Hey,
So I received an email from Jared
Drake saying that he’s going to pick up Conner from Utah for Christmas and it
totally freaked me out that Christmas is coming up! I still thought that it was
summer... (probably because it’s SO hot here). Because of the heat, I don't
sleep sometimes. I just stay up going back over high school soccer, BYU soccer,
and fantasies about playing for the US National team. I cannot get soccer out
of my brain. I am right now imagining Gavin scoring his free kick and me
freaking out, running and tackling him so hard and just freaking out and
screaming and cheering and playing soccer all day long. One of the hardest
things about the mission is not playing soccer… and staying up all night
replaying club and high school games in my head don't help at all.
Something pretty awesome happened
this week. So there is this woman here named Zully and she has been trying so
hard to help her family get into the church. She and the younger half of her
family are baptized and they are enjoying the blessings of the gospel, but her
older children want nothing to do with it, and they are ruining their lives. We
just started talking to one of her daughters and she is totally loving what we
are teaching because she didn't know how strongly family-based the church was.
Zully started crying during our first lesson with her and it was a really cool
lesson. (so I have yet to leave my area so every change i give people my
facebook name and email so that they can keep in touch with me) After the
lesson, we had a little lesson with Zully, because she said she wanted to talk
with me. She couldn't stop crying to tell us what she wanted to say, and then
finally she said... I know I wasn't supposed to go on your facebook yet, but I
did it anyways. I started looking at your pictures with your friends at college
and the pictures of your mother with all of your family looking so happy, part
of the church, pictures of you playing with little children in a gorgeous house
and I just started to cry. My question, as I was looking at the pictures is... How
could you leave all of that happiness behind to come to a terrible, poor, ugly
place like this… to help people that don't even want your help, rob you and do
even more terrible things? I just can't understand how anyone could do
that...you guys are angels sent from God and I don't know how I can ever thank
you for everything that you guys have done for me and my family.” Of course I
got a little bit chocked up and told her that being here, helping other
families find the same happiness that my family has thanks to the gospel of
Jesus Christ is better than any massive house, or fast car, or riches in the
entire world. She also thinks that mom is the prettiest woman she has ever been
friends with on facebook (haha). She is a super sweet lady and we have helped
her family a bunch.
As for your Sunday school class,
there were so many conference talks about missionary work and stuff like that.
Something that will help is that members don't understand that they already
know how to be a missionary. Just by stating things that they know. Elder
Ballard gave a great talk on missionary work.
Sounds like things are going good. I
don't know what I'm doing for Christmas with the whole Skype thing, but I guess
I should start worrying about that. I'll talk to you next week. Tell Gavin and
Abbie to take advantage of their soccer playing time!
E' McRae
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