Drew mail 1-25-2021: Learning Together

 

Hi everyone!! How are you doing? I hope you have had an incredible week! I want you to know that Heavenly Father loves you so much and is watching over you! Keep working hard and giving your all to Heavenly Father and I know He will bless you! 

This week was a good one! It has been a great experience working with Nacho, the young man who became my companion the past week, and it has been great to learn together and feel his fire and drive to work hard and do good things! It's definitely inspiring and it´s been a great blessing to work and learn together! I just want to share my testimony that I know that that´s one of the reasons why Heavenly Father has given us families and friends, leaders and all those around us! He doesn´t want us to walk this road alone and He has blessed you with the people who can help you in your life to get closer to Him and improve!! He loves you so much and is grateful for all your efforts! I´m so thankful for each one of you and I love you so much! Have a great week, and know that whatever I can do for you I´ll do my best! You are amazing and Heavenly Father loves you so much, have a great week!

Drew mail 1-18-21: "New Companion" :)

 

Hi everyone! I’m doing well and we've had a great week! Last night we found out that we would likely get a young man who is getting ready to serve as a missionary to join with us for a few weeks and help him get ready to serve! Today we got to meet up with him and he is going to be my companion for a little while until the end of this transfer! I'm excited to have another great young man with us, he has really impressed me so far and I'm looking forward to do what I can for him! I want you to know that Heavenly Father loves you so much and is grateful for all your efforts to come closer to Him! It is definitely worth it for every effort you put forth and I promise you'll have help along the way! I love you all and wish you a great week! 😊

~Elder McDonald

#Missionnotes Month #19

 

#Missionnotes  Month#19  "Hear Him" 

Drew mail 1-13-2021: "Finding the Mercies!!"

 

Hi everyone! It's been a great week! I definitely forgot how crazy the humidity here is, but it's been a great blessing for me to be here and to have Elder Lui and Elder Neira as companions, they are amazing! We've been seeing lots of tender mercies and I have been able to learn a lot and have great experiences so far! We have been working really hard to be able to have daily contact with people and get to know them so that we can develop relationships with them and begin to share this message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ with them. We've met a few really neat people, one of them asked for a Book of Mormon and has been studying and praying and the majority of his family are inactive members of the church and I feel like there's definitely good potential for them to fully have all the blessings God wants to give them! It might take some time, but we'll do our best to help!  We've got lots of work ahead of us, but we're trying to focus on reaching out to as many people as we can! We are making lots of phone calls and using Facebook to find people who want to talk with us by making posts and joining groups and responding to people as much as we can! We've gotten quite a few referrals from media sources and we're trying to schedule visits with them, but it has been difficult because people will keep cancelling or not answer the phone. We're trying to do all of the different ideas and activities we can, and I'm looking forward to the things we're going to try to get going!

More good news is that church meetings in person are going to be starting up again this next Sunday, and I feel like there are lots of good things ahead! We definitely have been seeing tender mercies and lots of great blessings, and I know Heavenly Father will keep doing His work and helping His children as much as they trust and follow Him! I encourage you to really look for the tender mercies throughout this week and that you can know that He is involved in your life and will help you as you make time and give your all to Him! He loves you so much and is grateful for all your efforts to get closer to Him and will bless you for all you do to get closer to Him! I love you all! Whatever I can do for you, let me know! 

~Elder McDonald

Drew mail 1-4-2021: "Best Trio Ever!"

 

 Hi everyone! I wish you all an amazing new year! Its crazy how quick the time has gone by! I know God has great plans for us and will bless you as you choose to give your all to Him and trust completely in your Savior, Jesus Christ this year. It can be a completely fresh start for you.  I know God wants to bless and help you and that He will as soon as you choose to trust and follow Him. 

I'm so thankful to be here with Elder Lui (from Tonga) and Elder Neira (from Uruguay). They are incredible missionaries and I'm learning so much from and with them and we're getting along extremely well. It has been super fun to get to know them and I know we've got work ahead of us but we're going to give all we've got and I'm looking forward to it! If there's anything i can do for you let me know. I love you all!

~Elder McDonald