Family,

Thanks Michelle for doing my application stuff!  I´m so excited that I got into BYU!  Wooohooo!  Go Cougars!

This week was transfers, as I mentioned in my previous email.  Elder Posadas is officially at home.  I´m going to miss that elder a lot.  He grew to be one of my best friends.  I´m sure he is enjoying himself in El Salvador.  With transfers, I hoped (and kind of expected) to be receiving someone a bit newer in the mission.  (It´s kind of hard to get somebody older than an elder going home this transfer.)  Can I get a ¨famous last words,¨ shout out?  My ¨new¨ companion is Elder Church.  Elder Church is finishing his mission in April.  Yet again, another elder will be finishing his mission with me.  It´ll be very interesting to see how things turn out.  I´ve known Elder Church for sometime, now.  He´s got a pretty cool story.  He´s been a member for just over three years.  He´s from New York. (East coast!)  He´s the only member of his family.  I definitely give him props for all that he has accomplished in the last three years.

Saturday:

Baptism!  Raul Sosa and Mariel Coronel were both baptized on a rainy, but pretty afternoon.  Thank you for all of your prayers and concerns.  We were so blessed.  For those of you that aren´t familiar with Argentine culture, if it rains, it´s canceled.  It doesn´t matter if it´s an indoor activity or not.  It just gets canceled.  At 6 O´clock, it began to pour.  Like drops the size of golf balls.  At 6:20, it stopped and the sun even started to come out; perfect for our 6:30 baptism.  I´m convinced that somebody was looking out for a baptism of two people in Chaco, Argentina.  It was a fairly low key baptism.  We were also lucky to have the attendance of Pres. Heyman.  For Sunday, it rained even harder.  It´s been a while since I´ve seen rain like that.  Never fear, Raul showed up right at 9:00am.  Pretty impressive considering there was a grand total of 28 members in church.

This week I´ve read almost all of Mormon in the Book of Mormon.  It´s incredible just how quickly a chosen people can change from righteousness to being the most wicked of people in all of the history of the children of God.  We can learn a lot from them.  One key factor was pride.  Instead of realizing that all that they had was from their Heavenly Father, they gloried in themselves.  One must always remember that everything that we receive is from a loving Heavenly Father.  Think of some blessing that you have received, recently.  Now think of something you can do to use it or show your thankfulness for it.

I love you all,

Elder McMurray

ps I didn´t really give an update on investigators.  No worries, I´ll give you an update in the next edition.