Monday, January 4, 2010
So about the camera..
We'll I was going to email and ask if I could buy a camera last p-day but the library was closed, so I went ahead and bought one using my credit card. It was about $170. I hope this isn't a bad thing? I thought I would be getting transferred and didn't really have many pictures of Elder Adams and I, so I wanted to get some before I got transferred. I KEPT the receipt so I can return it if I need to please just let me know! I love you guys! The work continues and I really do love it... Being a missionary is the best! I was thinking about it the other day; I was thinking about how grateful I am for who I am. And I can honestly say that who I am is who you raised me to be, I don't mean to be prideful but I am glad that I can see a contrast in my life against the lives of other missionaries and members in the church. I am different. I am a McMurry.. I only hope that one day I'll have kids much better than me.. You simply raised me the right way and I am so glad, sure I have my own struggles and have made dumb choices, but that is why they are there, so we can recognize them, repent of them, and become more like Jesus Christ. So thank you for being my parents! I love you guys pcbq's!
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Monday, December 21, 2009
Christmas Call!
Hey mom and dad! Elder Adams and I will be at a members home on Christmas and we'll be calling in the afternoon time(sc). Soo I will call home sometime between 2:45pm - 4:00pm(MAYBE sooner than 2:45, I'm not sure..) not sure exactly when in that time frame though and that is SOUTH CAROLINA TIME(so it will be 2:45pm here, I don't know about Texas).. I don't know what our time difference is so whenever you guys figure it out.. We have about 40 minutes that we can talk for! So anyway! I love you guys and will look forward to talking with ya on Christmas!
-Love Elder McMurry
-Love Elder McMurry
Monday, December 14, 2009
Christmas thought..
So I lost my camera charger, can you ask ben or matt to see if there is a charger for a "SLB-10A" battery, or a charging cable for a "Samsung L-200" Camera?
If you cant find one I wouldn't mind a new camera.. something really cheap but it would be nice if it was better than the camera I have (something better than the Samsung L-200) that can record videos and stuff too.. I wont beg for something but I would definitely love a new charging cable or battery charger or even a new camera!
Just a thought!! Love ya!
you better not pout...
Thanks for the awesome letter mom! I love you and am glad things are going well with you and dad and the job! Thanks for the update on Bro Hazelton.. thats crazy! I hope brother Luna will be around long enough for me to see him again. It was really an important part of my life to be able to serve him and his family with the Priesthood.. Well, I love and miss ya! I will try and write about the Christmas phone call next week with the details if time permits..LOVE YA!
If you cant find one I wouldn't mind a new camera.. something really cheap but it would be nice if it was better than the camera I have (something better than the Samsung L-200) that can record videos and stuff too.. I wont beg for something but I would definitely love a new charging cable or battery charger or even a new camera!
Just a thought!! Love ya!
you better not pout...
Thanks for the awesome letter mom! I love you and am glad things are going well with you and dad and the job! Thanks for the update on Bro Hazelton.. thats crazy! I hope brother Luna will be around long enough for me to see him again. It was really an important part of my life to be able to serve him and his family with the Priesthood.. Well, I love and miss ya! I will try and write about the Christmas phone call next week with the details if time permits..LOVE YA!
Yo Ho Yo Ho! A missionaries life for me!
Man I sure do love my mission! It is so awesome, tough and difficult but full of blessings and joy! That's one thing I have been thinking a little bit about. I'm not sure if I have shared it or not but I have found that serving a mission is not about having fun and making memories, its about experiencing real joy and administering blessings! And frankly you can't have real joy and administer blessings without consequently building memories and having a blast!
We work hard, but it is amazing that because of Jesus Christ we can actually work infinitely harder! There is no limit to how hard we can work, and that is because Christ made it possible for all of us to overcome all things through Him. Yes, we can always improve our time while in this life!
Anyway the work is building up! It is such an awesome process how that works! We have a pretty strong part member right now, Justin is his name. His wife is less-active but coming back to church. He will be baptized on January 9th, unless we can encourage Him to be baptized sooner. He is probably 22 or 23 or something and just an awesome guy. The tender mercy of this all is that it is not the first time I have met and taught him. Back in June in my first transfer as an office Elder, Elder Robinson and I taught him a first lesson in the Dutch Fork ward. He accepted the commitment to be baptized after that lesson, however, He lived in the Lake Murray ward, so Elder Robinson and I referred him to the Lake Murray Elders. They worked with him, but at that point he wasn't ready. Near the end of my last transfer as an office Elder in, October(?), I saw a family in the Dutch Fork ward I did not recognize (and Justin was sitting with them), so I went to them and talked to them and invited them to be taught by the sister missionaries in my last district. They accepted. One of the oldest boys in that family is getting baptized this weekend and he happens to be Justin's brother, and the rest of the family is Justin's family as well! And now that I am serving in Lake Murray, Elder Adams and I have had the privilege to teach Justin again and now he is ready! What an awesome tender mercy! That and the baptism will be held in Dutch Fork, so I will get to see some of my old ward family again!
