HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY WONDERFUL MOTHER, SHE MAY
THINK I FORGOT.... BUT I DID NOT! FYI.
HAHA.
Okay well I hope it was a fantastic birthday. I
thought about you yesterday as I went to a special choir practice. It was super
fun. Only a few missionaries were asked to sing for a special occasion...
because.... Elder OAKES is coming to Mexico on the 8th and the 9th of February
and its gonna be sick! So first, on Saturday, he is just going to talk to all
the missionaries in the stake center close by the temple. That is when I am
going to sing. Then on Sunday he is coming to OUR STAKE CENTER to give a stake
conference talk here. That either means that this stake is fantastic.... or he
is going to planch the hairs off our chinny chin chins. Apparently there is a
bunch of apostasy in our stake.... it was the first stake in Mexico and so some
of the members have been members for a LONG TIME and they are just prideful and
confused about what that means. Who knows?? #missionrumorsarethefunniest Or he
just might planch us about the missionary work... But I doubt it... because we
were asked to study his recent conference talk about NOT having other Gods. Hahaha....
uhhh awkkk. No it'll be so cool. I am stoked.
Okay so we worked hard this week. We taught 41
lessons.... we found a few new people, and I got a perfect score on the
cleanliness of my home... 4 more perfects and I am eating with the President
and his wife. Hahaha. lol. It is some competition to motivate the missionaries
to be more clean. No doubt we have a winner here. And everyone knows it.
So we also suffered a whole lot this week with
cold water because the gas truck never passes by our house cause we live so far
away.... But luckily some person sells it in their tienda so that was a tender
mercy. HOT WATER. The best... Never will I take it for granted.
We are working with 3 people fur shur with
fechas. Some other people kind of have fechas but they just are not as
convincing. So I am super stoked. The 22nd of Feb we have 2 planned. One is the
grandma of a family! She finally wants to be baptized. She was like, "yes
it would be a beautiful thing to be baptized with my family". So she is
convinced. She loves the Casa de Oracion and is just such a quiet nice little Grammy.
The other one is L. We found her in the street a couple weeks ago. She is perfect.
She loves the way she feels when we teach her and when she learns more about
God. But she LOVEDLOVEDLOVED the Casa de Oracion and was so convinced that
everything is true. The only problem is she isn’t married. I promised her if
she made this sacrifice God would provide the way to do it. So hopefully she
trusts in that promise and gets hitched with her husband who I personally don’t
like. I find him very rude. All he does is laugh at us in a mean way, but
whatever. They have 2 kids, so I
was like... get married... If she can’t get the money together I will be very
tempted to pitch in. BECAUSE WE NEED HER IN THE RAMA.
So everything is great. We just have to keep
contacting in the street a TON - BECAUSE WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BAPTIZE EVERY WEEK.
And so that means we need to find more and more people. Pray for us to be able
to do so.
I am glad you talked about missionary work in
stake conference. Don’t worry about being too pushy. That’s how I have gotten
by my whole life... And look at how I turned out? It’s the way to be. You are
just offering others the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Think of a few people that you haven’t
invited in a few months… and invite them again, and if someone bails out or
seems uninterested... just keep inviting and bearing testimony. And if they
still don’t come... SEND THE MISSIONARIES to their house. Give the missionaries
the address and the name. That gives the missionaries an opportunity. Just
trust God. It’s really nothing too hard. So don’t stress out about friendships.
You can do it..
Well everything is great. I have lots of
practices for the choir this week... So that’ll cut into work time. And. Yes. It’ll
be fun. I am almost at the year mark and it freaks me out because it’s like...
I just got here. But whatever.
Love you all so much! I am glad your birthday
was great mom. I miss ya. I will find time to write a letter to you! But, heaven knows when you will get it.
nbd.
Con Amor,
Elder Macdonald
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