24 April 2017
Hello!
Things are pretty good in my area. Things aren't too bad. I'm
really good friends with the Elders that share the ward with us. Their names
are Elder Gutierrez and Elder Batres. I told Mom more about them in my email to her. They've
been really good friends during my time in this area. The area is also doing
pretty good. We plan on having a baptism this Saturday, a referral from a ward member, so that
will be good.
Are there still four elders in the Alief
Ward, or are there only two? Most of the wards here only have two missionaries,
but our ward is somewhat bigger so we have four elders here.
There isn't much else interesting happening in our area. We
are trying to work as hard as possible. It was a pretty tiring week. We had 16
new investigators though. Hopefully we can keep that up. The goal for the
mission is for every companionship to have 15 new investigators every week.
I'm thankful for your prayers and counsel I'm so glad to hear
from you every week and to hear how you are doing. I
pray for you everyday. I love you and miss you so much. Have a wonderful
week.
1 May 2017
This week was a little bit difficult. The middle of the week
was a little bit hard, but then Sunday it was like everything went down hill.
The guy that got baptized didn't show up to church because his niece was in the
hospital, so he didnt get confirmed. We didn't reach our goals in terms of new
investigators and investigators in sacrament meeting. We were very far from
what the mission goals are. We had interviews with President Godfrey this week,
and he gave me a little bit of congratulations for my work last week, our
numbers were pretty good, but I guess the praise came a little too soon.
I don't know where I went wrong exactly but I will try to
figure it out this week. I saw a video about the gardener and the current bush
today. It is a really parable. Here is the video:
I hope you have an excellent
week!
8 May 2017
Dear Dad,
Naomi told me about your computer trouble. I am very sorry
that it crashed. I hope that everything can be recovered. [It was a huge pain, but thanks to the miracle of Abid, computer guy extraordinaire, very little data was lost.] I will be praying
that everything will be recovered this week. [Prayer helped, too!] I know that it is very stressful
though, especially with the start to the summer schedule. I am very
sorry.
This week was pretty normal. It was some what difficult, though. We didn't really meet our goals in terms of our new investigators and
having our investigators attend sacrament meeting. I am trying to do a better job as a missionary. I told mom this and maybe you can help me out to. I
feel like there is something lacking in my spiritual aspect of my missionary
work, and I don't know what it is. I don't know what I need to change and how I
can improve in that area. Do you have any suggestions?
I willl be available to call you all next Sunday at 5 pm. [Missionaries call home twice a year, Christmas Day and Mother's Day.] I
will call from the house of one of the members in the ward. He has a business
that he runs from his house, and he uses computers a lot, so his internet
connection is pretty good.
Other than that not much else is going on. Winter is coming
in. Last week we moved apartments. We love in a place that is much better than
our old apartment, but there is a liquor store right next to our house. It
doesn't cause too much trouble.
Love, Elder McMurray
