Friday, September 26, 2008

thedrew@myldsmail.net

Hey hey I don't have a ton of time but this is my mission email now! Anywho so mom, I did get one of your letters and today I got the dear elder one. .. Anywho I love you and I'm glad you and dad are having fun and stuff now that I'm gone..ha.. umm I don't know what to tell you but I can write faster now so maybe I can include more stuff.... umm mtc is awesome i leave on September 29th and ill try and send a normal letter tomorrow.. everything good! umm i hope Asher and Lacey are doing well.. are Bec and Tyler moving in to Tyler house? hows Sara's baby.. when will we know if its a boy or girl? miss you guys but I'm totally digging it here! I really like the rc and yesterday i actually called the white house.. it was funny.. the rc is "referral center" and you call people to confirm delivers or send free stuff from the church.. and anyway someone put a fake one on there that I was suppose to call and it said George bush and had like the actual white house address and stuff so i totally called it and I was honestly afraid especially when some lady answered and said "who do I have?" so I hung up.. but its all good cause it was not a legit thing to be in the referral center anyway but it turned out that it was the real white house number... so yeah I totally called the white house yesterday! cool.. well you can forward this to everyone back home if you want, I'm having a blast and I think you guys are cool, but I'm cool too.. anyway that's all.. peace out! I don't know when my p-day is next week but ill try to write as soon as possible next week! and you should get some pictures tomorrow, but they kind of stink.. anyway bye all.also you can send it to Tebor, and Bruce and Kevin and stuff if you want.. it doesn't matter, I cant say that I would have the time to really read theirs if I got them anyway, so yeah it doesnt matter.. drew out. -elder mcmurry.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Ahoy!

Ahoy!
Yo Family! So guess what? I haven’t gotten any letters! Ahem!! Just playing, it’s all good. Well I’m having a blast every day is so awesome and I love my district. There are 10 of us. All of them are just wonderful guys. It’s crazy how many rowdy missionaries there are on this floor in our building who don’t exactly follow the rules…but I haven’t been perfect either
So in classes we are just working on the 1st lesson and might start the second one tonight. It’s our districts p-day, by the way it’s on Tuesdays for us and we went to the Provo temple this morning. It was awesome and super beautiful!! Ok so I’m doing awesome and loving every minute of it…there’s so much I want to share! I will share one cool thing with you though…Elder Winegar, my companion, told me something really cool in our companionship study yesterday, he said, “So on the day we entered the MTC, I saw you taking pictures in the lobby with your family and thought ‘I hope/think he will be my companion’ and later when I was coming to the room ..before I opened the door, I thought okay he’s going to be behind the door and when I opened the door you were there.” Cool story huh?
I can’t imagine not being here in this district. I love it so much. So I may have gotten Elder Vresk sick, he’s in the room with me and Elder Robinson and Elder Winegar. So there’s 4 of us..it’s awesome. Elder Winegar is a different person than me but that’s all I’ll say, he’s a good Elder and we get along fine.
Oh, so just so you know, I can only write on p-days and the last letter I wrote was because we were told to and only to write family. Anyway, I’m loving it here and hope all is well and that Lacey and Asher are Healthy!
I’ll try to have pictures next week. Anyway not a lot of time and have letters to write. I’m keeping busy and just trying to try to be my best.
Love you mom and dad. Play Wii fit everyday and lose some weight.
Let me know if you have any questions. Also, Brother Bott taught an amazing lesson on Sunday that probably blew my districts minds!! (He just taught the 10 of us) it was stuff about the gospel I never knew and imagined) Love you! Sorry about the handwriting!

Love Elder McMurry

Monday, September 15, 2008

MTC

Hey ma and pa and anyone else....so I'm here if you didn't know. Everything is going awesome and I'm so glad to be here. But holy cow there are so many rowdy missionaries on our floor it's very frustrating. The halls, as I write, are so loud with Elders just talking, laughing and it's annoying. I'm glad I'm only here for 3 weeks.

Sooo..my companion is Elder Winegar. He's a good guy, maybe a little shy, but a good guy. seeing him do stuff we are suppose to helps me do what I need to do too. He's skinny probably just like and inch taller than me too. In our room are also Elder Uresk and Elder Robinson both going to the same mission so there are 4 of us. I don't really know Elder Robinson but he seems possibly a tad slow to do the stuff he needs to and Elder Uresk is cool. He's the senior companion right now for that companioship so I hope things go well.

Umm...Everything is awesome and I totally enjoy it. I can only write once a week but today they told us to write our family. I'm kid of sick throat doesn't hurt anymore but nose is alway runny and my ears are totally stopped up.

The cafeteria ia huge and the food is actually really good. So far it looks like Elder Winegar is a slow eater, but hopefully not as slow as tonight. I should just live with it and of course I will, it's not that big of a deal.

On something kind of cook is that Brother Bott is one of my teachers, a member of the Branck Presidency and I'm pretty sure this is Randy Bott. He's cool.

Anyway, I'm dang tired and need to do some more stuff before bed at 10:30. Hope all is well!!

Love, Elder McMurry

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

MTC Address

No, I'm not Andrew . . . I'm Ben . . . . his brother. He had a good send off at the MTC. Here is his mailing address.

Elder McMurry
MTC Mailbox #149
SC-COLU 1110
2005 N 900 E
Provo, UT 84604

Friday, September 5, 2008

Main n' stuff

in the mtc:

Elder Andrew Spencer McMurry
South Carolina Columbia Mission
Provo Missionary Training Center
2005 N 900 E
Provo, UT 84604

in the field until i get my first assignment address:

Elder Andrew Spencer McMurry
South Carolina Columbia Mission
1345 Garner Ln, Ste 307
Columbia, SC 29210-8362