Dane is smiling so big! So funny! The Zoo Lander face hahah so funny.
Cole,
your Halloween costume is priceless. You're so cool big guy, it might
beat out all the other costumes we've ever done. Mayyybe.
So! I feel like its been so long, and in some ways it has. It was pretty
sad having to leave Mont Saint-Hilaire, with all my friends there, but I
think I needed a change, now just being here in La Salle for a couple
of days. Tell Maxime Gaboriault I say hi though.
But La Salle is great. Its definitely not downtown Montreal, but it
is still SO different from Mont Saint Hilaire. First our apartment is
awesome, just like any typical small, big-city apartment. It`s pretty
exciting. But really, the big difference is the ward here. It's a pretty
big ward for up here, with around 120 members coming every Sunday. And
I'm still actually pretty taken back at how enthusiastic they are to do
missionary work. Cedric Phan is the missionaries' best friend here, he's
the 2nd counselor in the Bishopric, around 35 or 40 years old, convert
of 13 years, and its just PUMPED to do the work. He's been out with us
almost every single day. He doesn't have a car, so we go and pick him
up, and then he just stays with us for the rest of the day working and
teaching. It's pretty incredible. He's been such a blessing, because he
knows all of the members, the less-actives, and basically all of the
investigators too. So he's certainly made this transition so much
easier. I'll try to get a picture of him home quick.
My new companion! He is Ryan Hopkins, from Utah, and he's awesome.
He's been out 6 weeks here in La Salle but he's still super powerful.
He's got a heart of gold, basically. I've been impressed with him every
single day about how he serves the people in a Christlike manner. He's
awesome.
Oh yeah, our area is English. That's kind of big news. So all of our
lessons except for 1 are in English, and the other is French. Everyone
here speaks both, but the investigators that we find prefer English, and
then if someone we find prefers French, we pass them on to the French
elders who cover our same area, and vice-versa for them. So We're really
going to try to work on keeping PVL effective every single day so we
can still keep up our French. When we knock, its basically 50/50, and
I'm not going to lie, I have no idea how to start it off in English or
in French, but for right now, I start in French and then if they want we
go to English hah. Its super fun. So I'm at least comfortable with
speaking in French for contacting and lessons now, since I absolutely
have to now. But I actually miss speaking French so much..... Oh well.
Well! We had a wonderful third hour of church yesterday on the Book
of Mormon. It was awesome to talk about it for so long, and then to go
out and talk to our investigators about it, and then to go home and read
it. MAN I love the Book of Mormon. I'm so grateful for it, it truly
does just open up the windows of heaven and allows us to receive
personal revelation that God wants us to have. I can feel my testimony
growing of it every single day. But!, time to go help someone else find
out the truth for themselves.
I love you guys! Thanks so much for the emails, Im going to go read them now.
Hope you have some good Oh!s cereal for me tomorrow. That would be a birthday wish.
Love you all so
Elder Murphy
P.S.
I'm trying to figure out how to upload some photos, but we're at the
community library and it looks like they dont really support that kind
of technology. Sad! So maybe I'll send my sd card home soon.
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