March 26, 2018

hello! this week was good. except for sunday. that was a rough day. but ill get to that :-)

benji and jorma made us dinner again this week. REAL MVPS. and JORMA ACTUALLY READ IN THE BOOK OF MORMON. she told us and we FLIPPED. i legit thought hermana peterson was going to have a heart attack. haahah. but they're progressing wonderfully. we just gotta get jorma to come to church. and we were like MARRIAGE! CHASTITY! and benji was like mmmm i dont know... but we gonna fix that. 

we put dolores on a VERY TENTATIVE BAPTISMAL DATE. for april 21st. shes like "im praying i just havent recieved my answer!" so we have to help her recognize her answer. and she cant cone to church because she has to take care of her sister with alzheimers and she needs her niece to come take care of her while she  goes to church but she hasnt.... so i just want to call her niece and EXPLAIN SOME THINGS TO HER. but dolores is sooooo funny. this week she said a prayer and was like "por favor ayudame a recibir una respuesta.... por favor bendice a mi familia.... y mandales a estas chicas buenos novios! amen! wooo!!!!" HAHAHAHHHAHA. it was the funniest prayer ever. no one even corrected her of not saying "in the name of Jesus Christ" because we were all laughing too hard. hahahahhaaha. gooood times. 

so I DID NOT MENTION LAST WEEK something. because i didnt feel like it. but MIRIAM did not get confirmed. because she didn't come to church. because her niece came into town and we tried to get her to come but she didnt. but we were EXPECTING her to come to church yesterday, so i didnt say anything :) but unfortunately that didnt happen. so. we saw her a couple times this week and things were going all good! she even agreed to fast with us on saturday! we had some super good lessons on faith and the gift of the holy ghost and all that good stuff. and we started to fast on saturday at lunch with her. and let me tell you that fast was A CHALLENGE. BECAUSE WE WENT TO A FOOD PARTY FOR CABO ROJO 2 THAT NIGHT. AND EVERYONE WAS TELLING US TO EAT HAHA. MORE SACRIFICE = MORE BLESSINGS. anyways so everything was going all good. miriam EVEN invited us over for breakfast on sunday morning to break the fast! woo! and THEN. on sunday morning at 6:28 AM she called us and said she didn't want to come to church, that she didn't feel ready, and that we could keep visiting her but she doesn't feel like doing it anymore. soooooo. that was terrible. but hermana peterson and i decided THAT WASNT GOING TO STOP US. we had so much faith. we were even FASTING!!!!!! and we have been studying faith a lot this week and had an AWESOME district meeting on faith, so we were feeling good. so at like 7:30 we went over to her house and were prepared to answer any questions she had and figure out what was going on. but when we got there, the door was closed, but her car was there so we know she was there. so we stood outside and i said "i am not leaving until she comes outside." so we stood outside her house for an HOUR, calling her name and trying to get her to come outside. but she didnt :( and she had turned off her phone so we couldn't contact her at all. it was soooooo sad. and hermana peterson just said "i imagine that this is what Christ feels like in the picture of him knocking on the door." SO TRUE. literally we were going to stand out there ALL DAY. but we couldn't do anything if she didnt answer the door. but we just kept calling for her. but nothing. so finally we sent her a long text message and left a note on her gate. and we had to leave to go to church. and we went to church and STILL she didn't come. so it was a rough day. but the hard times are what you learn from, i guess. we learned A LOT about faith. in our district meeting, one of the things that we talked about was that SO MANY MIRACLES come by faith. but when we have that much faith, and do all we can, and what we ask for doesn't happen, that doesn't mean that God is ignoring us. but he will never take away someones agency and force them to do anything. yesterday  i just kept thinking about that scripture in helaman 12 that says "o how great is the nothingness of the children of men; yea, they are less than the dust of the earth. for behold the dust of the earth moveth hither and thither, to the dividing asunder, at the command of our great and everlasting God." like I WISH THAT I COULD JUST FORCE HER TO COME TO CHURCH! IF ONLY SHE WAS DUST...... AT LEAST DUST DOES WHAT GOD SAYS. but too bad. but anyways it doesn't mean that god is ignoring us.... he's doing all that he can too. he's inviting and trying to help them make the right choice but he cant force anyone to do anything. and even though we were fasting and we stood outside her door for an HOUR, she cant be forced to do anything. but this whole experience didn't decrease my faith, if anything it increased it. 

