Heeey!!

hey all! let me start off with a cool story and then another cool story! so=
! last week, last p-day i had zone conference and elder johnson of the 70=
instructed us (im pretty sure i mentioned this last monday) so it was a =
way cool thing to have him speak to us 20 missionaries in the zone, also =
what was cool about that is that elder johnson is responsible for like 13=
0,000 members and yet the Lord asked him to come to south carolina and ta=
lk with and instruct us (he spoke with other zones as well not just ours =
but it was an individual zone meeting for each zone).. ok so elder johnso=
n and his wife are AWESOME! and they are british so they have cool accent=
s! But heres the awesome part! during zone conference he was teaching som=
ething about our duty in the gospel and it reminded me of a scripture i h=
ad memorized before my mission.. so elder johnson said does anyone have a=
ny comments? and i was like.. hmm yeah i do! and i recited Mosiah 2:36 fr=
om memory and he seemed to like it.. but now the even cooler part.. (and =
i dont mean to brag but it is cool!).. yesterday at stake conference when=
i saw president and sister mcconkie they told me that when they had left=
with elder johnson after the meeting that elder johnson was talking abou=
t me in the car! and he said "that missionary must be really smart or som=
ething!".. how cool is that? president and sister mcconkie and elder john=
son of the 70 were talking about my comment! heh.. ok anyway.. the fact o=
f the matter was that i quoted and recited from memory an "obscure" scrip=
ture, but i have always loved that scripture... ok now the next story..!

last thursday elder jones and i were headed out to a part member couple to =
teach the members wife about the word of wisdom.. it was around 8 at nigh=
t and we have to travel out in the country to get to them... i was kinda =
just sitting back in a daze listening to church music and all the sudden =
we hear a bang and elder jones is like "HOLY COW!" and im just kind of li=
ke.. umm ok so whats going on.. and he said "we just hit a deer elder!"..=
. soo we pulled over and yeah we totally did, the driver side of the car =
was all dented up and there was hair from the deer all over the side of t=
he car (which is now taped to my journal... heh.) we walked over to see t=
he deer and it was sad, we think we hit the deer into on coming traffic a=
nd another car then hit it.. so it was gross and we took pictures for the=
memory.. heh but anyway that left us without a car for the next day and =
then on saturday we got a new one!

so those are my two really cool stories! now.. the missionary work.. we sor=
t of "lost" alot of our good investigators.. they just didnt keep commitm=
ents and choose to continue to find out for them selves.. so we are havin=
g not the coolest time, but thats alright we will find those who are prep=
ared to hear the word this week! David (cant remember if i mentioned him)=
is an awesoem investigator! we love him and he is getting baptized this =
weekend! woohoo! and that part member couple, she is set to get baptized =
on november the 8th! we hope that goes well.. we introduced president mcc=
onkie to the two investigators at stake conference yesterday and he had a=
lot to say to them! it was awesome! the tough thing for David is that his=
family doesnt really agree with anything he is doing.. but president mcc=
onkie said he would have the oppertunity to baptize his wife.. so we are =
really hoping for that! other than that ummm.. i still need to buy a bike=
sometime, i will probably buy one next transfer which is nov 12thish.. j=
ust to let you know.. so thats way cool that Sarah and Shane are having a=
nother girl! and also that asher is doing well, good luck to Sam on his m=
idterms! thanks Becca and Matt and Ben and Sarah and everyone else for th=
eir letters!

umm not much else to say this week.. but i love and miss everyone! feel fre=
e to send me snail mail and pictures if you feel like it!.. i love you al=
l!

-elder mcmurry