Elder Will Murdoch-Ft. Worth Texas Mission

Halthom City Blues: For the greater part of this week we struggled with finding people to use a scriptural comparison:   "11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of [Africans]:  12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the [Africans], and shall not find [them]." -Amos 8:11-12 Despite the intermittent rain and (mercifully) cooler weather we grit our teeth and started knocking on every door we knew had Africans and every door around them. All down in a little place called Halthom City It was a Friday and for the past 2 weeks we had found no one, we were desperately trying to find someone anyone we could teach, we met a lot of cool English speakers but not one African. We would teach a tree if it spoke French.  We knocked on the door of a lady we had knocked about a thousand times like, I ...

Hey everyone, my email got deleted just as I was about to add pictures and I don't have time to rewrite it so here's a talk I wrote for Sacrament as compensation. Sorry! Good morning Brothers and Sisters et Bonjour á mes fréres et sœurs qui parlent français. My name is Elder Murdoch and I serve the French speaking people of the Stake. I love being a French Elder, but the downside is I don't get to work with the English majority as much as I'd like to. I'll take this as my chance to prove that I do, in fact, speak English  I was asked to speak on a scripture that I've been studying lately, "easy-peasy" I said "I read so many scriptures I've basically got every verse of the standard works to choose from." But after reviewing my recent studies I realized that  pretty much nothing I've read recently stood out as something I could give a 5 minute talk on. I realize that I could easily just  make something up and find a scripture e...

Chapaté Gestapo: We were in a refugee complex on Friday, we had tried to contact a handful of people but no one answered there was also a flash flood warning that was moving it's way west. It had been at the doctors office we were just at for Elder Shiday' s leg and now it had started to rain here. We were bolting to the car preparing to go take shelter until it was safe to drive. On our dash back I stopped to give a Nepalese lady a "finding faith in Christ" card but when I tried to talk to her she ran and got her son to translate. They wanted to know where the church was, it attracted a large crowd of other Nepalese people asking where the church was and what time the bus would roll by. When we told them there was no bus they were all disappointed and walked off except for one guy and a woman whom I presume was his wife.  The guy tried to practice his English on us but he didn't speak much and then he would tell us a joke in Nepali but we wouldn't un...

You got him to shut up for that long? I was sitting in Elders quorum with Elder Bishara so he could translate for the deaf men while his companion went with Elder Shiday to translate for the deaf women in Relief society. We were on those crappy metal chairs, the kind motivate you to get to Sacrament meeting early, the kind that you slip off if you move too quickly. The Bishop aggressively sat down next to me but thanks to the slip factor of the chairs he slid so his shoulder was touching mine. I was a little concerned. He said that a member from Burleson was requesting a blessing for her non-member friend in the hospital.  Let me tell y'all that Elder Shiday and I are hospital pros now we've been there so much for Elder Shidays frail body and also for other people's blessings that people have kind of just come to accept us as regulars like in the hood.  So we jumped at the chance to go back to the hospital.  We got in the hospital elevator with 2 other peopl...