so that was something that i learned this week :-) good times!

yep. thats it.

bye!

love

hermana murphy

1. what people think we're like

2. what we're REALLY like

3. zone activity playing beach volleyball and it started POURING

WE'RE HALFWAY THERE WHOA LIVING ON A PRAYER - March 19, 2018

sup fam! yeah this week i hit 9 months WOO. crazy stuff. yep. 

this week was good! miriam got baptized!!!!!! woop woop. she was so happy! she got her interview on friday and got baptized on saturday. she was SO EXCITED to pass the interview that she KISSED THE ELDERS. HAAHHAAHAH. BOTH OF THEM. ON THE CHEEKS. needless to say we were all surprised and i laughed SOOO HARD. we need to explain that rule to her. but anyways the baptism was super nice and YES hermana peterson and i did sing a special musical number. NORTHWOOD CHOIR!!! 

also BENJI AND JORMA WENT RING SHOPPING. THIS IS REAL. AHHHHH. they went but apparently benji ran away when he saw all the rings.... hahaha. but its a step in the right direction. THEYRE GONNA GET MARRIEDDDDD. theyre so awesome. we had the FUNNIEST lesson with them. we brought bishop cruz again and hermana morales and we were just laughing the whole time. if i wrote what we were laughing about you would all think it was dumb but trust me. it was funny. and they bought us pizza! <3 true friendship

this week we spent some good time contacting. yesterday, literally all of our plans fell through. ALL DAY. it stunk. haha. but anyways we were with members like all day but didnt teach any lessons because no one was home and it was terrible. and at about 8:00 we were like "ok we have an hour left. and this has been a terrible day. we gotta DO SOMETHING!!' so we prayed and got to WORK and did some hardcore contacting and found a family and the dad was like "come in!' and was super awesome. woo! so it was a good ending to a not so good day :)

but really i think the biggest accomplishment that i had this week was that i FINISHED READING ALMA IN THE BOOK OF MORMON IN SPANISH. idk if any of you remember, but i started reading the book of mormon in spanish in my first transfer. and i just read it during language study for a little bit but it has taken a long time. and i have been in alma for literally months. FINALLY IM DONE. it was a good one. but YESSSSSS. so close. soooo close.

we had zone conference this week and it was based on the book of mormon and how to use it better. so now hermana peterson and i made the goal to ALWAYS have a book of mormon in our hand and to try to give a book to EVERYONE. "THE BOOK SPEAKS FOR ITSELF!' also one sister shared an experience she had and started out by saying "so one day we were just winging it... by the spirit" and now thats our life theme. thats basically what we're doing in the mission. hahaha. 

welllllllll. thats it. have a gr9 week everyone!

hermana murphy

1. cute lil dessert that miriam made for us LOL

2. zone conference ROOTBEER FLOATS!!

3. zone conference TWINNING!! 

4. fun relief society activity with miriam!

5. cabo rojo 1 YEAH

6. miriams baptism!!!!!!!

7. zone conference sisters!!!

8. zone conference zone!! mayaguez #SWAG

yeeeee! - March 12, 2018

hey! its been a good week! miriam is still gonna get baptized this saturday!!! woooop woooop! shes so awesome. we taught her all the commandments and got her some fake coffee stuff and shes good to go! 

