Come Listen to the Prophet's Voice

My two cool comps :D Elder Collett is not impressed.
(Elder Collett also did drum line)

 The whole reason I'm out here :)

 Anyone for Chess?

 Alyssa should do senior pics out here :D

Good looking kid

 Trying to escape. AHA!

The leaves <3

 The building we meet in :))) Had to take it for our facebook page :)) Hopefully I get on FB this week

                                                                                 I would make you so proud Mom 

 Elder Collett laying down the law at our Family History Presentation

We got the brethren together for the priesthood session for a dinner

I freaking love knocking

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Richard McGuire	Oct 6 (2 days ago)

Dear Family,

It was a splendid week this week knowing that we were able to listen to the general authorities at the end of it. I'll talk about general conference a little later after I talk about my week. I am loving personal study. If I could have six hours to study then I think I would be prepared for the rest of the day. Personal scripture study really made conference that more enjoyable. I got so much from every talk because a lot of the same scriptures were referenced which therefore means the Spirit was guiding the message. I have vamped up my personal study because I heard a quote from one of the Zone Leaders. This was after we got in a new batch of missionaries and one Elder complained that he was assigned to speak English. To quote Elder Johnson, "You can either be a linguist or you can be a scriptorian." This statement was reaffirmed by Elder Packer when he said that "It doesn't how many languages we speak or how many countries of the world we are in, what matters is Spiritual strength."

I have been quite blessed this week. Juicing every day is the brightest idea because it saves on cash and gives me a ton of energy to keep up with the demands of missionary work (change of plan, I think I'll relate everything from my week to a talk at general conference). I loved Elder Klebigat and his adomonition that we need to have our bodies as pure temples. The Spirit cannot reside with us if we are binging on carbs and loser calories. I would also like to admit that Jorg Klebingat is probably the sassiest general authority to get up there. Nevertheless, his words ring true.

This increased energy continues to kindle my love for Maine. Maine is the promised land. I really really want to serve there because New England is so gorgeous! I can't believe I would ever say that, but it's true! Maine is the coolest state in America. We were street contacting in Calais which to be honest was about as productive as nailing jello to the ocean. After about 2 hours of walking and only 4 contacts, I felt as if we were wasting our time. Elder Collett then said that we should go back to Canada because street contacting is usually better in St. Stephen. Just before we got to the border, we all got the impression that our time in Calais wasn't over.

We stopped at the Marden's in Calais to do some store contacting. Not much luck and I felt like the prompting was more of my thoughts than the Spirit itself. However, as we were leaving the store we talked to a couple who wasn't interested, but told us to check out Monroe and Lowell street for people. This is in the heart of the ghetto of Maine. Yes, there's a ghetto in Maine. I knocked a few houses, ran into some more lesbian pagans. Apparently there's a sizable population in these parts. Interesting conversation and they weren't interested. Then we knocked into this one house.

I knocked on the door and clearly no one was home, as we walked away this car pulled up to the garage. Thinking these people were the owners of that house we walked over to strike up conversation. They were definitely not there because it was there house. One man ran into the garage and the other wouldn't roll down his window. Then after an unsuccessful conversation with the man coming out of the garage, another car pulled up. Same thing happened as I described above. Then it donned on me. I knocked into the Calais drug house...

But we still felt like we needed to be in Calais. Walking down Monroe we ran into one lady named Taaliyah and she's interested! Her family met with missionaries in the past and they are all southern black Baptists who love Mormons! Hurray! While we were talking to Taaliyah-whaddup doe-a couple of JW's came by in there car and were like "Hey I got a question for you! What's God's name?" I responded with "God" and he was like "No! It's Jehovah." JWs approach to missionary work is pretty pathetic. *claps for you.

After some more potentials we ran into one man who seemed homeless and disabled but he was genuinely interested. Dennis is so cool because he's very knowledgable about American History and I hadn't realized, but I knew enough to hold a conversation with him. He's interested in the Book of Mormon, but as we were talking to him it came out that he feels really guilty about some things he's done in the past. He wants to come to church but he can't get across the border. That's a big problem with the work around here because when people want to come to church they sometimes can't get over the border. Please pray for Dennis that he'll be able to figure out his border paperwork.

Surprise the library is kicking us off!

Quick notes

We picked up another investigator! Jim is a total redneck but wants to come to church. He loves how family oriented the church is.

I loved the words from Elder Kacher about the riptides and forces in this life. Spiritual questions deserve spiritual answers.

Load that MP3 player with as many songs of MoTab as you can and send it to me :D

I've been thinking a lot about Allen's situation and the talk "That We May Not shrink" by Elder Bednar is very very good. He may have read it, but it applies directly to his situation.

I love you all!!!!

HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!!

Elder McGuire