Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
Yup 20 it is. Yuck. That just doesn't sound right... oh well life moves on! Sorry about last week y'all we went hiking and it took much longer than expected. This week was awesome though!
This week a girl in the tiny little town of highland falls requested to be taught by missionaries! So we got a text from an online missionary serving in London England saying that this girl is super prepared and boy was she right! We met with Laisha for the first time and she had done her research! She knew about temples, missions, wards, eternal marriage, and man it was cool. We invited her to be baptized and she gladly accepted. She has so much faith! In between that lesson and the second lesson we prayed about a date that she could be baptized on and as we were deciding both of us said December 16th. I felt the spirit say that was the day! We invited her to be baptized on that day and she said yes! This work is wonderful! She is Catholic and her family is SUPER Catholic and that's why she said it may take a while for her fam to warm up to it but it will be good. She will set the example for her family! Its cool because Elder Lesperance taught her mom when he served at West Point! You never know what could happen with someone your teaching. It may seem like nothing is happening but in the long run you may have been the start to changing their life! This week we set a baptismal date for November 18th with a Krista! She is a non member in a part member family! She is about to turn 10. She is super excited and so are the parents! The bishop visited them a little bit ago and they want to get sealed in the temple too! In their last ward they got offended or something so they weren't very active but now they want to jump back into it! The parents were really excited how on top of the things the ward was. We had the Ward Halloween party this past week and it was SWEET! More people we have been teaching came! Their names are Kayra and Don. Kayra has two little girls and they are the cutest! Don is Kayra's mom and watches her 2 girls while kayra works. They came to the Halloween party and loved it! All of the members were talking to her and just being so welcoming! The members here are such amazing examples. They inspire me. -we just rode through Yonkers!!! I love that place- ok were back. Oh and at the party the Allen brothers became our companions. We were in a quad all night haha it was awesome. We gave them probably about 150 pass along cards because they were missionaries for Halloween night and they wanted to pass them all out so we did and they literally handed out all but 5... like dang! They be doin work on post for us! Such studs! On Halloween day we had leadership meeting, district meeting which were both awesome, and then Elder Norton took me to buffalo wild wings. Super good wings. Super hot too! The Naylors had us over for dinner! We had stuffed green peppers! (Dad it's your favorite! 😉) it was actually pretty good. They had rice and meat inside and weren't greasy. They also had jack-o-lantern faces carved into them too! They made me a cake with 20 candles and everything! They also bought me like 10 bags of cereal too. They are way too nice. These are the members who bought us 250 dollars worth of groceries a while back. They inspire me too. Sheesh! Then The Allen's bought me one of those big bags of protein and yeah, it was a good day! So yeah that's been this week! Oh and the Book of Mormon challenge has been going amazingly! Alma 32 is awesome! But I would invite you all to read Alma chapter 37 verse 37. I love it! I love you and miss you all! Thank you for the birthday wishes and I hope you all have a fantastic week! Elder Matthew Murray
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