So this has been a fun week. This past week we spent a lot of time doing service. Like A LOT of service. Not just a little. A LOT. It was this past Friday when this man named Cran Campbell moved into our ward. He is from Richmond and is about 70 years old, so he of course needs help moving all of his stuff. So, all this "stuff" filled a whole 26ft U-Haul. The thing was stacked from top to bottom with boxes! And who shows up to help this guy move? Us two and four other people, and we had to go to a lesson we had set up 2 1/2 hours from when we started. We moved so fast unloading this whole U-Haul! And we barely finished in time for our lesson which we had scheduled. The following day, we realized how much stuff this guy had, because he had us over to help clean up the boxes so he can find stuff. Even though we were there 2 hours, I feel like we barely made a dent in the piles upon piles of boxes. The following day, we even spent another 2 hours helping him and I could still barely tell that we made a dent in the pile. Long story short, we are still helping him clean up this coming week as well.
Other than that, this week has been busier than usual. We taught quite a few lessons and things have been picking up a little. We have been trying so many different things, whether it be contacting potentials, formers, you name it. We have really taken to heart the counsel of Elder Bednar. He said in one of his talks that "If you keep doing the same things, you are going to get the same results." So this week, we are going to be spending a lot of time doing member work if we can. Hopefully someone in the ward has someone for us to teach!
Everything has been going great though! I can’t believe that in 5 days I will be out on my mission for 7 months....That’s so weird.... Kind of crazy how time is flying! It’s so much fun but so hard! Let’s see, what else happened? We went and had dinner at the Bodens which was AWESOME! Sister Boden marinated some steaks for us, and it has honestly been the best, best meal I have had yet on my mission! The steaks were so flavorful, she told us that she marinated them for 3 days! SO GOOD! She even had this really tasty stick of unhealthy. Like this stick of unhealthy was SOOO good! Basically what it was is four different types of cheese, all melted together with butter. It was so good over the potatoes! Gosh....I’m gonna get fat....
Anyway, I sure love and miss you guys though!
Love
Elder McCown
