We had a great week this past week! It was great to hear from you last night, as it always is, and we are just more and more excited for the upcoming week! We were able to make some headway in finding people to CONSISTENTLY teach...that’s been our problem lately and it finally is seeming to work out! Our progressing investigator at this moment is Wayne. He has not made it out to church yet but he is progressing fairly well! He has read the resto pamphlet and understands it, and even quotes scriptures that support what we say! He has a kind heart and will get baptized! When? Trying to figure that out, but once he figures out it is true, he says he is ready to change and get tized.
We were also able to meet with this man named Jack Ward. He is a very social guy with quite a few stories to tell. He told us of how he almost died in a plane. Well, he at least thought he was. Told us of how his wife is a diehard alcoholic, and basically how his life has been the most interesting life ever. The first time we met with him just tells you how much he trusts us. He told us that he had never told anyone this before; but that he basically had an evil spirit in his home and that it haunted him. Well we were able to teach him about those kinds of things and just from what I was able to pull together, because we answered his questions, he trusted us enough to come back and teach him what we are all about! God is just so good!
Overall the week was great! We taught quite a bit more, which was great, even though quite a few of the people we found were not full of the greatest intent. So much more improvement has been made this past week and we have been doing it for the past couple transfers but we have been earnestly doing it even more, and that is giving more and more time, whether it be combining lunch with language study, packing lunch/dinner, etc, you name it and we are doing it, just trying to become so consecrated. The spirit has been there even though it’s hard. It’s been so good though!
We were also able to help Matthew clean his apartment again! He has been working at cleaning it up and I think that this is the 3rd or 4th time that I have helped him. Anyway, that apartment if SPOTLESSSSSS!!! He can actually walk down his hallway, his kitchen is clean, his bedroom is clean, everything, cleaning to dusting to sweeping to mopping you name it, it was done and he was screaming "HALLELUJAH!" by the end of it all! YOU KNOW WHAT IS EVEN BETTER!!! HOLY FREAK!!! I almost did a backflip! Matthew has literally taken leaps and bounds and he had an interview with the stake president about his temple recommend anddddddddd.....HE PASSED WITH FLYING COLORS!!! GAHHHH!!!!! He is so good!
So basically I have been on cloud 9 for the past little while and it has been great! Matthew is going to the temple soon and is going to take the mantle that his father has carried for years, which is going to the temple consistently because he can no longer go because he is so old, and we have been able to find people to teach! GAH GOD IS SO GOOD!
Sure love and miss you all!
Love
Elder McCown
