(So I sent him an e-mail after SKYPE to find out how his week went and how everyone was progressing so that's why it is so short.)

 

Yeah! It was so weird. It was good to be able to see and talk to everyone again. I always enjoy it. 

Yeah so N who we have been working with for a while, J also who we have been working on, and a new one who's name is M. She is the sister of an investigator so we should have a few here soon! I am super excited for them. We had a great week. I went on an exchange with Elder Christensen which was rather interesting. We had a great day though. And it was so funny cause we went to Jimmy Johns for lunch and we here a voice say, "I'll take care of it elders." So turns out it was the area 70. Elder Koons or Coons. Not sure which way so we talked to him and his wife for a while. They were just shopping at King of Prussia mall. We also had lunch at the Desmond again which is that really nice place the Bro. M takes us to. It was so good! We had a great zone training also on Thursday. There were some great trainings and I really learned how I can be even better. You never stop learning that is for sure. But everything went really well this week and we are excited for this week as well. Just so hard to think that this transfer is almost over! I love ya momma!

                                                  Our last SKYPE!!!

Love, 

Elder McArthur

May 2, 2016

Hey Momma! 

So hard to believe. I told B he has me for one more month. He said, "Don't threaten me!" Lol. Yeah the new place is much better than where we were! Bigger, nicer, more updated. So we are happy! Yeah I told that to Elder Jensen because I seriously feel like we just skyped and yet it's been about 5 months ago. We will figure out a time and everything cause we are still not exactly sure! 

So this week. It turned out to still be good! I got a bad stomach bug but I think from something that I ate. I was throwing up and had diarrhea and I think I actually had a fever too. I was freezing cold. I don't know why I keep getting sick! But I'm feeling better. Still recuperating but I feel much better than the other day. I think I dropped a couple pounds. But anyways! So N finally made it to church! She was so happy to be there. We are seeing her again tomorrow, and she is still on track for her baptism on the 22nd. J and J will be there next week for sure. They actually fed us dinner on Saturday. I'll send you some pictures that I took with there little son. He loves us and he is like one of my favorite little kids. We set J with a date of June 12. She is just trying to figure out her schedule so she can come to church now. So we have two more baptisms on the way! We finally taught M last night and she is awesome. We are excited about her. Hopefully we will get her with a date too but before I leave! The kid was not home yesterday but we are going to try to catch him this week. So we had a solid week. I just was down for a few days but we finished out strong cause we still taught 14 lessons. We had a great testimony meeting and I really felt the Spirit strong. A couple people just bore there testimony of the missionaries and thanked us missionaries. I don't really get emotional but I did a little bit and while I was translating. We also had a great lunch with Bro. R this week. He just texted to see if we were hungry and asked if we wanted to have lunch with him. You have to meet the R's. They are the best. He is just a good role model as well of hard work like dad. So we had a good week. Me and Elder Jensen are doing some good work over here we feel. 

I was so oblivious to what missionaries really did. I never knew the struggles or anything or just how they lived.

Bro. R just got called to be the Stake Young Men's president. He said in the stake and others that they are just losing youth before and after missions. He told me if I go less active when I get home that he will hunt me down lol. But I said I will not I promise! 

Oh! You need to check on Two Brothers two on Lds.org. It is amazing! Let me know when you do. It is a whole series. Well I'll send a few more pictures! Love ya momma and talk to ya on Sunday! 

Love, 

Elder McArthur 

                                                 With Brother R.

                                             Rainbows!

April 25, 2016

 

Hey Momma! 

So hard to believe. I feel like April just started but now it's already ending. Elder Hillstead started his mission on a bike! I loved just walking and taking SEPTA in Philly. I miss that! Having a car has its ups and downs. It would be rough in the summer! The weather is perfect right now up here. But I know it will start to heat up as we get closer here to June. 

