June 8, 2015
Dear Family,
It was so good to hear about your week, and that you were
able to go to the temple celebration and to the dedication! I am very excited to go when I get home! So much revelation can be received in the
temple, and there is no doubt in my mind that inside the temple is one of the
places where we are closest to God.
Everything here in the DR is going great, just a bunch of
the same stuff as usual! We officially
finished contacting the area.... We
finished one entire street on Friday, and when we walked around the corner to
start the next one... I recognized that
we had already contacted there.... SO
let´s just say we are going to try a new strategy... Well, not really a new strategy, more like an
old strategy that we have perfected. It
is called "Plan Alfa: Start contacting the whole area again,
knocking on one door at a time until we find someone who is interested in the
Gospel". We decided to call it Plan
Alfa because the other name is really long, and it is the first and only plan
that we could think of, so it is the Alfa.
The people are still just kind of there, struggling a little bit. Yeni´s daughter got measles on Friday, so
they have kind of been out of comision, so that was a little bit of a downer,
but things are going well!!
Today we were able to have a Zone Activity, and it was a lot
of fun. We took two kids from our ward
who are preparing to go on missions so that they could see how fun the mission
can be. We went to our stake center,
which is the nicest building in the country...
It is almost like being back home.
It has an indoor basketball court!! We went there and played basketball
and soccer, and then watched the movie "Big Heroes 6". I really enjoyed it, even though I totally
predicted the twist of the teacher stealing the technology. I also talked to a guy a couple of days ago
to get him to bring a bunch of chimis.
They are like hamburgers, but they have a different sauce, kind of like
a spicy fry sauce, and shredded cooked cabbage.
They are super good, I am going to have to show you how to make
them. Any way, then we went home, I gave
some stuff to one of the kids that went with us, some stuff that he needs for
his mission, and then just relaxed a bit.
The best thing that I learned this week came as an answer to
a prayer and revelation through my Patriarchal Blessing and the words of Modern
Day Prophets. I came across an article
in the July Liahona (Yes, I have it)
about the pioneers. It is called
"All is Well". It talked
about the pioneers, and how the words that came out of their mouths were those
very words. I stopped to think a little
bit about that... How could they
possibly think that all was well as they stumbled across the plains, sick,
starving, and dying, to an unknown place?
Their faith and desire to follow God´s plan was amazing, and they
realized that God had a plan for them.
It was really reassuring for me to read that. I know that God has a plan specifically for
each and every one of us. OUR personal
plan might get alterred by the decisions and agency of other people, but the
Lord´s plan was never alterred.
Sometimes we just don´t understand it all of the way.
I love you all and I hope that you have a great week!
Love,
Elder Garrett McEwan
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