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Family,
 
The whole ¨Mc¨ in McMurray is a real pronunciation getter. I´ve met a grand total of one other person that has a ¨Mc¨ name.  There is a brother, here in Posadas (but not in my area), whose name is McKenzie.  He is a wood worker extraordinaire.  He can do a little bit of everything.  He specializes in boats.  A month ago he made a hand-crafted, four foot long, boat.  They´re talking Pirate-Style.  He even goes as far as tying the knots on the pulley systems.  So...  I did the only natural thing and asked him to make me one.  (More of a,
¨Elder, I want to make you a boat.  I´ve got boats in Hawaii, Utah, Mexico, El Salvador, Chile, Arizona, etc. but I don´t have one in Virginia.¨)  He doesn´t just make your standard boat.  He makes a replica model of a boat that existed in the area(so Utah is a little tricky...haha).  I can´t remember the name off of the top of my head, but he did one that landed in Virginia in 1765.  These boats are usually a foot of two long.  Well...  Mine happened to be a little bit more on the 2 foot long category.  He gave it to me at Church.  Have you ever walked through half of a city/take a bus with a two foot long, replica modeled boat under your arm?  It turns a few heads, I can assure you.  Long story short, I thought it would fit in my suitcase.  Nope.  I´m out of ideas.  We are considering dismantling it (breaking a few parts) and when I get back to the States, I can
work wonders with wood glue.  Any suggestions?

So this week I went to Young Men´s (Mutual) for the first time in more than two years.  We took some 12 year old twins, that we are teaching (The Espindola Family).  We messed around with ironing designs (with
this cool inky paper) onto t-shirts.  The highlight was the Young Women´s activity.  ..they were learning how to cook.  They were generous enough to share a really tasty tart.  It brought back sweet memories of all of those years in Youth.  Those years are so key to the rest of somebody´s life.  For those of you that are in Youth, take advantage of it, you´ll be glad you did further on in life.

Are you looking for Christ, or are you looking for the doctrine of Christ?  There´s a big difference.  I´ll let you think about it.  One story from the bible that I read this week might help. It´s in 1 Samuel.  In chapter 4 see that Eli, a Church leader at the time, had two sons.  They carried the Ark of the Covenant and were killed by the Philistines.  You might wonder how someone that is doing something like that could be killed.  If you read in earlier chapters, you find that they did just about everything BUT follow the commandments of God.  So what are you looking for?  Just Christ? ..or his doctrine, as well.

Love you all!

Elder McMurray