How was your week? Has it snowed again there? It snowed 2 days this week and let's just say, when you are in the middle of the snow belt in Northeast Ohio, it's very cold and snowy. Thank you very much Mom and Dad for sending the 2 packages this week. The spark is amazing and used exceptionally well, and I greatly appreciated the beanies and gloves! With the Oreos, I left 2 at the apt for me and Elder Henshaw and I took the rest of them with us to church for the branch members and I wrote them a note thanking them for always feeding us each week. They said they loved the cookies! They were telling everyone that we made them . . . I just smiled and said, "Actually, my sweet momma made them and mailed them to me" :). Thank you very much for sending everything, it made my day.
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We also parked in a members driveway on Tuesday when we were out (well, it said she was a member), turns out she is not anymore and she was not a happy camper that we had parked there . . . Whoops.
Wednesday we were at Brother Hartman's house, but we have done so many projects there that he didn't have too much for us to do that morning. We taught Bethany and Sarah the last of lesson 4 new member lessons. It was a good day!
Thursday we worked on cleaning up the area book and deleting dots that no longer lived there and people who weren't interested. We then went out and talked with 4 or 5 people, only being able to get in contact with one of those people. We had about an hour conversation with them, they're members so it was good to get to know the Wilkes better. It snowed that night too, so good thing we have the Rav4 ;).
We had a lesson with Joey Pitts (a member). He is currently doing online classes through BYU Idaho (I mentioned my mom was too :)). We started talking to him about armoring up and being firm, steadfast, and immovable. Elder Henshaw asked if I had my coin with me (I never go anywhere without it). I pulled it out and had the distinct impression to give it to Joey to keep. So I said, "Joey, I want you to keep this coin, and everyday when you look at it, remember to armor up." It was a super powerful experience. We saw him at church and the first thing he did when he saw me was pull out the coin. Sadly since that had been my coin before, I couldn't follow him up on "The Challenge" where if you can't pull out your coin when someone shows you theirs, you buy them a soda. But I won't tell him about that part ;).
We had interviews and district council on Friday morning at the Kirtland stake center. Elder Henshaw asked me to give a training for the council so I gave one on temples and family history, and why it is so important to be fully engaged in those 2 topics.
I had my interview with President, and it went super great! At the very end of the interview, he said, "Elder McEwan, are you ready to train next transfer?". Without skipping a beat, I said, "Yes, I am President." So we will see what happens in 2 weeks at transfers, but it'd be super cool to be a trainer because I have been learning from the BEST!
Elder Utchdorf is coming to our mission next Saturday on November 23rd! We are all super stoked for it. We are all meeting at the Dublin church (3 hrs away, so a little road trip ;)). It will be a super powerful and amazing experience.
So a little interesting fact about being in the middle of the snow belt. When it snows here in Northeast Ohio, it moves from Lake Erie and completely MISSES Kirtland and snows all over Chardon. Some years they've said it has been about 3 or 4 feet PER snow storm . . . . 😅 Might have a little house on the prairie this winter, just need to by some "Snow shoes" ;).
I truly saw the blessing of the gift of tongues this week as I committed myself to open my mouth more and have the spirit with me in greater abundance. It is so cool that even when we speak our native tongue, we can be blessed with words and phrases beyond our knowledge and years.
This week was a fantastic week, very busy and fun to be engaged in the work. I learned a lot about myself this week, and about trusting in Heavenly Father. The adversary works so strong each and everyday. We must wake up, armor up, and go to work. The Lord is with us every step of the way. "He never said it would be easy, He only said it would be worth it."
That is my challenge and invitation to each of us this week and always. That we follow those 3 simple phrases. That we 1.) Wake Up, 2.) Armour Up, and 3.) Go to work. The Lord needs us, so we must answer the call and go find scattered Israel.
How was your week? What are you all learning at school and work each day? Tell me all about your experiences.
I love and miss and pray for you all each and every day ♡. I'm so grateful for everyone and their support and love for me each week. It makes my whole week to hear how everyone is doing. Keep up the great work. Have Courage and Be kind :).Also, wish SHHS football good luck for me this week in the semi finals! This could be their year. Tell "our boys" (Daniel and Austin) to play hard, but most importantly to "Play BIG" and have fun, it only happens for a brief moment.
There is a nativity in Kirtland on December 4th I think that we may go to, so that'll be fun. I remember how awesome it was to go to the one in Alpine.
I miss you all. Stay safe, and stay YOU :)
I love you all forever and always!
Elder Dylan
I read this last week and thought it was a great reminder to build our roots deep and to always nourish them -- "Firm and Steadfast"- Elder D Todd Christopherson
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