Ok, no time. SORRRRRY.
Quick rundown:
We teach an investigator at the hospital cafeteria (don't question it) and Sister Christenot had to run to the bathroom as we are leaving. Turns out these weird bathrooms are like semi-automatic so when you touch the handle it opens really slow, and then stays open for 5 seconds....didn't question it.
I'm waiting outside the door..things get boring...so I started looking at this bulletin board that has all of the Cancer survivors on it (amazing! Aunt Jo needs to be up there) Next thing I know a lady is walking towards the bathroom door (one room stall) I'm like "huh, should I say something? nah, it's locked....oh...its....nOT LOCKED." -que awkward OHMY, sorry.......oh wow...this door....stays open for 5 seconds........awkward.....1.....awkward....2......3...4................................................................................5. oh...ok.
Never have I exherted so much strength in trying not to laugh, pulled it off, everyone thought the tears were from reading the bulletin board. .....not from the bulletin board.....so funny.
In. Tents. (i love saying that now, confuses people in WRITING but when you say it outloud, it portrays more accurately how I am saying INTENSE.)
MOSH KONY PA (this means I dont know in Suth'n accent. LOVE IT)
-----WAIT-------
Sister Christenot used to be a manager at Papa Murphy's and I've known that for eons. THEN we drive passed one and she off-handedly was like "yeah, people used to get so confused when we would hand them their pizza cause they didn't know they were take and bake." I'm like oh yeah...but would you just hurry and give them a cooked one? ....no we don't even have ovens.
WAIT I'M SORRY WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!
I seriously can not get over it. This happened on TUESDAY. I'm still raging. HOW DOES THIS PLACE EVEN STAY IN BUSINESS LET ALONE A CHAIN!??? Like seriously, you dont even DELIVER or COOOOOK YOUR PIZZA!?!? Omg i have to stop talking about it. Raging.
Dad, your suckers are BOMB- best approaching tool we have, oh hey....we have all of these left over JayHawk suckers...i see your ostentatious Jay Hawk sign in the yard....you must like them....by the way here is a Book of Mormon.
Ok Sister Mannering: PMF in our ward. She has been a member for like 15 years. LITERALLY an angel. I love her so much.
CONVERSION STORY FOR THE KIDDOS: if you are under the age of 12 and think you you can't do missionary work YOU CAN.
Once upon a time Sis Mannering worked at KU. Her boss (members) got offered to go to Prague for 12 days for something, but weren't going to go because kids at home (5 boys youngest was 6). She offered to babysit them so they could go.
She goes over to babysit, they love her a lot, the days are fun....soon little [Billy] starts feeling really sad and moping around. "Billy, what is wrong?" I miss my Dad! "Well, what do you miss about him? Lets work this out." Well, he always used to read the scriptures with me before I went to bed. "Well, I can read your scriptures with you, is it the Bible?" No, its called the Book of Mormon.
So Billy read to her every night from the Book of Mormon. And he's only 7.
And then the parents got home, "so, when can I be baptized?"
Never been to Church, never met with the missionaries. she was purely converted from the GOSPEL. She said "I could have showed up to church with a bunch of WEIRDOS and I wouldn't have cared, i knew what I read was true, and I knew that even a 7 year old boy knew it."
AMAZING. We never know what kind of influence we will have on someone. No one in her family joined, but she has been a DEVOUT member ever since.
Other bestie from the Ward. 70 year old man named Larry Day. OBSESSED WITH HIM. He is seriously so nice, AND he is a journalist?? He was the national correspondant in Argentina forever and wrote for some other papers and now does a humor column for a retirement paper!?!? I KNOW. Anyway he has a book out called "Day Dreaming" and Dad you should buy it for yourself or Bev n Bob cause it seems classic.
SERIOUSLY LIKE WHY WOULD YOU DRIVE TO A PLACE TO GET A PIZZA THAT IS NOT EVEN COOKED!?!?! Like go the GROCERY store and buy one!?!? They dont even DELIVER the uncooked pizza. WHY DO THESE PLACES EVEN HAVE STORES. ugh. seriously. stupid.
Last but NOT least. Baptism yesterday. (Oh PS transfers were this week, i'm here for 6 more weeks so are all the sisters, an elder got transferred.... eh. Elders.)
TROY. Ok so I can not tell you how stressful it was planning a program with NO Ward Mission Leader and a brand new Bishop as of Sunday and everyone giving us the run around referring us to OTHER people when we try to assign them something. But the Lord really does provide and somehow we scraped one together in time. 3:30 rolls around and our AWESOME recent convert (baptized in FEBRUARY- Winston) calls us "Troy is not here. I'm at his house." TEARS. Never prayed so hard or so sincerely IN.MY.LIFE. It was a low moment, I hear the font being filled up, the few people we scrounged to come are showing up....HOW could he not show!?!? And then as I am saying Amen, I hear Sis Christenot on the phone, and Winston "wiat- the door is opening! Nevermind, he is here." MIRACLE.
Needless to say they were late, no time for pictures (sad face) but i did get this paparazzi shot of them walking to the font.
Winston had it written on his hand what to say SO CUTE so nervous kept saying "are you SURE I can even do this??" Troy is a mammoth man, Winston is not. I forsee the disaster about to happen as he goes to dunk him, but no words would come. Next thing you know Troy is somehow drowning and Winston throws his arms up in the air and a celebratory fist pump for completing it (but forgot that you need to pull the man BACK UP).
RE-DO.
This time his words have been washed off his hand. Fumbled through, but seriously the most beautiful baptism I have ever witnessed, seeing how HAPPY Winston was to be on the OTHER side of this ordinance, when he was just here only a few months ago! The gospel blesses families, it blesses PEOPLE, it changes LIVES. It was amazing.
Read the Book of Mormon and imagine yourself as an Investigator. We have been reading 1 Nephi with someone and it is AMAZING how much I have learned/my eyes have been opened. The gosepl is TRUE. I love it.
Elder Cook is coming to the mish on Saturday SO EXCITED. lots to share next week I'm sure.
LOVE YOU ALL
Love
Sister Murray
AUNT COLETTE- THANK YOU SO MUCH. your letter was just what I needed. So much to say. Writing you a letter.
Ashley Pack - LOVE YOU. Cease to amaze.
SUMSIONS- ATTENTION ATTENTION MORRISTOWN NEW JERSEY!!!! OFFICIALLY THE SECOND BEST MISSION IN THE WORLD! Literally my dear friend Sister Collins in THERE!!! Mom will you forward Annes emails to Kristen??? CONGRATULATIONS BEN!!! YOU WILL LOVE IT! Seriously, her stories are amazing, it sounds like the best second-best mission EVER!!! SO EXCITED FOR YOU!!
Markell. my mind exploded. the end.
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