Okay, here we go. I'll try to get it all out.
Motherrrrrrrrr happy happy birthday mommy. You're the best. I hope
Dallin gave you a huge hug and a kiss, as he always does but is too
embarrassed to tell anyone else.
Speaking of Dally, that's so cool! I don't know where they are now,
but I bet there's just driving talking about something super deep or
actually not. And Bethany, haha that's what happens when you don't sleep
for 4 days in a row.
And I cannot believe that Cole finally did a song with mom in
Sacrament meeting. I mean, really? It took you that long? I'm pretty
sure you could have done that 2 years ago.
Tell Scott and Kate is say congrats! And It might be awkward for
Gma and Gpa Murphy to have 2 great-grand children named Austin, but with
a different middle name or something they can work it out.
And mom I'll try to answer some of your questions - yes we have a
car (a nice Subaru actually), I'm understanding a little bit more of
French (just a little) and it's still not very good with the Quebecois -
I can understand a few families from France in our ward, but holy cow, I
cannot understand these real quebecois speaking people - but that's
okay, I'm feeling healthy now thank you, the weather has been perfect
these last couple days, not too hot and not cold at all, our apartment
is great - it's the basement of some citizen of Beloeil. They're super
nice, but now interested in the Church, but that's fine, I've only seen
them once. And the members here are so awesome. They're very patient and
love to help us out with anything. They're all very involved and
wanting to help and talk with us. I love them. And I've been getting to
know them, because there's only about 80 of them, so that makes it easy.
This week was great. So many things happened, I feel like I'm
trying to think back about things that happened a year ago. We did a
'blitz' in the sisters area to help them out, which was just tracting
for a number of hours for them. So that was fun. We had zone conference
which was great, and a lot of pass bys this week.
I gave a talk yesterday! That was just great hah. Frere Fourtina
called me the night before and asked me to do it so I said yes... and
started preparing right away. I was pretty dang nervous, but I at least
didn't say anything to make them laugh (out loud, I saw a lot of
giggling) but it was fine. It was on service, and why we serve. So I
hope someone understood something or other.
Our week has been great though. We found 4 new investigators,
mostly from old potentials. One man who we talked to and gave a Book of
Mormon has been reading it everyday, and he's been going to through a
tough time right now, so when he told us about how he has felt comforted
from reading it because of Nephi's afflictions, that just made us super
happy. It's been amazing to see his growth and our other investigators
as well, and even just their acceptance of our message. So we've got a
lot of new projects right now, and trying to guide them as they're just
starting off. It's so surprising to me how people open up to us so
quickly, and are willing to share all these experiences, feelings,
questions, and doubts with us, when we've only talked with them for 5 or
so minutes. It's amazing. It's really helped me see how when we're
obedient and pray for help, then people will see us as the missionaries
that have been called by a prophet, and by God, to help them find their
way back home. That's probably been the most frequent message I've felt
this week. We can testify of how we will help them come closer to Christ
and find peace through the Atonement, but before we say anything like
that, they already sense something, and that's why they let us in and
listen to us 19 and 20 year old boys. It's pretty amazing.
I love you all, and I wish I could write for longer, I'll try to manage my time better next week.
Love,
Elder Murphy
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