This week has been crazy so I decided I would write about it for the blog. It has been weird lately, being able to communicate with my immediate family each week, and it has been harder to motivate myself to write emails back home. This week however was pretty nuts, so I will go over the play by play so that it can live down in the history books.
Tuesday was a good day. We had interviews with President Mackay and I took some time to talk to him about our area. We were given a training by the Zone Leaders where we learned about 4 key points in missionary work that we will be striving to improve over the upcoming months of the mission. The four are Finding, Teaching, Members, and Leaders.
Wednesday was a regular day. We didn't do a whole lot. We just tried to visit a lot of people and a bunch of people either canceled their appointments or they weren't there.
Thursday one of the people we are teaching had her baptismal interview, so the Zone Leaders helped us to do that for her and she passed, which was awesome.
Friday was a crazy day. We started out in the morning with service at the Zoo which is always fun. Then we had to do some weekly planning which takes a while to do. Then that night we had our soccer night and one of the guys there brought like his whole team, so we had a bunch of nonmembers there. The best part was that almost all of them stayed to listen to the lesson which is usually just something simple we share with them. One of the guys even participated in the message which was super cool.
Saturday might have been even crazier than Friday. That morning we were supposed to have two appointments so we left the apartment early. Then we had a baptismal interlude that we gave. It was pretty nerve wracking because we had just received training on how we should do a baptismal interlude and our mission president was there. But it was the best one that I have done yet and President told us that the baptism was great and that he wished he could have videotaped it so that missionaries could have an example of what a baptism should be like. Later on that same day, we had a lunch with Raul Sanchez who is a member that posts about us on Facebook a lot. It was crazy though, because my first transfer in the mission field I served with this sister named Sister Balls who finished her mission that transfer and then returned home. Well, she got married and came back for the baptism so her and her husband were at the lunch with us and then showed up to our dinner later that night which was super weird and was making me realize how old I am.
Sunday was the day of our friend's baptism so that whole day we were running around making programs or in MCM or Branch Council and we were just going all day until the baptism ended at like around 3. Then we went to a member's house because she invited us over to eat at her house for her birthday, so we went to that which was good. It has been a long time since I had mole from Oaxaca so it was good to have that again. Then that night we did missionary work and now here we are. The weekend was super crazy we were going almost nonstop for the last three days.
Anyways, that was my crazy week! I hope you all are doing well and I look forward to hearing from you again soon.
Love,
Elder Murray
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