Yeah so we had an excellent week! N is progressing well and not drinking any coffee and told us how she really wants to get to church. Satan keeps holding her back because this week her daughter had to go to hospital so she was not able to come yesterday! But other than that she is doing very well. Bro. H, our ward mission leader, came out with us to see her. You have the meet the H's too cause they are the best. He just got back from Africa hiking a mountain. Mount Kilimanjaro.  J and J are doing well. Sister S in our ward has a daughter who just got home from her mission on Tuesday from Argentina . In the Buenos Aires mission. Not sure if it was north or south. She came out teaching with us Saturday so that was cool. She seemed like she was a very good missionary but the accent is way different. We have to go by A and we could not see M because we did not have a man! We tried to get one but no one could so we rescheduled but she should be super solid it seems like. We just found lots of new investigators this week. But we will see where they go! We did get to see J, and she is progressing very well. We just have to get her to church and get her set with a baptismal date! I feel we worked real hard this week for sure. The Lord blesses you as you are obedient and I have really seen that. This one kid literally just asked who we were this past week and said he would like to meet with us. That will be this week so we will see how that goes! I also went on an exchange this week with a Elder Payne. He is from Vegas and has been out for almost a year and a half. He is a great elder. 

 

We had a funny dinner with the M's too who are a young couple in our Ward. They are from Utah, and their daughter is so cute and has so much energy. She loves to play. Bro. M said when Sister M was pregnant that when her daughter was like a pea size but had legs that they were just kicking. The doctor said, "look, she's dancing!" Lol I laughed so hard cause you would have to meet the daughter. 

 

Oh! And we had interviews with President. They were great! He shined our shoes as a gift and expression of love to us. He is such a great man. He asked if I was getting trunky lol. I said I'm honestly feeling ok! He talked a little about marriage and how I will have to bring whoever I decide to marry up to meet them. And it was good to talk to Sister Anderson. She is just the sweetest lady ever and best mission mom. She needs an award for it. S who just go off his mission drove us down. We should be going to Philly again soon with Elder Weisler and Elder Hopkin. Bro. R is going to take us again. So that was a lot of my week! Just a solid and fun week! Oh and Elder Jensen has been out for 10 months. He is great and we get along real well! 

It is so true because some just do not and won't change not matter what which is ridiculous. I never realized how stubborn people are. I feel I have changed and allowed myself to be change because I know I needed it.

Well we will figure out the time and everything as it gets even closer for Skype. I feel like we just skyped so it is hard to believe it is already here again! Time goes to quickly. Well I love ya momma and I think I have some pictures to send also! 

Love, 

Elder McArthur 

 

 

April 18, 2016

 

Hey Momma! 

They do go by too quickly. Wow! So they are really winding down now. Yeah! We are trying to figure out if want to do it (SKYPE) at B's or somewhere else so we will see. Yeah at least I will have that trip and it will be in the D.C temple! Which I already went to once and it's amazing. It is such a huge temple. I just know I am going to be so awkward. I never understood why missionaries were so awkward around girls until I became one.  I feel like I have changed a bit. Just in different ways and how I really think about things. 

Yeah I just finished it (Book of Mormon)! So I've restarted. It is a short time but I will do it! Elder Weisler said if you read 10 pages a day of D&C that you can finish it in a month. So I'm working on all of it! Also finishing Preach My Gospel again.

Yeah so I wanna say 13 or 14 (lessons)? Some cancelled on us that we were supposed to have. We were not able to see J this week, but we did see N and set her for a date of May 22! She should definitely get baptized on that date. We really feel she can make it. J and J are doing well. They are coming back around and really trying to come and progress. So we will see what this next week brings! A had to cancel, and we did not see R. But we will this week! However, we found an awesome lady M. She is from El Salvador and she seems very interested. We talked with her for a bit last night cause there was not man so we set an appointment. We also met her two daughters who were on there way to moving down to Atlanta. One just graduated from Penn State and is going for a masters. They lived in Dallas for a while also! The girls looked like twins but were a year apart so I talked to them about that. We would teach them too if they were not moving! So we are excited to teach her and hopefully her husband. So lots of good things happening right now. I want to say that was one of the best things and the lesson we had with N cause she is really doing great. Basically stopped drinking coffee. On Tuesday we had a great meeting again for all the district leaders and so I saw a Elder Hillstead, Weisler, Hopkin, and Riley! And some other good elders who are friends now too. It was so great! Just learned how to be better district leaders and how we really lead out. They related us to the bishops of wards. I learned a lot and it was super good to see all of them. I'll send you a few picture too. 

