Wow, this simply just blows my mind...starting today, I literally have a year left on the mission....FREAKY!
So, a year has gone by and I sincerely have no idea where the heck it went! I have never been so mentally, spiritually, and of course physically tired, as well as hungry...BUT ITS THE BEST THING EVER! No matter how tired I get, it just keeps on getting better and better!
So this week, we started off strong with dropping the car off in Richmond for repairs, and hitting the pavement. After P-Day we went over to Elder and Sister Johnsons for dinner. Best food ever! It did not help that I did not have any food that day, so needless to say, we may have imagined that chicken to be a lot tastier than it actually was...That night we were also able to go out with our Bro. Rosales to go give a blessing to a less active in the ward. So awesome!
So, you know that primary song about the pioneers and "how they walked, and walked, and wallllllked." Well, that’s what we did on Tuesday, "we walked, and walked, and wallllllked...and walked some more..." It’s been so long since I have walked to so many places, but we had some awesome miracles along the way! We were able to run into this guy named Mengistu. Freaking cool name to start off with! He’s from Africa and he was so down to meet with us! Just wish he would pick up his phone...I honestly wish I could go around and just tape peoples phones to their foreheads. Would make things so much easier haha!
So Wednesday rolls around and we had the best district meeting ever! Elder Maluse is honestly the coolest guy ever! He is from this little tiny island off the coast of the Philippines! He got baptized like 2 years ago and learned English on his mission, and it’s awesome! He is the most humble guy ever! He bore the most beautiful and most humble testimony of how we need to anchor our faith in Christ! So awesome! Later that day, after an awesome district meeting we met with this guy Harry! Harry is so awesome! He lives in a half-way home, which means he just got out of jail recently. While he was in jail though he found God! He read the Bible 7 times in the 18 years that he was in there! We were able to teach him the restoration of the gospel and all about Joseph Smith, and he just soaked it all up! So cool! He wanted to share it all with his inmates which is even cooler!
We were also able to meet with Gus and the Martinez family! Haha! Helped Sister Martinez with her homework which was interesting! Going back to connotations and all that fun stuff! She came to Canada a couple years back she wants to get her degree which was awesome!
The rest of the week "we walked, and walked, and walllllllked." That is until Sunday night! We met this cool couple a couple weeks ago and they asked us if we could help them move some stuff for them. Had a good conversation with them and they were so thankful for us helping them! It was so cool though, because we were able to make that transition from becoming friends to being their missionaries, and we are going to share about the Book of Mormon with them this coming week! So cool! So excited!
So miracle upon miracles this week. God can help us most when we are on our feet though! He really can’t put people in our car for us to teach, but he sure can put people in our path as we are on foot!
Sure love you all!
Love
Elder McCown!
Monday, September 28, 2015
Monday, September 21, 2015
Talk about Prepared!!
So, long week...I have not been so tired before...Soooo...to start off, I really can't remember anything haha! I have 7 days until I have exactly a year left and I am already forgetting everything! Gah! It’s terrible!
We had some awesome miracles this past week though! We met with Gus and he is just doing so good! Slowly progressing to October 24th which is awesome! He needs all the encouragement he can get to keep him off of smoking and drinking.
So, Floyd is honestly the coolest miracle! He showed up to church randomly last week and we tried to get in contact with him after but he did not answer any of our calls or texts. He told us that he wanted to come to church again though so we banked on that! I absolutely hate banking on that though! Could not do anything about it though! So, we waited, and guess what!? He showed up! He said he would love to meet this week and that he loves church! He has gone through so much though! He has been completely off of drugs and drinking for 7 months though! TALK ABOUT PREPARED!! I literally can’t wait for this coming week when we can meet with him!
Other than that, it has been a struggle. I can only imagine this week though...we finally were able to get the car in...however that means that we will not have the car for 10 days...and our area is huge...I don’t know what we are going to do!!! GAH!!! The rainy season is starting to which makes things a lot more fun! Reminds me of Port Alberni though...we will be driving, and one second it will be sprinkling, and the next we will be getting poured on. The rain comes in waves here! I don’t think I will ever get used to how much it rains!
Sure love and miss you guys though!
Love
Elder McCown
We had some awesome miracles this past week though! We met with Gus and he is just doing so good! Slowly progressing to October 24th which is awesome! He needs all the encouragement he can get to keep him off of smoking and drinking.
So, Floyd is honestly the coolest miracle! He showed up to church randomly last week and we tried to get in contact with him after but he did not answer any of our calls or texts. He told us that he wanted to come to church again though so we banked on that! I absolutely hate banking on that though! Could not do anything about it though! So, we waited, and guess what!? He showed up! He said he would love to meet this week and that he loves church! He has gone through so much though! He has been completely off of drugs and drinking for 7 months though! TALK ABOUT PREPARED!! I literally can’t wait for this coming week when we can meet with him!
Other than that, it has been a struggle. I can only imagine this week though...we finally were able to get the car in...however that means that we will not have the car for 10 days...and our area is huge...I don’t know what we are going to do!!! GAH!!! The rainy season is starting to which makes things a lot more fun! Reminds me of Port Alberni though...we will be driving, and one second it will be sprinkling, and the next we will be getting poured on. The rain comes in waves here! I don’t think I will ever get used to how much it rains!
Sure love and miss you guys though!
Love
Elder McCown
Monday, September 14, 2015
AWESOME MIRACLE
What...the heck...I have 17 days since I am out a whole year on the mission! Isn’t that just super weird?!?!? Anyway! This past week was awesome and tiring all at the same time! I think having P-Day on a Tuesday just threw me off for the whole week...it was so tiring, but what was so awesome was that we were able to pick it all up by the end of the week!
