Crazy Stuff - November 19, 2018

hii!!!!! this week was super great!!! lots of crazy stuff happened (hence the subject)

some good stuff:

mission conference with elder christofferson!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was amazing. we all got to shake his hand and he started out by seeing if we had any questions. so of course i thought of one and asked it, so now i can say that i asked him a question hehe. all of them talked a lot about scripture study and how we should take advantage of the time we have every day to study the scripures, so i asked how we can best do that. one thing that he said is to SUBMERGE YOURSELF in the scriptures. and look at them as things that can really answer your questions/solve your problems and look for the answers. good stuff. the spirit was very strong and we sang my favorite hymn (138 - senor yo te seguire) to finish so it was a great meeting. i was going to write more stuff but i forgot my notebook with all my notes at home so youll just have to wait :)

DAVID IS GOING TO BE BAPTIZED ON SATURDAY!!!! hes so CUUUUTE!!!!!!!! i wrote about him last week, hes 87 and last week before rosario and virgilios baptism he kept saying "no me voy a cambiar" and then he went to their baptism and church and last monday night, we taught him and extended a date for the 24th and he accepted! he felt the spirit at the baptism and now he wants to be baptized and hes super excited!! he came again yesterday to church and loved it. hes so cool. he has kept all his commitments and loves everything. yesterday he said that he wants to read the whole book of mormon. its been pretty crazy having everything happen so fast but its super awesome and fun!

one more story, on saturday after the conference, we were out just walking around the plaza en dorado and talking to lots of people, and then we tried to go contact this one referral and it tuns out that it was a bad address, so we were walking back and i just randomly decided to call into this one house and a lady came out and she said "quienes son ustedes?" and i said "somos misioneras de la iglesia de jesucristo de los santos de los ultimos dias y estamos aqui para compartir un mensaje con usted!!" and she started crying because she had been praying in that very moment and she let us in and it was a super huge miracle. she says that she feels like shes been missing something in her life and we came right at the right moment. shes going out of town for like a month this week which stinks but im glad we could help her right when she needed it :))))))

so yep those are some of the big miracles we saw this week.

love yall!!!!

hermana murphy

1. the mish with elder christofferson! (haha front and center)

2. more flag

3. i turned 17!

4. more flag

5. more more flag

6. how many pr flags can you count in this picture?

7. dinner with the RCs!

8. the squaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad! MOST LEGENDARY MTC GROUP

9. friend!!!!

Baptizm - November 12, 2018

hiii!!! this week was amazing, rosario and virgilio got DUNKED!!!!! (and confirmed!) (dont forget that important detail). the baptism was amazing, president and hermana smart came! rosario and virgilio were very happy :) rosario kept crying. it was super spiritual. im proud of them!

we had an investigator, david come to the baptism! david is LIT. hes 87, but he looks like hes like 70. and he doesnt even use glasses to read. haha. we just found him one day when we were doing some less active hunting and i saw him painting his fence and thought that we should go talk to him, so we did. his wife died about 3 months ago from cancer and he has talked to missionaries before. when we taught him, he said that he wasnt going to change, but then he somehow agreed to come to the baptism AND church and he did! to both! and after the baptism, elder pearson was talking to him and said "espero venir a su bautismo pronto!" and david was like "si" hahah so basically hes gonna get baptized. so we're pretty pumped. hes cool. and he loved church yesterday. woop woop

on last moonday we had a noche de hogar with rosario (virgilio couldnt come) and we taught about the temple and she said "my husband and i have never gone on a trip but our first trip will be to go to the temple." AW. my heart

basically it was a pretty great week. yay! baptisms! toa baja is doing great!!

love

hermana murphy

1. yayy!!!!!

2. haha rosario is crying in this pic

3. prez and hermana smart came!!! <3

4. PRSJ

5. BEACH LOOKOUT IN DORADO

6. flamboyant

7. merfy n milky

8. LOOK AT HOW HUGE IT IS

9. yep

Fun Times - November 5, 2018

heyy!!! this week was pretty good! so rosario and virgilio are going to be baptized on saturday! they just need to get baptized. there has been so many crazy things that have happened trying to stop them from getting baptized, but if all goes well this week, they will get baptized on saturday! they came to church yesterday and rosario bore her testimony on how she knows that missionaries are sent from God and spiritually prepared to find the people that need the gospel, and it was soo cute! virgilio cant smoke at all this week so he needs lots of prayers this week so he can have the strength. please pray for them!!!!!!!!!!!! we are going to have a noche de hogar with them in the house of a member family tonight and talk about temples! :))) 

milton also came to church and stayed for all three hours!! he is so cool, but his wife is a SW (all you real ones know what im sayin). he said yesterday that his wife was not happy that he came to church.... but we fasted and and are praying for her. yesterday was full of miracles, for example at like 8 AM milton texted us and said that his car wouldnt turn on so he couldnt come to church...... so hermana wilkey and i knelt down and prayed that his car would be able to turn on and then a couple minutes later we called him and WOO it turned on! haha stressful sundays.......... but everything worked out great. 

