Pictures

ok i have no time to really write today sorry!! today is not p-day by the way becuase we have thanksgiving as our pday.. i love and miss everyone! things are going way good! we have 3 baptisms this weekend hurrah! also let me know about my debit and credit card stuff.. umm thanks so much for the bday stuff! holy cow mom that was the most exciting thing ever and i felt so guilty! you dont need to spend so much money on me! i love you all! and tyler thanks aton for your email that meant alot.. like it just shows how cool i am when you think about it!

Some pictures from MTC.











ok i dont remember all of them that i just added so ill try to explain a few.. im sure you can tell which ones are of the mtc...

the picture with the elder holding me, he was in my MTC district, and he also happens to be the great grandson of lorenzo snow.. sweet huh?

another picture with me standing infront of the temple, that was my first official day in the mission field, i bet dax would think the tie was cool (he gave me it..)

i know i look goofy in most of these but whatever..

also there is a picture of my MTC companion and I standing infront of the fountain at the provo temple.. and another one is of 3 of my best buddies from the MTC in our district there, and then the deer that we hit.. i know its kinda gross and weird that there is a picture of that.. but hey! its a memory! i cant remember the rest i just added though.. ill write a short letter in just a minute!

"A bike a bike, we already have a bike, and we need no more bike!"‏

(hey so i bought a bike with my credit card, the actual bike was $330 after helmet and lock it was $400 something.. i hope thats ok, i tried to use my debit card but it was declined? either way i will make the bike last my mission promise!.. i wont worry about a gps till the end of transfers in case i move to a new area or something, as for now i will just use elder jones gps!) +also happy birthday tyler!

ahoy! thank you all for your awesome letters/emails and packages! i have SOO much candy now holy cow! and thank you so much sarah and shane and ben for the music it is awesome! oh the subject is just becuase i got a bike, (2 nephi 29).. just to let you know i am aware that i have two packages, but they are with the zone leaders right now and they will give them to me on thursday, but otherthan that i dont know who those are from.. i got a packletter from sarah, package from ben, package from becca, and a package from sam.. but the other two packages are with the zone leaders (they forgot to give them to me last time i saw them).. hmmm so whats happening latley.. by the way againt thanks a million for the awesome emails, i have been feeling bad for making such a big deal about it last week, but the more detailed the emails the more satisfied i am heh.. and holy cow that picture of zack! he looks way bigger! he has already grown aton in the past 2.5 months! i hear teebors home! aww man i miss him mucho! tell him to write me, and forward this to him! umm so we have like 4 baptisms set for the 29th this month hopefully those will work out! at least 3 of them deffenently will! it is so awesome when you find those people whom Heavenly Father has prepared to hear the word! The gospel is awesome and so perfect.. there is not one flaw in it!

Well i told you i bought a bike, so elder jones and i have gone some days just biking, it can be tough but it is so awesome how the world changes when you are spreading the gospel on a bike.. its seriously a different experiance.. the other day it was cold and rainy while we were biking but the experiance was so awesome.. it actually felt way good with all this wind and rain and the sun shining through the clouds with a bright orange glow and huge rainbows.. so cool.. and then to go see an investigator whos house is nice and warm, but totally humble becuase the living conditions in sumter are really poor.. but yeah i have seen some beautiful things spreading the gospel on a bike.. you truley get a different and unique perspective of the world and all things have their beauty when you aproch everything from a gospel perspective.. as i beleive Joseph Smith taught,the "eyes of [my] understanding" have been opened from time to time.. to actually see physical things with spiritual eyes is an amazing blessing and exerpiance!.. I know the message we share is perfect and true.. there is no denying it.. everyone must find out for themselves however.. no opionion of man matters, only the opinion of God.. and I know that He has restored His gospel through our Savior Jesus Christ, and the Prophet Joseph Smith.. people say it is hard to believe a prophet could possibly be on the earth today, but the truth of the matter is, that there was NEVER a time on the earth when it was easy to beleive there was a prophet on the earth. If people really believe noah could possible be a prophet they would have gotten on the ark... but in fact they thought he was a joke.. they thought.. how could noah possibly be a prophet? and they perished in unbelief in the flood..

Our Heavenly Father is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow; just as the scriptures teach, He has always called prophets to be His "mouthpeice" why would He stop calling prophets today, if He is a perfect and unchangeable God why would He change?.. My testimony is that He has never stopped calling prophets on the earth and that He has indeed called one again on the earth today. That the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, is the exact same church we read of in the Bible, the same Church our Savior Jesus Christ established. And I know these things to be true and bare this humble testimony, in the name of my Savior and Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Amen.

