I went on exchanges and had to go up to Manhattan (like a knock-off version of Lawrence, literally.) it was like CRAZY busy/last minute? So i had like.........nothing? Sister ______ (they are in a trio) "oh you can wear my sweats! oh you can use my pillowcase, i just washed it! Yeah, here use my towel I just washed it too!" Wow thanks Sister_____!!
...........
Next morning about to take a shower, other Sister comes over, awkwardly whispers "just so you know, Sister ___ has ring worm, so......................" *hands me her towel*
-Wearing Sister____'s shirt-
-been wearing it all night-
-what the is ring worm-
-help me-
Oh yeah also on Exchanges...they hadn't been to the store for a while.....so like breakfast..."popcorn?" ....lunch......."tortilla with peanut butter"...?
RING WORM AND MALNOURISH-ment = the best day of my life. naturally.
So lady who fed us parasitical meat and fish and corn in pan? New delicacy "harvard beets" or something? mmm delicious!
-get up to get "seconds"...just going to put those back...in the pot.....come back with empty plate....dont question it-
ZONE CONFERENCE:had to spend the night because it was so far away "midnight devotional" with some sisters that we stayed with (because we can't have sleepovers) BEST EVER. Except they had this GIANT air mattress like literally California King blow up mattress...who knew they made those? So we just slept like sardine style? Which technically wasn't breaking rules because it says don't share a bed with your COMPANION...not dont share a bed with 4 other companions.....so......
but nightmare 2013 trying to blow it up and couldnt find the leak.....so just kept pumping it up.....leak sealed itself without telling us............so bed now=a sheet of bedrock. So basically we slept on the floor that was elevated 2 feet off the ground. #suchawaste
Lastly, had some pretty spiritual experiences this week:
1- met with a Less Active (the one who MIRACLE-ly? lived with that guy Rich who was the alcoholic we had been searching for for months? Scott Kessler?
Ok so he has some pretty crazy ideas of the church, but still has a foundation of a testimony, in her lesson with Rich Scott was piping in with his testimony AWESOME.................until the end when he said the church was falling apart and no where in the bible does it say that there should be a seventy......
-ok do we address the apostate LA or the investigator??? neither????-
Scott.....meet with us next week.
So we meet with Scott, bring sister neill...........(who is also less active?? thought it was a good idea at the time.....) basically now addressing TWO different less actives concerns about the organization of the Church.
But then Scott tells us about how he has received dreams since he was 14 about where he needs to find the brass plates...and how he is supposed to walk across the atlantic to retrieve them and then end in Jerusalem....but he hasnt read the BOM in years or been to church because that would "cloud is mind" with the discussion ending in him "losing his ability to speak" so he wrote everything down on a piece of paper he wanted to say ......................................so as odd as it sounds NOW- in the moment, it was like CRYSTAL clear what I needed to say, do, respond to.
In PMG it talks about feeling successful as a missionary when you feel the Spirit working THROUGH you, and honestly at that moment, despite the CRAYness i FELT it. I knew EXACTLY how to respond, what to say and STILL felt he love God had for His lost son Scott....
and WHO walks in to Church Sunday and stays for all 3 hours?
Brother Kessler.
The Church is true, book is blue.
LOVE YOU ALL
lame email I KNOW. but this week has been MORE than crazy.
OH we're being kicked out (in a nice way) since the Yates are having a family friend move in who is a 17 yr old boy.....which means see ya later Sisters.
SO we still have no home.....................so send mail to the mission office until next week.
7011 E 13th St N
Wichita KS
67206
MUCH LOVE
Sister Murray
PICS:
1. my favorite kids ever, they lived in Japan when they were little so they LOVE peace sign.
2. Me and Sister Smartt from my MTC district, LOVE her, Zone Conference
3. last but not least.............DENNIS from Salvation Army.......AS WE ARE TAKING this pic he puts his arm around me MAY DAY MAYDAY arm is reaching back to un-latch the situation but just turns out looking so bad.....but then so good because his girlfriend is in the forefront....so couldn't not share.
Shououts!
Mitzi- Best talk ever!!! THANK YOU!
Smashley- package??? you kiddin me????? SO GREAT I LOVE YOU
MOM- got my skirt TODAY its so so so cute, LOVE it!! THANK YOU!
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