Email on May 12

Hey beautiful...and beautiful's husband.

Mr. and Mrs. Taylor,

I heard someone say today Bishop Bishop...I thought of you! (Bishop Bishop was my Bishop at college before Will & I were married.)

It's not fun when I don't get an e-mail from you.  Oh, well.  I'm a servant of the Lord so, I guess I shouldn't worry about such trivial matters.  I'm writing you first.  Sorry about last week.  So, this week has been crazy. Some amazing insights though.  I'm slowly going through the talks you sent and the one by Neal Maxwell was amazing.  I just finished that one today after our temple trip, I had a few minutes.  I loved what he said about Peter's lack of faith.  I'm also experiencing that.  I need to have faith in the Lord and I know He will bless me.  He is blessing me.  Yesterday was a little overwhelming but that is because I forgot.  I am His disciple and He qualifies those He calls.  I just cannot get distracted by the winds and the waves.  Well, We are typing with the Ukrainians today.  I'm not going to even try to spell the word (CLOBO) for elder.  It's ridiculous.  Russians are funny.  We are actually able to understand them, the few words we know, but they have no idea what Ukrainian is.  So, I'll be blessed with that knowledge when I get home.  Make sure g-ma and g-pa know how to e-mail me.  I haven't heard from them yet.  They might not have-my e-mail correct.  We've had some ups and downs this week.  We are working on unity as a district.  They are good Elders but, young of course.  The blog is great idea, thanks for doing that.  CECTPA Howell sent some pictures to her sister, she'll put them on facebook and hopefully you'll find them.  I'll send pictures probablly next week.  The Lord is taking care of us but, I've got a lot of work to do as well!  My goals are to smile ALL OF THE TIME and be Happy.  I don't mind annoying people, I do that a lot.  Sunday I played the piano for my branch and did a not so good job.  It's not like I would have had time to practice even if I knew the hymns we were going to sing.  Oh, well. 

I hope you are having a great day!

Life here is the same; Apostles and stuff.  It doesn't change! We did just find out that Pres. Uchtdorf is going to the mission the month before we get there with Elder Anderson and they are having a mission conference...SO JEALOUS!  The group before us (all Russian speaking, mostly going somwhere in Russia) are at 100% now meaning they only speak Russian.  So, we don't communicate very much with them.  We still have a few English speaking Russians in the Russian Missionaries group here for about 2 more weeks.  But, they aren't learning a language. so they don't always have the same schedule as us.

Well, I have other e-mails to write.  LOVE YOU!

CECTPA MURPHY!