#2. TENDER MERCY that literally is happening as I am typing. So there is this CLASSIK big black guy named Jay who comes to Salvation and is ALWAYS at the library when we are here....even on Tuesdays apparently....and he comes over as I am about to cry seeing my BEST FRIEND is getting married on Saturday....and just randomly starts like comedy hour about how her poor husband probably has to work really hard on his oil fields/there goes his college education fund, food stamps, childrens trust fund on her ring.... can i say that in a mass email? TEARS, good kind. Aaaand then it ended in a weird mock proposal that got really awkward about how I better not expect anything bigger than a piece of dirt from him? #tendermercygone ...... #noJayforthehundredthtimewecantdate
#3 LABOR DAY it was great and full of labor. We had a huge ward bbq that they were pushing to bring less actives and non-members so we almost went in to REAL labor trying to invite everyone we have ever met EVER to come..............................3 non-members and 2 less actives.....but GOBS of members! WAY more than any other activity so we'll count it a success!
So it was potluck and we decided to bring cheap toys we found at walmart instead of food...........NOT our greatest idea i.e. COLORED BUBBLES.....that are like very very poignant hues.....that are like border-line not washable......that we gave to a THREE year-old..........who said "oh cool!" *pouring whole bottle down front* FAIL
but we brought chalk and drew a giant Plan of Salvation on the ground hoping their Moms would realize the BIGGER PICTURE...looking past their daughters clothes now ruined..... #oops
#4 WHO KNEW PLANNING BAPTISMS AND BACHELORETTE PARTIES HAD ANY SORT OF SIMILARITIES?????? literal. like planning Randy's baptism is giving me a BRAIN ANUERISM <---- proof of that is i cant even SPELL aneurysm?? stress ESPECIALLY since all these old sisters are FLYING in for the baptism (investigating for 3 years) and its like WOW i better up my game make this FABULOUS considering the ONE baptism we brought him to was that of a girl that just got baptized in the 2nd ward that was in charge of the Camp that the STAKE girls camp was at and they invited her to all of their activities, ends up getting BAPTIZED with the ENTIRE STAKE YW with their moms there, FILLED THE CHAPEL ............... so his expectations are like ....... THROUGH THE ROOF????? #wearedead #Sept11th........don'tquestionthatdate
but my party planning skills are coming in handy! (BUT ANY IDEAS ARE WELCOME)
#5 Fast Sunday....during sacrament me and Sister Engebretsen had just had this talk about our fast so really in to it......Maddie Alder (cutest toddler award) realizes that we are sitting a few rows back...
(yelling) "LOOK! Mom! MISS-un-FAIRIES!.... dey are SLEEPING!"
*just shocked/do we laugh/stand up and assure congregation we are awake?*
"Oh! they waked up."
........#norecovery
#6 Randy started giving the opening prayers in Gospel Principles....poor Brother Heaps does NOT know what he has started.....his gift of gab has transferred in to his prayers!?
Quote from prayer:
"As always thank you for your time and for the time of everyone here in this class, oh wait actually thanks a lot for all of this rain, I mean it just REALLY is coming down, and it was last night! I was stopped up in it all night...ACTUALLY....if anyone is interested in finding out why that was come and find me...."
wait, did he just campaign for friends in a prayer? can you do that??...... WHY havent i done that sooner??
#7 NELL! remember works at the Hospital......had the car this week FLYING by to an appointment.....EEEEEEKKK
"was that Nell??" -tons of illegal u-turns-
"NELL! what the your phone shut off!"
Oh yeah I've been meaning to give you new number, but didnt have yours
"sweet...wait are you on break? oh you're on break for ONE HOUR??"
-parking-
FINALLY after 1 million failed attempts at setting up appointments with him taught him the first lesson in a random back employee hallway of a hospital that the Lord was watching over because NOBODY walked through, OF COURSE except for when Sis E is sharing the first vision, but after that just SILENCE, he asked so many great questions, and hes going to read the BoM and prayed about it in the most SINCERE prayer after we were done!
I kept thinking of the quote in Preach My Gospel about Joseph Smith and apostles "there is no need for my servants to move swiftly while others are on the shore dwindling in unbelief" or something im like FREAK how many people do we just cruise by in our spoiled air conditioned car!
So we now walk a lot.
#8 RACHEL - new investigator like ANSWER TO PRAYERS. She is GOLDEN she started crying just when we were standing on her doorstep, shes struggling with some addictions and felt like we were an answer to an unspoken prayer, sis e has been praying for someone who needed the atonement MIRACLE! she came to Church on Sunday just tears in her eyes "I loved it!" it was the most refreshing feeling in the WORLD! like we dont have to tug and pull and work and teach and convince you that THIS is the best way to live? you just GET it???? AHHHHHH pray for her!!! and her cuter than life 6 year old daughter Indigo.
#9 last but not least....new lady moved in from Utah who is not a member helped her last week.....like gobs of cat things....single......has no children.....asked us to come help her nail something to her wall...we're like sure?
Next thing I know I am in a skirt INSIDE of a giant cat cage 2 hours later sweating up a storm holding a meat mallet.....hammering in holes of dry wall anchors screw things with twist ties flying everywhere trying to secure this thing to a wall??? LIKE WE ARE SO UNDERQUALIFIED FOR THIS JOB I CANT EVEN BEGIN TO EXPLAIN????? needless to say.....there are like a lot of holes in the wall of that RENTED house......missed attempts.........Sis E is ALLERGIC to cats so she is dying now.......but Cindy was happy? #ten....der.....merc..y?
Next day at Ward Council... "So Cindy has started to ask us to do some things that are a little more service than I think we should offer, so if we could just hold off on those and encourage her to hire help so the Church doesnt get SUED...."
*millions of holes we just hammered in to her wall with a meat mallet blazing in my mind*
"Great..... idea.. Bishop!"
#crap
LOVE YOU ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
Love, Sister Murray
SHOUTOUTS:
GRACIAL! those PICtures!!! OMG IM DYING your trip looked AMAZE and all of the weddings so classic. LOVE
SAMUEL DAVID- YOUR LETTER! so so great writing you back ASAP
STRING! OMG YOUR CARD looooooooooved loved it! THANK YOU
TAMMY EEENG! LOVE YOUUUUUUUUU thank you for your sweet note!!
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1. colorful bubble fail...
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