My district is doing pretty well. A few struggling missionaries, but I'm just trying to work hard and lead by example. I will be doing some exchanges here soon with the elders to help them out cause their area is struggling pretty bad. I love the elders but there comes a point in your mission when you just have to let the Lord change you. You have to. And just work work work! The biggest motivation is probably district meetings. That is where they learn and have to learn how to apply it. So I try to really think and pray about what they need and what I will train on. We also have interviews tomorrow so I can get some good feedback from President. 

Did you get the picture from Sister Alvarez? We went to help them move a couple of things this morning and she made us a super good breakfast! I won't eat for the rest of the day because of that one haha. Me and Elder Hillstead could not believe that it has been that long ago because me and him are the oldest Spanish elders in the mission right now! Elder Weisler is excited to hang out after the mission. Well I love ya momma and I will send some pictures to you here in a bit! Talk to ya again soon and looking forward to skype! 

Love, 

Elder McArthur 

April 11, 2016

 

Hey Momma! 

I can't believe it! Time flies! 

It was a great conference and I have looked over some of the talks again because they were very inspirational and powerful. Wow! I did not know that they were going to split the stake. I don't even know what to expect coming back at all because of course I will not know anyone in the Ward but that's ok. I'm excited to meet a lot of them. I feel they never talk about things that they had planned but that is ok because that happens in lessons all the time! Which it is always cool to see. The Lord really brings so many things to our memories and I have seen that throughout my mission. I am about to finish the Book of Mormon again! I have about 15 pages left. My goal is to read it once per transfer. Which will be hopefully two more times.

I definitely will! I will be reading a ton. I feel I enjoy learning and studying so much more now than I ever did. I will be working hard for sure. I will not know what to do with myself though when I get home honestly. But it'll be good to catch up on lots of things I don't write! 

Yeah!  We taught 17 lessons this past week. We should finally hit 20 this week. N is progressing well but we have a couple new people for this week! Ones name is A and he is the boyfriend of a member and the other is R. He is a referral from the assistants actually. So we are seeing him tomorrow. We are excited for this week. Everything is going very well! People have just been giving us referrals. It is so crazy that Elder Weisler is the new assistant but he is awesome and a great missionary. Elder Beebe went to Scranton! So up north. But he is enjoying it. I think the best thing about this week was all of the referrals. Also lots of less actives at church yesterday! One of them is the R family and we visited them yesterday. He has two snakes and Elder Jensen is terrified of snakes. So Brother R says, "the Lord has brought you to me to help you overcome this fear." Lol. In the funniest voice so he brings them out and then one started slithering towards him and he about peed himself! It was so funny! So that was a good visit. Just lots of progress. We saw J and J and things are looking a little more up for them. J is starting to gain a little more of a desire and now she said she wants us to go teach her sister also which is awesome! So plenty of people to teach write now. It has been a total miracle with all these people. Just have to trust in the Lord and that he is listening and answering your prayers even if it takes time. J is trying to change her schedule a little so that way she can come to church but other than that she is great. I do keep a journal. I was lacking for a while actually but have picked back up and have not missed a day in over a month. It helps me out to and it feel good to write down what happened in a day. 

Yeah I was not cause they gave a younger one a chance to do so but then he got transferred and now I am again (a district leader). He wants me to really help out the district and motivate them. Get some confidence behind them because I have found that there are lots of people who really lack confidence and just don't trust and believe in themselves. But it's like Elder Holland said, "we get credit for trying." That's even if we fail. 

 

Well I love ya momma!

Love, 

Elder McArthur 

                                            A little snow again!

April 4, 2016

 

Hey Momma! 

So! Conference was definitely super awesome for me. I love what President Utchdorf said in the Priesthood session, "Pride is easily provoked, short tempered, selfish, hides weaknesses under excuses, impatient, etc. Contention will fade if we become humble." It makes me take a look back and see how I can change to become even better cause it is hard. But I remember when they talked about things not being easy. I have worked really hard on patience but wow it can be tough. I wanna say it was President Nelson who really talked about realizing the power that we have as Priestholders but how we have to really remain worthy of using it and not just get casual with it. There was some cool experiences that I really liked which he shared. Lots of good inspiration and a very spiritual weekend for me. I really enjoyed Elder Renlund's talk also and how he said that "murmuring" is the modern "childish whining." I thought that was hilarious! I took plenty of notes and everything. 

