Cole! good job bud! Service, service. Does Mr. King still work with you guys on that? That's super awesome.
So this week has been great. And yes, it was a little rainy and
cold, but it wasn't so bad. It's super fun in the mornings though,
because we go to a nearby park and run a couple of mornings every week.
It's not even that cold, but we're going to be like Rocky soon, I swear.
We're winding down on the exciting beginning of the transfer
because of all the new work with potentials and formers, and now it'll
just be some nice hard work. But it's great, I feel like I'm growing in
so many ways, even if it's slow. I'm still just trying to learn all that
I can from Elder Umana because he's so awesome.
We have a family that we're teaching, who were some formers, but
who have prepared so much by the Lord to receive us again. It was crazy.
I had seen them one time before, but they were just so ready when we
came over this week. They said: "I have always just wondered by there
have always been prophets in the bible, but there aren't any nowadays".
So, we had an answer for that. They said, "We're looking for a family
oriented church, because usually it's super hard to bring our kids to
church". So we had an answer for that. And they needed help moving, and
we helped with that too. It was awesome. They still have a long ways to
go, but it'll be exciting working with them, because we have a really
good relationship built up with them now, and they're super excited to
go to General Conference next week.
Speaking of General Conference, WOOOOOOOOOOOO! I'm so excited. I
can't believe last April I was there, but this time I'm more excited to
watch it, even though it'll probably only be in French. Soooo hopefully
I can understand all of it (maybe if they don't broadcast a special
'Quebecois' version). Elder umana and I have been reading Preach My
Gospel, watching a lot of training videos and General Conference DVDs
during the morning or breakfast or at night, so it's been almost like an
awesome build up for next weekend. And! It's an awesome tracting tool,
which gets people interested all the time. So we're really praying and
hoping for a big turn out with investigators. But, we'll work hard to
get that done.
We were talking to a Jehovah's Witnesses a couple of days ago
(and actually we knocked a street last night which the JW's had just
knocked the night before, so people weren't very happy) and it was super
interesting. She said she wouldn't ever come to church because there's
no after life, because it doesn't talk about it in the Bible, and she
said, 'and I know my Bible.' So I was so confused! I just thought, what?
How can it not be in the Bible? I knew it was, but couldn't think of
specific references, so the next morning I started searching in the New
Testament for references of life after death, and stopped after 5
minutes because it was so pointless. It was almost every chapter in John
had some, Romans, everywhere. It was so sad. So Elder Umana and I
talked about it, and we hope to go see her again, and just talk about
the wonderful blessing we have now that there is a living prophet on the
earth today. And also, we have the other writings from prophets that
help clarify so simply the doctrines in the Bible. It just makes so much
sense.
And also, one of my favorite passages in the New Testament
which speaks about this, is Romans 8:16-17. First, I just love how it
reads, "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are
the children of God". And that's how we learn these truths, the Spirit
bears witness with our Spirits. That's been such an awesome blessing for
me so far, and definitely more so in the time to come, that I'm
learning to recognize when the Spirit bears witness to me that these
things are true. And they are, so that's that.
(or 'that's it that's all', which is a funny Quebecois phrase which
they use here haha it's pretty funny. blkhasdlfkhweoihfeohflskhfoeih
But thank you guys so much! Thanks for your prayers and lettres.
Merci! Au revoir! A bientot! A la prochaine (lundi!)
Elderrrrrrr Murphy
1. This was a lion cat that we befriended late Saturday night. We
were walking down a street after dark trying to find a former
investigator's house, when this guy ran over and ran right into my leg.
and then he kept trying to do it over and over again hah. But he was
pretty nice, so we took a few pictures with him. Not really relevant to
anything, but superr funny!
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