Mom, I can't believe you ate a fried Oreo? And that picture of Dallin eating that Klondike bar is awesome haha
First, TELL ADAM WONG I SAY HOLY COW!!!!! That's so so so
awesome. I'm so happy for him. There's so many missionaries going there
in the MTC speaking mandarin, so tell him to get excited.
So, President Cannon has told everyone in the mission to do an
activity that I think he said really affected Elder Holland on his
mission. We got a blue cover copy of the Book of Mormon, and we're
supposed to highlight any mention of Heavenly Father or Jesus Christ, to
see for ourselves actually how much the book testifies of them. So I
just started 2nd Nephi today, and sacre bleu, it's amazing. I really
want to highlight other things as well when I'm reading it, but just
looking at how many times Christ is mentioned is astounding. I've
absolutely loved it, and I'm just getting started. So that's a good idea
for anyone, especially Dallin B and Cole. It's really helped me out
understanding more of the purpose of the Book of Mormon, and why Nephi
write all these things onto the plates.
I think I've decided, my most favorite race now are the
Nepalis. The majority of our investigators are from Nepal, and they
don't speak english very well, some of them speak French, but they're
the best. They're so humble and super eager to hear what we have to say
about the gospel, even if they don't really want to keep commitments
hah. So we're trying to work on that. But also, everytime we go and
visit them, they always give us a drink of juice or soda or something,
because they're just awesome. And someone should tell Church
headquarters to translate the Book of Mormon into Nepali and get on over
there, because they want it bad. Everyone of our investigators really
wants to read it but they can't because we don't have it in Nepali. So,
Mom please get on that for me.
This week has definitely been frustrating with French. I
thought it was odd that I wasn't immediately frustrated when I got out
here, but it's all good now, because it's starting to catch up. But,
I've been learning good lessons from it. First, prayer has been becoming
more and more important to me every day. It would be meaningless to
pray so often every day and not think anyone was listening, but beacuse
we know our Heavenly Father listens and answers every prayer, that makes
it so much more powerful and comforting. I've really been able to see
my prayers being answered in small degrees here, which is really
remarkable. Second, patience is a virtue. That's all I have to say about
patience.
One thing that really hit me this week was 1 Nephi 19:20. I've
found this before, but it really hit me the other day when I read that
verse. I absolutely love it. I love how Nephi recognizes the fact that
he 'should have perished also' if the Lord had not 'been merciful.' I
love that. It's like for all of us, it's not because of how great we
were or how sincerely we repented, it's because of the mercy of God that
we've been forgiven and are not left to 'perish' with our own
Jerusalems (Along with that, I like 2 Nephi 2:3, because of the
righteousness of who??). I love the imagery of Alma 5:33, that says 'the
arms of mercy are extended towards them', and to all of us. Christ,
beause he is merciful, is willing to take us back when we repent. That's
the best. It keeps me going every day, and that's what gives me the
excitement every morning to go out and tell people about our message. So
that's why we repent every day, to be taken back into the arms of
Christ, and be able to help others find their way back also. I just love
the Atonement!
Well I'm out of time. Thanks for writing, I love you guys. Keep up being silly and everything like that.
From Quebec, a biento,
Elder Austin Murphy
P.S's. Also, last week I wrote a few letters but couldn't send
them out because I didn't have any Canada stamps yet. So I'll send them
out today.
Also, since all my mail goes to the mission home, i haven't
received any yet. Sorry! So I'll be getting it in 2 days because we have
Zone Conference. But yeah, I'm not going to be getting mail as
frequently as the MTC, obviously. But hopefully it doesn't take too long
for my letters to get there.
Olympics: What? I can't believe it's over. I hope the
volleyball teams did well, thanks for updating me a little bit on that.
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