Aloha!

Howdy Family. I have about no time to write.. sorry! I just wanted to say I love ya and miss you all! We have a cool 9 year old yet again that should be getting baptized in the next couple of weeks.. as well as a cool 13 year old.. and hopefully a way awesome couple that a member family is working with! Missionary work is the best! Love y'all!

Hey MOM..

Hey mom! Just wanted to write you and tell you how things were going! I am doing good.. I am a little harder on myself at times then I should be but I am doing fine! Elder Esplin and I are teaching a lot of people and that adds to my happiness.. The work can be really tough and demanding at times but it is always rewarding and a blessing to have people to teach and we have a lot of wonderful people were teaching right now. I have set some goals this week to become more focused and better prepared to help our investigators enter the waters of baptism, and we are confident that we will baptize at least 2 people this month. I have been learning a lot about myself these past two transfers and it has been such a good thing learning more about, about who I am. Bishop Jarnagin sent me a really awesome email last week that. That was really nice of him, I guess Elder Pearson of the 70 came and spoke, but it was a good email. He talked about the power we can have in our lives when we realize who we are and talked about the power of being able to say "I am..(a servant of the Lord, a child of God...)" and the power of commitment in the words "Will you...". I've reflected it on it a lot and am so grateful to be a missionary! I am far far from perfect at it but I am learning. Once we have learned one thing we go on to learn another. Once we have learned another thing, we go on to "..come off conqueror!" But I just wanted to write you and tell you how I was doing and thank you for all your prayers! I love you!

-Elder McMurry