Dear Family,
It sounds like times back home are busy, but great. To start out, I have kept up my streak of one bike crash a week. This one was probably the funniest one yet. My companion was riding in front of me and moved out of the way at the last second and I looked down and saw a fire hydrant I knew there was no way I was gonna miss it so I said "Oh fetch" out loud and ran right into it, which sent me sailing over the top. I landed in the grass this time, so I stood up and just started laughing so hard! I wasn't really hurt at all, haha. For all the business stuff this week, I received two packages. One had a sweater from my own mom and that was good because my other sweater was ripped beyond repair in my last bike crash, which Lucio Vasquez told me his mom couldn't fix. The other package I received was like a whole ton of chips but I could not find anything on there that said who it was from. I think it was Grandma Gentry because she mentioned she had sent a package with no information on it. So to both of you, thank you so so much!! I love getting packages. It makes me feel the love.
Now for the week, to start off we had a district meeting on Monday last week, and another one this week. The one last week was about extending commitments which is great. Tuesday was a great day too. The highlight of that day was the English class we started here in Madera, which didn't really have a good turn out, but one family showed up and it was so fun to teach the Mexicans English, haha. Another highlight from Tuesday was that we went to this family's house for dinner. He was one of the heads of all the fields and they were rich, so we rode in a very nice truck and got to see his cool house. On Wednesday, the highlight of the day was towards the end of the night. Since we are in a tri-companionship, we get to do a lot of cool stuff with splits. I went with one of the Zone leaders while we were at MCM meeting, and I got to go out of my comfort zone and teach someone when I had no idea who they were, haha. Thursday was pretty boring and not much happened out of the ordinary so we will skip that day. Then Friday we didn't get to do a ton because one of my companions felt sick so I drew some stuff and then we got to go back to work that night around dinner. On Saturday, the best thing we did was go to a birthday party for a lady that we were teaching. I ate some great tacos and a pepper of some sort that was mega hot. The good part was when we went to leave the gate, their garage was locked and they couldn't find the keys so we waited about 20 mins while the Dad came back from getting cake. Sunday was sad, because a whole bunch of people promised us they would be at church and I was expecting a great turn out and then we had zero people actually come. The other crazy thing we had to do was buy our super old neighbor $40 of Lysol so she could spray the mildew outside our apartments. She ended up giving us half so we have way more Lysol then we could ever need now. That is also where I crashed my bike, right outside of the Walmart. I am afraid things are starting to heat up here and this week is supposed to be 70's so I don't think I'll need any more sweaters until next winter.
It is weird that it was the super bowl this Sunday I didn't really know or care until like a week before and even then I still don't really care. The Eagles are Elder Jones' favorite team though, so we are all happy for him. We told him they will probably never win a super bowl again so he missed the only time they would. I see the Lord's hand in my life so often that I don't think I could even tell you everything or remember them. Just know that Heavenly Father looks out for His missionaries and that He won't let us come to any harm. Half the things I see every day are Him working through us to help someone else, like the crying guy we met on the street that we gave a Book of Mormon to, or Brant from Fresno who just showed up in Madera one day and happened to go down the street we were on, or the countless people we meet in the street that tell us we give them hope. There are also times when people are crazy and reject you alot or refuse a picture of Jesus because he isn't white he is black - we actually had someone say that this week. Despite those crazy times, we have to find the people that are prepared and the people that need this gospel and the wonderful joy and comfort it brings in their lives. I love all of you and am so blessed to have this opportunity to serve the Lord.
Love,
Elder Murray
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