-Elder McMurry

Sumptown II

Woohoo! Transfers just came up and everyone in my district (the 4 of us here in sumter) are all staying! yay!! I like it here and we got some good baptisms set for this month! And we just baptized sister Dargan last night! hurrah! her husband did it, but elder Jones and I taught her! Thanks all for your letters and emails! How are G-mom and Pop? What are their latest adventures? Whats Tyler doing? Working somewhere? Schooling it up? hows zack? where are some pictures from you guys! (i know i dont have anyroom to speak.. but i am mailing off some cds of ALL my pictures tomorrow!) how funny are kathryn and hannah being? how is asher!? how is sams schooling going? do you guys use wii fit? how is becca? how is matthew? how is lacy? not sick anymore i hope? is allen getting way bigger? did that best buy open up? how is the weather? still way hot? is there any questions you guys have for me? .. ok so chew on those questions for a week and let me know next monday!
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> so time really flys here! its crazy i feel like maybe just a month ago i was at home.. but im coming up on 3 months i think.. errr it was 2 months ago today i entered the mtc huh? cooool. i am certianly loveing it! "if i am honest", as bear gryls would say, the only thing that is really the most difficult is getting along with my compy now and then.. im just glad hes not my eternal companion.. hes a great guy but we are pretty good at having countless misunderstandings.. but we are good buddies.. but.. wheew.. i heard something from some older members a few weeks ago and it sounds like the Temple president is no longer the one that G-mom and Pop knew, if they are intrested i just wanted to share that, but i could be wrong!
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> Elder jones and i have met some way cool people this last week, we were so busy teaching!.. im not sure if i mentioned it but we are teaching this older couple, Will Smith, and his wife, and hes probably the fresh prince of Sumter, they rock! we met them becuase of a media referal from the mtc, but that referal was for someone else who doesnt even look that promising; its awesome how the Lord works.. becuase Will smith and his wife live right down the street, and we would have never met them without that media referal..
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> no really cool stories this week aside from the fact that Sister Dargan got baptized! she is really cool! so did you guys here about sumter on the news at all about that halloween thing? im curious! also i dont mean to sound mean but please feel free to ask me about my experiances in my emails.. like Brother Newkirks baptism or the deer incident or anything that i mention in an email you can always say something about it.. i want to hear every possible thing you can think of! and send me multiple emails if you want all throughout the week! if nothing is "going on" please just "talk to me" its getting depressing to get emails that dont even acknowledge my emails heh..but i love you guys still, and i know you are busy too, but there is nothing wrong with me getting awesome letters from the fam.. nothing will prevent me from focusing on the work.. but anywho! i love you all and the work is so awesome! life isnt suddenly perfect when you are a missionary and it is a whole new world of trials and struggles and a crazy amount of mixed feelings, but at the same time, it makes life just that much easier and enjoyable.. the next 2 years will surly be a process in the refiners fire.. every single day! love yall! (sorry if i was rude i just want you to know that i love you guys and emails and letters are important to me!)

-Elder McMurry

Birfday in 9 days!

Hey hey! To begin with I’m fine. I'm not sure if you guys heard or not but supposedly Sumter (the city I’m serving in) made national news about a shooting on Halloween. A father with his sons went downtown to Columbia I think and did all this fun organized Halloween stuff and on their way home decided to knock on some houses in Sumter. They came to one house because the light was on and when they knocked a man opened the door and shot at them with an ak-47 killing one of his kids. Also there was a gang war or whatever and something like 9 people died. Not only that but a member’s granddaughter went to the hospital because she was in a car accident where another car broadsided her so Halloween night in Sumter is mega dangerous. It’s a good thing that missionaries do not go out on Halloween night! But we did get permission to go to the ward trunk or treat and it was the best one I have ever been too! There were TONS of people there considering Sumter only has 1 ward of like 150ish people. They had like hot dogs and nachos and pumpkin carving contest, pie eating contest and all kinds of stuff like that! We were there because we were expecting an investigator family of 6 to come but they didn’t. We’ll be teaching them some more this week, they are a way cool family but never make it to church. So I really hope I don’t leave this coming transfer and I hope elder Jones and I stay together for at least one more transfer but if not it will all be good.

We had to drop Hezekiah, he was totally not progressing. Missionaries have been teaching him since like June and really nothing good is coming out of it at all. Brother Newkirk is way awesome! (The guy I baptized last weekend) we have him setup on the "family mission plan" which is where the families help us find people to teach and his family is slowly coming along we love them, they rock. He has two daughters and two sons, and they are just way awesome and really down to earth, normal people.

