It's been a good week. Merced is super crazy like all the time. There are a ton of homeless people here and most of the citizens are Mexicans. Most of the time, the rising generation is either just really lazy or drug dealers. So we deal with the parents who just work really hard jobs and come home tired and don't want to listen to us. Or those who are younger who are stuck in the world. If you talk to everyone though, then you are bound to find those that are prepared. It would be cool if I got more emails on Preparation day or if someone sent me a letter every once in a while, but I don't want to complain about it anymore. I haven't heard from Ben in like a month now.
Anyways, let me hit some highlights of my week so that you know what I have been up to.
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday this week were pretty standard. We just did missionary work and found more people to teach. We teach a ton here because there is nothing to hold us back.
Friday, my companion had a District Leadership Meeting so I went on exchanges with an Elder in Atwater who is Canadian. We biked past these random melons laying on the side of the road which didn't belong to anyone so we decided we would shotput a few into the field nearby. That was pretty fun. Then my companion came back and we went back to work in our area.
Saturday, we helped this man we are teaching take a ton of recycling to the exchange. By a ton, I mean we made like 4 trips with his entire trunk filled. Our hands smelled like beer by the end and it was super gross but it was fun to help him out and try to get more on his good side. That night the branch had a wedding in Atwater so we went and supported. I got to hear "Bailando" the song which was fun. We left like 2 hours or so before it ended to go teach more.
Sunday was church. We had meetings in the morning and then church. It is a little weird here because we do classes before sacrament because the youth don't have enough people in the branch so they go with the English ward. After church we had a baptism for the Atwater Elders, so we did the interlude. It wasn't our best work but it was still okay.
Merced is a good place. I am going to the gym again. My companion is kind of a Jack because he loves to work out a ton. Thank you for sending Cerave I ran out this week and have been feeling pretty dry. Keep up the good work back home and I hope to hear more from you.
Love,
Elder Murray
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