This week I made it up a half mile hill that we
have to ride up to go from the MRT station to our apartment! Yeah! That was an
accomplishment- the past two times I had to get off and walk up half way
through. But this last time I was determined to make it so I just put my bike
in the lowest gear and powered all the way up. :D And as I told Jared last
week, I am actually getting tan, which is a new experience for me since I have
never been anything but white white white. Kinda fun.
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| evidence of a actual tan...for nicole, that is |
Tuesday I had one of the strangest experiences
I've had since coming out on my mission. We had set up with a less active
member who lives up in the mountains to go help her pull weeds. On the way up,
she called and said she wasn't feeling well, but would still like us to come
and help clean the inside of her house instead. We got there, and there was
blood everywhere, literally everywhere- on the floor, on the table, on the
chairs. We asked her what happened and she said that her friend who was staying
with her cut his hand two days earlier. We went into the room and there was
dried blood all over him, his clothes, his hand. We tried to convince him that
he needed to go to the hospital, but he said he was fine. We called the elders
because we wanted to get some priesthood holders to come up there with us. While
we waited for them, we sang some hymns and then put on some gloves and started
helping clean up all the blood. Pretty gross. The elders came and gave them
both priesthood blessings. From the moment they opened the container of oil,
the spirit and power of the priesthood was so strong. They ended up teaching
the guy the first lesson, and he said a prayer. The less active member insisted
on us staying for dinner (yep, you can bet I was a little sketched out about
eating food that was prepared in a house with blood and bugs and dirt
everywhere, but I did it, even when I had to pick little bugs out of the rice).
The atmosphere there when we left was SO much different from when we got there.
It's amazing what the Spirit can do. And the guy with the bloody hand showed up
at church yesterday, wearing clean clothes. So that was cool. And neither of us
is sick from the food, which is also cool.
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| with her companion Sis Branch |
On Thursday we had temple tour training and
then temple square tours. My favorite part of temple tour training is always
President Day's part. He is an amazing man- so loving and kind and full of the
spirit. We are so lucky to have him and Sis Day leading us. We had two tours scheduled with other
missionaries' investigators- one of which was to a really nice Muslim guy. It
was really weird and kind of hard to do a tour in English! A young man who
was recently baptized brought his friend in to do a tour, and his friend had
lots of questions about Christ, the Atonement, repentance and forgiveness. We
talked a lot about that and how because of Jesus Christ we can be clean from
sin. We invited him to be baptized, and he accepted! Twice later on during the
tour, he said, "I really want to be baptized." He is excited to meet
with the missionaries in the area that he lives. Go member missionary work!
We are meeting with an awesome investigator
named X DX. He has a baptismal date set for the 23rd of this month. When we met
with him this past week, he bore a really powerful testimony about how every
time he has a doubt or a question, God resolves it through the Book of Mormon
or something we say. He is super prepared and we will be teaching him lesson 5
and going over the baptismal interview questions this week so he can have his
baptismal interview the beginning of next week!
Last night, we had set up to meet with a new
investigator. The plan was to meet up at a 7-11 and then go to her house. As we
got on our bikes to ride to the appointment, I had a really bad feeling and the
most overwhelming thought that we should not go with her to her house.
She was already at the 7-11 when we arrived, so we gave her a Book of Mormon
and told her that we something had come up and we couldn't meet with her. I
don't know why I had that feeling, but I am so incredibly grateful for the
Spirit to warn us of danger and to protect us.
Honestly, there have been times this week when
I have loved being a missionary and times when I wonder how on earth I am going
to make it through the next year because I am just so exhausted all the time
and a year seems like a really long time. I am trying really hard to love every
day and enjoy the experience. Thank you for all of your support and
encouragement. I love you and pray for you every day!
Sis Murri
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