hiiiiii - July 30, 2018

hi! this week was pretty fun. a pretty good time here in rio grande. we had mlc and went up on this moutain in aguas buenas (we are pretty sure its where the temple is gonna be) LOOK AT THAT VIEW. SOOOOO GOOOOOD. it was so cool. president smart keeps talking about LIFTING OUR VISION and it was so cool to talk about the mission goals and such and look out over puerto rico, thinking about all the people that need THE GOSPEL. its true, there is a special spirit on THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD. 

THIS WEEK WE SAW A MIRACLE. so on saturday we had appointments ALL MORNING at 10, 11, 12, and 1 and at like 11:30 we were both rrreeeeaaaaallllly hungry becausue thats when we usually eat lunch haha and so we were saying a prayer before we went into a lesson and hermana mcdonald prayed that we wouldnt be hungry and as she said that A PARCHA FELL FROM THE TREE. HAHAAH. so we started eating parchas. and then while we were in a lesson a man came over and gave us a whole branch full of canepas. GOD PROVIDES. 3 nephi 13: 31-33. hahah. 

also this week another cool thing happened. we were debating if we should go to this one place to go find this less active lady or keep contacting where we were, and we both felt like we should leave and go find the less active lady. and so we went over there and as soon as we got there we saw this lady walking and carrying a bag of ice and a grocery bag and she looked really tired so we asked if she needed help and she said yes (which was weird because normally no one says yes) and so we walked with her to her house and carried her stuff and it turns out that shes a member who just moved here like 2 weeks ago from another pueblo! and shes super cool and was active for a while but then went less active within the last year. and it was cool because her house is in a super weird place so we never would have met her if we hadnt been there at that exact moment and offered to help her carry her things :))))))))

we also started a book of mormon claass in the branch because like no one here reads the scriptures and all the members are PUMPED! its super cool because the members are telling us that theyve been reading every day or that theyre in 1 nephi 6 or something and it makes me so happy because WE NEED TO READ THE SCRIPTURES TO BE CONVERTED and so this class is really going to help them

this week i also got roasted a ton :) physically, also emotionally. people were being such SAVAGES while we were contacting HAHAHH. here are some funny contacts we had

 - i gave a man a pass along card that i wrote our phone number and names on and he went on to just make fun of my handwriting for like 5 minutes and every time we tried to say something he just kept going on about how ugly it was hahahah

 - a woman asked us "ustedes son hermanas o madre e hija?" and i said "cual de nosotras seria la mama?" and she pointed at me HHAHAHHA. so not only i look old enough to be a mom, but HERMANA MCDONALDS MOM

-  someone said to me "tu le quitas la comida de ella verdad? porque ella es flaquita y tu eres gordita" BUUUUUURRRRRNNNNNNNNNN. i was getting wrecked

just gotta learn to laugh ha........haaaa.................. hahhaahh

also we contacted this one crazy guy and asked "conoce a su vecino?" and he said "nadie puede saber el destino de nadie.... no se sabe si alguien va a matarte o chocarte con el carro...." and it was super weird hahah. goooood times

we´re continuing to do the book of mormon challenge and this morning we read the story of enos. its going by so fast. this book is sooooo gooood. one of our investigators, farah, is doing super good at reading it and last night she sent us a text just quoting 1 nephi 4:14. she GETS IT. its soooo cool to see investigators actually read/understand the scriptures.

have a good week!!!!

hermana murphy

1. its been a while. RAINBOW!

2. SAN JUAN ZONE!!!!!!

3. sistaz

4. MLC