You Can Make a Pathway Bright

Still frozen over

Dear Family,
Thanks for your letters! So many of you are so solid with life and the
gospel it's great. Keep doing the basics! As mom would say, when you
wake up, get up, when you get up, stay up. Mom knew what she was
doing. You would not believe all of the life skills I have had to
teach to people on my mission. Praise for living the gospel and making
something of yourselves.

This past week I studied a variety of things. I am focusing on

U gone drive. I love Maine

studying the 9 basic doctrines of the church. It takes a life time of
study to understand the church. I remember being in my interview with
the Temple President in Snowflake and he said that after almost 50
years of going to the temple consistently he is just beginning to
understand the endowment. For those of you that are endowed, read over
3 Nephi 11-14. Those chapters contain a lot of references to the
Temple Endowment.

This past week we continued to look for people to teach. It's an
interesting thing about finding. We can literally work all hours of
the week and still not find anyone through our own efforts. Most of
the week was finding. Finally on Saturday, we had a member introduce
us to one of her friends, Colby. He is 25 and awesome. He does a lot
of community service and has been to Africa to help kids get fresh
water and stable housing. Colby also has a tattoo of the eagle scout
medal on his forearm. Yes you could say he's the real deal. He has a
firm belief in Jesus Christ. Can you say golden?!

We unfortunately had to drop Jason. He was doing so well, but when we
dropped by the other day a lady came to the door and well let's just
say this is one of those times where I don't write home about all the
details to an investigators story. I'll tell you after the mission. So
yeah, Thursday was a rough day. I don't like it when we put so much
work into an investigator and they just stumble. I can only imagine

Possibly the greatest bumper sticker ever made. There's a lot of
elderly people in Maine

how the prophet feels when after a general conference he learns of
people leaving their families or leaving the church. It's sad.

Tia and Riley and the whole gang are doing great. We taught them about
three times this past week. Riley still isn't sure about baptism but
he's warming up to the idea. We got them out to the ward sports night
to play volleyball and basketball. Riley was having a blast. They
invited us over this week for St. Patrick's Day. We're going to have
Corn beef and cabbage and watch the Restoration video. They are so
solid. We're going to have some April showers if you know what I mean.

HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!

Love,

Elder McGuire

Elder McGuire's first principle of working with less-actives: "If you
get their cat to like you they'll come back to church"

Here's a cat