Oh! How did Kathryn’s birthday go? Tell her I said happy birthday and thanks Sarah for the actual letter! That was way cool! I know everyone is busy but honestly the emails are stinking. I would like people to write me a real letter? Hate to be rude, but WRITE ME PEOPLE!


I’ve only been on my mission for what.. 5 weeks now and baptized someone who was 300lbs! The baptism took 3 times before it was correct, but that wasn’t really my fault or anything.

Ok ok, I’ll cut you guys some slack especially because mom has been recovering from her surgery. I need letters! I just want to hear from everyone. Letters are only supposed to be on a shortage around the 1 year mark so let’s get writing people!

In other news, elder Jones and I have a baptism coming up this weekend for a way cool lady! I think I probably talked about her before, Sister Dargan, she is married to a member and they are way cool! We also met this awesome guy on Saturday night named Will Smith, err William Smith. We met him just by knocking and shared the message of the restoration with him and invited him to church and he said "yeah ill come just get me a ride" so that was cool that doesn’t happen TOO often. Then when he got to church on Sunday he only had way cool things to say like "so when is my baptism this month?; is the baptism in the temples; I’m going to bring my wife and kids after next week; I’ve been married to my wife for 40 years, and that’s the only way to do it, you go through rough times but you stick together!" That last comment he brought up was after we talked about "Eternal Marriage" in gospel principles.

Anyway... did I tell you I went on exchanges again? I biked all day long with Elder Cram, it was way cool and a total blast biking is fun, but tough. Also the senior missionaries Elder and Sister Hixon, who live in our apartment complex, made breakfast for the 4 elders today "for my birthday" because next Tuesday is the end of their mission! They are way awesome!

But anyway! I'm doing well and the work is progressing! Being a missionary is awesome, it really gets me thinking about the future a lot, and the type of things I want to do and who I want to be... I’m stoked. Time flies by WAY fast when you are busy a week seriously seems like a day... it’s crazy. I could easily say it feels like I’ve only been out a week now... and it looks like I’m coming up on like 3 months now... I know that’s NOTHING, but it’s crazy at the same time.

I love and miss you all! Take care and recover quickly mom! Oh yeah and how weird is it that in 9 days I won’t be a 'teenager' anymore. Crazy and sort of depressing, but not. I think that’s probably why you have to be 21 to drink, because they want you to be depressed for a year and then the next year you can drink those depressions away.. That’s probably not true but I wouldn’t put it past the world to do something like that.

Oh yeah, let me know who’s the new president next week?

Anyway! Until next week!

Loveth yours!

Having a blast!

hey guys! hope everyone is doing way good, im still having a blast of course.. but yeah i wont lie there are alot of difficult times probably everyday really.. but the good out weighs the bad! I got to baptize David Newkirk on saturday! woohoo! it was awesome.. Brother Newkirk is a life time convert.. and we know that as he prepares to get the aaronic priesthood (next week?) that he will be a tool in our Heavenly Father's hands to baptize his family! but taht was way cool, especially cause hes probably about 300 pounds and im probably about 112-115.. yeah i gained 5-8 pounds at the MTC and in the field i would say maybe another 5-8 pounds or just the same.. i dont know.. food is good here still havnt really had any southern food though.. we are teaching an awesome part member family.. i cant remember if i brought this up before but its the Dargan family just an older couple who have been married for about 3 months, they both had families in the past. Anyway the Husband is a member and served his mission in.. Ecquador? i dont know somewhere where he spoke spanish, and they both work at a hosptial thats how they met.. anyway they feed elder jones and i like crazy! like we dont even expect it (we know better now) but they feed us every single appointment we have! they are good people and his wife is coming along nicely, and she has quit smoking and stuff.. she has a baptism date setup for next weekend! the work has really been up and down alot latley.. sometimes we have awesome investigators but the next.. we dont.. to many people we meet just fall through.. we always commit to baptism on the first lesson (thats how the church does missionary work.. at least here and thats what they taught at the MTC).. since ive been out, here in sumter, we have probably commited like 20+ people who said "yeah, i will prepare to be baptized.." and yet.. they all fell through.. so there are deffinently some really depressing things in missionary work, especially when you know they felt the spirit and KNOW the message we share is true.. so about those pictures.. yeah sorry i changed my mind about it at walmart, elder jones said i should wait till i had more pictures, but today when we head out im going to try to email them from walmart if the camera thing works like that. i got a letter from dax, let him know i said thanks, that was way cool of him, but i probably wont get time to write him back yet!.. so to answer anyquestions lets see.. sumter is super gehetto, not REALLY in the country, and yet you only ahve to drive about 10-15 miles and you get right into the country.. that is of course where we hit that deer.. there are some "random" really nice and "rich" areas here.. the gehetto places are tough becuase the people ALWAYS listen pretty much and yet they ALMOST never seem to progress.. what else.... the weather has BEEN way cold but the last week it warmed up for some reason.. umm one of my least favorite things right now is getting up at 6:30 and then exercising pretty much right away.. its tough.. but really not THAT bad.. what i really enjoy is teaching the lessons and contacting people, that is fun! right now i really have mixed feelings everyday mostly like.. "we already have to do this?...; right now?; again?" but those are just like background feelings, not really thoughts.. and i cant wait to get out of that.. i think alot of it has to do with being "the new missionary" and the junior companion.. if i cant send the picutres today i will send them next week for reall! whats the status of sarahs baby? is anyone taking care of you guys while you're sick? is math dating someone.. oooooo! to answer bens question, i dont have any motab music at all.. so any would be welcome.. also any ties.. but i dont mean to beg or anything at all! i miss everyone and hope all are doing well.. how is asher? oh a recipe for no bake cookies would be awesome! and lets see.. umm a story...

