JUST KIDDING. I've always wanted to do that. Like make my subject SUPER juicy so people are like OMG HIDDEN TREASURES but really its just same ole same ole. So sorry to get your hopes up. I'll try and include something iconfidential that sounds like it should only go to my mom.
WAIT- mom your package= GOLDEN. I could not believe how excited we were to get a transcript of conference?? borderline pathetic if it wasn't so golden. THANK YOU
THIS WEEK=AMAZE.
First of all, our mission wide fast for Miracles in May OMG INSTANT. We started on Saturday .01 seconds later we were tracting a referral that came to us all cryptic like in our phone because they are so old don't understand english- ANYWAY all we got was the address and name. Go to his door. First thing he says "Oh! Hi, yeah the missionaries used to come visit me and then they moved! So yeah, I'm interested." ----silence--------------WHAT. yeah amazing.
TONS of tracting this week- wow. love it. Since everyone is so lame and gave me NO door approaches, (EXCEPT Aunt Colette that sent me a GOLD MINE business approach) I just came up with "oh...we're new in the area and just introducing ourselves" which works SO well amongst the college-ites--
not well amongst anyone else.
BUT that approach soon got old so it turned into, "alright, I know the second we leave you're going to be SO curious with questions bursting out of your head so I'm going to leave you with our number so that you can call us and we will come back and answer them ALL." KID YOU NOT THIS WORKED, Literally I was like whaaa????? 2 different people took the bait. One named Diego (Jonathon! You'll die, he's a DJ...and showed me all his equipment and I just acted like I knew all about it so we insta-bonded but help i need fresh info to use) HALT I lied a little bit. This is actually a cool story:
REwind.
-We were knocking an apt complex and my OCD-ness made us go to EVERY. SINGLE. DOOR. not just "guided by the Spirit" skip a few etc. So no luck, few potentials etc. THEN last, very last, last last last door. RAGING party girl turning 21 awkward. We're like um.....yeah hi...missionaries.... SO we go upstairs first, THEN as we're walking back down Diego stops us and is like hey! I saw Jesus Christ on your name tag, what do you think about athiests?
UM!?!?! WE THINK THEY ARE AWESOME NATURALLY!?!?!?!? Then the bait was dropped "i'll know you have oodles of questions blah blah call us" THEN WE GET THIS TEXT THAT NIGHT AND I FELL OVER DYING. "What's the difference between belief and faith?-Diego"
HE IS REAL LIFE. So we had a meeting with him this last week, SO.MANY.QUESTIONS.......no structure.....lesson all over the place......BUT we survived and he said he'd be interested in learning more. HUZZAH
ALEX- other one. We met him a few weeks ago (remember the guy who loves aliens? yeah his neighbor.) ok he reminds me of Al Nash - like can talk about ANYTHING literally the blowing grass in the wind for like 20 min..and somehow we're like .....wait....somehow we asked you if you had seen the mormon.orgvideos.....and now we are talking about your front yard....BUT we chatted for a while- so refreshing to have him be so NORMAL--and HE CAME TO CHURCH. haha I literally had a miniature heart attack when I saw him walk up-EARLY even. 8:50. OMG. He tries to play it all off like he's just humoring us and acting interested because "he may as well try it" but I KNOW he is desperately seraching for something you can tell. Breaks my heart! He'll be baptized. KNOW it.
Ok miscellanneous items:
-my spelling is getting exponentially worse. MAINLY because we get texts like this on the daily:
"Dont no win to meet up i'm n Liberty" -Bill
"U aint sup pozin b kizzin them boyzzzz" <-- from a 63 yr old woman named Pam Neill....who is white.....#PREACH
-This family had us over for dinner....but then we went out to dinner.....and the little 7 year old came up and whispered in my ear "we have ants in our kitchen". Ohk.
But I knew I had truly been converted to missionary-ism when my first thought was "WOMAN we eat food with cats climbing on the walls- we can handle ants!" omg no make it stop.
Last week we almost had THREE investigators at Church (MIRACLES PEOPLE) Clare, Troy, ........................and Lisa? Cassidy (the one who dodged us and sprinted away from us on the bus? yeah before that) our member went to pick her up....but she was in bed. So she sent her roomate Lisa, who was SO.BORED. but wow loyal friend juss helpin a buddy out! .........don't quite think they understand the concept of church attendance.....
Tracting quotes of the week: (my new favorite section)
*knock on door- we can see him inside watching some sort of game* *dog barking off the hook=normal* "There is no one there! You are being so rude, stop barking- no one is there!! No.one.is.at.the.door. stop!".......................................Sis Christenot just staring with huge eyes like "Wait. we are at the door though."
So yeah we knocked again, Obvs.
We get reeeeeeeeeeally desperate for small talk. And at one point I find myself saying "oh yeah! Back when people broke MY kneecaps all the time...just loads of busting kneecaps back in Utah..." WHAT *we're all confused at this point* I WAS DESPERATE
"..............so.....hows the door-to-door thing goin?" Um....you tell us? "Not interested.." so it's going well then.....
*I know you're super curious now approach....* "Well....no. Just trying to be nice." CURSE YOU NICE PEOPLE.
OK love you lots- today = Zone P-Day which just means a bundle of fun and no time for anything.
LOVE YOU
-Sister Murray
TAWN- omg ALMOST shed tears of joy when Jake Heaps wife was like "Oh Tawni says hi!" WHAT. Smallest world, Brittany's sister?!?!? WHO KNEW
SMASHLEY- need I say more?? <3
ERICA RICH/TANNER - k wait so many things about your letter: FIRST that you have a sticker with your FACE ON IT!?!? genius. second-of course you have cute stationary. WRITING YOU ALL BACK TODAY i think.
was going to add pics. over it. too much work. NEXT week.
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