Man! That was so sweet to hear about Evan and Jonathan getting their mission calls! Spanish and Vietnamese speaking, that's crazy. If they need any help, they can come up and work with us and Cedric, since he speaks both of those.
Sorry to hear that Dad's still sick too. I hope everyone can feel better and Cole will stay healthyhealthy.
And I'm getting excited for Dallin's Volleyball season! It'll be good to get updates every week. Tell Brian I say hi! Hah just kidding, you don't have to.
This week was another blessed week. We kept running into so many miracles. At church yesterday, Andre, Victoria, Cheryl and Jermain came. That was just so amazing to see all of them there. Andre got to go with us down to visit the baptism of Victoria Tibbo (an old friend!), and he loved it. He kept talking about 'when he was going to do this'. He's a great guy. And Victoria stayed for sacrament, and then met up with some friends to go to the YSA branch. Those two are progressing really well.
Then Cheryl!!!! She came for the first time yesterday, with her son Kemar. And she loved it. This week when we went over to her home, she admitted to us that when she prayed the other day to know if these thigns were true or not, she received her answer. She has just been so light and excited the last few visits with her, it's so exciting to see the Spirit touching her heart. We still have a ways to go, but for right now, she's doing very well.
And then our friend Jermain. On Saturday, while we were waiting to get let into another chapel for Victoria's baptism, we decided to take Andre to lunch to kill some time. So we walked over, and we saw this younger guy sitting there eating his lunch all alone. He was wearing a kickboxing sweatshirt, which made it even more awesome. And so we talked for a couple of minutes, and he said he'll come to church with us, because he's 'looking for an answer to a question'. And then he showed up, all by himself and really enjoyed everything. We're going to try to get to see him soon.
This week has really shown me, along with my interview with President Cannon, that God is in charge of this work, not us. It's been an interesting struggle for me trying to do everything I can, and yet falling up short. So it was pretty remarkable to recognize (or try to) that it's not really me that's doing these things. Yes, I am supposed to work every day in order to help the people here, but yet real progress and the changing of lives really has little to do with how 'awesome' we might try to be as missionaries. It's an interesting balance. Obviously I'm going to keep working hard, and be exactly obedient, but yet I've seen how not only giving God all the credit, but letting him help us, has brought miracles. I'm sure glad that I'm not here working on my own, because I've tried it, and it just doesn't work. God is producing miracles, and I've sure seen them here.
My French is doing all right. It's still quite a bit of time spent in English, since it's an English ward and many english speakers here in La Salle, but I'm slowly progressing. Just not all the way there yet.
But missionary work is amazing!
Thanks for everything family.
Love you all
Elder Murphy
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