It was another great week here in the CHM. You all snowmanned it and
didn't write me. But I'm grateful for your prayers and for putting my
name on the temple prayer roll. Christmastime is busy. There's a lot
of parties to go to and gifts to wrap. I remember one year we all got
money from Mom and Dad to buy everyone Christmas presents and I didn't
do my chores which mom had given me. To add to the stress of Mom I
didn't even decide on gifts for a few of my siblings so mom was not a
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| True North |
cleaned her washroom when in actuality I couldn't have because that's
where all of the Christmas presents were and it was locked. Three
strikes. I don't know how things ended up, but I think I got sick and
decided to write Mom a huge apology note for being a pill. Then she
forgave me and let me do my chores from the past few days. That was a
huge gift to me that year.
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| Dieppe elders gearing up for the night |
atoning sacrifice we are able to be forgiven on the conditions of
obedience and repentance. Repentance often gets a bad wrap in our
church. We sometimes view it as this painful process where the law of
justice is being satisfied. The law of justice is not satisfied
through repentance. It was satisfied through the sacrifice of Jesus
Christ. Because Christ felt our guilt and shame he devised repentance
and the gospel to help us practically remove those feelings from our
conscious. As Lehi states "How great the importance to make these
things known unto the inhabitants of the earth, that they may know
that there is no flesh that can dwell in the presence of God, save it
be through the merits, and mercy, and grace of the Holy Messiah." What
does the word merit mean? It means to be worthy. Through repentance we
can feel the calm feeling of peace and a clear mind. I know that we
can. That is the gift.
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| Exchanges in Amherst were a success. Elder Batley approves |
meetings of Mission Leadership Council and District Meeting, but in
general we still worked just as hard as we could in Blitz week.
President Pratt raised the finding standards to 15 hours and 180
contacts. We talked to well over 500 people and worked whenever we
weren't teaching. On Monday night we had the week practically made. We
began the night teaching Denis who's still trying to quit smoking. He
is putting himself back together and getting a job which helps with
the teaching process. I'm sure I mentioned it, but we helped move his
apartment so he can meet with us in a better environment. Denis is
progressing fairly well.
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| One team one dream |
We then had Joey take us out for Chinese food and a lesson. He is
coming along. He was supposed to get baptized on December 12, but the
man just struggles with prioritizing his time. We are going to be
moving his date to the 23rd of January. All this buzz about the 23rd
is getting the ward excited. We are also hoping that Kayla his
girlfriend will accept to be baptized as well. Might have a wedding in
between now and then.
To cap off Monday night we picked up two new investigators, Dennis and
Trudie. Baptist backgrounds (incredibly) and working every night andday. Dennis works for a gas company and does crazy shifts. Trudie
works at Tim Horton's and has a bachelor's degree in the bible and
pyschology. They like shorter lessons which is good because after
about 30 minutes I'm normally scrambling to get more material out
there. They're living common law and are pretty anti marriage because
of all the marriages they've seen end in a divorce. "Marriage is just
a piece of paper." It's good in a way to have these concerns because
it really helps me get into the scriptures way more and the
proclamation to the world. They are both really fascinated with the
Book of Mormon so we've got that going for us. So in general Monday
was a fantastic night. Three lessons and two new investigators, I
ain't complaining.
We get to skype next week!
HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!
Love,
Elder McGuire
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| Sugar cookie hot chocolate from Tim Horton's, get at us |
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