First things first. Shout out to my angel mother! It's her birthday today! I am beyond grateful that my mom lives and that she has taught me so much! I need everyone that reads this to give her a big ol' hug to her when you see her and wish her happy birthday from me!
Elder Wright is a really great missionary. He has one change less than E. Jenks, and honestly I am SUPER pumped to work with young missionaries like them. They have so much energy and they are just so... Good!
Elder Wright is from Calgary, Canada.( shout out to Mom!) he has lived in Cardston, worked in Waterton, and pretty much I think he and Mom would love talking about Canada stuff. I'm sure he knows many of the familes that you visited and taught on your mission mom! He is about a year younger than I am, and he served the first transfer of his mission in Arizona waiting for his visa to come to El Salvs.
To be honest I'm afraid of finishing this change. Things pass so quickly here in the office, and I have officially been here in the office:
- As many changes as I was in Las Delicias(4 changes) and with these last couple days I now have MORE time here than I did there
- 1 change longer than I was in Belize (both areas combined)
- 1 change longer than I was in Zaragoza.
- 4x as long as Belmopan.
Haha, but it feels like it has only been like 2 weeks! How is that possible?!??
God is good. I am thankful for this great blessing that God has given me to be an office elder, and to do the work of the Lord from such a unique perspective. In these next 6 weeks I hope to teach everything I know to E. Wright(which isn't that much;)
But guess What?
No really guess!
Did you guess?
Guess what happens the 29th of this month?
That's right:
Jose and Claudia Maldonado are getting baptized!
Last weekend(actually Friday night after I wrote home) we visited them, and like always, we brought up baptism. To be honest, I was expecting the usual response of "we'll let you know" but instead we heard "well actually, we've been thinking of a date, and we want to do it at the end of this month. After recovering from shock and sheer joy, we started talking more with them, and we made plans for them to baptized on the 29th of this month! well, more correctly, THEY made the plans. You can tell the difference when the baptismal date is put by the missionaries, and when it's written on the hearts of the investigators!
Please pray for them and their family in these next couple of weeks. If I have learned anything, it is that the devil wants us to be miserable, and to fail, and so he will be working on them these next couple of weeks, and we need to work harder!
The Lopez family is doing great as well. Only that their little baby daughter has been pretty sick, and so they as well need many, many prayers. The Bishop is very involved with their family, so that makes us very happy, as he is taking care of them and helping them to do make it through all of their hardships right now!
On Monday this week we had an earthquake here in the city! We were with the Lopez family, and we had felt a couple little tremors throughout the day and the night before, but suddenly everything started shaking, and just as quick as it started it was over. haha It was super sketchy, but it wasn't anything big at all. a couple of small things fell over(like my shampoo back in the apartment) but that's about it.
The one big problem that happened was that a huge rock fell on the main highway between San Salvador and Sonsonate.
So pretty much changes meetin on Wednesday in Versailles( a city smack in the middle of Sonsonate and San Salvador) was already planning on being a struggle!
Luckily there is a back route that goes through the east mission and back down into Versailles, but we had never been before! And it was ME who had to drive out there. I wish I could show you a map of how bad we got lost! haha, even though we were following the GPS, apparently the GPS didn't want us to get there. But anyways. As soon as we got there, someone told us they had forgotten the missionary agendas, and so E. Mayen and I had to go back ol San Salvador and bring them(like 140 planners for all the missionaries... kinda important.) But once again the GPS threw us a curve ball, and it ended up taking us OVER the volcano and back to San Salvador(lost AGAIN) and then when we finally got to the Office?... Neither I nor E. Mayen had the keys.... Defeated, we returned to Versailles without the planners, and we made a crazy plan to get the planners out to everybody the next day. Everything worked out in the end... but it was a big ol mess!
So after 5 hours of driving, we finally made it to change meeting and I got my new son! Elder Wright is such a good missionary, and he is doing great in the office!
It was great to have 5 hours of driving with E. Mayen before he left the office though. I have been around him for 10 and a half months of my mission! He is a great friend of mine, and I am sad that he's gone, but at the same time I'm stocked because now he is the Zone Leader in the Santa Tecla Zone!(the same zone where he and I were companions in Zaragoza!)
Anyways, its been a great week, lots of things happened, but God is good and the work rolls forward in our area and in the office!
Hope you all know that I love you, and that God blesses your lives continually!
Have the greatest of weeks!
Elder McFarland!
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