Elder Will Murdoch-Ft. Worth Texas Mission

Thanks to everyone who wrote me this week I really appreciate it! On Monday we did a "service project" I put that in quotations because it's usually just serving ourselves by cleaning our sinks or something. Except on this occasion I actually wasn't serving myself. On the fourth floor many people were leaving. When I say many I mean literally every soul that resided on the fourth floor. They obviously had to throw away whatever they couldn't carry in their suitcases so that led to every trashcan overflowing and eventually spilling out into the hallway. I touched a half eaten bag of Tostitos and got toothpaste all over my hands. I wish I got a picture but I couldn't leave to get my camera until the job was done and my hands were still covered with toothpaste anyway. Also on Monday Elder Roundy left for Lubbock and left our district a present. His pet snail: Jim 3. Jim was his cow back home, Jim 2 died after they accidentally fed him a salty potato chip....

Elder Murdoch and Elder Christensen This Wednesday marked one week since I've been here! Remember how I talked about Brother Rex? And how he teaches us in the afternoon's you know, the time of day when you're most tired? Yeah, he's really nice but he has a very soft and quiet voice that makes it hard to stay awake. He also has his alter ego, Sean. Sean is just Brother Rex without a tie on and he acts like an investigator and he'll only respond to Sean. If brother Rex isn't wearing his tie, even when we aren't teaching Sean he'll say " who's this Rex you speak of? I'm Sean." And that has gotten old really fast. Yesterday Elder Mechling offered Elder Jackson some mints in Brother Rex's class, "they're really generic mints so you need to take 2" Elder Jackson takes these mints and we all thought nothing of it. A few minutes later Elder Mechling pulled me aside and says, "I just gave Elder Jackson M...

Hey everyone! A lot has happened in these past few days right  when I got to the MTC they rushed me straight to class where I meet my companion Elder Christensen. He's super cool and is really smart when it comes to scriptures. It's definitely different from what i imagined. I kind of assumed there would be like an orientation or something but they basically just handed me a crumpled piece of yellow paper and told me to follow it "or else" I have one teacher, Brother Rex, who talks super slow and quiet and yesterday two missionaries including our district leader, Elder Page, fell asleep in class and Elder Christensen woke him up in the kindest way possible: throwing a stale Hi-chew at his head as hard as he could.  Of the Elders in our district 3 of them are going to Baton Rouge and 3 of them are going to Fort Worth. And all of the Sisters are going to Tampa.  If any of you read Elder Hansen's emails he warned about the dangers of drinking the MTC Oran...