November 29, 2014
Dear Family,
It has been a really busy week this
week, with some new fun things!! This
week we were able to call 2 new missionaries to be in the office! We know have Élder Peña and Élder Girón here
in the office, with Peña as my new comp.
He is from Beliz, and he is also from my group in the CCM. We were there together and always wanted to
be comps, and now we are. It should be
fun. We both just like to work, so I
think that we are going to get along really well!
This week we have been working hard with
the Christmas initiative! We are doing
our best to complete with the goal of making at least 10 contacts with the
cards! We went out, and as the
assistants we have the huge blessing of having cell phones with the internet on
them. We took advantage and showed the
video of "He is the Gift" to anyone who would be willing to watch
it!! It was a great experience to all of
us, as we were able to contact some complete families!! That was the biggest advantage that we had,
because the message of Christmas is most appealing to a family, so it was
really nice!
We have also officially started with the
next transfers, what with trying to get everything ready and help the president
with everything that he needs!! It is a lot of work, but it is really worth it
to see how many people that we can help!!
I love this opportunity that I have to serve in this position!
We also were able to help a man in our
ward move! We had to make a bunch of
trips in the truck, but it was fun!! He
gave us lots of advice for after the mission, as well as for marriage! It was good to see his point of view of it,
because he has been home for about 2 years now and has been married to his wife
for like a year now. It was fun, he is a
good guy, and he is also the son of one of the counselors in the mission!! It is a little sad that he is not going to be
in our ward now, but he will do fine!!
Lately we have been working a lot with
all of the people on the Book of Mormon.
We want all of them to know about it and o have very strong
testimonies!! It is a little funny
because sometimes they do not understand the difference between reading and
studying!! A lot of the people read, and
they just open the Book to where ever they feel like and just read one verse
and close it!! Others just read the same
part over and over and over again to try to memorize it!! Others try to look for the questions that we
could possible ask in the lesson to try to have all of the answers!! It is a testimony to me that we need to
really be fully committed to the daily study of the scriptures, and actually
studying them!! The Book of Mormon is a
story, and like all stories it needs to be read in order to be able to be
understood completely!! It also needs to
be read often to be able to have it fresh on our minds!! It needs to be marked and written in to help
us to have the knowledge that we acquire on hand at all times!! I never really understood the ability that
the Book of Mormon has to convert people!!
It really is the difference maker, and if we want to convert ourselves
even more, we need to read the Book of Mormon!!
So all of the investigators are doing
well, just trying to help all of them to progress!!
The fun different thing that we were
able to do this week was that we had Thanksgiving with the President, His Wife,
and the Carters. They are a couple that
are friends with the Nuckols, and came to visit them for Thanksgiving! So on Thursday, we worked until noon, and
then we went to the president's house.
We sat down and began to eat!!!
It was turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, salad, and rolls!! We also had pie!! It was just an overall amazing day! Then that night I went out on an intercambio
with Elder Jensen because his comp, Elder Jardon, was feeling a little bit
sick!! It was a lot of fun to just get
out there and work!! We taught some lessons, and it was really good! One lesson was a little bit difficult
though... the woman told us that she
didn't believe in the Book of Mormon at all.
She was very rude and disrespectful, and the thing that made me the most
sad was when I shared my testimony and her and her daughter just laughed in our
faces about it. I was not very happy
about that, so I pulled out the Book of Mormon to 2 Nephi 29 and read to them
what it says about the bible. Then I had
them look up in their own bible John 20:30, and had them read it!! It was super funny because they said that the
bible has everything, so then to read a verse in the bible saying that it
doesn't have everything was super funny!!!
Hopefully it was enough of a wake up call to help them to keep giving
the Book of Mormon a chance!!
Well, that was the week!! Everything is well here!! I love you all so much!!
Love,
Elder Garrett McEwan :)
P.S. Also, if you send me a package for
christmas, can you send me an Anatomy and Physiology book in both english and
spanish? That would be a great help, and
the President has given me permission for that to help me with my spanish.
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