April 29nd - Planada and Snelling

Dear Family,

I figured I should probably write a big email so that you all know what I did this week.

Tuesday was a pretty regular day. We had a district Council and we visited some people that day. We started around 9 am because we had an early appointment so we ended up biking like 25 miles.

Wednesday was more bikes and more appointments. We tried some people on the north side of Merced and then went down south that night.

Thursday was the third day of bikes. We decided we would do weekly planning on Thursday from now on so that we can make better use of the car. We visited people that day for the rest of the day, nothing special.

Righteous raccoon wants to accept the gospel. 

Friday we did our regular sports night and we were able to go to Planada, which is a little city like 10 miles from where we live in Merced. We talked to one of our less active friends out there for around 2 hours (the only one that came to church). We also talked to two other members while we were out there. It is a super Hispanic town so we love it there.

Saturday we had lunch at this Mexican place with another less active which was awesome! It was super tasty. I ordered some carne asada quesadillas. Then we went to visit some people including the man with like 10 cats. Then we had dinner with some members that night and the food was super good.

Sunday we had church and it was pretty disappointing. Almost all those that told us they would come to church this week were not able to make it for one thing or another so we were pretty down. I don't understand why people always put the Lord behind other things on their priority list. He is my first priority 100% of the time. That night we had no dinner so I cooked some chicken and noodles with some lemon and parsley garlic salt. Then we went to a town like 15 miles to the north called Snelling. We visited a part member family out there and met a man named Joe who was super nice and we were able to teach him the Plan of Salvation.The scenery was beautiful there and there were many, many cows. I will attach some pictures.

That was my week this week. Today we are planning on playing basketball, big surprise, and that should be it because the guy didn't go to Yosemite with us again. I love you all and have a great week.

Love,

Elder Murray