That right there is one of those cool memories that comes from the joy of sharing the gospel! Welp I can't think of much else to write I love and miss you all, Happy Christmas and keep your noses clean!
We work hard, but it is amazing that because of Jesus Christ we can actually work infinitely harder! There is no limit to how hard we can work, and that is because Christ made it possible for all of us to overcome all things through Him. Yes, we can always improve our time while in this life!
Anyway the work is building up! It is such an awesome process how that works! We have a pretty strong part member right now, Justin is his name. His wife is less-active but coming back to church. He will be baptized on January 9th, unless we can encourage Him to be baptized sooner. He is probably 22 or 23 or something and just an awesome guy. The tender mercy of this all is that it is not the first time I have met and taught him. Back in June in my first transfer as an office Elder, Elder Robinson and I taught him a first lesson in the Dutch Fork ward. He accepted the commitment to be baptized after that lesson, however, He lived in the Lake Murray ward, so Elder Robinson and I referred him to the Lake Murray Elders. They worked with him, but at that point he wasn't ready. Near the end of my last transfer as an office Elder in, October(?), I saw a family in the Dutch Fork ward I did not recognize (and Justin was sitting with them), so I went to them and talked to them and invited them to be taught by the sister missionaries in my last district. They accepted. One of the oldest boys in that family is getting baptized this weekend and he happens to be Justin's brother, and the rest of the family is Justin's family as well! And now that I am serving in Lake Murray, Elder Adams and I have had the privilege to teach Justin again and now he is ready! What an awesome tender mercy! That and the baptism will be held in Dutch Fork, so I will get to see some of my old ward family again!
That right there is one of those cool memories that comes from the joy of sharing the gospel! Welp I can't think of much else to write I love and miss you all, Happy Christmas and keep your noses clean!
Monday, December 7, 2009
A couple questions...
For Christmas.. The only things I could think of would be something like.. a tie.. orr maybe.. the Joseph smith papers.. oorr a talk called something like "premortal football game".... maybe a scholarship to BYU.. heh I don't really know, maybe some pictures of the family or something to that effect.. Hot Chocolate.. a cool mug, Mormon Tabernacle music that I don't already have.. umm Ill just have to think if there is something I seriously want.. maybe Mormon doctrine or something.. I dunno!
Anyway I love you guys! hope you get well dad! A cool way I liked to try and go to sleep before my mission was to recount the Book of Mormon in my head, step by step, event by event and just see how far I can go until I fall asleep.. I usually go to Lehi's vision and fell asleep.. But I know that might not work for ya! See if you can get a blessing! I love you both! And I'll have to think about your talk topic... I'm sure you guys will do great though! Love ya!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! I Hope it was awesome I love you and thank you for all your emails and stuff! I have to get running! Love you and again HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the best mom ever!
-Elder McMurry
Anyway I love you guys! hope you get well dad! A cool way I liked to try and go to sleep before my mission was to recount the Book of Mormon in my head, step by step, event by event and just see how far I can go until I fall asleep.. I usually go to Lehi's vision and fell asleep.. But I know that might not work for ya! See if you can get a blessing! I love you both! And I'll have to think about your talk topic... I'm sure you guys will do great though! Love ya!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! I Hope it was awesome I love you and thank you for all your emails and stuff! I have to get running! Love you and again HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the best mom ever!
-Elder McMurry
Ft. Jackson!