also BENJI CAME TO CHURCH AGAIN! BENJIIIIIIII. HES THE BEST. and we didnt even remind him. he just showed up! and OK so we had a lesson with him and jorma and obispo cruz and benji was like "i have to get married to be baptized right?" and we were like yeaaahhhh and obispo cruz was like "i can marry you! for free!" and benji was SO DOWN he was just like "jorma will you marry me right now?" and it was super funny and she was like mmmmm hahah. but jorma gave us a ride home and she was saying how SHE was the one who wanted to get married and benji didnt. but it looks like benji wants to get married. SO. if she wants to get married, and he wants to get married, i dont know what the problem is! so MAYBE we'll be having a wedding soon. YESSSSS. ive always wanted to go to a mission on my wedding. wooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

one night this week all of our plans fell through (literally everything) so we decided to contact in this neighborhood. and literally NO ONE wanted to listen to us. for like two hours. we DID talk to a testigo de jeovah, who only came outside because she thought that WE were her fellow testigos. but i asked her questions about what they believed because i was curious HAHAH. but she didnt accept a return appointment :'( but anyways. it was like 8:54 and we were walking back to the car to go home and we saw two ladies walking around and i was like "hey! lets talk to them!" and so we did and turns out that one of them is moving and needed help getting her stuff from her old house to her new house. so we offered to help and went back on saturday to help her move. and after that we had a lesson with her and it turns out that she actually has a lot of biblical knowledge and understands a lot. she asked us a lot of deep doctrinal questions (for example. if Judas iscariot needed to betray Jesus because it was necesary for him to die, why was he punished so bad? deep) and we read 3 nephi 11 with her and she was like "hey. this is NOT how i was baptized in the catholic church! they just sprinkled some water on my head!" and we were like "well do you want to be baptized like Jesus was?" and she was like "well yeah, its necesary! what do i need to do to be baptized?" so shes on date now! wooop woop! for the 7th of april. we'll see what happens. shes named carmen. classic. but shes cool and it was a cool experience.

today we went to the mall and this old guy called us over and i was like "hey! an old man that wants to hear the gospel!" and he was like "son de la iglesia presbitiriana?" and we were like "no, somos misioneras de la iglesia de jesucristo de los santos de los ultimos dias!" and he was confused so i was like "los mormones" and then he was like :0 "los mormones van al infierno. no son hijos de dios. no tienen el espiritu santo. son hijos de satanas" and just going on and on and on. LOL so that was fun. all of our faces were just like *upsidedown smiley face* and i didnt know what to say without being offensive so i just said "have a good day" and we just walked away HAHAHA. it was funny. some people are just so confused :-)

WEEKLY EPIPHANY. so i was studying in preach my gospel about the spirits role in conversion. and i was doing one of the study boxes and it said to read some chapters about people's conversions in the book of mormon. so i read alma 36 and some other GOOD chapters and i had an epiphany. the gospel makes us HAPPY when we are truly converted, so as we teach our investigators, we should see them becoming happier. because if they're not, they're not feeling the spirit and not becoming converted. so if they're not becoming converted, we either have to teach better lessons or they're not keeping commitments or SOMETHING is not happening and they are not progressing. idk. it was MIND BLOWING. if we arent seeing them become happier then somethings gotta change. it was a solid study. also i gave a 15 minute talk on this yesterday in church. 

lifes good. cabo rojo is the BEST! happy birthday to dad and lucy on saturday. i love lucy because shes so nice and has a good sense of humor! and i love dad because he give good advice because hes such a good mission president and also has a good sense of humor :)))))) hahaha

much love! heres some fun pics from this week. 

LUV

hermana murphy

1. the DISTRICT

2. murphy peterson window washing!

3. my twin, vivian! shes a patient at some members' old person home (im sorry, i cant remember the politically correct name). we have the same birthday, only she was born in 1929. lolz.

4. who am i? WHO AM I? (24601)

5. fun times with anjomile!

6. fun art!

7. more fun art!

