Hello everyone! I am doing great. This week was pretty cool. We didn't have a whole lot of meetings or anything, so I had a lot of time to talk to people and do missionary work. I don't have anything for business this week, so I will get right to it.
On Tuesday, we didn't do a whole ton. We talked to a whole lot of people and found some cool potentials. Then we taught another English class. We didn't have as good of a turn out as we expected, but still a lot of people came.
Wednesday, we went to the vineyard again. I work in the vineyard every Wednesday morning, and I love it. Things are starting to get hot here, so I have to wear a hood in the vineyard so my neck doesn't get burnt. I already had that happen to my arms so I have been wearing long sleeves this week. When we work in the vineyard, so far I have just done pruning. The next couple months are just fertilizing and making sure things grow good, so we might not work every week. I guess we will see. This was my most exciting day this week, so I am going to keep writing. After the vineyard, Brother Hansen took us to Burger King which was pretty sweet. If you look, there is a video about the Madera vineyard online and most of the Mexicans are in my ward. I am good friends with the main guy in it, Brother Hansen, so try and find it. We also taught the law of chastity to a couple, which was cool.
(Mom's note: If you go look for the video, the person that uploaded it is Beth Lawrence. I guess the vineyard is actually a church-owned welfare vineyard to make raisins.)
Thursday, we had another day of missionary work. I am not sure if it was Thursday, but we had a cool experience this week that I want to talk about. We were riding down the road and a man called us over. It looked pretty sketchy and at first we thought we would just have to do some service, but this guy explained that he was a member of our church and hadn't gone in a while. Then he explained to us that he had a coworker who had been living with him and going through some hard stuff who also used to go to our church, and he wanted us to talk to him. This guy had a heroine addiction and he asked us for a priesthood blessing to help him with what he was going through. We gave him one right in front of a gas station and then got his info and went on our way. Crazy miracles happen when you are serving the Lord. I hope that man is doing a little better now.
Friday was another regular day just serving the Lord. We talked to a whole ton of people and met a really cool Catholic who was interested to here more about The Book of Mormon. He isn't like most Catholic people here because he actually knows his stuff, so we will have to see how it goes.
Saturday we had a priesthood dinner at night that was pretty funny. I love the members in this ward, they are all pretty cool.
Sunday we had church and sadly nobody came from our investigators. We will just have to keep working and teach these people about the sabbath day! Also one of the members said the title of my email to us, and we thought it was hilarious so I added it in
I love you all and look forward to hearing from you again next week. Tomorrow is the big day that we get smart phones. I am looking forward to hastening the work by using technology and finding the people where they are which is online!
Love,
Elder Murray
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