Another great week

Hey guys, It was awesome reading some of your emails. It was great seeing how everything was going back at home. :) This week has been a crazy week! It was awesome though because I love being a missionary. It is the best thing to be in the whole world.

Last Wednesday was my last district meeting of the transfer because tomorrow, we have Zone Conference. I can't believe that I already spent two transfers (three months) as a District Leader. This past DM was my best one yet. I combined it with the other DL, Elder White and it was absolutely amazing. We trained on social skills and how that relates to finding. It was awesome. I love being a District Leader. :)

The funny thing is that we never told the Zone Leaders about the combining of district meeting. They were super surprised and they did the same thing to us for DLT (District Leader Training). They told us to wear pday clothes and it turned out that they had us come help them capture a freakin bull. It was only 1 year old so it wasn't fully grown but man, that bull was freaking smart. It was also 400 pounds. My son was out on splits with Elder White's companion so Elder White was my companion atm. The reason why we had to capture the bull was to get the headpiece off because it was getting too small for the bull. That was the objective: capture the bull and get the headpiece off. 

We spent two hours trying to capture that bull. For the first hour, we tried to lasso the bull but it didn't work out. We came up with an idea to build a trap and we scared the bull into it. It escaped twice and the third time, it worked successfully but it was super scary. One of the ZLs was able to lasso the bull. Elder White decided to do the most stupidest thing in the world but also the most courageous thing I have seen in my life. He jumped into the mini pen we made and got the bull into a headlock and he was able to pick up one of the legs so the bull couldn't move very much. We were able to get the headpiece off and he was safe but man, everyone was freaking out. Elder Pitcher, one of the ZLs, said, "Get the heck out of there, White. I don't want to give you a blessing today." hahaha

Elder Curtis and I were able to see some success this past week. We had a lesson with Erika and Renae Detar (it is a long but amazing story.. so far.. it's bound to be more amazing as time goes on) this past week. and we were able to commit Erika and Renae to be baptized on August 2nd. I tried to get it on August 7th (my year mark) but it didn't happen. Oh well. It will be an amazing baptism! I am so excited. 

Another amazing thing happened this week. In my time in Clinton, I have gone on a lot of splits with McKay Krey (he is 19 years old). He just got his call to the Nevada, Reno mission. It was awesome and he is so stoked for it. I love being to go to mission call opening. It reminds me of my mission call opening. I remember how I felt when I found out that I was called to serve in the Utah Ogden mission (best mission ever) and I was totally calm. I know this is where I need to be.

I absolutely love being a missionary. I have grown so much and I can't wait to see what the next year has in store for me. I know that God has a plan for all of us and it is perfect. "Trust the Lord with all thine heart" (Proverbs 3:5). He knows all things and He is our Eternal Father. I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior. I love my Savior, I love the gospel, and I love the church.

The church is true. :) Stay strong guys. I love you all! Love, Elder McGrath