Elder Will Murdoch-Ft. Worth Texas Mission

Hello everybody! Elder Rowley has since departed Mexia and Elder Petrucka is my new companion. What's Elder Petrucka like? Well, I could use up most of the time I have today describing him but I'll only use two words: Theater Kid. Bashing: Saturday  was a very good day. Almost every door we knocked on people wanted to talk to us about the gospel. We were on fire. It started to get pretty dark and knocking on doors late at night and so we were getting ready to head out because knocking on doors in a small town in a state that has more guns than red blood cells per capita is never a good idea. We found one last house that looked well lit enough that we probably wouldn't get shot at, and knocked on the door. This woman answered and without saying anything she held up her finger to tell us 'one moment and walked into another room leaving her child to hold the door open. We stood there for quite some time when all of the sudden this  younger African-American ...

My gingerbread house Waco, Texas Not a whole lot happened this week, in fact the past few days have been kind of rough for us but I'm sure things will look up eventually. Also, transfers are on Wednesday and last night we got a call from President Whitney and Elder Rowley will be leaving Mexia to be a Zone Leader in Colleyville! It's sad to see him go because we just started getting along... that's life though.  Christmas Zone Conference: We had Christmas Zone Conference this week which was really nice because it was super laid back. We were supposed to have a talent show during the conference and since the end of November the Zone Leaders have been pestering us to come up with an act and I'd always tell them the same thing: "I don't think President Whitney would enjoy my dancing." That always got a good laugh. The next day we got up at like  5:00  so we could meet our Zone Leaders in Waco where they'd give us and the Spanish Elde...

Howdy y'all this week was pretty darn boring so I only have one slightly funny story this week.  Parked Car: On Friday we had exchanges with the ZL's I stayed in Mexia with Elder Allred. I felt prompted to go to a former investigator that was dropped about a year ago. We knocked on the door and as usual someone quickly looked through the curtains and then pretended like they weren't home. After knocking twice I told Elder Allred we were going to tract the street. Every door we knocked on the same thing happened, people peeked through the window and pretended like they weren't home. Finally we got to a point on the street where Elder Rowley and I had already knocked all the doors there. For some reason though we kept walking even though we knew none of the houses ahead were interested.  We passed a house where we had been turned away. There was a old man sitting in his car parked on the lawn in front of the house. I recognized him as the very same man who had rejec...

The crappy missionary: This is an Elder Rowley story written with his permission. Also, this story is kind of gross so reader beware.  Tuesday we had dinner at the B's house like we normally do. It was pretty apparent Elder Rowley had to use the bathroom by the way he kept shifting around in his seat with a panicked look in his eye. He shoveled his food in his mouth and excused himself to use the restroom.  Brother B and his son somehow started talking about Fallout 4 mods and they kept teasing me because I couldn't play it. The teasing escalated to a point where Brother Badgetts tried handing me a ps4 controller but I resisted the urge to grab it so he just set it down on top of my folded arms it was all very fun but after that the two of them had to leave the room and I realized Elder Rowley had been in the bathroom for almost 30 minutes and we had to get going to an appointment pretty soon.  Side note: missionaries are supposed to wait outside the door whe...