Hellooooo family! It's good to hear from you guys. I'm now starting to enjoy P-days a little bit, which is good. Before I didn't because I got distracted from the work writing you guys, but now I'm getting better at being able to switch right back to the work. I like it more like that, so sorry if that's mean to anyone.
We're trying to ask President to keep us together, because it's so awesome. We even just had a great conversation today about how to change this ward. We're trying to look forward here, and it seems to be working.
But yeah, as mom told me to do, I read my patriarchal blessing on Sunday, and it was just amazing. I absolutely love having that special blessing now in my life. It's given me even more of a testimony of the restored gospel, of the power of the priesthood, but really more importantly, it's helped build my personal relationship with my Heavenly Father. I wish I could just talk about this for the whole time. But really, it helps me get back into focus, that I'm here because God sent me here, and I'm going back one day. Might as well help others along the way, huh?
Working in La Salle. So, we're still working with our English La Salle investigators and less active members. And it's good. It was a little strange this week, because every single "less-active lesson" we had was just about how they feel fine, and DO have a desire to come back to church, but maybe we'll see. And I don't know about any one else, but that is not normal for here. Usually no one wants to talk to us. So we're trying to work with a new problem hah.
But the La Salle ward is awesome. Our Ville Marie (french) ward is 3 times as small, and not very enthusiastic to do anything, so it's always good to see the members in La Salle. And they're all so nice, they ask every week (since we share the same chapel) about when I'm coming back because they would like that. It's super nice of them. So I think we'll try to be more involved in their ward for the next 2 weeks until transfers. I'm not too sure, but I just know I want to go back there and help out the people I already have met.
But for our ward in Ville Marie, it's a little more slow. We're trying to get it off the ground, basically. The more I'm there, I just realize it's just limping along. So! We just made some big plans today to help it out. We just got a ward mission leader (That's good, and which is a nice addition) who is very willing to do the work. We're currently in the process of cleaning the ward list (that's good), and verifying addresses that have been wrong for 5+ years (that's bad). But the bishop is gaining confidence in us, which is veryy good. One of my favorite things here on the mission, since we're not exactly getting showered with new investigators or anything, is seeing members get excited to do the work. I saw a little bit of that towards the end of my transfer in Mont St-Hilaire, but I saw it in that 1 week in la Salle, and now it's starting here in Ville Marie. I'm super excited. Everyone's not getting excited, actually some members are afraid of me hah because I ask them to do their calling, but the other ones are getting excited. It really makes everything worth while, when they start getting that fire again.
One thing, in the La Salle ward, there's this awesome family, the Schurmans. They're amazing. They're basically feeding the missionaries all the D.A.'s and their investigators too hah. They've given more referrals than I've ever seen from one family before. So I was talking to them for the longest time about why they were doing awesome, and how we can work on it. And when it all came down to it, the two things that I found was 1) They had a testimony because of prayer, scripture study, and coming to church and 2) They just invited people to church activities. It was almost too good, and too simple. But that's all they kept saying. "We just invite people!" is what I heard maybe 10 times. I think that's the secret! I was thinking, why didn't I just invite people to come to more activities? I was pretty lame. But! I really believe that's it. In our wards here, we're going to start helping the young men and young womens start putting on good activities so they can start inviting their friends. Because really, I absolutely believe that. I think sometimes we wonder why there are no people interested in our message, the most important message in the entire world, and then we just continue not inviting people to anything to actually learn for themselves. Even just a movie night, sports night, anything.
So, here we go again. Start inviting people to activities! To anything! I want to explain it more by next time, but I think you get the point. People are not just going to be inviting themselves (or it will be very rare). Start doing it fam bam. I'm going to faire un suivi la semaine prochaine.
At least figure something to start inviting people to. Think about it, pray about it. Good luck. Love you. Share the blessings we have as a family.
Thanks for all you do!
Love,
Elder Murphy
P.S. Please tell grandpa to stop falling!
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