This young man NEVER ceases to amaze me with his positive attitude. I know he has hard times and there are things that are difficult for him, but he always tries to put his best foot forward. I'm so proud of how he has served his mission to this point and know that he is going to FINISH STRONG!
June 1, 2015
Dear Family,
This week was really good.
We have been able to work super hard lately, and have been trying to
find a bunch of families to teach. It
has been slow going, and it has been tough, but every minute is worth it! I have just been trying to keep my perspective
eternal and think about all of the good that we do here!
So this week we were able to invite Yeni to be baptized, and
she said yes!! She is still building her
testimony up, and is reading lots in the Book of Mormon, but she is doing
really well. She loved when we taught
this week about the Plan of Salvation, and it was a really good lesson. We talked about the Atonement, and it was
refreshing and very spiritual for all of us.
I loved it, and was greatly blessed by that lesson. We are hoping that she continues to have such
a great desire! We were also able to find a new family this week in our
contacting adventures! We have just been
knocking on every door, street by street, and talking to literally everyone
that we see! Everyone has these stickers
on their doors that the government put on, saying that the house was part of
the census. It always has a little place
that says, ¨Hi!! We passed by to visit you!!__________¨ With
that blank like for the names of the workers.... I am not going to lie, when I started seeing
that, I started writing my name on that
line!! They have now been part of the
government census, as well as Elder Palomar and I´s ´´Mormon Census´´! There are easily over 1000 doors that have
our signatures on them ;)
Anyway, back to the family that we found. The mom´s name is Carolina, and I forget the
daughter´s name because it is a mix of her mother´s and father´s names, and it
just does not even sound like a name!!
Anyway, she is 17 and Carolina is her stepmother. The first lesson that we had with them,
Carolina told us that she believes in God and that He loves her, but it was
interesting because the daughter told us that she wasn´t sure if God
exists. I felt like Ammon teaching King
Lamoni in the Book of Mormon!! It was obviously
a little bit different, because she wasn´t an indian who believes in ´´The
Great Spirit´´, but she did keep saying that she believed that there was some
sort of supreme being that is over us.
Basically just like chapter 18 of Alma in the Book of Mormon! We contnued on in the lesson, and at the end
of the lesson we invited them to pray, and I asked them ´´Who's the only person
in existence who won´t and can´t lie to us?´´
With out hesitation, the daughter responded, "God." That was a very rewarding moment.
The next lesson we talked about prophets, and they understood perfectly!
I have started something new with Elder Palomar as
well. At 5 p.m., when the day is exactly
half way over, I stop and ask him what his favorite part of the day has been to
that point. We don´t continue until we
have both said what our favorite part was.
Then we continue the day, and in planning at night I ask him again what
his favorite part of the day was! It has
been truly rewarding to be able to analize our days in that form! Loving it!
I was thinking this week a lot about faith, and just trying
to figure lots of things out. I was
thinking about the physical darkness, and how it is scary sometimes. But, we need to have faith that we will be
safe. Sometimes we have to show our
faith by taking a few steps out before we can see the path where we need to
go. It is never going to be easy, it is
never going to go the way that we think it will go, but if it is hard, it WILL
be worth it. We don´t know when and we don´t
know how, but we just know that it will be!!
I love you all!,
Elder Garrett McEwan
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