Hi everyone! How are you doing? I hope that this 4th of July
was a great one for you! We were super blessed in being able to have a p-day (preparation day) and enjoyed spending time with our district, making root beer floats,
messing around with Coke and Mentos, and watched the Disney movie "Coco" with the
mission, it was awesome!
This week seems to have flown by, with lots of incredible
things happening! First of all, I have a new companion! His name is Elder
Hafener and he is from North Carolina. He was serving in Peru for 3 months before
being sent home to be reassigned here. I am so thankful to be here with him, he
is a hard worker and super nice!
We have worked super hard this week and have tried to help
as many people as we can, while being as obedient to the mission rules as
possible, and it has been pretty neat to see the blessings that have come from
that. One of the biggest has been finding an even greater joy and gratitude for
being here. We have been able to have some pretty neat lessons with people
here and have been having good experiences which I know are because of our
efforts to be obedient!
I know it can seem like obedience is restricting at times,
or is a hard thing to do, but I recently heard an analogy that I really like.
Obedience is like flying a kite. We may want the kite to fly higher, and think
that it would do what we want to cut the string (not be obedient,) but the
result would be that the kite just falls to the ground. We need the guidance
and direction to hold us in place and help us get the most out of the
experience that we can. I hope that makes sense, but really what it comes down
to is that Heavenly Father loves us so much and asks us to do certain things
for our benefit. It isn't always easy, and can be hard to recognize the
blessings or reasons sometimes, but I know that as we put our faith in Him and
act in obedience, we will be blessed. He knows each one of us perfectly and has
a plan for us! I know you will be happier and feel greater changes and
blessings in your life as you work to be obedient to what Heavenly Father asks
you to do :)
Much Love
~Elder McDonald
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