District meeting was awesome this week! A little intimidating when you are the one who has to run the meeting and have President Burt there! It was such a good meeting though! He is just so good on wanting to help us out with our investigators. He just wants to help so badly! Makes me want to work even harder!
The rest of the week was pretty rough though. We had a ton of appointments fall through and we had members coming out with us which makes it look bad on us. I think that was the gist of the week. A TON of appointments that just kept falling through. Kind of rough. But that’s when Satan wants to get down on ya! That or something awesome is just about to happen! We just keep praying and working hard for those miracles! And guess what?!?! They happened! Valentino and Gus both came to church today! And what is even cooler is that we had this guy named Floyd that had been investigating the church over in Coquitlam. I didn’t get to know him that much but I was sitting next to the door and he had just come in. He looked out of place, so, I of course run up to him and ask him to sit next to me. Next thing I know, the guy is crying in sacrament meeting. I talked to him after, just shortly before he left, and he told me that he had a lot on his mind and that he will be back next Sunday. Didn’t seem in the mood to talk, but, IT WAS AN AWESOME MIRACLE!!! He will forever remember that experience!
Other than that, not much happened this week besides talking to a bunch of people and trying to meet with them! God is just so good though! It’s been awesome serving in the area! Surrey is hard, especially trying to keep up with it, but it is SO much fun! Sure love and miss all of you!
Love,
Elder McCown
District meeting was awesome this week! A little intimidating when you are the one who has to run the meeting and have President Burt there! It was such a good meeting though! He is just so good on wanting to help us out with our investigators. He just wants to help so badly! Makes me want to work even harder!
The rest of the week was pretty rough though. We had a ton of appointments fall through and we had members coming out with us which makes it look bad on us. I think that was the gist of the week. A TON of appointments that just kept falling through. Kind of rough. But that’s when Satan wants to get down on ya! That or something awesome is just about to happen! We just keep praying and working hard for those miracles! And guess what?!?! They happened! Valentino and Gus both came to church today! And what is even cooler is that we had this guy named Floyd that had been investigating the church over in Coquitlam. I didn’t get to know him that much but I was sitting next to the door and he had just come in. He looked out of place, so, I of course run up to him and ask him to sit next to me. Next thing I know, the guy is crying in sacrament meeting. I talked to him after, just shortly before he left, and he told me that he had a lot on his mind and that he will be back next Sunday. Didn’t seem in the mood to talk, but, IT WAS AN AWESOME MIRACLE!!! He will forever remember that experience!
Other than that, not much happened this week besides talking to a bunch of people and trying to meet with them! God is just so good though! It’s been awesome serving in the area! Surrey is hard, especially trying to keep up with it, but it is SO much fun! Sure love and miss all of you!
Love,
Elder McCown
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Temple Day
So this has been a crazy week. My head is about to explode! First off, we have been super busy with teaching so many awesome people! We have been working super hard and I am just straight up exhausted...
But it’s still awesome! The best part of the week has to be today though! WE WENT TO THE TEMPLE! We got a call last week about us going to the temple and we were screaming like little girls! It was so awesome! It was so spiritual too! Ever since then, we have been flooring it to get everything done today. It’s been exhausting...It hurts to think... But it’s been good. Super spiritually uplifting
What else did we do? Ummmm...haha, I can’t remember.... We went and met with Gus again...We also met this super cool guy from Congo named Fauscin...SO prepared to hear the gospel! What’s super sad though is that we lost one of our investigators. Suki has literally dropped off the face of the earth and we don't know where he went. He won’t answer our calls, and what’s freaking us out is that he was the one that Elder Anderson called a couple weeks ago and basically prevented him from committing suicide. So yeah, him not answering the phone is really freaking us out. Whenever we are in the area, we drop by a McDonalds that he is at all the time. Have not seen him for over a week :/...
Nothing much else happened this past week. John is going on his mission tomorrow which is super sad. Now we are wondering what the heck we are going to do without him. He literally has come out to so many lessons with us and we have no idea who we are going to bring out to lessons anymore...
It has been super freaky lately...transfers are this week! I have no idea what’s going on and I can’t wait to find out!
Sure love and miss all of you though!
Love Elder McCown!
But it’s still awesome! The best part of the week has to be today though! WE WENT TO THE TEMPLE! We got a call last week about us going to the temple and we were screaming like little girls! It was so awesome! It was so spiritual too! Ever since then, we have been flooring it to get everything done today. It’s been exhausting...It hurts to think... But it’s been good. Super spiritually uplifting
What else did we do? Ummmm...haha, I can’t remember.... We went and met with Gus again...We also met this super cool guy from Congo named Fauscin...SO prepared to hear the gospel! What’s super sad though is that we lost one of our investigators. Suki has literally dropped off the face of the earth and we don't know where he went. He won’t answer our calls, and what’s freaking us out is that he was the one that Elder Anderson called a couple weeks ago and basically prevented him from committing suicide. So yeah, him not answering the phone is really freaking us out. Whenever we are in the area, we drop by a McDonalds that he is at all the time. Have not seen him for over a week :/...
Nothing much else happened this past week. John is going on his mission tomorrow which is super sad. Now we are wondering what the heck we are going to do without him. He literally has come out to so many lessons with us and we have no idea who we are going to bring out to lessons anymore...
It has been super freaky lately...transfers are this week! I have no idea what’s going on and I can’t wait to find out!
Sure love and miss all of you though!
Love Elder McCown!
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