Monday, May 7, 2018

"Puerto Rico is in the ICU" - Area President Elder Gonzalez - May 7, 2018

this week was PROBS ONE OF THE BEST WEEKS OF MY MISSION. we literally taught ALL DAY EVERY DAY. it was crazy. we just went from one appointment to the next to the next to the next. and we had a TON of member presents. in our district meeting, the zone leaders said that if we got 27 member presents as a district, they would get us donuts. and there are 3 companionships in our district so it would be 9 each. and usually, hermana peterson and i get like 7. and this week we got THIRTEEN. we were very motivated by the donuts. as a district we got THIRTY TWO. it was legit. and we had FIVE investigators in church this week. LEGITTTT. 

remember the 9 person family i said that we contacted a couple weeks ago. well this week we started teaching them and theyre SO COOL. THEY NEED TO BE BAPTIZED. THEY WOULD MAKE PERFECT MORMONS. all the kids still live at home and are just so nice. theyre 21, 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, and 5.  the only problem is that theyre currently active in their other church... but we can change that. haha. theyre all homeschooled and all the kids play musical instruments and theyre all so cute and nice and we went and read a chapter in the book of mormon with them and all the kids wanted book of mormons and theyre SO AWESOME. and then SOMETHING CRAZY HAPPENED. so hermana peterson and i to call all the numbers on the ward list to find less actives to visit and try to find through them. soooo one night we were making calls and it was 8:59 and i caled one more number and i was looking for "eugenio" so i asked if eugenio was there and they said no, wrong number. and then they said "ustedes son las mormonas?" and i said "si, somos las misioneras" and she was like "this is taina's number" and TAINA IS THE MOM OF THE 9 PERSON FAMILY. WHAAAAAT. FOR SOME REASON THEIR NUMBER WAS UNDER EUGENIO ON OUR WARD LIST AND THEY DONT KNOW WHO EUGENIO IS AND I JUST RANDOMLY CALLED THEM. :0 it was crazy. i was laughing so hard. 

yesterday we had a meeting with elder gonzales who is the area president and he asked us questions and stuff and one of his questions was "if you were the mission president for a day, what would you do to find" basically saying if we could do ANYTHING what would we do. and he looked at me and was like "hermana murphy is thinking, what is your idea?" and all that was going through my head was if we got all our members to proselite like the testigos de jeobah do ahhaahahaa so i said it. it was funny. i personally think it would be very successful. it was a super good meeting. he said that of the 29 countries that he covers, puerto rico is the one in the intensive care unit :-) so we need to be working really hard to get it back up and running again. but which nurses and doctors are in the icu? THE BEST ONES! so basically it was like a compliment, he was telling us that we're awesome. 

this week we also found ETHAN, the 10 year old son of a less active member and we started teaching him and the WHOLE FAMILY came to church yesterday!!! the great grandma, the grandma, the mom and her non member husband, and the 2 boys. it was so nice!!!!!! finally, we have a progressing investigator in cabo rojo 2! haha. we were trying to set a baptismal date with him and asked which saturday he wanted to do it on and he said the 12th! haah! so next saturday. but we said the 19th, to make sure the family is a little bit more reactivated. but WOOO!!! im excited. we just need them to come to church next week again. and every week after :)

so a pretty SOLID week. i love teaching!!!!! cabo rojo is on FIRRREEEEE. i better not get transferred now that things are picking up.. haha. just kidding. ill be fine anywhere. we'll see what happens with transfer calls next week!

love 
hermana murphy

1. FIRST MANGOS OF THE SEASON!
2. passing out the family proclamation in the intersection with our friend
3. OG squad



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