November 15, 2014
Dear Family,
Wow, things seem like they are going
super well for all of you back home!!
Sounds like life is just treating you all great, and that you are all
having a great time with all of the school, dating, work, and activities that
you are all doing!! I can not believe
how fast the time is flying by!! It just
seems like we were at this point LAST year, and another year has already come
and is on the way out!! Pretty crazy,
but it is the reality!!
Any way, sorry that this email is coming
in the night time... The thing is that
there is just always so much to do!! I
still have not had an actual PDAY here in my time in the office!! The only PDAY thing that we do is email, but
we work like a normal day!! It is
definitely interesting, and something that we are going to work on because I
have a very firm testimony that PDAY is a needed part of the week!! So we are going to be better about that!
So this week we had the special visit of
the President's daughter in law and grandson.
She is from Germany, and speaks English and German, but no Spanish. We didn't really see them a whole lot, but it
was cool to at least meet them. I had no
idea that the mission president's family could visit him while he is serving,
so that was an eye opener.
This week we have also been working
super hard on a couple of things to help make the mission better. The first thing is the part that Paulino is
in charge of, which is the Zone Leader Binder.
It is a binder full of the things that a zone leader needs to do to
fulfill his calling. It talks all about
the meetings that he needs to attend, the meetings that he needs to have in his
zone, activity ideas, etc. It should
hopefully help us out a lot to be able to strengthen our zone leaders and
strengthen our mission!! The next part
is the part that I am in charge of, which is the Assistant's Binder. It is full of everything that we need to do
to be good assistants to the president.
It talks a lot about the transfers, and I am outlining and organizing
all of that stuff about the transfers so that everything can just go perfectly
and that we won't have any problems in the transfers. We are almost finished, so that will be nice
to have that out of the way!!
Also, we had an interesting experience
this week... The assistants from a
mission in Argentina wrote a letter to the president, directed to us, asking us
what we are doing to have such great success in our mission. They said that they heard of the success of
our mission, and want that same type of success in their mission. It was really amazing to know that the
missionaries here in the Santo Domingo West Mission are making such a big
impact. It made me super proud to be a
part of this mission.
So the teaching has been going about the
same as usual... We are trying to teach
who we have, and help them to progress.
Right now we have a new person named Amelia who is really cool. She is 19 years old and is just finishing up
high school. She works a ton, so we have
to meet with her at like 8:30 at night, but she accepted a baptismal date. She told us that she prayed about what we
have been teaching her, and that she has never felt the way that she felt in
that moment. It was amazing to listen to
her say that, because in the lessons up to that point she had seemed pretty
disinterested in the message. But, after
she received this little answer, everything gave a 180 degree turn!! I am hoping that she goes to church tomorrow
so that she will be able to reach her goal of baptism and have a true
conversion.
I also was finally able to get my hair
cut today... And I finally found a place
that does it nicely!! I was so
happy!! It costs more money, the guy
took about 45 minutes to do it, but it is so worth it!! He legitimately cut my hair, with scissors
and everything!! It was very refreshing,
and I am very happy with how I look!!
About time that I find someone who can cut "Pelo Bueno" ;)
Well, so that was basically my
week!! Hopefully in the upcoming week we
can have a little bit more to share that will be a little bit more
interesting!! The office life is a
different kind of life, but I am going to try to change that because I miss
being out there working and teaching all day!!
I love you all so much!! Have a great week!!
Elder Garrett McEwan :)
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