8. yeeeeeee

#blessed week - March 5, 2018

hey! this week was super good. not TOO much has changed but its moving along. 

so miriam is the BEST. shes just SO DOWN for everything. we taught her the plan of salvation and she decided that us 3 were pals in the premortal existance. haha. and she came to church yesterday and just loves everything and is still on for her baptismal date on the 17th. some of the ladies at church were like "her baptism cant be on the 17th! we have a relief society breakfast that day!" and i was like ???????? is it going to last ALL DAY???????? like can we not have it in the afternoon???? hahah. so we'll see what happens with that. shes already been to church twice so she could TECHNICALLY be baptized this saturday. but idk. but miriam is the SWEETEST lady in the world and hermana peterson and i decided that she has all the attributes she needs to go to heaven. shes AWESOME! 

benji also came to church! woo! hes awesome. he hasnt wanted to come without jorma but she works on sundays but he finally came. so since hermana peterson and i are covering both cabo rojo wards and they meet at the same time (just do the meetings in different orders) i went to cabo rojo 1 and she went to cabo rojo 2 so i had to teach gospel principles by myself. and it was going to be ONLY benji and miriam and i ahhaha but then i made 2 other members come in to the class too. so we had a full class with 4 people. hahah. 

other than that, all of our investigators are doing the same. theyre all good. we're working with benji's wife so she can get a testimony and want to get married. 

this week i did some pondering and was thinking about all our investigators and had an epiphany. i was like "wow. basically all of our investigators are 60 year old women." and i was wondering why and i realized that its because 60 year old women are the least scary to talk to. hahah. and they're great. truly. love all them. but the wards really need us to find young families with primary kids and youth. so thats what we're focusing on. its so sad, the primary in cabo rojo 1 only has 1 kid. WE NEED TO FIND HIM SOME FRIENDS!!! and it was pretty cool, in these past couple days weve found several families that are all down to listen and have appointments with them. woo!

also heres another epiphany i had. so we were with hermana morales (classic) looking for this old investigator and all it said was "callejon asensio" but we didnt know where that was. so we were asking around and stopped at this house to ask and as we were talking to this one guy i saw this young mom and her daughter walk up and i was like "i need to talk to her" and then we were like already walking away and getting into the car and i was like "no this is going to be so awkward we're already driving away" and i started having all these things going through my head. like i was like "i can just come back another day and itll be less awkward" and i was like seeing preach my gospel float through my mind where it says "a successful missionary" and i was like AHHHHHH. HAHAHAHAHA. it was a huge internal battle. i basically saw my life flash before my eyes. and then we were like driving away and i was like "ok wait we should go talk to that girl" and as we walked up it was INDEED awkward but NOT AS BAD AS I EXPECTED!! hahahh. and my epiphany was that if i didnt talk to her, i would be, by definition, an unsuccessful missionary. because i wouldnt be doing my job of inviting. so thats that. 

the definite highlight of the week was the HERMANAS CONFERENCE we had at the mission home on wednesday. i finally got to see HERMANA MOODY!!!!! only about 6 months too late lol but it was so good!! they had all the 8 hermanas who were here first give trainings and hermana peterson and i gave a FIRE training about working with members haha. and it was just so fun to see everyone. i love the mishhhh!

welp yep thats it. good week! woop woop!

<3

hermana murphy

1. LOOK!!! THIS IS REAL LIFE. MY BEST FRIEEEENNND

2. EX COMP LIFE

3. getting free limbers on the street ~~~blessed~~~

4. sisters conference! so goooood

February 26, 2018

sup FAM. GOOD STUFF HAPPENING HERE IN CABO ROJO!

first of all, we now have housemates!!! there are now sisters in mayaguez and they showed up at their apartment on thursday night and found out it didnt have light and was disgusting, so they're living with us until they get it fixed up. so we have hermana guido and hermana cluff. and hermana cluff is STRAIGHT OUTTA THE MTC. #mems....... its a good time

fun news - now we are only covering the two cabo rojo wards! woo! im glad because it was very stressful covering 4 wards haha but now we are just gonna be working full time in cabo rojo. EXCEPT we have permission from the zone leaders to still teach tania from san german! woohoo! so we gave all our other san german investigators to the elders and our mayaguez ones to the sisters. woohoo! 

