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!