Dear Family,
What an amazing week! One of the best of my mission. We worked so hard
this past week. Sounds like you all had great weeks as well. I'm so
grateful to hear about your successes living the gospel of Jesus
Christ. It's a great time to be a Latter-day Saint. I continue to pray
for you every day.
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| Nova Scotia the land of the spiders |
This week I felt like I was serving in Brazil. We mapped out all of
our time on a chart with different colors. A lot of our time is taken
up by administrative things like planning and studies and meetings and
meals. We have so much time in a week to find people to teach it's
amazing to me how I couldn't seem to do it consistently. After
blocking off all of the administrative things we had no control over
we then began to fill in time to work with less-actives and recent
converts as well as to do family history. We want to be involved in
all parts of the work of salvation. After we had coloured in our time
we were left with how much time we could spend seriously looking for
people to teach. I am usually a very gung ho person when it comes to
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| We are doing service at the hospital and we get red vests! |
knocking. We have a lot of time to find people to teach. We have a
total of 33 hours in a week to look for people . That is a lot of
time. In the past in the beginning phases of my mission we would maybe
get 10 hours and that's the standard so we felt good about that. After
mapping it out I realized hey we could be finding way more than we
already are. Of course in the middle of the week I forgot to account
for total drive time in a day which is about an hour so we roughly
have about 25 hours to find people to teach in a week.
There's this thing about our purpose as missionaries. We have to talk
to people. We have to work. We talked to about 500 people this week.
Setting the goal to talk to 100 people in a day is intimidating but it
needed to be done. We needed to talk to everyone and we needed to be
looking for people to teach more. We were blessed after we showed the
Lord that we were working hard. The standard for the mission is to
talk to 140 people a week and tract and street contact for 10 hours.
The summer is kind of nice because more people are on the streets and
we can talk to more people. The first person we found was Josh from
North Preston! I can't believe we found a guy that used to be in my
old area of Cole Harbour. He just left Preston to get away from the
crime there (it is the ghetto) and he liked that we were kind of like
the ministers that talk to prisoners in jail. If we can find humble
people there's a good chance we can teach them. Then we ran into
Alicia who works as a cook at the local pub but wants a better
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| Our cabin actually has a pool but we aren't allowed to go swimming |
felt like we were on fire this week.
After talking to a couple more dozen people we ran into a young black
guy named Javon. Javon is the real deal. He has studied a lot of
theology and says he hasn't looked into Mormonism before and he said
we were nice gentlemen so bingo we are going to be meeting with him.
It's my belief that we have to mine ore before we find the gold
nuggets. That means working hard. President Benson said that the
secret to missionary work is work! Work means talking to people. Not
to say that we weren't talking to a lot of people in the past but this
week we really made an effort to talk to people. We were just finding
potentials left and right. Indeed we would still run into the older
I've got me own religion types of people but they were just the ore we
had to get throught before we could find the gold.
We found three new investigators this week! I have never found three
new investigators in a week in my life. The most was probably two that
were flaky. Our first investigator that we found through street
contacting was Rodney. Rodney is 17, in grade 11 and wants to be a
professional wrestler. Yes Rodney is legit. He is actually from St.
Stephen! The promised land. He saw how devoted we looked on the street
talking to people and wanted to know more about what motivates us. He
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pray for him that would be great. We want to get him on a mission.
Our next new investigator is Tyler. We also found him street
contacting. He has cerebal palsy but used to investigate 20 years ago.
He couldn't get baptised because he never overcame drinking. He's a
humble older guy with an anglican background. He really likes how we
don't debate or push our faith like the JWs. It should be good to
teach him more about the atonement. HUmble people are the ones that
are joining the church the most these days.
The next new investigator is Troy! He is married to a recent convert
that used to be excommunicated. He is big into motorcycles and he's
been in a lot of accidents. He wanted to know what Tammy is wife was
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| .............and all of my planners for my mission so far |
was a good fellowshipper. She really expressed how important it was
for her to go to the temple. Then Troy wanted to know what the temple
was all about and we explained sealings and he thought, well that
makes sense. He doesn't know if he'll be baptized just yet because he
wants a testimony of it first. He'll do great.
We had an amazing week. Thank you for your prayers!
HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!
Love,
Elder McGuire
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