So this week was crazy awesome! SO! We honestly have one of the best branch Presidents ever! Monday night we were able to drop by a couple people with him and he was just so good with going along with the schedule because basically our plans fell through! So we were out doing drop bys and we were able to drop by these super cool families! One of them was Richard and his wife and his son Silas. So, one of the hardest things to do in my opinion on a mission is to break the friend barrier, so we broke that that night and outright asked them if they wanted to learn more about eternal families! And they were so down for it! Could not meet for the rest of the week, or make it to church either but we will be meeting them this coming Thursday hopefully!
We were also able to see this single mom named Roberta! She has three sons and she really wants them to come to church and to actually have her sons have a belief in God. So we are going to be seeing them tomorrow night hopefully! I am so excited! We were also able to spend the night on the Southside this week. THAT WAS FUN!
So Burns Lake is basically made up of two places, north side and south side, and it is basically divided by this giant lake that has a ferry running from south to north side. So, we hopped on that ferry and were able to go meet with this couple, AND WE WERE ABLE TO BUTCHER A COW! Well, we actually watched them but it was crazy seeing where my steak comes from! He told us that he shoots the cow in the head and then slits it throat and lets it drain which is crazy! Then they cut the head off and pull it up by a forklift, basically holding it by its legs upside down. Then they cut it open and clean it and send it to the butcher! So that was cool! Then we traveled all over the south side because there are just rolling hills for days, and we were even able to spend the night at a members house which was pretty cool!
Sunday was awesome too! We were out on the south side all day and we got to meet another member! He is super cool and we talked and got to know him. He literally just needs to come to church! What’s so cool though is that the members that we brought with us were just inviting him to everything that they could think of that was going on for the next month!
We then took the ferry over with the branch president’s son and were able to get some drop bys in with some people, see a less active and we also got to see our ward mission leader that night as well! Hopefully we will be getting a volleyball night set up though! We are running out of daylight and it gets dark by about 4:30 pm which makes things interesting. Not many people are happy when we knock on their door at night time. Really hard to make it work but we have been trying to come up with ideas!
I love it up here though! Even though it is 20 degrees sometimes, which does not even include wind chill, and it is barely the beginning of winter to say in the least, it’s still awesome! God is just so good to us and he loves everyone no matter what!
Love you guys so much!
Love
Elder McCown
