Joy to the World!
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| Christmas ties! |
Dear Family, 12/21/15
Merry Christmas! Thank you all for writing me this week! I'm looking
forward to skyping you all this Friday. Can you believe this will be
my third skype home? Then we've just got one more. Time just flies by
when you're on a mission. I'm grateful for the time I've served and
for the time I have left to serve the Lord in this capacity. Last
Christmas I was in Cole Harbour when I skyped you. I'll be skyping at
3:30 Atlantic Time. Not sure when that is for you all in Arizona, but
be ready when I call.
I have been studying the topic of faith for the past three weeks. This
week I was going over Alma 32 where Alma teaches how faith leads to
knowledge. Faith and knowledge are not two separate things. One leads
into the other. We have to have faith before we can have knowledge.
Take for example the word of wisdom. If we have never practiced the
word of wisdom it is impossible to have a complete knowledge of how it
can bless our lives. We have to exercise faith by actually living the
commandment. Once we have lived it then we gain knowledge or
understanding based on experience. Before you get to knowledge you
have to have faith. Knowledge or intelligence is the glory of God.
It's the law of the Harvest.
This previous week was an interesting one. The holidays always causes
people to get really busy and religion ironically is the last thing on
their mind. We did our best to find and teach people despite the
holiday bustle. This current week is going to be even more
interesting. Tuesday was our Christmas Conference for New Brunswick.
The Pratts have a different style than the Leavitts when it comes to
Christmas Conferences. We still had all of the necessities:
devotional, talent show, dinner, and white elephant gift exchange. If
you couldn't tell from the pictures, I got a Farmer Set for my desk so
now my desk is all posche and what not. It was a ton of fun to meet up
with a lot of former companions and missionaries that I've gotten to
know over the course of my mission. It's really crazy how fast a
mission goes. I've been out for nearly 17 months. I hope you enjoyed
all of the pictures.
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| New office |
The next day we had to move apartments which took basically the whole
day. The only breaks we took was for lessons we had set up with our
investigators. The new apartment is really nice, one of the nicest
I've ever had on my mission. You never really know how much stuff you
have until you have to move it all. I think I'll really be a
minimalist after my mission. I'm not a fan of putting together a move
and then doing it all day. We moved our beds, couch and all of our
office supplies. Lots and lots of pass along cards, books, and
pamphlets. It's good to clean out though. We moved apartments because
Moncton is getting sister missionaries in the new year. Not really too
sure what will happen, but I'll know next Sunday.
The next two days were work days and everyone was decently chipper for
the Christmas season. We contacted one media referral named John. He's
had a lot of addictions in his life and wants to get clean. He
requested a bible online so we went by with one and a Book of Mormon.
He comes from a baptist background so there was a lot of doctrinal
confusions to clear up there. I know like zero to nothing about the
Book of Revelation but it's a book a lot of Protestant churches like
to study from. Other than that we didn't have too much time to look
for more people to teach. We did manage to get the mission finding
standard in two days as well.
On Saturday we got to go to the temple for one of Elder Tincher's
converts from Cape Breton to receive his endowment. Glen is an awesome
guy. He was found knocking and just embraced the gospel from day one.
He plays classical guitar really enjoyed the temple experience. The
best advice I could give anyone who's getting ready for their
endowment is to read and study as much as you can from the scriptures
about the temple. I wish I had done that. I did get some very
interesting revelation while in the celestial room regarding faith.
Moses 7:13
I'm looking forward to skyping you all live and in person this Friday.
HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!
Love,
Elder McGuire
Joy to the World!
|
| Christmas ties! |
Dear Family, 12/21/15
Merry Christmas! Thank you all for writing me this week! I'm looking
forward to skyping you all this Friday. Can you believe this will be
my third skype home? Then we've just got one more. Time just flies by
when you're on a mission. I'm grateful for the time I've served and
for the time I have left to serve the Lord in this capacity. Last
Christmas I was in Cole Harbour when I skyped you. I'll be skyping at
3:30 Atlantic Time. Not sure when that is for you all in Arizona, but
be ready when I call.
I have been studying the topic of faith for the past three weeks. This
week I was going over Alma 32 where Alma teaches how faith leads to
knowledge. Faith and knowledge are not two separate things. One leads
into the other. We have to have faith before we can have knowledge.
Take for example the word of wisdom. If we have never practiced the
word of wisdom it is impossible to have a complete knowledge of how it
can bless our lives. We have to exercise faith by actually living the
commandment. Once we have lived it then we gain knowledge or
understanding based on experience. Before you get to knowledge you
have to have faith. Knowledge or intelligence is the glory of God.
It's the law of the Harvest.
This previous week was an interesting one. The holidays always causes
people to get really busy and religion ironically is the last thing on
their mind. We did our best to find and teach people despite the
holiday bustle. This current week is going to be even more
interesting. Tuesday was our Christmas Conference for New Brunswick.
The Pratts have a different style than the Leavitts when it comes to
Christmas Conferences. We still had all of the necessities:
devotional, talent show, dinner, and white elephant gift exchange. If
you couldn't tell from the pictures, I got a Farmer Set for my desk so
now my desk is all posche and what not. It was a ton of fun to meet up
with a lot of former companions and missionaries that I've gotten to
know over the course of my mission. It's really crazy how fast a
mission goes. I've been out for nearly 17 months. I hope you enjoyed
all of the pictures.
|
| New office |
The next day we had to move apartments which took basically the whole
day. The only breaks we took was for lessons we had set up with our
investigators. The new apartment is really nice, one of the nicest
I've ever had on my mission. You never really know how much stuff you
have until you have to move it all. I think I'll really be a
minimalist after my mission. I'm not a fan of putting together a move
and then doing it all day. We moved our beds, couch and all of our
office supplies. Lots and lots of pass along cards, books, and
pamphlets. It's good to clean out though. We moved apartments because
Moncton is getting sister missionaries in the new year. Not really too
sure what will happen, but I'll know next Sunday.
The next two days were work days and everyone was decently chipper for
the Christmas season. We contacted one media referral named John. He's
had a lot of addictions in his life and wants to get clean. He
requested a bible online so we went by with one and a Book of Mormon.
He comes from a baptist background so there was a lot of doctrinal
confusions to clear up there. I know like zero to nothing about the
Book of Revelation but it's a book a lot of Protestant churches like
to study from. Other than that we didn't have too much time to look
for more people to teach. We did manage to get the mission finding
standard in two days as well.
On Saturday we got to go to the temple for one of Elder Tincher's
converts from Cape Breton to receive his endowment. Glen is an awesome
guy. He was found knocking and just embraced the gospel from day one.
He plays classical guitar really enjoyed the temple experience. The
best advice I could give anyone who's getting ready for their
endowment is to read and study as much as you can from the scriptures
about the temple. I wish I had done that. I did get some very
interesting revelation while in the celestial room regarding faith.
Moses 7:13
I'm looking forward to skyping you all live and in person this Friday.
HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!
Love,
Elder McGuire
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