Sooo, I am cold...I literally have never been so cold in my life! Just kidding it’s not too bad! Not yet at least! This place is known for getting overnight dumps of snow all the time. FREAKY! Besides that, for those who don’t know, I am serving in an area that has about 3000 people, with miles upon miles in between most of the people out here! Tracting is fun. Rolling hill after rolling hill. I swear there is not a spot of flat ground here...
I love it though! Sure every door has been knocked on 500 times in that past 20 years but that doesn’t worry me! I’m just worried whether I will be able to get out the door or not in the next couple months. I have heard that they have had overnight snow dumps of about 5 feet give or take, and it is not uncommon for it to be -40 degrees here either. So, needless to say, I feel like I am going to be carrying a shovel around this area. I heard that in years past missionaries would just go door to door all day shoveling snow off of peoples driveways.
My last area is so different from Burns Lake though. In Surrey there were thousands of people to talk to, and a lot of them had not talked to the missionaries before. Whereas in Burns Lake, everyone recognizes the missionaries, and they all know our purpose.
So, needless to say I have probably tracted out a good percentage of the town. It’s awesome though looking at how many members there are here! Out of the 3000 here in Burns Lake, there are about 70 members that attend regularly! Crazy eh?? So awesome!
Our week has been interesting though. Everyone that we had been teaching has either had babies or getting sick! I sure love the place though! Too much fun!
Love you guys so much!
Love
Elder McCown
Monday, October 26, 2015
Monday, October 19, 2015
-40 degrees
So, I knew it! I just knew it! I am literally going to freeze my butt off...I am getting transferred to Burns lake! So, Burns Lake....it’s cold...coldest place in the mission! From what I have heard, it gets down to -40 degrees...nothing an Arizona boy CAN handle! My new companion is Elder Westerguard, and I have absolutely no clue who he is by the way!
Well, besides the bitter freezing cold news, we had an awesome week! So, Yemi is honestly the coolest guy ever! He just moved from Nigeria a month ago, is looking for a job, and taking care of his family all at the same time! If I were to be in that situation, I would be freaking out! That is so much stress going on all at the same time! But, we have been able to help him get started with his job searching through the employment center and he is just so happy! Anyway, I called him up one night. When we had met him we had given him a restoration pamphlet! Well, turns out that he had been going through it a couple times and he wants us to be able to teach it to him! He also called us this past Saturday saying that he will be coming to church! That never happens!
We were also able to teach Harry this week! He is so cool! Taught the word of wisdom and he said he would also come to church!
It was such a good week though! A lot of tracking, a lot of it! It was awesome though!
Pretty sad saying goodbye to Surrey though! I am literally going to freeze though! This is going to be fun!
Love you all though!
Love Elder McCown
Well, besides the bitter freezing cold news, we had an awesome week! So, Yemi is honestly the coolest guy ever! He just moved from Nigeria a month ago, is looking for a job, and taking care of his family all at the same time! If I were to be in that situation, I would be freaking out! That is so much stress going on all at the same time! But, we have been able to help him get started with his job searching through the employment center and he is just so happy! Anyway, I called him up one night. When we had met him we had given him a restoration pamphlet! Well, turns out that he had been going through it a couple times and he wants us to be able to teach it to him! He also called us this past Saturday saying that he will be coming to church! That never happens!
We were also able to teach Harry this week! He is so cool! Taught the word of wisdom and he said he would also come to church!
It was such a good week though! A lot of tracking, a lot of it! It was awesome though!
Pretty sad saying goodbye to Surrey though! I am literally going to freeze though! This is going to be fun!
Love you all though!
Love Elder McCown
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Weekly Planning
So, this week...we...haha...it was crazy...
To basically just start it all off, we will start with weekly planning. Weekly planning is by far one of the most grueling, most tiring and most mind numbing things when I first started out. I absolutely disliked it with a passion. We had to plan for a whole week, planning in something for each hour, with back up plans to each of them for 3 hours. I have gotten used to it though, kind of. This week was a little different though. So, the struggle we have had is getting our investigators to church.
