Week 30 - Hello Family & Friends!

The life of Elder McFall is a good one! I mean really, what does a missionary have to complain about? Okay there is a lot of things, but I'll be honest, the joys of serving a mission are irreplaceable. I can't believe I have been able to experience all of the things I have, and I am only 7 months away from home! The journey of a missionary is one that I think you would be hard pressed not to find excitement and joy in! This week was a good one! Not for really any specific reason, just for the fact that I am choosing to be positive about it no matter what! 

We did have a great opportunity to teach Maryann, our new investigator from Hinton, this week. She is doing quite well. We went over there with the Waggoners and really just got to know her more on the spiritual level and see what she is truly looking for in this gospel. It's nice to be able to see someone with that great desire. She came to church yesterday and she had a great reception with the ward. It is good to see someone like that too in the ward, because it plays a great role in getting everyone else excited about missionary work! Hopefully it will jumpstart a new wave of investigators here in the Barrhead area!

We had exchanges this week; I was in Barrhead with Elder Burnside. He went to Brighton High, and so it was fun to see how many people we knew in common! We came out together, but I didn't really know that until I met him when he got transferred up to Athabasca. I guess I didn't pay much attention at the MTC! Our plan for Barrhead was pretty much street contact, tract, and a few lessons on the day he was here. It was a good time though as we found one lady who we mowed her lawn and then set up a tent in her backyard for her. We even got invited to have supper with her and her family that night, it was saurkraut and sausage though, so I said we had an appt! haha that is bad I know..but that nasty cabbage is bad for the soul. Then later we were walking around and saw this guy sitting on his porch, so we naturally just talk to him, and get talking and talking and before you know it we are sittin up on his porch have a water and just talking to him. It was an awesome experience! It is moments like that where I realize how cool it is to be a missionary and how we are able to meet so many different cool people! We talked a bit about gospel, but I think more importantly the next time missionaries knock on their door they will invite them in and talk to them even more. We are like Johnny Appleseed, but instead we plant seeds of the gospel! (I am going crazy, I realize this.)

We weren't able to teach really any of our other investigators this week, which is a bummer. people just are too busy for the gospel apparently? Which is tough to see. I wish they would see that their life would be so much easier, their sorrows and pains would go away if they would allow Christ into their lives. They just need to experience it, and try it out, and I know they will see the difference. This week we are hoping to be back on track and at it again. 

We were able to go to the ward campout this last Friday night. It was a blast! It was fun to get out there with the ward and have a little bit of fun! We shared a message with them around the campfire too which was actually a pretty neat experience! We talked about how we need to not let others bring our testimonies down, and not let the distractions of life deter us from thriving in the gospel. It was a fun little object lesson we did, that would be difficult to explain via email, but know it was good! 

Saturday we did all sorts of service again! Split wood for just about 3 hours...we used this homemade wood splitter, which is a lot less sketchy then it sounds, but we got it done! It was a lot of work, but it made me realize how much I appreciate and how thankful I am that I have been blessed with an able body that I can help people out like we have. 

I hope you all have a wonderful week though! It has been rainy and stormy here for just about the last two weeks, it is driving me crazy! I want the sun! It only gets to like 75 degrees at the most, but apparently it's still not summer, so I have no reason to worry. It will hopefully be a great week up here! We will make it great either way! Could be my last week as next week I could be transferred! Who knows! Until then! I'll talk to you soon!

Love, Elder McFall