Hello from Logan

Hola familia! It was an amazing week! I love being a missionary so much! It is so awesome! This past week was the last week of the transfer. Wha?! This transfer has gone by so fast. It is so crazy! Where is the time?! 

So, I am staying with Elder Freitag! He is going District Leader and I am helping him out with his new responsibility. I am guessing that I am doing well on my special assignment. I am looking forward to what the Lord has in store for me! I am pumped! 

SO! GOOD NEWS! We finally got something going again with Paul. He is now on date for October 25th! Oh, I am so excited for him! It turns out that he lost his kids (meaning that he can't see them anymore) and because of that, he is very sad about that. We came over yesterday afternoon and we started off with a prayer. After that prayer, the Spirit just took over. It is the most spiritual lesson I have ever had on my mission. Everything I studied in Personal Study that morning, I used in that lesson. We talked a LOT about Faith. I learned that morning that Faith has three degrees: hope or belief, action and power. Faith starts with hope or belief that something will happen/is there and we act of that faith. We see much power that comes from faith (for example, fasting/prayer). I shared that with Paul and he loved it! We emphasized faith in Jesus Christ and we used the Mormon Message, "Mountains to Climb" to show the example of faith in Jesus Christ. We invited him to act on his faith by being baptized. He accepted October 25th as his baptismal date. He has a huge desire to show his faith. We will be going to church with him! I am SO happy that the Spirit took over. I am so grateful for the Spirit. It has helped me so much on my mission. Please keep him in your prayers! He is doing super well! 

Mahryan and Brandy are not interested at this point but they are going to church every week. They can literally get baptized this Saturday. But they are not wanting to meet with us. We are keeping them in our prayers.

So, last week, I told  you about London's friend and how she is a German-speaking Chinese girl. Well, we got to meet with her last Sunday. Her name is Jaime and she is a STUD! Also, she is a super genius. She went to the top prestigious university in Germany and she is now studying here at USU. She is really cool. We had a really short lesson with her because we had the lesson at the church and it was right before sacrament meeting so we just walked down the hall to go to sacrament meeting with her and her friends. It was awesome. She said that she felt the Spirit and wants to come back. In our next lesson, we will definitely put her on date. I am so happy about that. 

Also, we have a first lesson TONIGHT with a man (Darion) who plays starting wide receiver for USU football and his fiance, CeCe. They both are Pentecostal and they are from Florida. CeCe requested to meet with us and they are so awesome. We gave CeCe a copy of the Book of Mormon in our first door contact and she told us that she read some of it. They can be very solid investigators who will get sealed in the temple! I have much faith in Heavenly Father that he will help! 

Nikki Jackson and his family is still going STRONG! WOOT! They are still planning on being sealed in the Logan Temple on November 1st and I am so excited to witness the entire thing. It will be so amazing. I love the Temple so much! 

Also, one last thing, I gave a talk in the ASL branch last Sunday! It was so cool and because I suck with my ASL skills, I had a translator up with me and she translated for me. It was so cool. I can now say that I gave a talk in the ASL branch (and leave the translator part out. ;) ). 

Elder Freitag and I had an awesome week and I am looking forward to a even more awesome week this week! Thank you all for the letters and stay strong! Love you all! Love, Elder McGrath