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. I want to make another big SHOUT
OUT to my most awesome brother, Jake McGrath, for dominating in the
basketball tournament at DHS.
This week in the Clinton
West stake has been a wonderful week. The weather here is getting better
and better until today. It was POURING today and I love it. The weather
all week has been sunny and in the high 50s. It was nice not having to
wear a suit but a short sleeve shirt with a tie. It's awesome! :D We have been doing a lot of finding and teaching this week and
we have definitely seen so many miracles happen. The Lord always
watches out for His servants! :)
An example of that is when
I was doing exchanges with Elder Coronado. He is one of the Zone
Leaders (the DL and his comp does exchanges with the Zone Leaders.). He
has been out for 13 months and he is a superb missionary who loves to
work. After contacting referrals and tracting apartment complexes all
day, we decide to head home (it was about 8:45pm at this time), all of
the sudden, Elder Coronado started crossing the street. Confused, I
started to call out his name and asking what in the world he is doing.
He just kept going. As his temporary companion, I had to go with him. I
quickly found out why. He saw this lady out in the front porch stmoking
and he wanted to go talk to him. Her name is Courtney and we have been
talking to her for a half hour. It was an awesome conversation. She
talked about how she is a convert and she went less active but she said
that she wants us to come over and teach her 12 years old daughter and
wants us to baptize her. What a miracle!
James Wales is doing amazing. Elder Kelley and I was able to
teach him about temples and priesthood. He said that he wants to get the
Aaronic priesthood and do baptisms for the dead. He is such a great
guy. He is also a big fan of the NBA too! He was wearing a Stephen Curry
jersey at the lesson. Stephen Curry is one of my favorite NBA players.
:D Because of that, we were able to connect really well! :D
Morgan (the 11 years old boy) is going to be baptized this
Saturday and he is super excited. We had a lesson with him last night
and we went over the baptismal interview questions with him. He aced
them all and it was so awesome! He is a stud. I am so excited for him to
get baptized!
Elder Kelley and I also got to go to mutual with one of
the wards in our stake. It was basically a Q&A. One of the quorum
advisors asked us to bring some food. A cheap missionary food. We
brought tortillas, peanut butter, and jelly. It's like a pbj sandwich
but with tortillas. It is so good and cheap too! The Q&A was
awesome. They had a kid who is 18 years old and is getting his call
sometimes this week! I'm excited to see where he is going. I guessed the
Arizona Mesa mission. I always guess that.. haha!
I also got to an another exchange with one of the
elders in the district. His name is Elder Mckee and he is an awesome
missionary. He goes home in April and going to be in the Navy SEALs. He
is super fit and excited for the SEALs. We were able to do some work in
his area (Clinton North stake)!
I love being a missionary. It is seriously a joy to serve with the Lord. "If God be for us, who can be against us?" Romans 8:31. That scripture is one of my favorite missionary scripture. It is so true! :)
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