December 3rd - Small Ladder

This week was pretty normal. To be honest, it has all blurred together for a while now. As for business, I received the Christmas package and it was great. I added the window sticky things to our front door with all the Jesus pictures. I ate some of those steak things and I put all the presents and the stocking under the tree. However, I did open one present early. We were going to bike to this city called Goshen that is like 10 miles away and we would be returning at night, so I figured it would probably be a good idea to have a light so I found the one that was the light and opened it. Hopefully that is okay. I am doing well though and happy to be serving the Lord this Christmas season.

I am going to opt for a more event based email today so you will have to read about what I am doing rather than the boring days when I did nothing. The first thing we did this week was we marched and sang carols in a Christmas parade here in Visalia and it was fun. My legs hurt and my throat muscles were sore afterwards, but it was good and fun.

Another thing we did was we biked to Goshen. We pretty much spent like 6 hours out there knocking doors because none of the potentials we had were answering so it was kind of lame. We did get to go to this little strange burger drive up place that was pretty good. Then later that night we found a family that is members that lives in Visalia who were up in Goshen. They were there because their house was getting fumigated.

Then we had a service where we set up for this big Christmas event that was called like the sword sisters or something at this other church. It was pretty cool and it is why I named the email what I did. They kept having to put stuff high up so they would always have me go up there and put it up because I am super tall so I told people that I am a small ladder. It was a fun time and we got some chicken sandwiches which were too much bread.

Another thing we did was that we went to sing and carol for old people in retirement homes. We spent some time talking with them afterward and it was cool to talk to ancient people in Spanish because like two of them didn't speak English. One of the English ones from Cali, and I said that I was born in Sacramento and that my grandparents still live there. I am glad my grandparents are not so old that they can barely converse with people. It gives me hope for my future. Granted they aren't 98 yet so Idk. Love you Grandma and Grandpa Gentry and Grandma and Grandpa Murray!

The last thing that happened was that our ward got a new bishop this week and he is the one guy I was telling you about who went to Davis High. He is awesome and probably my best friend in the ward so I am excited. I am sorry to see Bishop Chandler go though. He was awesome and so inspired. It is weird that I was one of the last missionaries to serve in his time as bishop. We had a new friend we are teaching named Jansy come to church and stayed all the way through the devotional.

Those were really the big events of the week. Hopefully you LOVED my email and you weren't mega bored. I love you all and wish you the best!

Love,

Elder Murray