A great week

Hey guys! Thank you so much for the emails that you have sent me. It was a joy reading them! It is so nice to hear about the things happening at home. This week was pretty good! 

Last Wednesday, I was able to do exchanges with Elder Zarse. Yes, my trainer. It was really weird at first being back together again, even though it was only for a day. It was really cool. He improved a lot as being a missionary and he said the same thing about me. It was amazing. We talked to so many people and we got some return appointments so that is always good.

The Cefalos are doing absolutely amazing. Gage and Ethan are getting baptized this Saturday at 12pm. It will be a huge baptismal service. Sister Cefalo invited 50+ people to come and she told us that the majority of that will be coming. I am so excited. I will be giving a talk on the Holy Ghost and a missionary presentation after the baptism. It will be amazing. I am so excited. Gage and Ethan are so excited too. Last time we were there, they were bouncing off the walls. It was awesome! :)

Elder Simbeck and I had a miracle happened this week. We were walking down the street and we saw this family unloading their groceries out of the car. We instantly went over to help out and after we helped out, we started talking to them. It turned out that they are active members so we asked them if they know anyone that we can share our message with. They gave us this referral for the Mitchell family. It turns out that they have two kids (10 yrs old and a 8 yrs old) and they both are not baptized. Brother Mitchell really wants his kids to be baptized and requested for missionaries to drop by. We went over and contacted them. It turned out that the previous missionaries before Elder Kelley and I, never visited them. Not even once.. They were really happy when we stopped by and we scheduled an appointment for later this week. I can't wait to teach them. It will be amazing. :)

There was this less active guy named Nate Loftus. Elder Kelley baptized his 13 yrs old son and when I came into the area, we kept in touch (gave spiritual thoughts and comfort when he needed it.) and gave priesthood blessings when we needed to. When he got the Melchizedek Priesthood, I gave him my blessings card (all the information about giving a blessing and how to do it.) and he was so grateful for it. Last Thursday night, as we were planning for Friday, he called us and requested for our presence with him when he was going to the Logan temple for his endowments AND his sealing (he got sealed to his wife!). It was AMAZING! I can now say, I was able to bring people to the waters of baptism, do baptisms for the dead (Robert Hall from Tremonton West), endowments (Nate Loftus), and sealing (Nate Loftus). I never was able to see a sealing before but after witnessing it, it was so amazing. I love the temple and the special spirit you feel inside. The temple is truly the holy house of the Lord. 

The Detar family is doing absolutely amazing, even though the lesson fell through because they got home late from their trip to Washington. They thought that they were going to be home from their trip early afternoon (we had the lesson at 7pm that evening) but problems ensued and we had to reschedule. But we dropped by earlier that week and we got to share a video, Because of Him and we offered to say a prayer before we leave and we were able to! It was amazing. The Spirit was so strong. 

I love the gospel. I know that the gospel is perfect and with logic, it all makes sense. Every time I learn a new thing about the gospel, it always makes sense. I love being able to serve the Lord as a full-time missionary. I have learned so much on my mission and it was glorious! :) Love, Elder McGrath

This was on a P-day. There is a Hill Aerospace museum and it was really sick. It was awesome! :)