May 6th - Seeing in White

Dear Family,

This week was an epic week and definitely one for the history books. I have a lot of pictures so I will attach those, also I will hit the highlights of the week.

We went to the Zoo again this week and I fed an angry snuffly piggy. It was good. We cleaned a lot of bird poop.

We played soccer again. I am getting better the more I play but I am still not very good compared to the guys I play with and I have no left foot.

We had Zone conference this week which was good. We drove up to Modesto and stopped to take a picture in some tiny town called Le Grange or something.

We had a mission conference with Elder Cook from the 12 apostles and it was super cool to shake his hand and for him to speak to us about some different things. He truly is a personal witness of the Savior Jesus Christ.

The same day as the mission Conference I headed down to Visalia because a couple I taught down there got married and baptised this week. That was super cool to see and since we had some extra time down there we were able to visit a bunch of people we taught.

Sunday was another awesome day because Angela got baptized! She is probably like my best friend here in Merced and super cool. She will be a senior in high school next year and we are super excited that she is finally on the gospel path! 

That was the highlights of my week. Hope you all had an awesome week too. Love you!

Love,

Elder Murray

April 29nd - Planada and Snelling

Dear Family,

I figured I should probably write a big email so that you all know what I did this week.

Tuesday was a pretty regular day. We had a district Council and we visited some people that day. We started around 9 am because we had an early appointment so we ended up biking like 25 miles.

Wednesday was more bikes and more appointments. We tried some people on the north side of Merced and then went down south that night.

Thursday was the third day of bikes. We decided we would do weekly planning on Thursday from now on so that we can make better use of the car. We visited people that day for the rest of the day, nothing special.

Righteous raccoon wants to accept the gospel. 

Friday we did our regular sports night and we were able to go to Planada, which is a little city like 10 miles from where we live in Merced. We talked to one of our less active friends out there for around 2 hours (the only one that came to church). We also talked to two other members while we were out there. It is a super Hispanic town so we love it there.

Saturday we had lunch at this Mexican place with another less active which was awesome! It was super tasty. I ordered some carne asada quesadillas. Then we went to visit some people including the man with like 10 cats. Then we had dinner with some members that night and the food was super good.

Sunday we had church and it was pretty disappointing. Almost all those that told us they would come to church this week were not able to make it for one thing or another so we were pretty down. I don't understand why people always put the Lord behind other things on their priority list. He is my first priority 100% of the time. That night we had no dinner so I cooked some chicken and noodles with some lemon and parsley garlic salt. Then we went to a town like 15 miles to the north called Snelling. We visited a part member family out there and met a man named Joe who was super nice and we were able to teach him the Plan of Salvation.The scenery was beautiful there and there were many, many cows. I will attach some pictures.

That was my week this week. Today we are planning on playing basketball, big surprise, and that should be it because the guy didn't go to Yosemite with us again. I love you all and have a great week.

Love,

Elder Murray