So it was a great week for us! We taught a lot and did lots of service. N watched conference and J too! We actually watched the last session with Bro. C and her which was good. Cause we talked about it afterwards. Teaching is going well but nothing really new to update you on yet. Well! I guess we did have a great lesson with N on the word of wisdom. She is a big coffee drinker so it won't be too easy but we know that she can do it and she does too. We took a good member with us who is a convert but has been a member for a while and he used to drink a lot of coffee and stuff too so he was really able to empathize with her. Helped a ton! Oh, so during conference sessions, we had an awesome lunch with Bro. M. He took us to the place called the Desmond. He has been in the hospital for a bit but got out just recently. He feeds us fairly often.  Everything is moving along well in the area. N and J should be getting baptized soon! Last P-day was super awesome. We went on a tour of Independence Hall and checked out some good sites. He bought all of us lunch at a Reading Terminal Market. It was super fun. Bro. R is the best. He even brought a hot-spot with him so we could email while we were in the car. We worked out with him this morning again and then picked up another Elder just for the day. His name is Elder Barton. He is super cool and is serving up in Hazleton in the area I was in. He also served in Spring Garden with a Elder Wasden. Bro. R also took us to Panera Bread. He is too good to us. We have some good stuff tonight also. A lesson with N and a good dinner with the Ms. They are the one from Louisiana. We are still teaching E and he has been coming to church and everything. I think something that strengthened me a lot was just conference because it lifts me up and sometimes I feel they are talking right at me. I think this week we taught 12 but last week was 17. We average probably 15 right now. 

So Elder Beebe is getting transferred! It's pretty sad cause we worked super well together and got a long real well. But I am staying. I will probably go home from here which I am totally ok with. We will not know who our comps are till tomorrow or anything. I saw the assistants today and they said I will love my comp. Elder Weisler is the new assistant! 

I can't believe it is just winding down! Elder Weisler is so excited though to hang out after the mish. It has been awesome to be around him again. Oh! And I got called to be District leader again. For the 4th time lol. Cause I was not last transfer but I am again this transfer. I guess President needs me to help out some elders coming in is what they said. 

I'm glad Cody is ok though! That is so crazy that that happened. I hope the older gentleman heals quickly. I think that was the best things for those Elders though. I can not even imagine that happening here or something. 

I am excited to see Jordan and Daniel for sure. It will be so far after going 2 years without seeing everyone! I don't even know what to think. 

Well I love ya momma! I'll send some pictures. Talk to ya soon! 

Love, 

Elder McArthur 

                                                             Sopas

                                            Philly temple progressing!

March 28, 2016

Hey Momma! 

We had a great time down in the city today. But luckily Bro. R was nice and bought our lunch.

Yeah! I have read about it on Lds.org. (the bombing in Brussels with the missionaries) Wow! I didn't know Elder Hillstead knew him. That is crazy. There has to be some sort of reason. That is just so scary and what is happening over there. Cody was the first one I thought of so I checked to make sure I did not see his name. I definitely am aware. I just can't imagine how that will impact them but it seems the missionaries stayed strong. 

We had a great week! Plenty of people at church this week. N is still doing great. We are still teaching E, and he actually is already ordained an Elder! But actually now we are teaching his work partner. She is very interested too and we also got another new investigator! Her name is J. She is the girlfriend of a less active who is slowly starting to come back now, and it would be so cool because he could baptize her! N would definitely be the closest to baptism I believe right now. This week we taught 17 lessons so it was a great week. There is a less active lady that we are teaching and she had a son on a mission who actually just returned home! On Wednesday. He is basically helping her get re-activated. His mission completely changed him and he is going to start helping us out so we are excited. His name is S. J who is J's wife finally came to church! He ended up having to work. We were pretty bummed about that, but we are going to see them again this weekend. It is just hard to believe that transfers are coming up! We had a good Easter. Our dinner cancelled actually cause sister S, the wife of the family that was going to feed us, got sick. But luckily another member just called and said to come over to eat so of course we went. But it was definitely a different Easter. Just did not really feel like it. But we had some great lessons this week. I don't really have some crazy spiritual story from this week but I definitely feel I'm listening to the Spirit easier and really trying to just let it guide me because it does all that time. I'm just excited for General Conference honestly cause I love hearing from the Prophet and Apostles. 

