preparation day we finally met with Krista! She is the daughter of a couple who moved in about 3 months ago and she wants to be baptized! She is nine and is pretty awesome! We are trying to strengthen the whole families testimonies. Especially because in their last ward they got offended and stopped going. Bishop will be going over to their house tomorrow so we are excited to know who that will go. We got to have a bunch of video call lessons this week with Tim who is a cadet investigating the church and Allison who is engaged with an LDS cadet. It's awesome! I love doing video call lessons. They are so efficient! Especially when they are back to back. Tim is a stud though. He is roommates with one of our cadet members named DeMar and DeMar introduced him to he missionaries and he's been meeting with them ever since! Tim had a baptism date set but due to the inability to meet with him more frequently we had to move his date back. Cadets at West Point are so busy its ridiculous. Tim LOVES the plan of salvation though! It's the best. I got to go on a split with my wonderful Tongan friend and former companion Elder Tatafu! It was so great to be with him again! He is a hilarious guy. We took pictures but I can't transfer them to my tablet right now. Elder Tatafu is training right now and his companion is having a hard time with the language. He is a native Spanish speaker and learned English in the MTC. Elder Tatafu was kind of of the same way except his native language was Tongan. Elder Tatafu has been helping him with his English I think it's awesome how the Lord works! They are together for a reason! On Sunday I was able to do a baptismal interview for one of the district leaders in our zone. They taught Lisveth so well! She was so prepared and answered all the questions amazingly! It's always the coolest thing being able to get to know the candidates conversion story and understand why they want to follow Jesus Christ in their lives. Then when we were up in Middletown doing that President Smith called us and said he was driving by West Point and wanted to come out with us. We were 45 minutes away from west point so we weren't able to 😑 such a bummer. Taryn bore her testimony on fast Sunday! Ahhh one of the coolest testimonies ever. No fear no awkwardness no nothing! It was perfect! She explained that she had a really hard time in high school and there is this girl that still bullies her online and stuff. Like it was bad. She was super anxious about it and she just went out on her deck and cried. She said she had never turned to God before and she asked Him to take away the pain and she said he took it all away. She even closed with saying "in the name of Jesus Christ amen"! God loves his children. On Monday brother and sister Threet invited Taryn over for dinner and a lesson! It was awesome! We she is truly ready to live the gospel for the rest of her life. She has a testimony that Joseph Smith was the prophet of the restoration and she knows the Book of Mormon is true! Her baptismal interview will be on Thursday! We are so excited for her! She is getting baptized this Saturday at 6:30 pm. Scripture of the week was Moses chapter 1. Most especially verse 10 and 13. You'll have to read to make sense of 10 but in verse 13 it says: 13 And it came to pass that Moses looked upon Satan and said: Who art thou? For behold, I am a son of God, in the similitude of his Only Begotten; and where is thy glory, that I should worship thee? I know that as we truly come to find out that we are sons and daughters of god we will have a greater ability to resist temptation, become more confident, and have the ability to receive greater direction and guidance in our lives! I love you all!
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