McKay is Leaving for Chile on September 1st..
He is so excited...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Sunday, August 24, 2008
August 22 2008
Hey family, so I am going to be writing you a letter later on today, but I just wanted to tell Dad happy 50th Birthday. You are an old fart, ya know. Just think Dad, you are already half way through your life. :) Anywho, I hope that your birthday goes wonderful and that all your wildest dreams come true. I know mine are right now.
Today I will be getting my flight plans so in my letter I will let you know when and what time I am leaving. I am so excited. I have a week from Monday and so Chile is all that I am thinking about right now. I actually started taking calls in spanish yesterday and I got the missionaries and a Book of Mormon to everyone that I talked to. They were so excited and so it made me excited. So then I thought ya know my spanish may not be perfect right now but when I am out in the field in a week I will have the spirit as my spanish prompter as long as I am worthy of it. Nothing can beat the spirit. So I guess I do feel ready now.
Also, this past Tuesday we had the opportunity of listening to Dallin H. Oaks and his lovely new companion Sister Oaks at the fireside. I was really close to them and they did a really great job of speaking to me. They both talked about living right to have the Holy Ghost as a guide in our lives. This is really important because I as a missionary am focused on the spirit all the time. On a mission that is all you do, eat, drink and sleep the spirit and ways to keep that spirit with you all the time. He told us that the only way we can live worthily of the spirit is if we partake of the Santa Cenna each week worthily and righeously. While we are partaking of it, we need to think to ourselves that this will help me to be worthy of that spirit for the rest of the week. The Sacrament is not just something we do just because, it is and extremely important event that we should take a lot more serious and think about it a lot more then we normally do.
It really was such an amazing talk, he ended 20 minutes early but he said everything he needed to say. Thats how it should be, we need to say what we need to say and not worry if you are taking up all the time that is meant for you. It was also a really simple talk. He used a lot of scriptures and let them bare testimony of the truthfullness, he added his testimony to that to be the secondary testimony and then he put questions in our head to make us think and want to do better. That is exactly how we are trained to teach here in the mission and the spirit is so strong when you do it correctly.
I think school has started already for ya'll, so if it has, good luck and remember to have fun. Education is one of my most favorite things and it will help all of those who make an effort and do his/her best. Always be striving to learn more and more everyday and turn to the Lord when you are stressed out about something. The Lord knows every subject and is a schollar in all of them. In fact he invented education and all that implies so he knows all the answers. Thats for everything. Prayer is amazing and so I hope that all of you are praying everyday about everything that you engage in. The Lord already knows what you have done but you have to go to him in sincere prayer and ask him to bestow blessings upon your head. (Moroni 10: 3-5) Also, make sure that you are still praying every night as a family. That will be the biggest strength for you all and Satan cannot break the bands of a strong family.
We did get the new district this week and they are great. We recieved 8 Elders and 4 Hermanas. I actaully know one of the Hermanas. She is my friend Lauren White's older sister so it is good to k now someone. They have only been here for 2 days so they are really worn out but I see a lot of good out of them all. I see a lot of good coming from the whole zone. I have 5 districts in my zone. District A has 9 Elders, District B(new district) has 8 Elders and 4 Hermanas, District C has 6 Elders, District D has 10 Elders and then my district, District F has 4 Elders.
Well I love you and will send a small letter. Have a great week. LOve ya.
Today I will be getting my flight plans so in my letter I will let you know when and what time I am leaving. I am so excited. I have a week from Monday and so Chile is all that I am thinking about right now. I actually started taking calls in spanish yesterday and I got the missionaries and a Book of Mormon to everyone that I talked to. They were so excited and so it made me excited. So then I thought ya know my spanish may not be perfect right now but when I am out in the field in a week I will have the spirit as my spanish prompter as long as I am worthy of it. Nothing can beat the spirit. So I guess I do feel ready now.
Also, this past Tuesday we had the opportunity of listening to Dallin H. Oaks and his lovely new companion Sister Oaks at the fireside. I was really close to them and they did a really great job of speaking to me. They both talked about living right to have the Holy Ghost as a guide in our lives. This is really important because I as a missionary am focused on the spirit all the time. On a mission that is all you do, eat, drink and sleep the spirit and ways to keep that spirit with you all the time. He told us that the only way we can live worthily of the spirit is if we partake of the Santa Cenna each week worthily and righeously. While we are partaking of it, we need to think to ourselves that this will help me to be worthy of that spirit for the rest of the week. The Sacrament is not just something we do just because, it is and extremely important event that we should take a lot more serious and think about it a lot more then we normally do.
It really was such an amazing talk, he ended 20 minutes early but he said everything he needed to say. Thats how it should be, we need to say what we need to say and not worry if you are taking up all the time that is meant for you. It was also a really simple talk. He used a lot of scriptures and let them bare testimony of the truthfullness, he added his testimony to that to be the secondary testimony and then he put questions in our head to make us think and want to do better. That is exactly how we are trained to teach here in the mission and the spirit is so strong when you do it correctly.
I think school has started already for ya'll, so if it has, good luck and remember to have fun. Education is one of my most favorite things and it will help all of those who make an effort and do his/her best. Always be striving to learn more and more everyday and turn to the Lord when you are stressed out about something. The Lord knows every subject and is a schollar in all of them. In fact he invented education and all that implies so he knows all the answers. Thats for everything. Prayer is amazing and so I hope that all of you are praying everyday about everything that you engage in. The Lord already knows what you have done but you have to go to him in sincere prayer and ask him to bestow blessings upon your head. (Moroni 10: 3-5) Also, make sure that you are still praying every night as a family. That will be the biggest strength for you all and Satan cannot break the bands of a strong family.
We did get the new district this week and they are great. We recieved 8 Elders and 4 Hermanas. I actaully know one of the Hermanas. She is my friend Lauren White's older sister so it is good to k now someone. They have only been here for 2 days so they are really worn out but I see a lot of good out of them all. I see a lot of good coming from the whole zone. I have 5 districts in my zone. District A has 9 Elders, District B(new district) has 8 Elders and 4 Hermanas, District C has 6 Elders, District D has 10 Elders and then my district, District F has 4 Elders.
Well I love you and will send a small letter. Have a great week. LOve ya.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