Translating doesn't make me nervous but it helps my Spanish a lot. I am trying to really continue improving and I love it. It is very tiring though for sure. 

 

Time definitely keeps flying! Hard to believe we will be skyping so soon again. I have some pictures to send home so I'll send them. I'll tell you more about our day today next week and all of that cause I'm kind of short on time. I'm glad Dad enjoys it out there. Sounds like it was definitely meant to be! Well I love ya momma and I'll send pictures! Talk to ya soon! 

Love, 

Elder McArthur

                             Adam's Easter dinner, tamales.

                           Adam with his gecko friends!  I told him to leave those there please!

March 21, 2016

 

Hey Momma! 

Wow another week. So I was in a few days. I actually had a fever. I haven't been sick like that in a long time I feel like. However, we still had a pretty solid week! We only taught 10 lessons but that was with me being in. We could have had a lot more. But this week will hopefully be better! N is doing great. We went on an exchange the day we were going to teach her so Elder Beebe went with another elder. She cooked for them! He said it was super good. When a Hispanic cooks for you that's when you know they trust you. So she is still doing wonderful. She actually had a couple good questions about her reading as well which was great. She should be baptized once we can get her to church! Cause she is gaining such a testimony but really of the gospel. We do have great member support. Bro. G he was just branch president of the Spanish branch even visits our solid investigators. Like her and J. Also turns out that E, the new guy, is already a member! But knows nothing. He only got baptized because his family did it. So his wife and kids are good strong members in Nicaragua. Crazy! But he came to stake conference yesterday so that was great. I basically translated all of stake conference lol. That was interesting! But I feel I did ok. It was cool because they called a new stake president so we had to 70's there. Elder Smith and Perkins I believe. Elder Perkins is from the 1st quorum of the 70. He actually is in charge of the Lds.org website. He monitors it and has to approve whatever goes on it. The new stake president in President Brown. His is from England. There are a few people in the stake from England actually. When we did an exchange this week with the zone leaders I got to eat at one of there houses.HUGE home haha and they were super great people. They do love the U.S. Also whooped a member in the other ward at ping pong. They have a beautiful home as well. They are the H's. They actually go out to Scottsdale occasionally cause they have family there. She is from South Africa and served a Spanish speaking mission. Still speaks it very well and spoke with me a little bit. He served in Little Rock, Arkansas. Great couple. So it was just a good week overall. A is 21. Him and Elder Newbold actually have the exact same birthday. Z just turned 20 back in February. Yeah we do teach English classes every Wed. night. It always goes well cause I learn new words from doing it. Oh! I also met Mr. Dominican Republic for bodybuilding. Him and his wife are members and just moved up here not too long ago. He is professionally bodybuilding. The man is HUGE! So that was super cool. Very solid members. Lots of interesting things. I also got to see Elder Pule, Brklacich who came out with me, Elder Bowman, and a few others who I have served around. It was just real fun seeing everything and having four of my comps there. I will get the picture and send it. I don't think I'm missing anything! 

 

Yeah I really try to listen (to the Spirit) and even if it is something small to just go with it. I know the Lord won't lead me astray. 

 Thanks for the quotes momma! I am excited for General Conference and to hear from all of them. I have a picture or two I will send also today. Can you send me that picture sister Alvarez took? Yeah it snowed just a little! But I guess it passed us by. The weather has been so weird and crazy here! Just like Texas. Well I love ya momma! Talk to ya again soon! 

Love, 

Elder McArthur

March 14, 2016

Hey Momma! 