lemme just say. cabo rojo is the BEST. the members are so BOMB and we have solid investigators. and its SO BEAUTIFUL <3___<3

in cabo rojo 1, the first week we went there there were 26 people in sacrament meeting. and then there was 30, then 34, and yesterday there was 40! WE HIT 40!! YEEEAAAAHHHHHH. SOOO GOOOOOD. we had a ton of less actives show up. every tuesday evening we go out with some ward members to visit less actives and its been WORKING! the member support is awesome. theyre all so cute and excited to have missionaries here. we had so many dinners this week and the members just love us. haha. 

we found a miracle lady this week. her name is MIRIAM, and we have had 2 lessons with her and she came to church on sunday! AND gave us a ride! she was SO EXCITED, she showed up at 8:25 (and church starts at 9 haha). we have taught her lessons 1 and 3 and we were like "baptism?" and she was like "yeah!" and shes on date for march 17th. AND she actually keeps commitments! woohoo! 

we got a SOLID reference for a family this week who was taught by missionaries like 5 years ago but moved away but just moved back! we had a lesson with them and they are awesome. la familia guzman! their daughter got baptized (but she lives in florida now) but they have a TON of potential and went to church a ton and stuff. we had our first lesson with them last night and theyre awesome. REFERENCES!

this week we were looking for less actives in this one apartment complex and we saw these kids walking around and started talking to them. and then they told us that their mom was changing the tire on their car right outside. so we walked over with them and started talking to the mom and she  was like "yeah its been a hard day..." and just started crying for like 10 minutes and kept saying "mi vida no ha sido facil...". it was SO SAD. but we stood there and tried to cheer her up and she said we could come back and teach her and we did and shes so awesome! she has indeed had a very hard life but she has never even talked to missionaries before! so we can help her out. and she has the cutest kids in the WORLD. except for the ones who are related to me! haha

so ive mentioned that we are teaching dolores, but i HAVENT mentioned that we are also teaching her friend vivian. vivan is usually there when we teach dolores and this week we went over to teach and she was like "ya know, the first time you came over, about an hour before i told dolores that i wanted to find the right church" WHAT??? crazy. so she's awesome and was gonna come to church but shes also old and really sick and got sick on saturday so she couldnt :( but shes another super good investigator who is defs progressing. and shes down for baptism. 

today we went to EL FARO!! a member from cabo rojo 1 brought us and it is SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BEST P DAY EVER!!! its right on the beach and we walked around and saw all this STUFF!!! it was sick. MANY PICS TO COME!

also SHOUTOUT TO COLE AND HIS BIRTHDAY TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 17!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE COLE BECAUSE HES LIVING IN ECUADOR LIKE A BOSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND HE HAS ALMOST NEVER MISSED A WEEK OF EMAILING ME!!!!!!!!!!!! HES ALWAYS SO NICE AND WE LIVED ALONE TOGETHER FOR LIKE 3 YEARS LOL SO WE TIGHT. HES THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY COKE!

well. thats it! HAGS!!!!

HERMANA MURPHY

1. hermana morales!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! shes a member who comes out with us ALL THE TIME. shes awesome. she served a mission in chile after her daughters grew up and was like an actual proselyting missionary with young companions and everything. shes so cool.

2. cow

3. tania made us hamburgers after we cleaned our her house!!!!!! YUM! so fancy.

4. a lil windy!

5. compy!!!!!

6. ARTSYYYY

7. selfie game #WEAK

8. artsy lighthouse pic!

9. paradise!!!

February 19, 2018

hello!!! its been a pretty SOLID week. lots of tiny little miracles happening ALL OVER THE PLACE.

we had a mission conference with bishop Davies from the presiding bishopric. it was awesome!! thats a plus about having a small mission. we can do WHATEVER WE WANT!!! hahah jokes. but we all got to go, opposed to the time elder eyering came and only like 10 missionaries got to go. ahahha. but bishop davies was awesome. it was a super spiritual meeting. he talked about church organization and how mission presidents are called. he said "YOU were called for your mission president, and your mission president was called for YOU." pretty crazy thought. he also told us the secret to working with the members. EVERY time we go into a members house, share a spiritual thought and build their faith in Christ. then they will see that you love Lord and they will too. he said its SO SIMPLE. its like the snake stick thing that no one wanted to look at because it was so easy. hahah. so we're doing that. 