also a few weeks ago we were looking for a less active lady and they didnt answer so we asked around and asked the neighbors if she lived there, and it turns out that she died (that actually happens a lot, the records are very outdated and like half of the less actives that we look for are dead) but the neighbors, carmen and yvonne, are so cool! carmen is the mom and shes like 80 and yvonne is the daughter and she is super friendly and told us that her supervisor at work is a member of the church in caguas and they talk all the time about the gospel. so we had tried going back like 2 times but they hadnt been there, but last night they were and we taught the restoration and i asked "cree que esto podria ser verdadera?" and yvonne said "estoy convencida que si... siempre he cuestionado si lo que ensenan en la iglesia es verdadero porque tiene sentido que la biblia ha perdido mucho y nos hacen creer que Dios es mean and angry pero yo creo que el es amoroso y misericordioso" and stuff like that and she understood the lesson so well and we invited her to baptism and she said that she would be baptized! SHOUTOUT to her boss for being the MVP and talking to her about the gospel

so yeah it was a super good week.lots of good stuff happening here in toa baja

3 nefi 13

19 No os acumuléis tesoros sobre la tierra, donde la polilla y el moho corrompen, y los ladrones minan y roban;

20 sino acumulaos tesoros en los cielos, donde ni la polilla ni el moho corrompen, y donde los ladrones no minan ni roban.

21 Porque donde esté vuestro tesoro, allí estará también vuestro corazón.

love

hermana murphy

1. nereida THE REAL MVP

2. chickenz

3. pancakes

HERMANA MURPHY AND ANIMALS - October 29, 2018

HI! this week was crazy (again)

milton came to church!! we had a lesson with him and the pearsons (the senior couple here) and it was a sick lesson. elder pearson said "you two are very lucky to be teaching him." we are! hes so humble and willing to accept what we teach and so open to learn. we have a plan to bring his wife some famous sister pearson chocolate chip cookies this week hahahha. please pray for his wife so she accepts the gospel, he really wants it and thats the only thing thats keeping him from gettin baptized quickly

rosario and virgilio are being very off and on.,,, we're confused at whats going on but praying for them would be really nice too :-) we're trying to figure it out. they took us to a buffet this week (sizzler) hahaha and it was so nice and yummy and we had a plan for them to get priesthood blessings after church on sunday to help them with the word of wisdom, but then they didnt come to church................ so we're gonna see about that. we're going to hopefully see them today! 

we have an investigator (miriam) who today is going to give us a huge box of panaderia postres for free, including the (self claimed) best quesitos in the world. so we're pretty pumped for today

but im staying in toa baja for another transfer with hermana wilkey and we're super excited for this transfer! we're going to see lots of big mriacles and bBAPTISMMMSSSSS YEEEET

love you people!!!!

DONT FORGET TO GSI

GATHER SCATTERED ISRAEL

GO SEEK INVITE

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hermana murphy

this week i met lots of nice animals. enjoy!

1.  guard dog!

2.  lil kitty trying to escape

3.  ugly chicken

4.  me with pig

5.  me with t rex

6.  me with (hot) dog!

7. lunch with rosario and virgilio!

8. yeet

9. yeet yeet

10. sisters of TB (temple builders)

11. fun times

Crazy Week - October 22, 2018

hi! this week we had a pretty crazy week and saw lots of miracles. 

it started last week when we got a text from virgilio (him and rosario were supposed to get baptized on saturday) and he said that he wouldnt be able to get baptized, because he had started smoking again. and he was embarrassed so he didnt want to see us, so it was about a week of us texting him and we left some notes at his door with scriptures and stuff. but we had one cita with rosario and she said that he wasnt going to come because he didnt want to see us, and told her that he didnt want to keep going with the lessons :((( which was sad because he wants to get baptized because he knows everything is true. but then we kept texting him and we said that we just wanted to talk to him and finally he agreed so we had a cita with him and rosario on friday and it went amazing! we put them back on date and they both came to church on sunday! 

1 corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

we shared that scripture with him and talked about repentance and the atonement of Jesus Christ and he is really motivated to quit smoking. so we are really happy about that :)

we also have milton on date and hes fire. his only problem is that his wife hates us basically so she doesnt want him to meet with us. haha. so thats kept him from coming to church the last two weeks, but he promised that he will come this sunday. he is in 2 nephi 5 in his book of mormon reading and knows that this is the true church. hes had lots of opposition (Basically lots of his friends talking bad about the church) but hes strong and asks us all his questions and it all works out. 

on friday, we had bascially the BEST day ever. it was sooooo crazy.  we started out with our lesson with milton, then we had some extra time in the area and saw on the ward list that there was a less active that lived nearby, so we went to the neighborhood but it was a gated community. and they just had a key pad so i was like "lets just type in the house number and see what happens!" so we did and THE GATE MAGICALLY OPENED HAHAHHAH it was sooo funny hahahah. milagrooo. then we went to the house and the less active had moved like 10 years ago but the family that lived there was SUPER interested in the message and we had like a half an hour conversation with them about the book of mormon and it was sick. and it turns out that the dad opened the gate for us without even knowing who it was haha because he thought it was his daughter coming in. hahahah. so funny. and then we had some other citas and had some extra time before our lesson with rosario and virgilio so we said a prayer about where we could go to contact for a little bit and we went to this one place called covadonga and found this super cool young couple! it was so weird, they just let us in without even asking who we were and sat on the couch and asked us questions and literally the whole time i was like "do they know who we are? are they confused and think that we're different people?" ahhaha. that doesnt usually happen. so we saw lots of miracles on friday. God is in the little tiny details!

so it was a great week!

go read in the book of mormon and have a good week!

love you all!

hermana murphy

1. rainbow!

2. we <3 quesitos

3. wild pig :0