Tell Conner he better practice speaking when we skype because I am going to be speaking ´´ugly´´ Spanish...I never understand Mexicans and I’m sure he sounds like a Mexican when he speaks Spanish. I was just thinking and talking about that CD and was wondering if I could have it...there might be a way to send me the song electronically but if not I really don't care that much.
So this week sucked...well it sucked and then it was good at the same time. We worked our butts off to visit and invite over 50 people to go to church the Sunday before Christmas… as a gift back to Jesus Christ… to show gratitude for everything that He has given us. We had a bunch of great lessons with the less active members and new converts, we went and basically RAN around from house to house searching for the people who said they would go to church and we have a goal to get over 150 people to attend church before the year ends... for the past couple weeks it has been...(starting from the day the wards were combining and the new bishop was to be announced) 162, 125, 109, 110, 100...with this last week we thought that for sure we would get at least 40 new people to attend church due to our hard labor but...nope, 14 people went. After hearing and seeing that only 100 people went to church, I was frustrated and wanted to drop the cane on all of those lying, selfish, fools who don't even have ONE hour to show their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that they are grateful for what they have...I wanted to go to all of the families and chew them out so bad and curse them and their upcoming year...but then I remembered what my good old companion Elder Xavier said to me, “ningún esfuerzo es mal gastado...not one effort is wasted”. I thought about the 14 that went and how one of them was preparing to serve a mission and hadn't gone to church in a long time. She said she loved church and felt the spirit so strongly and couldn't wait to go out and bring others unto Christ, another one said that she was so happy to see all of her family in church, another one said that she was so glad we went and looked for her mom so that her mom could see how happy the church makes her, and I'm sure there were others of the 14 that needed to hear the beautiful message that our bishop gave about Christmas. When I thought of this, the spirit testified to me that we didn't waste our time running around looking for people or teaching all of those lessons. I'm grateful for the 14 that went and will try even harder to get the other 36 to feel the love of Jesus Christ before the end of this year. I love my area and the people here even though they make me want to rip their heads off sometimes. I just want them to receive the blessings that the Lord has waiting for them in the sacrament room. Not one effort is wasted!!! 
Can't wait to talk to you guys...i have no idea what i want to talk to you about but I’m sure you guys will have some things...it'll be weird. I watched Monsters University in Spanish with my district today and couldn't stop laughing...Merry Christmas and we'll talk to you soon. I'll send the pictures in a bit.
E' McRae
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