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