With Humble Hearts

Grand Falls in the Fall

Dear Family,
Thank you for writing me once again! I've gotten to know you all a lot
better on my mission. It's nice to hear from you and what's going on
in your lives and in your families. I hope that you all have a good
thanksgiving this Thursday. Canada has a different Thanksgiving. We
had it about a month and a half ago. I don't know if we'll get fed on
Thursday by some member that takes pity on American missionaries but
we'll see how it goes. It's good to be back in Moncton. Very often we
don't have a chance in life to do something twice. I have a second
shot with this ward and with the area so I'm excited about that.

We are promised an incredible blessing with the atonement of Jesus
Christ. He is our saviour and just as Alma declares he knows our pain
and our suffering. His remedy for our suffering and sins is the
gospel. It is through the gospel that we become stronger and better
people. We can change our lives. Christ has felt as we have or may
feel. He knows the solution. It is called the Doctrine of Christ.
Faith is applying correct principles to our lives. It is taking the
will of God and making it ours. When we exercise faith we avoid
difficult problems like addiction, debt, and ignorance. We would not
understand how to overcome those problems had Christ not atoned and
then taught the remedies through prophets. Although we may make
mistakes, we can repent and lead better lives that are more
fulfilling. Repentance opens up a better life. I know that Christ is
the way to salvation. We can experience spiritual and temporal
blessings through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

This past week was rough on me emotionally. It was very difficult to
say goodbye to our little twig in Grand Falls. We had most of Monday
and Tuesday to have some final appointments so that was nice. Donna
was pretty sad to see me go, but I'll make sure to visit everyone
there again. In our final lesson we talked about the Montreal Temple
Rededication and she was very excited to go. Getting a recent convert
to the temple is so key, even if you live far away from it. The
recommend holding members got to see the broadcast in Corner Brook
which doubled as the temple for the rededication.

See ya later Elder Hardesty

We had a nice Newfie dinner Tuesday night which was so much fun. As
the Newfs say "Some shocking good me duckie!" or "Some shocking good
me old trout!" All of the members there are just so great. We had
supper with Sister King and Sister Borden. It was a serious meal.
Moose roast, potatoes, turnips, peas, and plenty of gravy. Newfies
know how to make a great feed.

I was pretty upset with Darren when we showed up for our last lesson.
Helen was there when we got there and they were both drinking. It
wasn't a good environement for a lesson so I pulled the plug and said
we needed to go. Darren didn't say the nicest things to me which was
not how I wanted things to end. Put so much work into teaching him I

Grand Falls is my second home

sure do hope that he gets baptized. In general it was just hard to
leave Grand Falls. But I will go back one day and visit with everyone.

After a flight from Deer Lake to Halifax I got to spend the day in
Cole Harbour which was nice. It was good to see lots of people that I
knew and get some proselyting in. I was a different missionary on
those streets this time around. We then had to get up early to travel
to Moncton with all of the new missionaries so that they could get to
their areas. Once we dropped my stuff off, we hit the streets street
contacting. I really took the Newfoundland hospitality for granted.
Both Newfies and New Brunswickers have about the same level of
interest in the gospel but the New Brunswickers aren't the kindest
about saying no. We did get so much work done though. Over the past
three days we talked to 350 people.

Moncton has so many options for proselyting. We started to contact
people on the universite de moncton. Everyone's first language was
defintely french but they were still YSA and we found a lot of great
people. The first guy we found was Ibrahima from Senegal. He was
interested in learning about prophets. I love how open all of the
college students are. We also found where all of the student housing
was so that was a blast to knock. Another lady we found was Kathy. Her
sister is actually a member in Ontario so she wanted to know more
about what she believed. Our current investigators are Brady and Joey.
Brady is very solid. He was a media referral from a while ago that
wanted to have a better relationship with God. He is gay, but is
seriously one of the most solid people I have ever taught. He's
getting baptized in the next couple of months. Joey is the cousin of
the ward mission leader. Catholic but not really active and he's
getting baptized in December. We're getting things going here in
Moncton.

Elder Tincher is awesome. He's from Alpine, Utah, played Football and
Lacrosse in High School and is a serious worker. We both just hit the
streets and work as hard as we can. We're going to see miracles this
transfer.

HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!

Love,

Elder McGuire