yesterday we were contacting at the parking lot at walmart (sometimes you just have to do what you have to do.. and walmart is a good place to find alot of people in the parking lots, also just to let you know sunday is just like every other day regarding missionary work.)

but anyway one guy i came up to looked at me and asked me if i was a Jehova Witness, (we get that alot here, i think ive seen two of their churches here) and I said "nope im from the chruch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints".. and he was like.. "okay, okay." (in a nice old man type of way) then he said.. "let me ask you this, who is Jesus Christ, who do you believe he is?" so i told him "Well we beleieve that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the Son of our Heavenly Father.." and he says, "okay well what about the [three of them or the trinity] what about that?".. and I told him just how it was, "We beleieve that our Heavenly Father, our Savior Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost are all three sepereat beings.. then he looked at me KIND OF suprised and said "alright! you are doing really good [young man]!".. and then he just started walking away.. and I asked him if i could at least leave him with a card and he said no.. heh so that was kind of weird.. and boring i know.. but no one here in sumter really has a southern accent at all just so you know.. but anyway thats about it! oh and at the baptism with David, well lets just say "3rd times a charm".

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

Family, and friends.. and trends?

hey all! well im still having a blast its impossible to avoid having a good time while on a mission! so i don't have a ton of time right now cause yeah we have zone conference today.. and honestly i only got to read some of my emails i had to skip a few so i could write but i will read them! so, some cool things.. we have this investigator named david and he rocks i love him, elder jones, my companion, was teaching him with his comp before i came in, but since i've been here the Lord has been been able to use me in helping him gain a strong testimony.. or at least a stronger one.. david is definitely prepared, he is set to be baptized this weekend so well see what happens.. something really cool happened the other night.. after we had helped him rake some leaves we talked a little bit and before we left.. (it was late at night and we were outside) i felt prompted to promise him that he would receive an answer that night after praying and tell hing the Lord how he felt about things in his life.. and well the next day he told us that he had a vision, a vision of himself floating above the world.. and being the type of guy he is, he interpreted it to mean that he would rise above his problems. and it was awesome to hear.. it was so cool to think that the Lord wanted him to have this promise and used me to deliver it! Hes i think in his late 30s and has a wife and 2 or 5 kids or something, its kind of confusing, but hes was cool! that's really the highlight of the mission right now! ive met some awesome people in parking lots and stuff too.. its crazy how nice people are, but sometimes just to be nice.. and that stinks.. umm matt, that's sweet about the jet engine do it. also i did the cinnamon challenge.. and yeah its totally impossible to swallow a spoonful of Cinnamon! there is a video of it, but its on my elder jones camera so we'll have to figure that out another time.. also sorry no pictures yet.. i will try to try to get them next week! now! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD! i hope it went way good! and you had some cool key lime cake or something! i really miss everyone! so dad are you 50 now? or 49? sarah thanks for the email! i hope you and the baby are doing way good.. love you guys!! tell jon match i said that his mission call is way cool and im excited for him, also tell him that when he gets to the MTC to do his very best to be different from all of the rowdy missionaries.. if there is one word of advice i could give to all future missionaries it would be this.. DONT BE A ROWDY MISSIONARY AT THE MTC!.. they are annoying and dont seem to follow all of the rules.. and there are many of them..mom thanks for your email like always! i was thinking the other day about the 2000 stripling warriors, how they learned from their mothers.. and i have learned so much from you and am so grateful for the impact that you and dad have had on my life! im sorry this letter is not as long as the last one, but i really wish it could be, but they kind of stole our p-day from us today so we could just hear from a general 70.. i guess thats important.. (kidding).. i did shake his hand last night at a special investigator fireside last night.. that was awesome, he and his wife are British, they are way cool, he gave an amazing talk and of course