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This week was awesome! I started it all out with Zone Conference on Tuesday, which was my first zone conference of the mission and it was great! Just to give you a little spiritual insight: all of us start out like little tiny Charlie Brown Christmas trees. Our faith might seem small sometimes and over the years we might look and see that it really doesn't seem like it has grown much. If we continue to nurture it and persevere to the end, then our faith can and will grow into a beautiful pine tree. We just have to protect it from lawn mowing teenagers and set up rocks around it to guard it. So the other thing that happened at zone conference is a lot of things got changed up. The last mission president here in the California Fresno Mission was extremely strict and had a lot of extra rules put in place, things like you always have to part your hair, you can't wear floral or penguin ties, and you cannot purchase caffeinated sodas or have them in your apartment if a member gives one to you. There are a couple others too, but basically President Mackay got rid of like all of them during this zone conference. This mission is in a reform and the new president wants us to exercise our agency more and decide what we think a representative of Jesus Christ would do. He related the last president's rules to the law of Moses which made sense, thanks to Mom!
This week was awesome! I started it all out with Zone Conference on Tuesday, which was my first zone conference of the mission and it was great! Just to give you a little spiritual insight: all of us start out like little tiny Charlie Brown Christmas trees. Our faith might seem small sometimes and over the years we might look and see that it really doesn't seem like it has grown much. If we continue to nurture it and persevere to the end, then our faith can and will grow into a beautiful pine tree. We just have to protect it from lawn mowing teenagers and set up rocks around it to guard it. So the other thing that happened at zone conference is a lot of things got changed up. The last mission president here in the California Fresno Mission was extremely strict and had a lot of extra rules put in place, things like you always have to part your hair, you can't wear floral or penguin ties, and you cannot purchase caffeinated sodas or have them in your apartment if a member gives one to you. There are a couple others too, but basically President Mackay got rid of like all of them during this zone conference. This mission is in a reform and the new president wants us to exercise our agency more and decide what we think a representative of Jesus Christ would do. He related the last president's rules to the law of Moses which made sense, thanks to Mom!
After the Zone Conference, we had an exchange with one of the elders I like most in the mission, Elder Passey. That night was great. We worked on this song the whole night and had a blast. The next day we had a great day in the morning. We studied like always, then ended our exchanges. Then we rode to the church for Mormon.org time.
That is when it happened. Now the last time I crashed my bike, it was not bad at all. The only thing I had to show for it was ripped pants, but no physical damage. This one was different. I didn't break anything, don't worry! I was riding really fast down Sunset and then I turned around and saw that my companions had stopped to talk to someone I hadn't seen. Well, in order for me to look back, I only had one hand on the handles. I pulled the break next to my hand and I pulled it hard. The break ended up being the front break, so my bike stopped but I didn't. I went over the handle bars! My hand is mega scraped and I bruised my thigh really bad. Also, my head hit pretty good Thank goodness for helmets. I am mostly recovered now. The rest of the week was pretty uneventful. We went on another exchange with Elder Theurer, who is another awesome elder, but mostly we just talked to everyone we could.
One of the families we have been teaching came to church this week, which was cool. We had a regional broadcast this Sunday which was pretty cool, and the only apostle I have ever met spoke, but I had to listen to the whole thing in Spanish which is hard because I can understand most things, but I have to concentrate really hard and my head starts to hurt. Like really hurt. Today was rough because our cards didn't refill like we thought they would so we had about no
money for groceries. The Lord had a hand in our life though, because we found a $20 in the road the other night and we were able to get most of what we needed with that. To answer your inquiry, it wasn't the middle of the night when I crashed my bike the first time. It gets dark here around 5:30 when we are in dinner, so we do ride our bikes in the dark. I love you all so much and I am so happy to be serving a mission here in Madera. It really is the life. You get to rely on the Lord so much and I love teaching the true gospel of Jesus Christ. Good luck this week!
Love,
Elder Murray
That is when it happened. Now the last time I crashed my bike, it was not bad at all. The only thing I had to show for it was ripped pants, but no physical damage. This one was different. I didn't break anything, don't worry! I was riding really fast down Sunset and then I turned around and saw that my companions had stopped to talk to someone I hadn't seen. Well, in order for me to look back, I only had one hand on the handles. I pulled the break next to my hand and I pulled it hard. The break ended up being the front break, so my bike stopped but I didn't. I went over the handle bars! My hand is mega scraped and I bruised my thigh really bad. Also, my head hit pretty good Thank goodness for helmets. I am mostly recovered now. The rest of the week was pretty uneventful. We went on another exchange with Elder Theurer, who is another awesome elder, but mostly we just talked to everyone we could.
One of the families we have been teaching came to church this week, which was cool. We had a regional broadcast this Sunday which was pretty cool, and the only apostle I have ever met spoke, but I had to listen to the whole thing in Spanish which is hard because I can understand most things, but I have to concentrate really hard and my head starts to hurt. Like really hurt. Today was rough because our cards didn't refill like we thought they would so we had about no
money for groceries. The Lord had a hand in our life though, because we found a $20 in the road the other night and we were able to get most of what we needed with that. To answer your inquiry, it wasn't the middle of the night when I crashed my bike the first time. It gets dark here around 5:30 when we are in dinner, so we do ride our bikes in the dark. I love you all so much and I am so happy to be serving a mission here in Madera. It really is the life. You get to rely on the Lord so much and I love teaching the true gospel of Jesus Christ. Good luck this week!
Love,
Elder Murray
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