So it was a pretty solid week. I think the best thing was this week we had a movie night of watching the Meet the Mormons. N came to that! She loved it so much and we also got the opportunity to show her around the church cause she wanted to see how it was set up. We explained each part and she really loved it. The only thing holding her back from being baptized is her husband having to work in Philly on the weekends and she has to go with him. They are trying to figure out what they can do so she can come to church. She would be such a solid member and I feel will be. She is progressing the best right now. So J who is J's wife is wanting to learn more about fasting so we taught them that. They are really trying to figure everything out because they know what they need to do. She just keeps trying to put everything on him but I think she is realizing she needs to be pulling her weight. We always bring members over there with us and that helps them a lot. So we will see what happens there. Cause he feels bad he was not able to be baptized this month cause he was supposed to be. I feel we will have a few baptisms here for sure so I'm super excited. F and H are doing ok. Don't know why they did not come to church but we are laying it down with H too because Z comes by every Sunday to get them. And the last two they have overslept and so it's a waste of Z's time and gas. We treated Z to Zwahlens. The SUPER good ice cream place. I need to send you guys some chocolates or chocolate dipper apples. It's not just ice cream but all sorts of stuff and all fresh made. We get half off! Z has been helping us out a lot. He reminds me of A from my first area. We are seeing E tomorrow. He is feeding us lunch. He randomly showed up at our English classes! We were excited about that. So I'll let you know how that goes next week. We had Zone conference this past Friday and it was so great. I got to see so many missionaries I have not seen in a while. I have a picture or two that I will send. It was so great. Learned so much about our desires and how that effects our mission. Our heart has to be in the right place and we have to allow ourselves to change. I'm really trying to just continue to let myself change and I feel I have a lot. It was wonderful to receive training from President and Sister Anderson. I can really feel the love they do have for us and they always express it. I had 4 of my companions there so i will get that picture to you. So we called A and her husband answered. He said they were interested but that's a lie cause she was very. So we are going to stop by and see what we can do. You can not deny the spirit. ALWAYS follow the promptings. The won't lead you astray and I have found that. 

We had dinner with The M family that are in our ward and they just said to soak it all in. They both served missions and two of their kids so far have. Their son S comes out a lot with us. They are from Mexico and actually worked at school that is now the MTC in Mexico. So they have so many pictures from there. His Brother is actually a mission President in Mexico and his parents are serving their mission in the mission of their son! So cool! So he is their mission President. So that's super cool. 

Thank you for the quotes! I enjoy them a lot. I try to share them. 

I'm definitely staying focused and working hard over here. But I'll send you some pictures. Love ya momma! 

Love, 

Elder McArthur 

Adam with Elder Wasden (in the middle) who he trained a year ago who is now training the missionary on the left. 

March 7, 2016

 

Hey Momma! 

I can't believe that (that it was his 20 month mark)! Wow! Me and Elder Beebe just are shocked of how fast the weeks go but it's because we are staying busy and got good work here. So! Lots of great miracles from this week. So! We saw J and his wife last night. We kind of had to really lay everything out for them and how they really got to start progressing better if they want to get baptized and they took it well. So we will see what happens but they are doing well. So we went to go teach N, and she had read 5 chapters in the Book of Mormon which was a miracle! Her doubts went away about what she came across and she is progressing very well. Now we just have to get her to church and she will definitely be baptized. So we are very excited for her. Everything just makes complete since to her. So we were not able to see that 16 year old kid and his name I believe was J. H and F did not come this Sunday! Z usually goes and gets them but idk what happened. We are seeing him tomorrow though. But yesterday there was this guy who is a friend of a member. His name is E. So she had given him a Book of Mormon and told him to start reading it and to pray to know if it is true. So she calls and is always following up with him. He has started reading and really wants to know and believes he will receive an answer! He is golden! So we are seeing him this week. He will definitely be baptized! No doubt. We did an exchange this week also and we stopped by some less actives but they ended up not being home. As we were leaving a really felt like we needed to knock some ones door. So we went in up to the 3rd floor and knocked it. She was Hispanic! I talked to her and she hasn't been here long in the U.S. She is from Colombia and just super solid! So we are starting to teach her. Her name is A. The spirit definitely was guiding me in that one. I mean it was a very very strong impression to do it so I did. Cause the other Elder was just a little worried cause it's an apartment complex but I did not care. He thought it was super cool too cause we just were really guided by the spirit that day. The only one that came this week was E.

 

Yea I feel I have really learned how to comprehend and study better. At least I hope! I really want to work hard. I realize how lazy I was. It's just truly that natural man. I really was thinking about that the other day. So we were in Priest quorum and Bro. R is the young men's president. He gave the lesson and talked about the atonement and how Christ took three of his apostles with him to the Garden of Gethsemane and told the to wait and he would be back. One of them being Peter. And when Christ have come back and so worn down and tired also, even after just having had eaten, he came and found the asleep. And so I thought, you know, I feel Peter wanted to wait and stay awake but he was just so exhausted it kind of just happened. His heart and spirit were in the right place maybe but as Christ said, "the flesh is weak." We make mistakes but we learn and move on and become better. So I really liked that a lot.  I feel I have just gained a lot of very helpful knowledge.

