Week 38 - Hello one and all!

Alright, I will start by talking a little bit about the new companion, or as we call each other now, soa. Which is companion is Samoan. His name is Elder Talauega, but we just call him Elder T. He is from Western Samoa, been out about 7 months. This week was a good one that we got to spend with each other. It seems like we are both adapting well to the new companionship. It is always a little scary when you get a new comp, but things are good. I could say I have been blessed with companions that I can get along really well with, and get to work. We stayed super busy this week, just really trying to get in with members in the ward. The ward isn't super excited about missionary work, but we are trying to get them into the Preach My Gospel, and we are looking to teach them a lot more of how to be missionaries. I think so many people look at missionary work and they aren't sure what to teach, well why not teach the same thing that we teach to every single person? It just makes sense the way I look at it. Hopefully this will get them to be a bit more excited about sharing the gospel.

From what we have heard, missionary work has been slow here for just about forever, which is no excuse. We have been trying to get that picked up. It makes it a little difficult when the only people we teach are really ones who have been found by us, or other missionaries, with the odd exception. Hopefully that can change. Missionary work isn't easy, it isn't something that happens overnight, but it sure doesn't happen any faster if you aren't trying to do anything.

We did have a lesson with Alannah this week, which went so great! She is still just loving everything. The ward has been good to her once she is at church. At the lesson we just went over the first baptismal interview question, then talked about things like the Holy Ghost. It was interesting; the fellowshipppers we had for her at that lesson are two of the young women, so same age as her, from the ward. We got talking about the Gift and Power of the Holy Ghost. I was the only one who knew the difference, how grateful am I for that! It was neat to be able to explain all of that to them and see how she is grasping that. Really the Holy Ghost is one of the most amazing gifts we could ever be given in our lives. It is one of those things that we should always strive for. I don't think I realized how important that is until I have been on my mission and I have had to rely on it for so many things.

Other than that, there is not too much that is new happening in our area. We are trying to get in and do a lot more service this week. Our idea, is people in the community see us out actually doing something instead of them just seeing us knocking on doors and that is it. We aren't fans of tracting, our new mission president isn't either, and neither is our bishop, so hopefully this will yield some results. I hope all is well. I love you all! Talk to you soon!

Love, Elder McFall

Elder T and I. So this is me and the new comp. I don't think anyone will want to fight with us on the streets. Ha He smiled in the other picture, but we were lookin at the other camera! Really, he isn't a mean guy! Ha

The old/new Red Deer Zone

Service - This day, yesterday, consisted of catching, plucking, guttin chickens. In all we did about 70 chickens. good times.