Dear Family,
This week has been pretty crazy but I'll get to that in a second. First, I have received the Valentines Day package and it is almost already gone and it isn't even Valentine's Day. I guess that is what happens when you have three Elders in a mini apartment with hardly any food. I love it though, thanks so much. Here is the thing, every night at dinner you have to eat a ton because Mexican women love making food and beans, rice and tortillas are filling. I also did not have any bike crashes this week which is a miracle.
Alright so Monday, I wrote and we played some games. It was good, That night, one of our members sort of had an emergency so we spent most of the night helping him out. Member trust is key.
Tuesday was a pretty regular day. We taught the English class that night and we actually had an okay turn out with some pretty hilarious Mexicans. I cannot begin to describe how funny it is to hear them try and speak English, but I guess that is how I sound when I speak Spanish.
Wednesday we had an exchange with our zone leaders and we met a crazy guy. He was yelling about how he was poor and he had no car or money or anything and he was literally bawling, crying so hard and yelling four letters and spelling out Dios which is god in Spanish. Then, all the sudden, he wiped his tears off of his face, rubbed them in the grass and started snapping. As he was snapping and dancing around he said "Lets' have a peace party!" and then repeated "peace party" over and over. Our zone leader said "let"s not do that right now" and he said "no we are doing it." So we gave him a picture of Jesus and walked away. Keep in mind this whole experience was in Spanish. Madera is pretty crazy there are a lot of hobos, guns, and Mexicans.
Thursday was a pretty lame day. I got a flat tire so we spent most of the day fixing it, Then we had zero people keep their appointments that night which is really sad.
Friday came and went and I really don't remember all that much from that day.
Saturday was another interesting day because this time Elder Jones got a flat tire and we spent some time fixing that. Then that night was transfer calls which was crazy. My world is being rocked. Elder Jones is going to be the district leader somewhere else now. Both of our zone leaders either got transferred out or are going home so we get two new zone leaders and they decided to completely remove the sisters from our ward. Also Elder Passey is leaving and his companion is getting a new trainee so at least I won't be the greenest missionary here anymore. Thank goodness my other companion is staying to finish my training.
Sunday was cool we had some less active families we have been working with come to church and it really was awesome.
Alright family, that is about all I have for this week. I sorta formatted my letter different but idk, I doubt I'll do this every time, I love the work here and sometimes things are hard and people don't want to talk to you or you get bike troubles but no matter what happens I know that this is the Lord's work and that the gospel truly does bless families. Last week we found a woman and we have been teaching her a lot about the atonement of Jesus Christ and how it really is an infinite blessing. She says it will be so hard to come back to church that she has done too many things to go back and that she copes with having children and family problems, and with smoking and alcohol. This is very sad but no matter what you have done in the past, if you have any desire to be clean to truly use the atonement then your sins are forgiven you. It has already been paid, we only need to reach out and allow it to change us.
Love Always,
Elder Murray
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