saturday was a GOOD DAY. we went to san german early to clean a recent converts house with hermana olmo (the G.O.A.T.). so this lady is Carmen, and shes like 80something, and she is a convert of hermana medina. we cleaned her house before and oh maaannn. its a work of art. so dirty. so we go over on saturday and we were yelling her name and knocking on the door and windows and she wasn't answering. she also wasn't answering her phone. so we asked the neighbors and no one had seen her. BUT hermana olmo knew that carmen said that she goes sometimes to see her friend down the street. so we asked her friend and she wasn't there. then we go to the store to look for her and she wasn't there. SHE WASN'T ANYWHERE TO BE FOUND!! by this point, we had been looking for her for like 45 minutes and had come to the conclusion that something had happened to her in the house and she had died or something. some of the neighbors had come over and i was GENUINELY NERVOUS. they were all debating if we should call the police or something. FINALLY, A CAR PULLS UP AND CARMEN GETS OUT. one of her friends had come and picked her up and they went shopping or something. CARMEN!!!! hahaha. it was SO STRESSFUL. WE THOUGHT SHE DIED. but luckily she didn't. we then cleaned her house for like 3 hours and made a little bit of a dent. at least now there arent AS MANY cockroaches. :-------) SERVICE!!!! MIRACLE!!!

also on saturday. we went to go see johanna, my convert. the last time we went, she told us that she hadn't gone to church in a little while. so that was sad. but that night, we invited her to read the book of mormon every day, and she would be able to finish it by the end of the year. and she was SO DOWN. so we went back to follow up, and SHES DONE IT!!! she's read a chapter a day for the last couple weeks. IT WAS SUCH A GOOD FEELING!!!! and she went to church the last two weeks. WOO!!!!!! thats what EVERYONE wants to see in their converts. SHES DOING IT!!!! so happy. MIRACLE!!!

we went to go see an old investigator, jorge perez, from san german. he lives SUPER far, so we went with a member in her car to go see him. hermana medina and i only taught him once before the hurricane but he was SO AWESOME. and i had just been thinking about him for a little while so i wanted to go see him. we went to his house and he wasn't home :'( but as we were driving away, i said "it would be a MIRACLE if he drove up right now in his car." and as i said that, HE DROVE UP IN HIS CAR!!!!!!!!!!! MIRACLE!!!!!!!!! we were able to talk to him and he was so happy to see us and we're gonna teach him this coming week. WOOO!!! this might sound like a lame story, but i was SOOOO EXCITED. JORGEEEEEE!!!!!

we're getting more missionaries this week!!! SHOUTOUT TO MALLORY MOODY MY BFF WHOS COMING. YEEEAAAAHHHHHHHH. #BYUTAKESPRSJ. and we're getting FOUR NEW MISSIONARIES in our zone!!!!!!!! so this means that we're not going to be covering mayaguez anymore. TBH im kind of relieved because its a little STRESSFUL covering four wards and now we can focus more on cabo rojo. woo!!! and cabo rojo is the BOMB. yesterday, we got FOUR DINNER INVITATIONS FOR THE WEEK. and we didn't even have to ask!! they just invited us!!!!! #blessssssed

we have some pretty solid investigators. we're still working on getting them to come to church. thats the main problem. that and that NO ONE ON THIS ISLAND IS MARRIED. but slowly but surely we're getting some good progressing investigators. dolores is AWESOME. we showed up for a lesson and she had done all the "extra study questions" in the back of the restoration folleto and was like "i was up very late doing this". and we taught her and she GOT IT. it was an awesome lesson.

we also have benji and jorma, two investigators (not married) but benji is SO DOWN to get baptized. before the hurricane, he was reading the book of mormon a TON and was all the way in jacob. and he went to church a TON  of times. hes seriously awesome. but he cant get baptized until they get married, and jorma didn't really listen to the lessons before but she is listening to us now and we THINK we're making some progress. 

a couple weeks ago i started reading the new testament and its sick!!!!!!!!!!!! ive never actually read it all the way through so i thought i would do it and its been super interesting to read about Christ's life and teachings. 10/10 would recommend.

also everyone should go read the talk "Kindness, charity, and love" by president monson! classic.

love to all!!!!!!! 

hermana murphy

1. yay!!!

