Hey guys! It was so awesome to get a lot of emails. It was so great to hear about what's happening back at home. I'm glad that you're enjoying Rome! Don't forget to eat some pizza for me! :)
This past week was FULL of miracles. Yes, miracles! A lot of investigators are progressing and some of them are SO close to baptism. Scott and I might have to up our baptism goal of 5 for this transfer! It's going THAT well! It's a great day to be a missionary in the Utah Ogden mission! Tremonton is getting a little chilly now and every day seems to be really cloudy so I miss the sun that Arizona and Saudi offers!
This past week was FULL of miracles. Yes, miracles! A lot of investigators are progressing and some of them are SO close to baptism. Scott and I might have to up our baptism goal of 5 for this transfer! It's going THAT well! It's a great day to be a missionary in the Utah Ogden mission! Tremonton is getting a little chilly now and every day seems to be really cloudy so I miss the sun that Arizona and Saudi offers!
Update from mission office: All Christmas packages must be mailed to the mission office by November 30! Be sure they mark “Christmas” on the package so we can save them for distribution at our Mission Christmas Event.
Day 1 - Scott, Pitcher (an elder who is covering Garland), and I got to go down to Brigham City to play basketball for 3 hours and it was a blast. We have an elder who is 6'6" and he played HS in Michigan. He is INSANE at basketball and he can dunk all over the place. It was crazy fun!
After doing our p-day stuff (shopping, basketball and cleaning up the apartment), we got to go see Kevin and his son, Dylan (who is never there) happened to be there and he wanted to say hi to us, which is a miracle! It was an awesome day!
Day 2 - We did an exchange and I got to be with Elder Pape who is from Kentucky. He is 20 years old and he has been out for 10 months. He's a stud! He is a big fan of end of the world stuff so we talked all night about end of the world stuff. I had a great time with him.
Pape and I got to see Robert Hall and we taught him the Gospel of Jesus Christ using the teabag analogy (look it up, you should find it easily!). He loved the lesson and he was SUPER surprised of how the teabag analogy works (his eyes popped out, which was a little funny).
The most disappointing part of this night was that the rest of the appointments fell through because they weren't there or their kid was sick. It was really disappointing!
Day 3 - We got to see the Glover family! They are SO awesome! We did the baptismal review with Mica so she can be ready for the baptismal interview. She is so ready for baptism. She remembers everything including all of the hard words (repentance, atonement.. etc). She's a genius! The coolest thing was that her father (he is a cop for Brigham City) is expressing a lot of interest in religion lately. He was a less active and he wanted nothing to do with the church when we first came but now his heart is softening!
Scott and I got to visit the YSA ward bishop and he is a STUD! His name is Bishop Martineau. He invited us to participate in the YSA ward Pinewood Derby! It's on a Tuesday, PERFECT! I'm pumped for it! Bishop Martineau is a great guy and he laughs at all of our lame jokes. He is a hilarious guy with a great sense of humor!
Day 4 - I got to do another exchange but this time, it was with Elder Sutton. He entered the MTC last month so I'm older than him! He is from Edmonton, Canada and he loves basketball so we mostly talked about the NBA and the teams. He loves the Dallas Mavericks! Whaa? We were debating on which team were better!
Sutton and I got to go visit a lot of the stake's auxiliaries and the Primary President for one of the ward invited us to go to her backyard and her husband was skinning PIG! It was disgusting. There was a tub full of guts from pigs. It was so disgusting yet interesting.
We also got to see Kevin and we shared a video called A Secure Anchor (found in Gospel Library 3 under Mormon Messages for Youth). His heart was touched and one 10 years old kid was there and Kevin went on explaining to the kid what the video clip was about. He also talked about me and the trials that I went through. It was so quiet, so quiet that if a pen would drop, it would be super loud. It was a very moving lesson. It was a great day!
Day 5 - Jaxson Egli (9 years old kid who lives in Thatcher, Utah) got baptized! It was a great baptismal service and I'm glad that I got to be a part of it. Scott and I are still teaching his mother and sister who are not yet baptized. They are SO close to baptism! It was a fabulous day!
Scott and I were heading towards McDonald's for lunch (it's cheap so that's why we eat there) and on the way, I was thinking about one investigator (Paul Panasulk) and guess what, he happened to be there! We talked and set up a return appointment! What a miracle!
During tracting, we came across a neighborhood block party and they invited us to participate. One 10 years old kid told us a black joke and his mom told him to cut it out. His face turned red and as a result, we felt really bad. To avoid an awkward situation, Scott and I told a black joke (What do you call a black guy flying a helicopter? A pilot, you racist!) The entire block party erupted in laughter! After that, we started telling funny stories and right before we headed out to go home, we shared a spiritual message with a Mormon Message on our iPads. The iPad makes spiritual thought so much easier because we just show a video then talk about it. They gave us a bunch of referrals so it was awesome! It was a fantastic day!
Day 6 - Scott and I got to go to 3 sacrament meetings today and since it was fast Sunday, we bore our testimonies in all 3 meetings. A lot of members came up to us afterwards and told us that we did an excellent job and some even gave us some referrals. Getting so many referrals is one of the perks of being an Utah missionary.
We did a lot of correlation with ward leaders so we can work together better to help their ward and they gave us so many referrals so Scott and I have a lot of contacting to do! The work is truly hastening!
Day 7 - We had zone conference all day so we only got to teach a couple people!
The first one was Jessica (the manly female). We taught her the Gospel of Jesus Christ and since we didn't have a tea bag with us, we had to use the pamphlet to teach her. She was super quiet and just listened to us. Scott and I were worried that she wasn't listening so we asked her a lot of questions pertaining to the lesson, she answered them all correct! :)
We got to see Alex Espinoza (the 14 years old boy with Asperger's) and we showed him a video and he didn't even watch it. He just kept on talking to us about tacos (he's having tacos for dinner last night). Alex LOVES food and he talks about it all the time. Because of what Alex was telling us about tacos, we were STARVING for dinner after that lesson.
Mica had her baptismal interview last night and she ACED it! She is now getting baptized on October 19! I'm so happy for her decision to partake of the next ordinance.
I love being a missionary! It's the best job in the whole world and we get paid in blessings and miracles! I love and miss you guys very much and I hope you all stay safe! Have a safe trip in Rome and eat some pizza for me! :) Have a great week and don't forget that I love you! Love, Elder McGrath
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