Hello Grandma and Grandpa,
You are so wonderful! Thanks for your examples of service and kindness and generosity! I love you! I look forward to your e-mails just as much as you do!
Yes, winter is coming. But, the Lord has promised us to not worry about the food you should eat or the clothes that you wear. Therefore I will trust in the Lord and be warm!
I don't think we've had frost and certainly not snow. But, I know I will have to learn to love freezing! Today I will pick up my coat. I wanted it to be smaller, so I wouldn't look like a walking balloon. It should be warm! I'm excited. We are also going to buy boots, a hat, and gloves today. Then I think my companion and I will be ready for winter! Yay for being warm!
Congratulations to Buddy! How exciting for their whole family! That's an amazing family. Say goodbye to the Foxes and wish them the best! What kind of mission are they serving again?
Well, thank you for keeping up with Gary and Betty. They are practically family right!
Whoa...that's one expensive package. Don't go crazy. I'm doing great here! I might just need to tell Sandra to make sure I have money on my debit card, so I can buy boots and other things. I don't know how expensive they will be. Elizabeth Edwards is a beautiful lady! Make sure you tell her I love her!
I am doing absolutely great. I love my new area. I love my new companion. She is teaching me a lot about enjoying life! We are learning together how to be better teachers and effective missionaries.
The branches here are small. Which means we have a lot of work to do and many miracles. Friday night we talked with a girl after English. We have many amazing people we find through English. The majority of the converts here are found through English. She is a university student and lives in Kyiv. But, she loves to hang out with us on the weekends. We sang hymns after English and started with Joseph Smith’s First Prayer. In between hymns we shared the restoration! She doesn't like religion. She doesn't understand. She is confused. So, it wasn't easy. Friday she really didn't want to know more. But, she loves the peace she feels with us. She promised to come to an activity on Saturday. However, she was too busy. Fortunately, all day Sunday we have activities! I copied a few poems for her and we called to invite her to church. She came! It was great. During this time, she had talked to her step-mother about the church. Her step-mom wants to read the book of Mormon. On Sunday, Galina (our recent convert) received the gift of the Holy Ghost. This really confused Yana (our wonderful English student). She had a lot of questions and wants to learn more about it. I'm excited to have the opportunity to explain to her about the marvelous news of the Gospel. How God loves her and doesn't want her to be confused, and that His plan is simple.
Many more miracles! Another one of God's children was brought to church by her sister-in-law. She is elect! We are excited to meet with her further this week and lead her to Christ and help her increase her faith in Him and His atonement! Her name is Maria or Masha for short.
We also are working with two families that just happen to live in the same apartment! We consider that to be another miracle! Well, I love you.
I am incredibly happy! I am serving the Lord and I am so thankful for this opportunity! I love you. I am thankful for you! You have done so much for me!
I hope you are smiling every day! I hope you are happy!
Keep praying for miracles here! Thanks for your thoughts!
We have some high goals and will have to be worthy of many miracles to achieve them! But, I have faith. I trust in the Lord and I want to do everything I can to help these people here understand that the restoration did happen, that there is a prophet on the Earth, that Christ is our Savior and He loves us, that God is our Heavenly Father and He wants to help us.
This morning I studied about our purpose in life.
How do we know if we are successful in this life? We return to the presence of God. So, what do we need to be successful? We need to do the things that will allow us to return to God's presence. That means we need to have faith. We need to repent. We need to get baptized and receive all other ordinances we can to help us. We need to endure to the end. So: We need to be obedient.
Well, that's all the time I have.
In the midst of our many errands we have invited some investigators to take the missionaries ice-skating! Could be fun or embarrassing!
But...
You are the best
Love,
Sister Murphy
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