March 18, 2015
Dear Family,
Lots of things have been happening this week!! We are super busy with the area, and also
with all of the leadership stuff that there is to do as zone leaders, but I am
loving every second of it. My comp's
name is Elder Quiñonez, and he is from Guatemala. He has like 15 months in the mission almost,
and we hit our month marks on the same day!
He is a really hard worker and we are really good friends, so I was glad
that we got made companions!! I am loving it out here!! Quiñonez and I are
really good friends, so things are going great, and the people here are amazing
so I am loving it!
So one the 12th of this month we had a special visit from
Elder Holland. We were all so
excited!! He came in, and it was just
amazing to see him in real life! He told
us that he wanted to shake every single one of our hands!! So we walked up in the line and got to shake
hands with him!! I couldn't keep this
big smile off my face!! I walk up and he
asked me my name, so I told him, and then he just looked at me for a
while... And then said, "Elder, you
have a great smile!" I almost died right there!! I was the only one in the whole congregation
of 240 missionaries who got a comment like that from him, so I felt really
good, and it was something that I needed.
Then he talked about the book of mormon and how it was a sign to the
world that the restoration is taking place and that the true church of Christ
is on the earth once more!! He also
talked about the importance of the mission.
He said that lots of people get really really worried at the end of
their mission, and are scared to go back to real life. He told us that THIS is real life!! It is the most real life you will ever
live!! He told us to take advantage of
every moment to the max and to live the full mission experience, the good and
the bad!
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| Santo Domingo West Mission |
This first week in the area was sweet!! The house is really nice, and is one of four
houses in the mission that have a water heater, and I have been in two of them,
the other is in my first district, and Pedersen is in the other one, so that is
kind of funny!! We also have the church
super close, like a two second walk, so that is great!! The light is unreliable, but we have the generator
so that is fine! We have a ton of
weights and stuff, and we bought more this last Saturday!! It is a good house to be in!
We also are working really hard in our area right now as
well!! We have a bunch of people that we
are working really hard with! We have 4
people with baptism goals, and their names are Ambioris, Jacinta, Luis, and
Teresa. They are all adults of between
40 and 50 years old, so they are pretty fun to teach!! There is also an 11 year old that we are not
teaching, but he went to stake conference alone this week and lives right
across the street from our church, so we are going to try to start teaching his
family because he wants to be baptized!!
It is going to be a fun area to work in!!
I know that this is the true church, and I can say that with
100% certainty. Sometimes we as people fault in our testimonies, but I have
realized something in my time in the mission.... The times that we fault are the times that we
aren't doing our very best. If we are truly
doing our best and putting in our 100% effort, the Lord will bless us with the
knowledge that we desire. This has to do
with faith, and I testify that faith is the first step towards knowing that the
church is true. Faith is a spark in a
field of dry grass. If we let it catch,
it consumes the whole field. I know that
we can let that spark catch in our souls, and become converted to the one and
only true church of Christ. I love this
gospel and this church, and testify that it is the only true church.
I love you all and I hope you have a great week!!
Love,
Elder Garrett McEwan
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