I KNOW WE FOUND AN INVESTIGATOR STRIAGHT OUTTA LOUISIANNA!!! He is a DREAM! Old man like 70 years old, longest mullet in the history of the world and you guessed it SUTH'N ACCENT LIKE YOU WUDNT BELIEVE! He also was part of the French Mafia!? (such a thing) "Yup, alligators get fed real good down there. Well, all I's gonna say." -weird eyebrow eye-rolling insinuating look-
wait.
WHAAAAAAT. DID YOU KILL SOMEONE!?!?!?!? Somehow played it cool and just was like "uuuh huh. Aint THAT the truth!" (secretly in my mind still wrapping my head around what the heck that means and if technically you can be still be baptized if you SENT someone to kill someone, not actually you...)
His name is Steve.
Backing up. This week flew by like what in the how is is Monday again.
So for this E-mail I decided to share with you how the Lord has prepared me for literally everything I am experiencing before hand. And apparently since Mom thinks I am an apostate I will throw in more of my Testimony OK!?
-Last Monday Sister Christenot wanted to get her hair cut. I'm like bomb, more letter writing time i am SO behind (so sorry I haven't forgotten about you if you haven't gotten a letter back!) next thing I know we are in this sport-ish Barber Shop after we had gone into like 40 other ones that were PACKED (some sort of game was on what.ev.) he looks at us like um...you are lost. No we are not, she needs a hair cut. Uh..sure straight across? I have never been more proud than Sis Christenot as she was like uh sure? He asked her to stand since the chair was too high for her, literally 120 seconds later, she is done....so blunt....3 inches gone....but he only charged her 5$!
Lord prepared me for this in the ability to keep a striaght face and my unbelievable ability of capturing candid pictures without people seeing.....especially blurry ones.
-This family that i LOVE (the Miles, they are in the Bishopric) best kids ever, they all talk at the exact same time trying to tell you stories = UM YES. You know its going to be a good night though when the 6 year old Jacob beigns (with the best lisp in the history of the world) "Raise your hand if you know any more Ted Bundy stories."
LUCKILY the Lord prepared me with gobs of Ted Bundy stories as my estranged 12th grade English teacher had a whole unit around Halloween on collecting Ted Bundy stories. WINNING.
-Vaeonos, polynesian family who had us over to dinner....show up....table is set....only 2 places....everyone stares and watches us eat and can't eat until we are done!?!?!? silence.
Lord did NOT prepare me for this. DEWEY WHAT THE HECK WHERE WERE YOU ON THAT ONE!?!? what other customs do I need to know, I'm pretty sure I offended all 1064 kids.
-Helping our investigator Clare with her new computer. We left her these lds.org videos for her to watch, come back "I couldn't get them to work! I couldn't get the dang arrow to go away!" ..........
Grandma Brown. All i'm going to say.
-A few days ago we were driving, and like a blood vessel popped in my eye or SOMETHING cause it was throbbing and all of a sudden blood shot, yet I was like so calm. And I just thought, "huh, what if my eyeball exploded, like what do you even DO when that happens?" -still calm- "The rest of the car ride was spent with one of my eyes closed pretending I was blind in one eye to make sure I would still be able to drive (HEAVEN FORBID SIS C IS DESIGNATED DRIVER FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE)......and then I realized, wait. WHAT THE HECK WHAT IF MY EYEBALL EXPLODED OMG.
Lord prepared Sister Christenot to deal with overdramatic situations.
-Lord prepared me for Steve: All the hours i THOUGHT were wasted watching Amish Mafia, Swamp People, Duck Dynasty. Um no. GOLD MINE OF INFO YA'LL! Also my pleuthera of Southern vocab helps me communicate.
-Sis Neill, less active who kidnaps us and takes us to dinner....but then somehow we accidentally tripped and fell into Gap..OOPS. We were there 3 min, TOPS.
