I Wish They Could All Be Californian.

Family!

I`m rather jealous that you all were filmed this last week.  It must have been fairly entertaining, seeing what the family does at home.  A big fight in the Tazewell game, huh?  Six red cards is not too shabby..  I guess Matthew didn´t want to join one of his older brothers in the ¨red card status¨. ;) I´ll have to look for the video of the brawl when I get back.

Well, it finally happened.  I received my last companion.  On Wednesday afternoon, at roughly 4:30pm, straight out of San Martin, Elder Deniston arrived.  As has been the case with my last two companions, I had already known Elder Deniston before.  Elder Deniston was in my zone in Posadas.  He is from Riverside, California.  He has almost a year in the mission. (Finally, somebody a little younger in the mission that isn´t about to go home!)  He´s my first companion that was a wrestler before the mission.  I´m excited.  He´s only 130ish and 5´11¨.  I think I can take him.  This transfer is looking bright.  I´m really excited to work with him.  I really feel like we are going to be able to do some serious damage this next month and a half.

This Sunday was a fairly special Sunday.  Do you remember Raul that got baptized a month ago?  Well, he received the priesthood yesterday.  He´s doing really well.  Oh, and Gustavo that got baptized last week was confirmed a member of the Church yesterday as well.  I love seeing people being able to progress in the gospel.  There are few things better than seeing people make good decisions in the lives.

Question:  Are there any souvenirs that you guys were hoping to get from Argentina?  Is there anything that you guys are looking for?

Recently, I started the Book of Mormon, again.  It´s almost like I forgot about all of the things that Nephi had to go through.  Whenever I want to complain, I should just think of what he had to go through.  Especially when the Lord asks him to build a ship.  Have you ever built a ship before?  A Raingutter Regatta is already tough enough, I can´t even imagine.  But I love his answer; instead of complain or doubting his abilities, he does the contrary.  He asks the Lord where he should go for the tools. It´s probably safe to say that he´s never even attempted anything close to a ship.  And yet, he puts all of his trust in the Lord and asks where he needs to go to get the materials to do it.  What makes you different than Nephi?

Straight from Argentina,

Elder McMurray

PS Matt, yeah sure, why not.  Bring my cleats if you want.