Hahaha. Your emails kill me... dad had ten
comps?... 2, 3, then 2. That is 7... or am I just bad at math?
So glad the ward fasted for the family this
week and now that makes so much sense to me now. It was a rough week, but by
Saturday everything changed. I received many blessings because of that fast.
THANKS.
I sure hope Zach keeps getting better. I will
be sure to keep him in my prayers. I love you brother! Stay strong. I will see
you sooooon! 2 months and a week. Yikes. But how exciting that we will get to
hang out soon!
I am in shock that everyone is home. Hillary,
Nate on Thursday. But now I am leaving that shock and getting used to it. It is
starting to feel like “that time”, even though it hurts. All I can do is
keeping working till the end.
My new comp is a funny guy. Always happy and
laughing and it drives me a little bit insane, but I can either look at it as a
blessing or not. I do like him a lot, and I am learning much from him. He is
super white and from California. We have a Zone Training that we have to give
tomorrow. Woohoo. This should be the last one that I give as a Zone Leader. The
Pres doesn’t leave missionaries as Zone leaders in their last change in the
mission. So yeah. Lots of changes will be coming up.
I am loving this area. I love my assignment. I
love my Bishop. I love my zone. I am very happy in my circumstances. Even
though this week proved to be a weee bit of a challenge, I learned so much and
am now able to testify more of the Atonement in my life.
Our investigators are doing fantastic. M. A. is
an addict to about every little thing you can think of. No joke. And because of
his many addictions and life style he used to have, he stopped feeling bad
about his sins. We were able to find out that need this week. I had no idea
until one lesson that Elder G. and I had with him (exchanges). So now we are
trying to make him feel bad... in a very loving way. Haha. We started with
making new GOOD habits. Our habits can either be our best friends, or our worst
enemies. So we told him to start getting rid of his bad habits and that he
needed to change them for good ones. He has read everyday this past week in the
Book of Mormon. And when we saw him yesterday, he hasn’t had any more desires
to do what he used to.... He used to feel sad about leaving his sins behind.
But now they are starting to make him feel sick and useless.... KA-CHING. He
has been with the missionaries for a year, and just now he made huge progress.
Hopefully he gets baptized on the 29th of this month...!
G. and D. are the ones that were going to get
baptized this week but now that we have a Stake Conference on Sunday we are
going to wait a whole other week so that they can be baptized and confirmed on
the same weekend. But they are fantastic. Seriously. We taught them about
temples and the work we do for the dead this week and G. started shouting for
joy... literally. It was like taking a child to Disneyland. It made me so happy
to be able to be part of that lesson. She is so prepared. So elect. Yesterday
we invited her to the Bishop’s house for a family home evening that just turned
into a mission lesson... But she is awesome. She said that when she is in the
metro she just starts feeling so weird inside and she wants to starting
grabbing and hugging everyone to bring them to church with her. She is honestly
so close to the spirit. She invited her uncle and he is going to get baptized
with them toooo! And D. invited her boyfriend, and he went to church and LOVED
IT. He is so getting baptized next month. This work is moving forward.
Some of our new converts and investigators went
on vacation,.... ugh. So we haven’t seen them.
C. is the lady that had her family get baptized
recently, but she is still waiting for her smoking problem. She is FINALLY
DROPPING IT. Right now she has 3 days without a cigarette. WHAT?! She went to
church and all day the speakers and classes were exactly what she needed. She
starting laughing and crying because she thought it was a practical joke. She
also has so many other health issues, and she starting reading that smoking is
what has caused all of her other illnesses. So basically she is angry at the cigarettes
and they are making her gag. So that was the miracle we were praying for. She
is getting INTO the water soon. So happy. The Bishop came with us to visit her
this week and she felt so special. YES.
Our Bishop is my biggest role model. He is the
best Bishop ever. He truly loves the Savior. He is working day in and day out
to provide for his family in hard economic times. But he still finds time to teach
seminary every day at 5:30am, come with the missionaries on visits every week,
go to school to finish his career as a lawyer, teach English classes on Wednesday,
teach the BEST GOSPEL PRINCIPLES CLASS IN THE WORLD (it is full every week) and
so many other things. He is a workaholic. I am so grateful for the things he is
teaching me - Such a good man. And his son is named Mateo and he is the cutest
3 year old you every did see in Mexico. He goes to church every Sunday in a bow
tie. Hahaha So classy. So those are things I learned this week.
We found some less actives that are mad at old Bishops.
But they came to church! SUCCESS.
This week I was better in my health.... but
then I got food poisoning and have had lots of diarrhea. Hahaha. I am just not
worrying about it. I just accept it and will get home in 2 months to start
taking my vitamins again. I won’t die. I am just used to being sick. But I do
feel a lot better right now.
Oh my. I am afraid for my dentist appointment.
My teeth have got to be dirty. I brush everyday like 3 times. But, I stopped
flossing. uhhhh.
I am happy. We are working hard and seeing
results. The L.’s are going to celebrate my birthday a month early on December
2nd because of the changes..... HAHAHA THEY ARE THE BEST. The people here are
honestly angels - All of them. I love them all.
We are teaching lots of other people but those
were basically the highlights of the week. Hope you all have a fantastic week.
Tell Nate I say HIIIII. Love you all.
BAIIIIYEYEYYE
CON AMOR,
ELDER MACDONALD
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