December 6, 2014
Dear Family,
Thank you so much for your email this
week!! I am so lucky to have such a
great family as I do! I love you all so
much! Thank you for sharing your
experiences with me!!
So this week was very long and
interesting!! We have been super busy
every day this week. We had a trainers
capacitation meeting on Wednesday, another one on Thursday, and the Zone Leader
Council on Friday. Next Monday and
Tuesday, we have the Mission Christmas Parties, one in the South and the other
here in the Capital. It has all been
super busy, because San Juan also has their district conference this
weekend. We also have the transfers
coming up at the end of the week, as well as an activity for all of the wards
in the Capital at the president's house. Elder Paulino is going home, and then
we have the week of Christmas! We have
to plan Zone Activites for Christmas day, service projects through out the
week, as well as help with a Flash Mob for the Institute and make a choir to
sing at the park next to the temple. I
guess we could say that we have been super busy lately, and that we will
continue to be busy until 2015!
So on Wednesday,we had the first of the
two trainers capacitations. It went really
well!! It was a lot of fun because I got
to see my son, Elder Fallentine, and my grandson, Elder hansen. They are both doing really well, working hard
in their area, which is actually the neighboring area to Los Girasoles. Any way, we were able to pull the meeting off
with out a hitch, and ate really good food as well!! It was like a late Thanksgiving dinner, so
that was awesome!! My part in the
capacitation was fairly simple! I spoke
a little bit about budgeting and helped them to make an example budget
plan. I also spoke a little bit later
about Preach My Gospel and how important that is, as well as gave them a little
calendar to study Preach My Gospel.
Finally, I just spoke in the division that we did between the trainers
and trainees about Conversion, and how important it is that we are truly
converted before we try to convert someone else!! It went really well!!
Thursday was the other capacitation,
this time in Azua. It was really great
to have the opportunity to go back there and see everything that I used to see
every day!! I got to talk to my old Zone
Leaders, as well as with Elder Castillo and his trainee. They said that the area is going well, and
that Alexis is getting baptized this next Saturday and so is Evelyn, two people
that I taught, so that was really awesome to hear!! Also, Mercedes, one of my converts, is
getting her eyes operated on finally, so hopefully all goes well with
that!! The meeting went well. The kids were a little bit tired because they
had to travel a lot more than the people from the Capital, but it still went
well!!
Friday was the Zone Leader Council. We had everything ready, and then the
president told us that he wanted a copy of our new ZL manual that we did for
everybody, so I had to run home and print off 15 copies of a 46 page
manual.... let's just say that that was
not a short trip home. We were able to
get it all printed off, and went to the ZL Council. It was a lot more calm in this meeting for me
because I did not have much participation!!
:) I had a half hour
participation talking about the new Christmas program "El es la
Dadiva", so that was super easy!! I
could have talked about God's love for us and His Son Jesus Christ for 30
years, and I only had 30 minutes, but it went well! Then we took people to where they needed to
go to go back home, and went and taught some lessons. The lessons have been a little bit hard for
me lately because the people just aren't progressing. They might go to church fairly often, but
they don't keep the commitments to read the Book of Mormon and they aren't
praying for answers! It is hard and a
little bit tricky at times to try to help them along because I don't want to
offend them because they are my companions family members, but I really want to
help them understand that we aren't just there to be their friends and have a
bible study class, but that we are there to help them change their lives!! Hopefully all of that will start to pick up
soon after the transfer finishes!!
Elder Peña is doing great, we are having
lots of fun! We are both just trying to
get accustomed to the office life and trying to find what we can do to improve
the things that might not be functioning the way that they should be here in
the office!! We have some big plans for
when the transfer comes, one of which includes the idea to only work in the
office in the morning and try to be out teaching in the afternoon!!
Dad, congratulations for applying for
the new job!! I know that it is hard,
but things happen for a reason, and we need to put our best foot forward. It is never easy to change something that has
been done for so long in a certain way, but there is always room for
improvement!! That is something that I
learn more and more every day here in the office. Some of the things that we do here have been
done in the SAME way for YEARS!! If
something doesn't work, we have to find a way to make it better. If we are not progressing, we need to find a
way to progress!! I love you so much and
I wish you the best of luck in the new job hunt!! I LOVE YOU!!
Family, I love you all so much!! I hope you have a wonderful week, and I can't
wait to talk on Christmas!! Love you!!
Love,
Elder Garrett McEwan
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