This week was awesome and amazing! I really loved it. Business for this week is short. I received a package from Grandma which I loved. I think I ate too much candy this week.
This week was great. Tuesday, I had my first interview in Spanish with the president and it was great. He said my Spanish is coming along good and that we need more new generation missionaries like me. We also got a cool training about fearing no man and staying away from distraction.
Wednesday, we worked again in the vineyard and it was great. Brother Hansen told a lot of stories about bears and camps which was way cool. We also visited a market called a Remate that day and talked to all kinds of people. They are super popular here in Madera. It was really cool. They also had 69 cent burgers at this place that day too.
Thursday was cool. It was just a regular day, so it was going to be good to catch up on our week. A lot of things fell through in the end though, so we ended up not having any numbers. Good thing you can do a whole ton of stuff without getting numbers to strengthen the kingdom, which is exactly what we did.
Friday was good. We weekly planned and had some appointments fall through like always, but we had a good night and visited a lot of people. This week we focused on showing a bunch of people the "Because of Him" video to get people excited for Easter.
Saturday was conference and I don't know what it is about conference as a missionary but it was stinking awesome! I learned so much and didn't sleep or get bored at all. We had a tri-tip dinner before priesthood session which was pretty good, and I could feel the spirit so strong through every session.
Sunday was pretty great too. I was blessed to watch the first 3 sessions and the priesthood session in English which was super cool. We had a lunch with Brother Hansen that was baked potatoes and things called resurrection roles for Easter. I was reminded of Anthony's Catholic joke as we drove by the Catholic church and saw people spewing out the doors. I watched the last session of conference in Spanish because we actually had investigators there! It was really great and I found I understood most of it.
As for some spiritual insights this week, if you didn't get a chance to watch all the sessions of conference, I would invite you to watch the talk by Lynn G. Robbins of the Seventy from the first session. This was my favorite talk out of all of conference. It talks about the way to find true success. It is failing over and over again and not losing enthusiasm, and that Jesus Christ knows that each of us will fall. We just have to allow him to pick us back up. Two other talks I loved are from the Sunday morning session by Larry Y. Wilson of the Seventy and from Henry B Eyring. Keep up the good work this week, and a very happy birthday to my brother Gabe!
Love,
Elder Murray
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