The Sleep of a Labouring Man is Sweet

Dear Family,

If you ain't talking Oh Henry I don't want to talk. I'm really going
to fill a whole suitcase with these candy bars when I go home

What a crazy week! Thank you for your prayers for our investigators
and for our little twig in Northern Canada. Joseph Smith wrote a great
quote about missionary work in this dispensation. It's called The
Standard of Truth. The Standard of Truth has been erected no
unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing, persecutions may
rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble and calumny may defame,
but the truth of God will go forth boldly nobly independent til it has
penetrated every continent visited every clime swept every country and
sounded in every ear. Til the purposes of God shall be accomplished
and the Great Jehovah shall say, The Work is Done. I like to think
about that quote whenever I get discouraged about missionary work or
talking to people. We don't really have to worry about things
happening. We're not going to wait forever for the Saviour to come.
We're going to see miracles in this church. I have witnessed so many
miracles you would not even believe me. God is a God of miracles.

Elder Beacham is excited to be on exchanges :D

Another great thing about miracles is that they signify the blessings
that have been restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith. I was
reading over the hymn The Morning Breaks a few days ago. This is a
great hymn for those of you that like to get up early and jog some
before the day gets going. "The clouds of error disappear Before the
rays of truth divine." The restoration is like a sunrise. In the
morning if you get up early enough you will be surrounded by the dark.
This is like the apostasy. Gradually the sun rises and the earth heats
up. This is the restoration. It is gradual, but the mysteries of God
are being revealed just as they were in ancient times. I know that
just like a sunrise overcomes the darkness, so too does the
restoration overcome apostasy.

This week was a week focusing on the Restoration. We had a great zone
conference with Elder Perkins. General Authorities are great. He
understood the scriptures so well it was incredible to watch him
teach. We role-played for 10 minutes teaching the Restoration and then
he would give us feedback. Whooo I was sweating through the whole
thing. Case and point we didn't get to the message of the actual
restoration fast enough. I even noticed this in my street contacts. We
ask a few questions to sort of break the ice, sometimes it works
sometimes it doesn't, but people really just want to hear what we are
there to tell them. That God speaks again. We did this activity trying
to teach the whole restoration in 10 words or less. I got it down to
6. God speaks again, here is evidence *pointing to the Book of Mormon.
It's good and it's bad. I like to ask people questions and listen to
them, get to know them a bit before I just launch into prophets,
priesthood, golden plates, and Joseph Smith. It comes down to
following the Spirit. It was a fantastic zone conference.

I ordered some new scriptures the other week and they came! 

Mind you St. John's got the tail end of a hurricane that hit the east
coast last week so it was just raining buckets all of last week.
Driving out of there was rough and we were hydroplaning and blah it
was just bad. With a car full of hungry and tired missionaries and
then forgetting to fill up on gas and just everything that could have
possibly gone wrong, we rolled into Grand Falls at about 11pm, three
hours later than we should have gotten there. The next morning I woke
up with a cold and headache, but two days out of our area just isn't
good so we hit the town proselyting the whole day. We talked to a lot
of people and taught most of our investigators, but my headache was
something fierce and the rain wasn't helping.

Could have been the Spirit or shear stupidity working with a cold but
we ended up finding two new investigators and teaching up a storm with
our investigators. The first lady we found is Susan. She is originally
anglican but doesn't go to church. Sort of your standard
I-still-believe-in-God-even-though-I-don't-go-to-church. It was a
great lesson. We hammered through the message of the restoration in 5
minutes and ended up bearing our testimonies about the Book of Mormon
for the next 25. She wants to read the whole book in a week. It's a
miracle when you apply training from a general authority. The other
investigator we found was Krystal the girlfriend of a less-active. We
found her through visiting a less active. It's always key to ask
everyone who is there in the house if they want to join in on the
lesson.

Here's a miracle for the week:

Once a month the members in Grand Falls and Gander attend church in

Corner Brook, which is a near 3 hour trip. Combine that with a branch
activity the Saturday night before, and you have quite the time
commitment for the Grand Falls members. One of our
investigators-Helen-was prepared to come with us. This morning she was
feeling a bit overwhelmed and texted us saying she would not be able
to come. We did our best to resolve her concerns but did not have any
success. We prayed for her and hoped that we would be able to help in
any way possible, and then went on with our day.

Near the end of our parking lot contacting, we felt that we should
wrap up that activity just a little earlier than usual. As we began to
drive out of the parking lot we saw Helen walking through the parking
lot and drove over and said hi! We talked more with her about how she
was feeling, testified of the comfort that comes through praying,
reading our scriptures, and coming to church. We offered for her to
come with us to Corner Brook again and she accepted! We parted ways at
her apartment building with a big smile on her face. She loved Corner
Brook and is excited for next month.

HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!

Love,

Elder McGuire