Go Speed Racer and an annoucement

Go Speed Racer:

Hey everyone, 

I'm really sorry about this email it's been a very boring week I haven't had any big crazy adventures. Really, the craziest thing that happened before today was we went on exchange with the Zone Leaders and we met up at the gas station in Prairie Hill (if youve seen the gas station youve seen all Prarie Hill has to offer) anyway, Elder Stokes got in the car and about 10 to 15 minutes into the drive back to Mexia I realized Elder Petrucka still had the phone, which we really needed 

I flipped around and realized they'd be on their way to Waco so I did 75 mph. It wasn't fast enough to catch them though. I pushed it to 80. Still not fast enough. Sweat began to form on my brow as I pushed it to 85 and I looked at TiWi (the computer in our car that yells at us if we're going too fast and can take away driving privileges if you consistently drive too fast) but TiWi was silent. We still werent going fast enough. I pushed it to 90. 95... 

So here I am going almost 100 miles per hour down a dark country road at 9:30 p.m. with my Zone Leader sitting next to me wondering if TiWi was going to send me to a bike area for the rest of my mission. Finally in the distance I saw the Zone Leaders signature minivan and began flashing my brights at them, they pulled over and we successfully retrieved the phone. 

Sorry if you were expecting something crazier than that but like I said it's been a boring week.

On a more spiritual note:

We tracted into this woman last week and on Friday we had our first real sit-down lesson with her. She had read through the entire Restoration pamphlet, taken notes on it and had even begun to read the Book of Mormon. She told us all her adult children were really anti-Mormon and they told her to give the Book of Mormon back to us. She was kind of on the fence about meeting with us for most of the lesson and she had a lot of questions about prophets but after we all bore powerful testimony she was open to learning. One cool thing that happened at the end of the lesson is when she asked, "How come more religions don't use the Book of Mormon. I mean don't you still have the plates?"

We explained to her that the plates had been taken up into Heaven by Moroni but that there were 11 (12 if you include Joseph Smith) witnesses who testified of their reality and also the whole spiel about the Book of Mormon being the keystones of our religion.

"So?" She asked with a puzzled look on her face, "I don't know about y'all but if 12 people went to their graves with their testimony I'd believe them. I think every religion should have the Book of Mormon because the plates were obviously real." 

I just thought it was cool how the Holy Ghost increased her faith right then and there. I wish I could see her progress more but unfortunately I'm being transferred.

Speaking of that here the news on transfers:

We got a call this morning from Elder Stokes and he said,

"Elder Petrucka you're getting a new companion: Elder [I can't remember]!"

My heart sunk because I knew that meant I would be leaving Mexia and I waited nervously for Elder Stokes to tell me where my new home was.

"Elder Murdoch... did you take any language classes in school?"

"Uh, yeah I took a little Spanish,"

"WELL THAT SUCKS BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO AFRICA! YOU'RE SPEAKING FRENCH NOW! WHOO!" 

I stood up in alarm, "wat" I sat there in silence for a moment "like for real? I'm a French speaking missionary?"

"Yeah, and a little Swahili too. Your companion is Elder Alleman, pray for the gift of tongues and we'll be praying for you."

To clarify that: I'm being transferred to the African ward(s) in Hurst to speak French. 

Please, pray for me. I'm actually really nervous because I the extent of my French is: Bonjour, Oui, and baguette non non non.