2. celebrating 8 months IM SO OLD

3. Anjomil!!! him and his grandma are recent converts in cabo rojo 1 and hes SO CUTE

4. WEEKLY RAINBOW

5. dont pay attention to our sunburns!!!! @mom :-)

February 12, 2018

hello! what a fun week! lots of adventures. including:

ok remember at my first baptism when i was really mad because i had to sing a solo in front of like the 6 people that attended? well, hermana peterson and i had to sing a duet in front of the whole mayaguez STAKE yesterday. HAHAHHA. all the missionaries in the stake (so 6 of us) had to sing a musical number and APPARENTLY its not fancy enough if the hermanas dont sing a verse alone by themselves (according to every elder in this mission). so we sang divina luz and hermana peterson sang alto and i sang soprano and then the elders came in on the 2nd and 3rd verses. WHO WOULDVE THOUGHT that my 2 years of high school choir would help me so much on my mission. hahahahahhaha. 

also. we have a SICK investigator named yamara who has come to church with her aunt the last 5ish sundays and is AWESOME. we taught her the restoration and she totally believes everything and loves going to church. she said "i know the day i get baptized WILL come, i just have to be patient because im very impulsive." but shes super awesome. AND, so she's an investigator from mayaguez and she offered to pick us up from cabo rojo, drive us to mayaguez to teach her, and bring us home at the end of the night when we're done working. AND she was like "i want to go with you guys to el faro next monday!!" so that'll be fun. yamara is saving our miles AND our p days!!!! shes awesome.

we also found DOLORES, an old investigator of HERMANA GREEEEENNN (SHOUTOUT) and shes super cool. we taught her the plan of salvation and when we got to the part talking about the spirit world she was all like "i feel like i KNOW this, like ive heard this before. i was just thinking about this about a week ago and i just KNOW this is true." yeeeahhh buddy. she totally believes the plan of salvation. but then she went off about how women should be able to have the priesthood hahaha. so once we fix THAT issue, she'll be GOLDEN. 

in stake conference yesterday, they announced a new stake presidency and now both of the councilors are 2 of the bishops of the wards we are covering, so were gonna be going through that these next couple of weeks. so fun! 

we are still working with jessica and tania. jessica's date fell because she didn't go to church yesterday :-) but shes still doing well. we just gotta get her to read the book of mormon. JUST READ THE BOOK!!! ITS NOT THAT HARD!!!!!! haha. i think that's every missionaries struggle... 

today was SO FUN! we had a MISSION ACTIVITY!!! XD at el MORRO! since we are in the farthest area in the mission from san juan, we drove last night to ponce to sleep over there with the STLs to avoid having to wake up at 4:30 in the morning to get there on time :-) so this morning we left ponce at 6:30 to get to el moro at 8:30. and we played sports and chilled there for a while! it was so fun. old san juan is so cute and the weather was so nice and it was just HEAVEN. WHEN YOU LIVE IN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE ON THE PLANET *blessed* it was such a fun day. 

following are lots of pics! sorry! not. 

bye!!! much love!!!!!!

hermana murphy

1. a fun cat that followed us around for like an hour

2. look!!! my name!!!!!!

3. ~views~

4. RAINBOW!!!!!!!

5. FUN DRIVE TO SAN JUAN!!!

6. IT WAS A LITTLE WINDY BUT HEY! SAN GERMAN!

7. ~views~ part 2

8. fun times at el morro!

9. bandera!!

10. hermanas!

11. mi comp!

12. lolz last pic lololololololololol #selfiegame10/10

13. one more pic!!!!