So crazy week up here in Coquitlam! We have been just hitting a grind up here and we have been just working so hard! Just a low down of the week...tracting, sweating, a little bit more tracting and sweating some more, all with the same scratched up name badge that I have worn for just short of two years. No matter how many times I get yelled at, no matter how many times I get cussed out, belittled or pushed around, the name of Jesus Christ makes it all worth it. Besides that crazy low down we saw some awesome miracles this past week!
We were able to do quite a bit of less active work. These people are literally gold mines! They know people that obviously aren’t affiliated with the most beautiful thing ever put on earth! So we have been dropping by every once and a while and they let us in because they still love missionaries! So we hit up that less active work and things have been picking up over here!
One of the coolest miracles was Moyra! She is so awesome! She is living with this less active and they just have the cutest little family! Long story short, her ties with her family as well as her church were broken because of issues in the family. Well that just pushed her away from them and towards us! Needless to say God works miracles! I was so close to crying in that lesson though! I just remember one specific moment where the spirit just took over. We were about 10 minutes in and we were just setting expectations, basically giving a nut shell story on what we do, when the distinct impression told me to just testify of families. I dont remember what I said, but she just started tearing up, and how she was sad that her family did not have the same. This little family is going places, and by that I mean of course the temple! She felt the spirit so strong in that lesson and we are teaching them tonight!
We are also teaching this guy named Terry! He is such an honest and very solemn and quite man. Really unhappy with his church and things are just falling apart at the seams with him at church as well as at work. We were able to teach him the Restoration and the spirit just hit me like a brick wall. Not just some two foot pretty brick wall but a very big, thick brick wall. But it was so good! We are also meeting with him tonight as well!
One of the best parts of the week was when we were dropping off a member and his parents place after a failed lesson. Being sad that it did not go through, as well as the multiple others that did not go through this past week, I just got frustrated. Elder Vanatta was looking at the back up plans we had and he looked at me and just knew something was wrong. He started rattling off ideas and one of them was just to say a prayer. "Well duh! That’s always a good idea," I thought to myself. Well, in answer to that prayer, I received this impression, "Go back to the Tolman family, they know someone." Well at least something along that line. So we acted on it, got out of car and talked to them for a little bit. After relaying that experience to them, the spirit brought to mind someone that he should invite to the next ward activity! That and they invited us over for dinner that evening! Double win!
So, even though it was a hard week with many hardships, disappointments, as well as a lot of sweating, we were able to see a lot of miracles! Even when it is just so tough, when you feel that you are just lost in the dark, there is always a silver lining.
Sure love and miss you all!
Love
Elder McCown