-Lord prepared me to just say no. obstain from Sales and just keep walking, NO HE DIDNT. SO MUCH WILL POWER WAS EXERCISED CANT EVEN TELL YOU. But really somehow found the power to pry her out of the store.
-Randy: investigator some poeple call "lifers" I HATE THAT PHRASE. He is progressing, at a slower rate, but I can just FEEL it, he is SO.CLOSE. we read through the Book of Mormon with him (he wants to finish before making any commitments) and he asks me (in 2 Ne Isaiah chapters...um crap.) "So what is that, it was a typeof ...blah blah what does that mean?"
ACTUALLY amazing. The Lord prepared me if not solely for this moment. Last year I took a Book of Mormon class. Felt totally prompted to take it from this certain teacher. Showed up first day and realized that he was a Philosophy teacher, this was his FIRST time teaching BOM ever, and it was a really painful class. I wanted OUT but kept getting this feeling I should stay. I ended up staying and wish i could say it was THE MOST AMAZING THING EVER. It wasn't. I FULLY fell asleep..like a lot....and didn't really try that hard, OOPS sorry Dad. But seriously, you couldn't get service down there so I listened by default. One of his biggest things is we went through the Book of Mormon like I never have, ALWAYS asking questions. We had a full 5 days of going through "types and shadows" how everything in the BOM typifies Christ.
Somehow everything I had ever learned came flooding back to my memory and I was able to explain it to him in a way, that even I didn't remember understanding it in such depth! Seriously one of the most amazing experiences, Sis Christenot just looked at me, mouth open, like what the heck!? WHERE IS THIS COMING FROM. Spirit.
-Troy gets baptized on Saturday!! We were sturggling in figuring out if he FULLY understands the commitment he is making so we asked him "Troy, why are you getting baptized?" (hadn't really been out in the open about his feelings yet) "Well, from what I understand becoming a member of the Church for life, fellowshipping others, taking that next step, essential in forgiveness, helping others, i don't really know besides that...."
Dang, wow. thats it? All you could come up with? Maybe you can learn more and do better next time...........
ASLDGKJH ADIOGUAW RGHO;JI G;ADKJHA;LSDGJ WEOPU9W38 TU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Grandma Brown, dont ACTUALLY read all of those letters, that is just my mind exploding.)
WOW HE IS SO AWESOME I LOVE HIM! Baptism on Saturday. Sending you pics. FO SHO.
I have learned more on the mission than I EVER have in my whole life. Every day during studies I'm amazed like what the heck!? This has been in the scriptures the WHOLE TIME!?! WHERE HAVE I BEEN! All of you, STUDY. Don't just read, but actually APPLY and STUDY and the blessings you receive are amazing.
The Lord WANTS to bless us, all we have to do is ASK. Prayer is one of the most amazing tools on the planet, we literally have a way to SPEAK to God, who created the entire EARTH who is SO powerful, and WE have a way to speak to Him directly and he KNOWS US!? How amazing is that.
I love you all so much!! Keep on Keeping On!!!
Love, Sister Murray
1-Sums up our relationship perfectly. superman socks
SHOUTOUTS!
MA BEVY: loved your letter THANK YOU! writing you back TODAY (even though you just told me to take a nap, wish i could....but can't.)
HAY BAY BAY! um your package was KILLER THANK YOU LOVE YOU writing you back today baby gurrrr
AUNT JO OMG THOSE RUBY SLIPPERS!! Seriously couldn't stop smiling all night. THE BEST EVER THANK YOU everyone is SO jealous I can't even tell you. LOVE YOU
Grandma Brown, I love your letters ESPECIALLY when you type them on the type writer! I am sorry you can't understand what I am saying, I will work on not using so much slang. but probably not really. love you! writing you back i promise!!
Aunt Holly and Uncle B!! Your letters were SO sweet, seriously MADE MY DAY on a day that was not so great. Tell Wilkes I LOVED his drawing :) LOVE YOU
TAWN! Self-portrait. SPOT.ON. Writing you and Jack back TODAY! seriously dying at your letter.
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