Seriously. Usher. So good right now. but ONLY IN MY MIND. and only for a second. #Babylon
Ok.
Confession #1 every time i say "ahh i have NO time i'm like FREAKING out! like my whole life is just a RUSHHHHHHH I dont even have time to BREATHE let alone let my fingers fly relentlessly at this keyboard!!!!! aa;sldkg j"
-Thats all a lie.-
OOPS!
We have 2 hours to email (Thanks First Presidency and their thoughtfulness towards allowing us to talk to frenzzzz!) And so usually that translates into = "I'm so lazy. Don't want to put the thought into this email. Let me just spend the rest of the time watching Mormon Messages. Done."
Confession #2 I Bible Bashed this week.
THIS is actually a terrible/wonderful/bitter/sweet/painful/amazing story. (yeah, thats right, ALL of those adjectives.)
Ok so the Members we live with, youngest daughter named Addie, 17, wants to go on a mission/planning on it. So we took her on like "day in the life" of us? Yeah WE ARE SO COOL..........
Ok so very first lesson EVER. in the history of her life. ever. prepped her for 30 minutes before at the Church, so nervous, role played the lesson like 70 times, got it DOWN, ready to go.
Show up- CLARES HOUSE! We're like yeah, lets just ease her in, Clare is so nice? Her "sweet" friend Rose who told us she may have felt the Spirit but thought it was an alien entering her body and wanted to learn more? yeah she was there.
WHAM!
Sits down, whips out some paper and before we can even BEGIN she is writing down, "Oh-Murray? Yeah changed your mind once. Ok keeping an annoying tally of every time you 'change your mind' but really that is me just wrapping up words and blowing them around confusing everyone in the room, ok yes Murray? yeah thats FIVE times you've changed your mind."
................................
Ok im like YEAH this is not happening. Sister Christenot is crying because Rose won't let us help each other she like singles you out and refuses to listen to what you are saying anyway.
Needless to say she was hung up on the Polygamy thing and how that doesn't agree with the Bible that says to take one wife.
"FOR SOME REASON" I was at a loss for words. First time maybe in my whole life this has happened. Ever. The Spirit literally was confounding me because I realized later I didn't need to argue. (so...many....comebacks....)
Ok so over here on the good ole' Bible Belt she is flinging verses with no references at us right and left and I do not know the Bible as well as I should and apparently none of us do because I'm pretty sure half of the stuff she said wasn't even in the Bible!?!? But i didnt want to challenge it in case it was! So i FINALLY am feeling SO good I'm like:
"Ok yeah ROSE check out Amos 3:7 and let that blow your mind about how the Prophet is inspired of God and yes he revealed thats what we should do"
-in my mind tiny little Grinch-baby-snicker feeling so good like I just WWF'd her brain-
And yet, the glory didn't come. I felt worse, on the verge of tears. I could feel the Spirit run away, and all of a sudden my adrenaline was PUMPING like fight or flight mode I'm almost shaking, and that is NOT how you want to be feeling in a lesson.
And then she just said "oh, what Bible? Then i don't believe in that Bible either."
ok.
So I laid my weapons down, let her tally us 1 to 1,000,000 and just tried to apologize.
Clare finally spoke up and was like Rose stop, just be quiet
(me trying to apologize to her) "well Im not allowed to talk this isn't fair she can talk"
(trying to apologize THROUGH Clare to Rose) "well wow, now you are talking about me behind my back? that is rude, you know that is called cornering"
-a little peek into the life of a game called YOU CAN'T WIN-
Finally just said a closing prayer, and tears came flooding because for the first time I truly felt SORRY for her! Her husband hasn't come home for like 9 months, she had just had surgery and he came home but refused to see her and was yelling at her on the phone for leaving the house in such a mess when we first walked in-- all of this came flooding back in that moment and i felt the love God had for her, despite how incredibly rude she was to us. I couldn't believe it, but it was such a better feeling than to fight. A switch flipped when we said Amen and she was SO confused when i was just trying to giver her tips on using crutches on our way out....but she said thank you.
....And then told me the dye in the colors red and black cause cancer.
-look down, I'm wearing red skirt black shirt.-
Touche Rose, touche.
As we were leaving Addie said "I should have told her all of those stories in the Bible where they practiced polygamy" and it wasn't until THAT moment that I realized i had JUST read an entire chapter in a book about how to respond to the polygamy issue for another investigator who had asked the question in a much more civilized manner and realized, God really did not want me to argue today becuase i hadn't remembered one.single.thing.
MIRACLES
Ok, that was a really long confession.
Confession #3 I'm pretty sure I have converted about 900 people to other Churches because 90% of the time they ask where our Church is....they are automatically thinking of the wrong one. Gaurunteed. (There are 13, 13, different Churches within a 1 mile radius of our building.)
Confession #4 I pretty much gauge our success in our Ward by how many people sign up for meals.
Theeen we visited a Less Active who told us to come back in a few days, showed up, at 3:45....and she had dinner for us on the table??......um INCEPTION DINNER CALENDAR!?!?
Ya, I'd say we're successful.
Confession #5 yesterday at Church sweet Sister Mannering was teaching Relief Society (the one who was converted by the 9 year old) and seriously her shirt was like so.ironed. like SO.CRISP. I was so distracted by it-at one point 14 min into the lesson when I missed my que to read something because I was staring at her cuffs that were just SUSPENDED in mid air slightly turned back (not rolled) because they were so crisp and wrinkle-free- yea i'm like k seriously enough about the shirt. COULDNT STOP.
COULD be because I've sunk so low in the "i hate to iron" phase that heating up my flat iron and rubbing it on my shirt while it is on my body is me really putting in an effort. #DownyWrinkleSpray erryday.
LOVE YOU ALL,
WOW remind me to tell you about the MIRACLE this week about the straight HOODRAT we met named Rich who changed my life. -teaser-
Love,
Sister Murray
SHOUTOUTS
Ma BEV! loveddd your letter! Sending you one back today!!
ALYSSA!?!?!? yeah. THAT BLEW MY MIND!!!! love love love love love love your package! AH THANK YOU
Sister Reeves! (mom tell her thank you)
Erica Tanner - yes. LOVED all of your kid ideas, they are GOLDEN thank you!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GAGE BABE!!!!! I'm sending you a lil sum'n sum'n!! love you!!!
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