9/22/15

Hi Mom! I am again very sorry there has not been very much improvement on your pain. I have been praying for you. Thanks for letting me know your youth planned activity, I knew it would turn out great with the catchy name. Today I got to go to the temple and that is why P-day is again this week in Tuesday. The temple here in Spokane is pretty small but it was really neat experience. The bishops wife who took us to the temple took us out to eat at Cafe Rio after that. the members here are awesome and so giving to the missionaries. On Saturday, there was a baptism for Pullman Sisters in our Zone. Sister Ungricht and I invited our progressing investigator Matthew to come to the baptism. He said yes! He came and we gave him a church tour afterwards. Matthew is on date to be baptized October 17th. he is reading through the Book of Mormon so fast. He read the bible cover to cover last summer and found it was what he was looking for. We first met Matthew just out on the street and starting talking about religion with him. At the time he said he had a Book of Mormon but was not ready to read it until he read through the Bible again and memorized it. We got his phone number and called a couple weeks later and met up with him after his work. We talked about the First Vision with him and at the end of the evening all by himself said that it was crazy to just focus on the Bible and decided to start reading the Book of Mormon. He is already in Mosiah and only started like a week ago. He loves reading! I am very excited for Matthew. There was also the Moscow fair last weekend and we went and street contacted over there. We saw a kid throw up on himself on one of the rides. It reminded us of the movie Sandlot when all the boys threw up on the ride. It was pretty nasty but we got to talk to a couple of families. Since we are in a married student ward, we have to find creative ways to try to find married students. We look for the young kids and wedding rings. Sister Ungricht, my companion, is the best and pushes me everyday. She is from Salt Lake, Utah. She went to two years at the University of Utah and did a Study Abroad in London, England. She has been out on her mission for a year now. She was trained in Moscow and did one transfer in Lewiston, Idaho and then she has trained other missionaries since then. It makes sense why the Lord keeps calling her to be a trainer because she is amazing. We run together in the morning on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. She is in better shape than I am. Anyway that is the update for here in Moscow. I am learning so much and I am so grateful to be out here on a mission. The Lord really does work through his servants even if they are still are so imperfect. Love Sister Murphy