so did president mcconkie!.. oh and elder jones and i had to give talks in church yesterday.. they went really well we got a lot of compliments! so that was cool... well we have at least 2 scheduled baptisms for this coming weekend.. hopefully we will get them both! one of them has schizophrenia (not david, the other one).. oh and also.. like i said how there are only 4 missionaries in my district, the other two missionaries baptized a cool lady just on saturday and stuff, and she has 12 fingers.. yup.. 6 on each hand,.. it was really weird to shake her hand.. i bet rachel would think that was funny.. and weird and kind of cool, shes cool like that.. whelp! i love you guys so way much and am still of course so excited to be here.. my hardest thing to do right now is to just randomly contact people.. so really to knock doors.. its actually tough to do, but once its done its easy heh.. we also go to parking lots some times and just contact random people.. we have to get 20 contacts per companionship a day.. so 10 for me and 10 for elder jones.. its effective.. we meet way cool people.. and we meet kinda rude people and whatnot.. oh i wanted to tell g-mom and pop thanks so much for their letters! and also thanks to everyone else.. its really awesome... but hey guess what if you are feeling like it.. you can mail me actual letters too! i still havnt gotten any, but thats fine.. and as far as packages go all i can say is.. candy is really awesome, ties are really awesome, and pictures are really awesome.. the mail here is fine as far as i know.. just use the address on blog to the mission home!.. oh man i still have "some" time i wish i knew of some cool stuff i could write.. oh! if you are not in my family get my family to mail me your addresses!! so then i can write you an actual letter! cause i can only write family on the email stuff.. and yes its ok to get emails from family and friends but i can only email back to family.. but i can write actual letters to you if i have your address! oh and again to you guys at the UPS store.. wooo! whats up! i hope you guys are doing way stinking awesome, i know these letters might be confusing and uninteresting but, to bad.. read them anyway! Maybe ill ship you guys a package someday.. gum for all the gum i ate of peters, and suckers so max can quit smoking.. heh.. miss you guys! anyway all is well in south carolina... its a confusing state.. the weather is weird, but really nice.. and sumter (the city/area im in) is really really poor.. peoples houses are almost third wold.. its crazy and really sad.. people have it super super rough here! Well my testimony of our Savior's gospel is increasing day by day and I am always learning! I had a cool thought come to me in church yesterday as we were talking about families being the central unit for learning and this was my thought.. "Who we become later in life, is who we learned to be earlier in youth.." i thought that was kinda cool, and really its pretty stinking true.. we learn by example and.. yup! i had another way cool thought that came to me at the MTC one night while I was praying.. it went something like this.. "Our ability to teach is dead without the Spirit, which Spirit bares witness of the truth of all things, and carries the message we share to those whom will hear.." now thats not exact but i have my exact thought written down in my journal.. you have to write down your thoughts and feelings, i wrote it down right after i prayed, and yup, just as the Prophet President Monson taught.. "knowledge carefully recorded, is knowledge ready in time of need".. and also thats not exact either, but hey maybe you get my point! ANYWAY! I love you all and really do miss you all so much! I am so stoked for the rest of my mission and for the rest of my future! I want to teach, i know that more than ever that what i want to do with my time and my life is to teach.. i stinking fall in love with everyone i meet and i want them to have and know what I KNOW to be true.. but i can only share my testimony.. to find out the truthfulness of the gospel you must find out for yourself.. through prayer, scripture study, and honestly a weird one, attending church.. im starting to see how necessary church attendance is now that i'm here especially for those who truly want to know for THEMSELVES! anyway enough of that.. well there can never be enough of that honestly.. but thats good for right now.. i love you all.. have a way awesome week and remember who you are and who you WANT to be.. and be it.. remember.. "If you plan to be better later, you will never be.. If you plan to be better NOW, you will begin to be, and in that very moment, you will become!" heh i love these quotes! but truth of the matter is that the credit doesnt go to me, but to the Lord, who helped me to see what i already knew! AGAIN! i love you guys! fairly well! -elder andrew mcmurry!