Week 6

9/5/16

Hello everyone!

I can't believe it has been 6 weeks since I left the MTC! Transfers are this week so one of the sisters in my district is going home and an elder is being transfered. I will be staying with my companion for at least another 6 weeks. 

We went to the river today and had lunch with a member so I don't have a lot of time to email today. So this will probably be short. So we have a lady who just moved into our ward and we asked her if we could come by her house to get to know her family better. She told us that she would have to ask her husband. Later in the week her husband called us and said that he had been excommunicated from the church but his wife wanted him to meet with us and start going back to church! That was exciting! I'm so proud of his wife for having the courage to tell him how she felt.

On Wednesday I got my iPad! We got up at 5:30am and a member drove us to Newberg, a three and a half hour drive through the mountain. We were there for a few hours just having some trainings and then lunch. It was super great to see the missionaries from my MTC district that came out with me! It made me super sad that Sister Maxey (my MTC companion) has to go home for medical reasons :'( We set up our iPads and then went home. 

Big surprise, all of our lessons fell through again this week....So I haven't had the chance to teach anyone in awhile. However we did get a few miracles this week.

One of our members gave us a referral!!!!!!!!!! So when we went to see her, she wasn't home. So as we were leaving, we stopped to talk to this guy and he cried when I testified of Jesus Christ and His Atonement and he wants us to teach him again!!! Then!!!!!! We saw that our referral was home so we went to see her too and she was super nice and wants us to come meet with her again!! 

 

And aonther miracle for this week is a long story so I hope I have time for it. So one of our members, Cindy, gave us a referral a few weeks ago to see Bob. We saw him and talked to him about family history work, but he wasn't really interested in us teaching him. Later, we found out some information for him to know more about one of his ancestors so we went back this week. We briefly talked with him, but he seemed very uninterested. Then! On Sunday we found out that the members that Cindy is staying with were having Bob over for dinner. (They were having some of our elders over for dinner because their son is serving in Taiwan where Elder Wang is from) So long story short, the elders taught Bob the whole Plan of Salvation and now Bob wants to have us over for dinner and have us teach him!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!!!

One of the nights when we were walking home, after dark, trying to get home before 9, we heard a child yelling. We couldn't tell for sure but it really sounded like they were yelling for help. We didn't know what to do since it was time to be home, it was after dark, and we weren't sure what was happening. So we said a prayer, but still didn't really know what to do. Sister Densley was really worrying about it so I called the police department and asked them to send an officer out there to check. Not sure what came of it, but its an interesting story so I told you about it :) 

"Our Savior experienced and suffered the fullness of all mortal challenges 'according to the flesh' so He could know 'according to the flesh' how to 'succor [which means to give relief or aid to] his people according to their infirmities.' He therefore knows our struggles, our heartaches, our temptations, and our suffering, for He willingly experienced them all as an essential part of His Atonement. And because of this, His Atonement empowers Him to succor us--to give us the strength to bear it all." (Dallin H. Oaks Strengthened By the Atonement of Jesus Christ)

Well, my time is up so that's all you get this week. Have a great week everyone! And Happy Birthday to my baby sister EmmaLee!!!! Can't believe she is 14! 

Love,

Sister MacKay