This was a wonderful week full of Kansas weather! For the first time I understood the phrase, "If you don't like the weather, just wait 5 minutes". When we were driving to our dinner appointment on Monday, we got an Emergency Alert that a tornado was spotted in our area and we needed to get to shelter. That was lots of fun. I think a total of 8 touched down in the area, but they didn't cause any damage so that's good. Later on that day we got some crazy hail too!
The news must have spread around the ward we are serving in that Elder Watts and I are Spanish Missionaries, because we got fed Enchiladas for all of our meals this week except for 1 haha. But hey I'm not complaining! I was in heaven because I miss Mexican food so bad! The ward here feeds us really well which is nice, but its really awkward when they pull out these really nice fancy desserts that they have made for us. Elder Watts and I promised an investigator who is giving up Coffee and Smoking to be baptized that we would give up desserts and sugar so he doesn't feel like he is going through it alone. Usually we have the other Elders assigned to our ward there with us and they get to eat our portions so they are loving it!
We also had Zone Conference this week (Combined with Salina Zone) and it was lots of fun. Elder Watts and I gave a training on how we can use the Pamphlets effectively in our missionary work. We related it to a complicated basketball play and had another missionary come up and try to run it just off of a hearing it only and they were so confused. Then we drew the play out on a white board and he was able to get it no problem. The pamphlets that we have been given as missionaries are the same way. We have these great tools to use and the visuals help those we are teaching understand an otherwise foreign concept. Overall i think it went pretty good, our role play was pretty bad because both Elder Watts and I were sick and couldn't really think straight but thats ok because we have the Atonement to rely on.
Saturday was a crazy day here in Manhattan as well. The college students here have made up this tradition called "Fake Pattys" because the school usually has spring break during St. Patrick's day. They use it as a 24 hour drunk fest pretty much. The party starts at 5am and doesn't end until the next day. This of course made it very hard to teach people about Jesus Christ, as their only desires were to get drunk. We started studies at 8am and the apartment complex was already rattling from the parties that had begun. I've decided that college is dumb and I am so glad I'll be going to BYU. We stayed safe though dont worry! We only got asked where the good parties were at like 2 times.
Luckily that day it started to snow so much of the celebrations were tamed down and force to be inside so that was a big plus. We got a good little bit of snow which was pretty weird because we were wearing short sleeve shirts earlier in the week. But you know thats part of Kansas weather jaja.
Miracle) When we first got to Manhattan we were told by the previous elders to go to a house in a small town called Ogden on the way up and to see if Stephanie was there. We knocked and this really angry man told us that she wasn't there and rudely slammed the door. We came back a couple days later and the exact same thing happened, but this time we asked if we could share a message with him and he let us in! Long story short his name is John and he is getting baptized this weekend! It is so crazy to think that he was the first person we talked to when we got here and he was so closed off but the spirit opened his heart and he is one of the most tender souls i have ever met! I love this work!
I love you all! Big shout out to my big brother Michael! He finished his mission this week in Mexico and im so proud of him!! Hit him up ladies!!
Elder Murphy
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