Holy cow! Another week and I just realized that I have under 4 months left as of today. FREAKKKKKKKKYYY!!! Well we hit the grind this week! Talked, testified, sweated and repeated that day after day. Coolest miracle though! We got a little mini missionary...His name is Elder Jung, and this kid was nuts...he’s heading out on his mission in a couple weeks and he is on fire about being a missionary!
Well, we hit it off by going and knocking doors, and I could not help looking back on the beginning of my mission, placing myself in the kids shoes. It was so hard thinking that that was almost two years ago...gross...
Well, we knocked doors and needless to say, I don’t think he was that impressed. So Saturday comes and we are all pumped, ready to go out and just work our tails off, we had a couple lessons planned and things were going to go great! Wellllll...haha...kind of failed...our first appointment fell through, and the next, and the next, and the next, no one was outside and none of our streets that we have planned in worked out, and no one really answered their doors. So we walked and talked...well more like we walked and they talked. Everyone here in Coquitlam is from a different part of the world, and most of them are from Korea or China. On the brightside though I have learned how to introduce myself as a missionary now in Korean and Chinese!
So we worked and sweated and it came to a point that our little mini missionary, looked at me at one point while we were out talking to people and said, "Why isn’t anyone talking to us? What’s the point of doing this when no one wants to listen!?" I kind of laughed, because that’s what was totally running through my head at the beginning of my mission... I looked at him though and I said, "I don’t remember the full talk, but I remember Elder Henry B. Eyring, at one point in time talk about missionary work, and say, "It always seems to be the last door..."...He just looked at me and, he even said later that he thought I was nuts and that he did not believe me...Well, the Lord has a way of humbling us. As we were just giving everything we got, we got a text from a former investigator that we have been trying to meet with for the longest time, and that he wanted to meet later that evening. I just chuckled and knew that this was what we were working for.
The rest of the evening from then on became so much better! The former investigator is named Greg and he just absolutely loved the idea of the Book of Mormon, he loves Jesus Christ (and who doesn’t?!?), and he has the most sincere desire to change and has some of the greatest intent! So after the refiners fire for the past six weeks of not teaching anyone, we found someone to teach!!!! XD XD!!!
It was after that, that our little mini missionary was even more excited about missionary work! Sunday was awesome as well! Our mini missionary got up and bore his testimony, not failing to mention to the whole ward that at one point in time this past week, that as he was saying the prayer in the car, Elder Hsu and I fell asleep because we were just so exhausted! Of course he got everyone laughing and in the end, I think he loved his mini mission. He told us what he thought of us when he first met us, and that he thought I was the most straight faced, stone cold Elder he had ever met, and that he did not know what to do because Elder Hsu can barely speak English. He readily admitted that he thought that this was going to be, in the very least, interesting. I readily tackled him...
So this week, all in all was awesome! I have a new companion named Elder Hsu and he is so funny! Craziest little Taiwanese guy I had ever met! He is so good though! Even though he has only been 3 months out in the field, and this is his first time in English work, he is doing so good!
Just want to let yall know that God is good! He always answers our prayers in his own time, in his own way. All we have to do is patiently wait for it! I testify that we are all sons and daughters of God, that this is His true and living church on the earth today, that it is led by Jesus Christ himself. It has to be...otherwise, how can a bunch of kids, typically between the ages of 18-21, go out and help save peoples souls, and bring joy into people’s lives? It couldn't, unless it is true! I bear witness that it is! I love and pray for you all!
Love
Elder McCown
