Here's a Plan- December 31, 2012

I CANNOT believe that Grant is home now. That is so crazy..... It seems like we were hanging out riding bikes through Irvine on New Years Eve just yesterday. But that was two years ago! That is so fast. I hope he's doing well, and sounds like he's still awesome. 
And DanyDane! I hope he's loving 1 Green Hollow.

This week was great. It was pretty surprising though, on Thursday morning, when we got out to go to district study, we opened up to this huge snow storm going on. Hah it was super fun. It took about 30 minutes to drive to the chapel, which usually takes 5 or 6 minutes, and then we were walking to the church with the snow above our knees hah man! It was a new experience. And even the Quebecois here said it was big. So that's good. 
But we spent the whole rest of the day shoveling out our car and others that we saw and tried to help. It was actually pretty fun. People are amazingly much more open to talk when you're shoveling their parking spot for them. 

yes mom, I'm going to buy gloves today.

It was a little hard this week to meet with our investigators, but we got a few lessons squeezed in. Our friend Rachael came to church yesterday too! That was Elder Lanning's first investigator at church, so he was super happy. She is a friend we knocked into when we were waiting for a member (Sister Charles) to finish preparing the meal she invited us over too. So we talked to Rachael and then told her about Sister Charles, and since then we've taught 3 lessons to her. She's having a lot of difficulties right now with her husband and friends, and had really liked our message. Then, she drove Sister Charles to church yesterday because Sister Charles's car wasn't working! that was awesome. She couldn't stay for all the 3 hours, but we think she enjoyed sacrament meeting. 
It was a great Sunday too, because it was all about missionary work. Soeur Bourdon and I spoke in sacrament meeting (she's a new missionary from France) and also the ward mission  leader, Brother Morales. Then! In the 3rd combined hour, we had a discussion about goals and rescuing others, and we got to introduce the Family Mission Plan! it was something we were working on in Ville Marie, with Elder Rasmussen's help. So now we're starting it here in La Salle. The Ward is awesome, and they're really willing to do missionary work, so we're looking forward to helping them with these goals, to really focus our efforts and then see what miracles will happen here. 


I was able to read Alma 18 today, and I was just blown away at how amazing a missionary Ammon was. I know that story was true, because the Spirit told me it was. 

I'm so grateful for the Book of Mormon!

Have a good week!


Love!
Elder Murphy