Hey hey! Well, I am certainly feeling exhausted! We work hard, but I only want to work harder.. more effective with time, more effective with teaching and much busier finding and baptizing! Elder Adams and I are getting along fine like normal.. It's funny how alike we are. The Lord really knows what He's doing! But we still learn from each other. We are having a difficult time finding right now, but that's ok! It only means that the Lord is really really preparing the family we will find this evening! I don't know If I ever mentioned it before but my trainer, Elder Jones, is one of the Assistants to President McConkie and has been for I think 2 transfers now. Elder Adams and I had an awesome blessing and experience the other night. Elder Johns, one of my favorite Zone Leaders who is also an Assistant now, called us up on Saturday night and talked to me for a minute. He invited us to go with him and Elder Jones to the Ft. Jackson military base (probably the top baptizing branch in the united states.. seriously). They don't invite just anyone because they usually have the Zone Leaders and other near by missionaries go with them, so that was cool. So that night they came and picked us both up since they decided to bring Elder Adams along too! The base is awesome. All of this was a tender mercy and blessing and again an answer to my prayers. It was an awesome feeling being able to do all of this. What made it even cooler was that we stayed at the Office Elders apartment that night before heading to the base. It was cool to step back into the apartment I spent about 6 months of my mission in and had the most amazing success stories in missionary work a missionary could ever dream of! As we walked in, there was Elder Richardson planning for the next day with his companion, it was good to see him again.. I felt so comfortable being there, it was in a way, a sign of the Lord's love for me in a way that I felt relaxed and knew that it was a blessing for me to be able to be there... On Sunday morning I had totally forgotten my wallet and you just can't get on a military base without an I.D. strange huh? So we ran back by our apartment to get it really stressing for time but we got it and made it to the Ft. Jackson base on time.
The meeting was awesome! A chapel full of Soldiers all wearing their ACU's or whatever, their camo gear, and some with large m-16s or something. Non-members visit the base like every Sunday! So Elder Jones said, just go talk to people as they sit down and teach them a first lesson. (totally a missionaries dream to be able to just go sit next to someone and just start teaching them because they will actually listen!.. that's what the base is all about because anyone who is there is there by choice, because they want to be there, sure it gets them out of other army stuff but hey they still came to the true church!) Anyway the first two Sisters in camo gear came in and sat down and I went straight to where they were and sat down with them both and taught them a first lesson! It was awesome! They were receptive and enjoyed it. One was Catholic and the other was 7th Day Adventist.. It was cool. After the short lesson I invited them to stick around for the discussion class after sacrament and they did! Anyway so all of that was a cool experience. Then Elder Adams and I taught the discussion class right after sacrament in the Chapel. This class is where you just teach the first lesson and invite everyone to be baptized(class of about 25-30 soldiers, there were like 6 members there and 4 return missionaries)! Usually there are a few hands that go up when you ask them to be baptized and you take their names down, and teach them everything the next Sunday and just baptize them at the base in a portable font! Unfortunately no one raised their hands this time, but there was still a baptism that day and should be some next week! They just baptize all the time there because they just get to listen to the truth and its easy for them to accept it because not only are they humble but they are there by choice.. It was a really cool experience that I am grateful for and was so blessed to be apart of.
We did a lot of exchanges this last week, with the Zone Leaders and my self with the District. It was a learning experience. I am grateful for who I am and who I represent. This work is more important to me in my life than anything else! I love it! Merry Christmas to you all!
-Elder McMurry
The meeting was awesome! A chapel full of Soldiers all wearing their ACU's or whatever, their camo gear, and some with large m-16s or something. Non-members visit the base like every Sunday! So Elder Jones said, just go talk to people as they sit down and teach them a first lesson. (totally a missionaries dream to be able to just go sit next to someone and just start teaching them because they will actually listen!.. that's what the base is all about because anyone who is there is there by choice, because they want to be there, sure it gets them out of other army stuff but hey they still came to the true church!) Anyway the first two Sisters in camo gear came in and sat down and I went straight to where they were and sat down with them both and taught them a first lesson! It was awesome! They were receptive and enjoyed it. One was Catholic and the other was 7th Day Adventist.. It was cool. After the short lesson I invited them to stick around for the discussion class after sacrament and they did! Anyway so all of that was a cool experience. Then Elder Adams and I taught the discussion class right after sacrament in the Chapel. This class is where you just teach the first lesson and invite everyone to be baptized(class of about 25-30 soldiers, there were like 6 members there and 4 return missionaries)! Usually there are a few hands that go up when you ask them to be baptized and you take their names down, and teach them everything the next Sunday and just baptize them at the base in a portable font! Unfortunately no one raised their hands this time, but there was still a baptism that day and should be some next week! They just baptize all the time there because they just get to listen to the truth and its easy for them to accept it because not only are they humble but they are there by choice.. It was a really cool experience that I am grateful for and was so blessed to be apart of.
We did a lot of exchanges this last week, with the Zone Leaders and my self with the District. It was a learning experience. I am grateful for who I am and who I represent. This work is more important to me in my life than anything else! I love it! Merry Christmas to you all!
-Elder McMurry
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