March 23, 2015
Dear Family,
Wow this was a really great week!! We are working super hard and are just trying
our best to be the best we can be! We
have been working so hard lately that in the night we just plan, talk to the
district leaders to see how their day was, call the assistants to say that the
whole zone is home, and then go to bed!
I also put the goal to wake up at 5 every morning to be able to
exercise, because back home I am not sure what my schedule will be like and I
am just trying to get myself adapted to the worst!!
So anyway, I am not sure that I have talked about this is a
while, because by the time it was put as a goal for the mission I was
assistant, but we have this thing called "The Pulse" that are the
standards of excellence here in the mission!!
This was thought of by President Nuckols, and was very inspired!! They are goals of the numbers that we have to
be able to measure how much progress our area is making!! They are statistics taken from the mission
over the last 5 years of many of each key indicator is needed on average to
have a baptism weekly! It is obviously
super important that we teach with the Spirit, but having goals and things like
that to work towards has been a great blessing, as it has blessed us to have
the Spirit even more!! This last week,
we completed 6 of them, which was a huge progress in just one week!! This area has never been so close in the
whole time that we have had the pulse, so it was a good progress.
This week in church we had 2 investigators and 2 less active
members. It was awesome to see them
there, because the two less actives just need to have an interview by the
bishop to become active again and to have all privileges of being a member. It was great because one of the less actives
is looking to maybe go on a mission, which would be great because he is 22
years old!
So the investigator that went to church this week is named
Celsi. She is about 40 years old, and is
really awesome!! She has been loving all
of the lessons that we have had with her, and has been progressing really
well! She had a bunch of questions this
last week because she was searching the church on the internet and found more
anti~mormon stuff than anything else.
She had a ton of questions about plural marriage and stuff like that, so
it was good that she was able to talk to us about it instead of just saying she
didn't want to learn anymore! She then
went to church this week, and loved it.
We did our best to give her the VIP experience, and introduced her to
every single person in the ward!! They
were all happy to see her, giving her hugs and stuff like that!! She loved all of the hymns and classes, and
just had a great time!! Hopefully this
week we can put a baptismal date with her, and hopefully she accepts.
Today, Elder Aviña and I started a throwing program. He has a book that is from the Detroit Tigers
programs of work outs and throwing programs, so he is helping me with it! Today we went to the field at like 9:30 and
stretched, ran a bit, and then did the throwing.
It was just really light, so that was good, but I felt really good,
really rested in my arm! There was a
team there practicing, so we asked if we could take some grounders with
them. They said yes, and so we did. Then they
invited us to hit, so we did. We hit one
round of softballs with a metal bat, and then one round of hardballs with a
wood bat. It was a ton of fun. It was just soft toss, but I loved it! I hit really well too, almost taking a couple
of the pitches out, which is cool because the field is a legit field, and is
the same size as what we played on back home!!
It would be fun to hit again against a pitcher.
We just have the throwing program twice a week, so that works well!
Everything is going really great. I am loving the mission, and I am loving this
area. Elder Quinonez is doing really
well, and I really think that he will be the next latino asistente after Elder
Pena. It would be a great opportunity
for him!! I hope you are all doing
well!!
Love,
Elder Garrett McEwan
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