So! WE HAVE SEEN SOME AWESOME MIRACLES! We did quite a few drop-bys yesterday and we have talked to EVERYONE! Our goal is to just talk to everyone that we see on site, even if it means yelling at them! We have found some awesome people to teach because of it!
Well, other than that, it has been raining like crazy! The rainiest day thought was when it was park the car day. Everyone in the mission literally parks their car for a whole day and we just go out and walk everywhere. We walked for about 8 hours in the rain which was crazy!
Everything is going good though! I think I will get transferred this week! Can only imagine where I will be going! Hate it and love it all at the same time! Love you guys though!
Love
Elder McCown
To basically just start it all off, we will start with weekly planning. Weekly planning is by far one of the most grueling, most tiring and most mind numbing things when I first started out. I absolutely disliked it with a passion. We had to plan for a whole week, planning in something for each hour, with back up plans to each of them for 3 hours. I have gotten used to it though, kind of. This week was a little different though. So, the struggle we have had is getting our investigators to church.
So! WE HAVE SEEN SOME AWESOME MIRACLES! We did quite a few drop-bys yesterday and we have talked to EVERYONE! Our goal is to just talk to everyone that we see on site, even if it means yelling at them! We have found some awesome people to teach because of it!
Well, other than that, it has been raining like crazy! The rainiest day thought was when it was park the car day. Everyone in the mission literally parks their car for a whole day and we just go out and walk everywhere. We walked for about 8 hours in the rain which was crazy!
Everything is going good though! I think I will get transferred this week! Can only imagine where I will be going! Hate it and love it all at the same time! Love you guys though!
Love
Elder McCown
Monday, October 5, 2015
Mass Text
I am at my mid-life crisis...So, this was the week, where I just emotionally and physically brokedown because I have no idea what I am going to do. I literally, only have 358 days left to be out here, but ya know what? I have absolutely no time to even think about that!
This week was a montage of walking, walking, and walking some more! And then general conference got thrown in there somehow, and then some more walking!
It was pretty sad this week though. None of our investigators were able to see us because they are all either too busy or sick:(. So sad... BUT! We were able to find some awesome people along the way! And even some of them are families! So exciting! And guess what is even better?!?! WE FINALLY GET OUR CAR TODAY! So yeah, we will be burning some of our P-Day to drive all the way to Richmond to get our car, but I am so happy! We will finally be able to get around because everyone in the ward is absolutely busy, or they don't have a car.
General conference was awesome though! May or may not have passed out during one, or two, or maybe even three of the talks. President Monson did freak me out though...I thought he was going to fall over during his talk...crazy how we got 3 new apostles though. Can’t believe that all those beloved brethren passed away so recently.
The coolest miracle this week though had to be when we sent out a mass text to everyone in our phone. Potentials, Investigators, and Former investigators, and what’s so cool is that this guy named Tony came to both of the morning sessions of general conference! Gotta love those miracles!
So everything is going great! Can’t wait to finally get some teaching in this week! Gotta love the car though! Makes things so much easier!
Sure love and miss you all!
Love
Elder McCown
This week was a montage of walking, walking, and walking some more! And then general conference got thrown in there somehow, and then some more walking!
It was pretty sad this week though. None of our investigators were able to see us because they are all either too busy or sick:(. So sad... BUT! We were able to find some awesome people along the way! And even some of them are families! So exciting! And guess what is even better?!?! WE FINALLY GET OUR CAR TODAY! So yeah, we will be burning some of our P-Day to drive all the way to Richmond to get our car, but I am so happy! We will finally be able to get around because everyone in the ward is absolutely busy, or they don't have a car.
General conference was awesome though! May or may not have passed out during one, or two, or maybe even three of the talks. President Monson did freak me out though...I thought he was going to fall over during his talk...crazy how we got 3 new apostles though. Can’t believe that all those beloved brethren passed away so recently.
The coolest miracle this week though had to be when we sent out a mass text to everyone in our phone. Potentials, Investigators, and Former investigators, and what’s so cool is that this guy named Tony came to both of the morning sessions of general conference! Gotta love those miracles!
So everything is going great! Can’t wait to finally get some teaching in this week! Gotta love the car though! Makes things so much easier!
Sure love and miss you all!
Love
Elder McCown
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