Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
This week was awesome. we had a really cool or correlation meeting with our ward mission leader and we talked about our investigators and his family. there's a couple of his kids who are falling away from the church so we talked about them as well and he asked us what we did to get on our missions, how we really desired to be there, and how we desired to use the atonement in our life. It took me back to all the times before the mission when mom or dad would tell me something was important and I would say something like "ugh. I don't care." Looking back on that I think wow how lame! I was such a poop. So I am so thankful I have had so many experiences that have helped me change and actually have the desire to improve. The reason why I say you are such awesome and amazing parents is because no matter how many times I said I don't care you kept at it! We are teaching a 16 year old that just doesn't care and sheesh I'm looking at it in a parents perspective and holy moly I don't know how I could do that. It's insane the amount of patience you need!
other than that we have had a breakthrough with one of our investigators moms. She is Jewish along with her son Thomas. She hasn't accepted a single thing that we've taught this entire time teaching her. However, we taught her about the atonement and about how Christ can help us change. She had been studying the book of Mormon with Thomas and in this lesson she completely accepted everything accept for that Christ was the son of God. Which is kind of huge but She accepts him She just doesn't realize it is him. Thomas said he was the same way. She explained to us how before she and Thomas had met missionaries she had this desire to come to find out who Christ was. So we asked her at the end of the lesson "what do you have against being baptized and becoming a member of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints? She said she couldn't find anything wrong with it. Thomas was so excited. There are a few things we need to work on with her but we plan on setting a date soon. It was awesome! This work is not ours! I love you all! Elder Murray
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