My companion is pregnant

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 can't believe it. My family is finishing up their time in Jubail tomorrow! They will be moving to Saudi Aramco which has a super sick compound! I also want to give a shout out to one of my my awesome cousins, Adri. She got her mission call to BULGARIA SOFIA mission! You are going to be such a fantastic missionary! 

So, I got some exciting news for you all. As you can see, the title is my companion is pregnant. It's missionary lingo. I have been called to be a trainer. I will be a FATHER! Elder Simbeck, since he was my previous companion before my son, is the mother; therefore, he is pregnant. It's due tomorrow (packages with gifts are always welcome JK JK!). So, I will be staying in Clinton and be a District Leader and a trainer. I have no idea who I will be training. I find out tomorrow. So what's going to happen is that I will be going to the mission office and find out who my son is. I am so excited to be training a brand new greenie. It is going to be a blast. Btw, for those of you who want to know, Elder Simbeck is going to the Lorin Farr stake which is in Central Ogden. 

So, l found out why I got sick last week and that was food poisoning. I think I got it from eating out at a Chinese restaurant. Food poisoning sucked because I wasn't able to work hard. It lasted from last Monday to Saturday and it sucked. I was not able to work at all during those times and not many things happened so I apologize for the short email. I learned a lesson there: take advantage of every minute you have when you are well because when you lose it and realize how you miss it, you will wish that you took advantage of every minute. I made a new resolution and that is to work EVEN harder. Harder than ever and I will be with my son. Elder Simbeck and I have told a few people about this and they are so excited to have a brand new missionary in their awesome stake. 

Elder Simbeck and I held a stake mission fireside last Sunday and it was absolutely amazing. We had a huge turnout! So, we had three recent converts (2 was LA before coming back to church. the last one was a nonmember) speak and they were absolutely amazing. They all talked about missionary work and how important it is. They also talked about how crucial members are to the work and how they need to help us out. I also noticed something really cool: we sang an opening song and it didn't have that much conviction and right before the mission fireside closed, we sang a closing song and it was amazing. A lot more people sang and it was louder and overall, it was AWESOME. I think the fireside motivated a lot of people to help out with missionary work because they were able to see how missionary work affected the speakers' lives. I am expecting to see amazing things come out of the fireside. 

So last email, I said that Anthony Adams got on date for June 21st and I was sick so I didn't explain what happened! So, I will be able to now. So Elder Simbeck and I went over there and we were planning on teaching the Restoration. We went in and since it was the first lesson, we got to know him and he was talking. I asked him what he wants in life (the reason I did that so I can be able to tailor the future lessons to his needs) and he said he wants to be a good man. I instantly knew what I needed to do. I opened up to Galations 5:22-23 and we talked about the Holy Ghost and then we talked about the GIFT of the Holy Ghost. We then talked about baptism and how we can get the Gift of the Holy Ghost. I also mentioned that with the gift of the Holy Ghost, we can gain its fruits. We can have him guide us to do what's right. After that, we invited him to be baptized and he accepted. But later that week, we found out that he is going on vacations for TWO whole weeks in California so he can't come to church. That means that he can't get baptized on June 21st. :(

Good things are going to happen in the next few months. I am going to drop all of our eternigators (eternigators are investigators who are not progressing) and focus on finding people that actually wants to learn and progress. We are going to be in a huge finding mode and it will be amazing. I can't wait to work hard and have fun with my son! It's going to be a blast. I am expecting miracles to happen. Philippians 4:13.  

I love you all and stay strong. The Gospel is wonderful and I love it so much! Love, Elder McGrath 

Elder Simbeck and me at a dinner appointment