Dear Beloved Family,
Another great week has flown by here in the CFM and I am doing well. Okay, first off business. I received no letters or packages this week so nothing to report. I still don't have a charger for my camera so that is a bummer. Other than that there hasn't been much to report, business wise, and I am doing well. Oh one more thing! I was way disappointed with the emails this week. I got only 3 from Mom, Dad and Grandma. Jacob has an excuse so he is good but the rest of my friends and family need to step it up, haha.
This week has been really crazy to be honest. The start of the week was really rough. I was super worried about having to do everything that we had to do here. Elder Jones was the only one who spoke really great Spanish out of the three of us and he left. Me and Elder Lilly had to pick up the entire sisters area as well as our own. We also got brand new Zone Leaders here so they didn't really know what they were doing either. This meant there was a whole lot of work to do. We
probably biked this week more than I have any week yet and we visited so many people that we either didn't know or lived further away. On Tuesday we had a ward activity which was really pretty funny because Mexicans eat a lot of food so it was all gone like way fast and then they have this like kind of sway dance thing that they do to their loud latino music. I so wished I could get on the dance floor and show them how it is done but you can't as a missionary so I watched the
Mexicans do their swaying and weird dancing with puzzlement.
We taught another English class as well. This one was pretty weird. I don't think we have had a single person that has come to more than like one English class in a row, which is lame, so we just keep teaching the same things over and over.
The rest of the week really wasn't super exciting and I don't have all that much to report. We were mostly just getting the hang of all this new work we have to do. We found some really cool new investigators this week. I keep on doing my best to convert souls to the Lord and help them make their first covenant with the Him.
Everything we had built up fell crashing down this Sunday, when we got like 3 texts about people who really didn't want to be taught anymore, or that we can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped or just didn't want to go to church or would rather go to this market thing on Sunday's called a ramate which is like the worst excuse ever. This Sunday was really lame. I am finding that missionary work is very hard here in Madera for several reasons. We will just continue to work and rely on the help of the Lord. Everyone keep up the good work back home and don't forget about me I pray for y'all like 5 times a day.
Love,
Elder Murray (the tallest elder in the California Fresno Mission)
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