 

I know every day goes by fast over here for me! It's crazy. 

I'm about to finish it again. I am in 3 Nephi right now. It is just sad of how wicked the people become again after having seen the signs of Christ birth that Samuel had testified of. But it happens. Laman and Lemuel! Same thing! But it happens to ourselves. 

You know something that I thought about from that testimony is if you could maybe write a testimony and I can translate it into Spanish so I could hand them out. You and Dad could both do it. Just something to think about! But I love ya momma and wow I feel I wrote a lot so hope it's good. Talk to ya soon again!

Love, 

Elder McArthur 

 

                                        Helping Brian with the shirts he makes. 

 

February 29, 2016

 

Hey Momma! 

I'm doing great. We had another great week. I think this week we got 14? The week started off just a little slow but it really picked up at the end of the week for sure. Hopefully we have some coming up! We were not able to see his (J's) wife this week but we did have a great lesson with him this week. His wife's cousin is a member and she comes to help us teach. She is great. But! We have been teaching a less active and his little brother. Their names are H and F, and they came to church! H has not been since last June or something. It's been a while but he finally came. So I don't think I have told you about Z. So Z is my age, and he is a member. He has been through a lot with drugs and stuff and his Dad just passed away right before I got here. His mom feeds us and is the sweetest lady and so he has really changed and doing good. He is planning on a mission this summer. His oldest brother served and he has 2 other brothers. One other is active and the other isn't but his mom is very active. Sister M has been a member for over 30 years. So she is Hispanic and only speak Spanish but her husband only spoke English. Lol but after so long the understood each other and learned a little of the languages! So we were not able to see that new family yesterday but hopefully this week we will. They just were not there. But we picked up a new kid who is 16. His mom is a member but we have never taught him. Great kid and so we will see where it goes. N is doing pretty well. She just came across some anti stuff but we were able to resolve it. Luckily that does not happen too often.  

 

We did not work out with Bro. Rothey today but we will be next week. We have a dinner with them though this Tuesday. This week is looking good so far lesson wise. We want to get back up to 20 lessons or more a week. But that is just some of the stuff going on! We helped B out a little this week too service wise. It'll be fun for you guys to meet him! He is going to make us some shirts.

So Elder Hillstead is serving in Reading and then Elder Kelley is in Hazleton. It is sad that we don't get to see everyone because that was always so much fun.

Thank you for the quotes! I really like those. Well I love ya momma! I'll send a picture from our district meeting. We had the assistants and the Zone leaders there. It was good to see a Elder Hopkin. Love ya! 

Love, 

Elder McArthur 

                                                His Disctrict in Bridgeport

Hey Momma! 

Doing good! We had another great week. We are averaging in between 15 and 20 lessons right now but hoping to get even more.  But investigator wise! N is doing great. She could not make it to church this Sunday but is definitely planning on next. She at least texted us. So we will see! J is doing well and his wife. We are just trying to help her quit smoking and drinking coffee but she is being a little lazy about it. I'll let you know how it goes. We did find a new family this week! Did not have a lot of time with them but I will let you know how our next appointment goes but they seem like they have a lot of potential. I really just want to try to talk about the main people we are focusing on. Things have been going great for us though. Oh and we had a third missionary with us just for the day because his companion went home. I also got to see Elder Hillstead, Kelley, Hopkin and a bunch of elders I have not seen in a while. Elder Kelley went back to Hazleton!  

 

So that was our week! I feel like I forget stuff. We get fed every day here basically. But lots of different members too. This is the biggest ward I have been in for sure. 

Yeah all the snow is jut about gone! Still a little here and there. I wish there was more. Because this time last year it was still freezing. But then again I was up north. 

I definitely have to go visit Dallas though after I'm home for a little bit and have gotten settled beause I gotta see everyone's homecoming! And give mine there cause I basically grew up in that ward. 

Well I love ya momma and will have to get some more pictures to ya soon. Love ya!