Week of October 17-23, 2016
(17) SEGUNDA (Monday): Today rained a
TON. And we made churrasco. We played UNO, and all in all today was a
really good day. Today was day 467 of my
mission.
Elder Bispo dos Santos, Elder Nascimento, Elder Munns, Elder----, Elder Rapuzzi, Jake
(18) TERCA (Tuesday): Today was a
division with the assistant Elder Smith.
He’s super, super cool. The
dividion actually went very well. But
here’s one thing that happened:
So, we only had one umbrella,
so we were both sharing. At one point,
there were a ton of huge puddles, so I left him with the umbrella and jumped
the first one. He said something, so I
turned to look at him, turning my back to the road. When I turned back, a car passed by, going
very fast, and hit the huge puddle right in front of me. Freaken tidal wave, right into my face and my
chest. Elder Smith started laughing, and
there was this hobo there as well who started laughing super hard. I know the driver was going along, saw the
puddle, saw the Mormon, and didn’t think twice.
We also had a super good lesson
with a woman named Jaqueline. When we
knocked at her door, she already came out saying she doesn’t want to quit
smoking and that she is happy as she is.
I think it’s interesting the lies we sometimes tell ourselves. We feel guilty for a certain thing, so we
convince ourselves we’re happy. IT’S NOT
TRUE! It’s against our divine nature to
be happy while practicing sin. I don’t
know why we create this habit to justify and rationalize. We’re basically saying that we are the
exception to God’s commandments or that we know what is better for us more than
God does. Anyways, she was a sweet
lady, and after talking a bit with her she opened up a bit. It was a very good lesson. Today was day 468 of my mission.
(19)QUARTA (Wednesday): Today rained
for a long time, and was raining SUPER hard.
So, we got nothing done. We had a
FHE with the bishops family because they wanted apple pie. I told them we could do it, but they needed
to find a family of less actives and a family on non members to invite. They did, but at the last minute the family
of investigators couldn’t come. But, let
me just say, this was the BEST apple pie I’ve made yet. And it helped the family of less acives a
lot, so I’m content.
The cashier at the market tried to Bible burn me today
while I was buying the apples. He said,
“You’re a Mormon?” I happily replied,
“Yes sir, I am.” He nodded, then said,
“Have you ever read Galates?” I said yes, then he asked if I remember what it
says in Galates 1:8.
Then he told me to
go read it.
It’s weird, at the beginning of the mission, I always got
frustrated when stuff like this happened, people using badly interprepeted
scruptures to talk bad about the churhc.
Now, it really doesn’t bother me.
One thing that Elder Anderson said when he came here was “You all have
the Book of Mormon and the restored gospel in your lives. You know more about Christ and His atonement
and the church then ANYONE! “ That gave
me a lot of hope and confidence.
Today was day 469 of my mission.
(20) QUINTA
(Thursday): One more day of division. This time I went back to first ward. I was there with Elder Munns, an American
with 2 weeks in the field. Haha, it was
a cool division, watching this new missionary full of desire and wanting to work
and watching him struggle with the language reminded me of my first days. I knew exactly what he was feeling.
He also had no idea where anyting was but he knew the
houses. So, he would tell me the road, I
would get us there, then we would walk
until we found the house. We
walked a lot. It’s been almost a year
that I haven’t had with an American.
It’s going to my head.
Today was
day 470 of my misison.
Giovanna from the 1st ward. She sent these to mom on FB.
(21) SEXTA (Friday): One more divison. This time with an Elder from another
city. It was cool. We called Cris, a young man from the ward, to
do visits with us. And everything fell
through. Holy cow we walked so
much. We got a lot of sun today.
Then the other 3 elders grabbed and broke my glow
sticks. One asked what happens if you
break one open. I put a little hole in
one, turned around, and whipped a line of the glowing liquid on his shirt. THEY FLIPPED OUT! Soon, everyone was throwing light
everywhere. I took a few pictures. Today was day 471 of my mission.
(22) SABADO (Saturday): We called all
the youth again, and we played water balloon capture the flag. Well, we didn’t play with them, but I wanted
to! We set them going, put a young man
in charge, and we left to go to a meeting with the bishop. In the meeting we
made a ton of new plans for the ward. We
have a lot of work to do. Today was day
472 of my mission.
(23) DOMINGO (Sunday): Church today
was great. After, I think I ate so much
at lunch that I broke the word of wisdom about 6 times. Churrasco, and then I ate 3 helping of the
pineapple dessert. Then we went back to
the chaple with the sisters, and we did a meeting to plan all our our
activities. It was a good meeting.
This week was a very good week. We had progress, and I’m starting to get excited
again for the work. We have 3
investigators with a lot of potential:
Isabel, Keli, and John. Today was
day 473 of my misison.
Thanks for everything. I love you all!!
Elder McKee