HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!!!

OH MY GOOOOOODDDNEESSSSSS!!! HOW ARE YOU??

I hope everyone had a good week. So glad I get to talk to all of you again and hear about all the amazing things you are doing. My week was pretty good, lots of changes and I got to speak to the fam bam yesterday so that was awesome. But why don't we just jump right on into this thang.

Last week on Monday was pretty sweet. It was Elder Rigby and Elder Cooks last Monday here so we went out and did little bit of shopping to pick up a couple of things. We had lunch with some of the members here. They made some bomb enchiladas so that was really awesome and really appreciated. After that we... I can't remember what we really did but we just went around and did a couple of things. We had dinner with a member that night as well and then we played basketball that evening.🏀 Basketball is always super fun to do. I really enjoy playing basketball with the boys and showing them what is up. 😂

On Tuesday I was with Elder Olson all day because the other guys went down to transfer. I was hanging out with him all day and it was pretty sweet to be able to hang out because he is one of my past companions. We were just doing stuff on the computer, cleaning the house, making sure everything was ready for the two other guys that came up. Around 5:00 when they came we had to go straight to the dinner appointment at a member’s place. Dinner was pretty awesome we had burgers and steaks so freaking delicious food and right after that was done we came back home and got them finished unpacking so that they could get all settled in.

On Wednesday was the day that I was able to first have the opportunity to work with Elder Mathewson here in the area. Elder Mathewson is my new companion. He is from Calgary Alberta but he was born in Utah. He's lived in Alberta for the most part of his life and his family is now living in Minneapolis so pretty much a United States kind of guy which I like. We pretty much just introduced him to the area and the people here and spent the day trying to get him familiar with things. Trying to think if there was anything huge that we did that day... don't think so but we definitely had a good time together. He's a really awesome guy, likes to have fun, likes working hard so we're going to have a really good transfer here together.

Thursday was a pretty good day. We went out and did a lot of talking to people on the streets and knocking on a couple of doors just to see if we could find any new people to teach. We didn’t have any success that day but it was a lot of fun just being able to go out and be in the nice weather. For dinner that night we went and roasted some hot dogs at a member's house so that was pretty freaking great cuz I love fires and roasting hot dogs over fire.🔥 After that we had an appointment with somebody that was really weird, they were just like acting weird and just like saying some pretty weird things but it was a good visit overall. It was definitely a good day and looking over this past week I can't remember any bad moments or anything like that so a good week overall.

Friday was a pretty rockin’ day. We had an appointment with somebody for lunch so we just went down to the college that they were at and we talked to them for a little bit. Then after that we walked around downtown a little while more talking to people on the streets. We passed out a couple of cards and had some conversations with people and then after that we went and did some weekly planning. We had service and dinner that night and we helped carry a bunch of lumber and stone to somebody's backyard because they are trying to build a deck back there. I would also like to point out that your boy carried the most pieces of lumber. I would carry like 10 pieces at a time and they stacked them up on me so it was pretty awesome to flex off my muscles.💪 That night we had a game night with a bunch of people from the church here. That was super fun. We played the game called wolf, I have played it before and I'm sure like anybody that came on the hikes with me will remember it. The object of the game is to kill the wolves before they kill everybody else and I tell you what nothing has changed. When it comes to that game, every time we play I always end up getting singled out, everybody always just kills me right away! I don't understand why that keeps on happening but I guess people just don't trust me very much.😉

On Saturday we had a meeting in the morning with all the missionaries in the Sudbury area so we just did a Skype meeting thing. We talked about how to be better missionary and how to help people in our area. Then after that we helped set some things up for an activity that was going on in the building that day. We went and finished weekly planning and then we went out and knocked on a couple of doors to find people to teach. I don’t think we found anybody that day but that's alright. Then we had dinner with a member that night and he cooked us some bacon carbonara so that was really good, super filling but really good. We did some stuff on the computers that night and that was pretty much it.

On Sunday it was Elder Mathewson and Elder Herculanos first Sunday here so we were introducing them to everybody in the congregation. It was a pretty good Sunday, being able to talk to everybody and talk about their weeks. As well as it being Mother’s Day!❤🎕 I was able to Skype home to my family and that was awesome. Always love seeing them and getting to talk with them and joke around with them a little bit. Pretty nuts that I have like 5 months left until I'll be able to see them all the time! 🙌We had dinner that night at a member’s place and they made us some freaking bomb pasta so that was awesome and yeah that was pretty much all Sunday was just Skypin’ and eatin’, nothing too crazy.

So that's pretty much all I got for this week. I've tried this new thing where I speak into the microphone to write out my email and apparently I have a lot more to say than when I actually write so I am probably going to do this more often. 😀But yeah I hope everybody has a good rest of the week and that you be able to find the joy in living this life.

I love and I miss you all!!!

Elder Murray

coleton.murray@myldsmail.net