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Transfer news!!!!🤙🤙 I am staying here in Wadsworth with . . . Elder Johnson! He will be the district leader again, and we will both be the tech specialists for the Akron zone. So we will both be getting instagram and then our job is to approve the posts to post on the Akron fb page, and reach out to as many people as we possibly can. It's such a blessing and I'm so excited for this transfer! It's also crazy to think that I will be at my year mark on the mission at the very end of this transfer! Time flies when you're having fun.
Well, as the title states, we have now officially hit the triple digits of quarantine and have now been inside the apts for 100 days today. It is so crazy that it has already been that long! We found out too that missionaries in missions all over the world are in a 4 phase plan to be back outside. Right now, Ohio Columbus mission hasn't been approved to start phase 1 yet, which means we are still inside and we just found out on Sunday that we can no longer do training visit exchanges and service projects and we can no longer gather with other missionaries on Pday until we start Phase 1. There have been some riots and protesting as well here in Ohio on corners and streets and such. Please keep everyone in your prayers ❤ Needless to say, my mind has gone stir crazy and I think most of the missionaries in this mission are getting pretty discouraged with just having more and more restriction on what we can and can't do. 1 Nephi 3:7 is truer than it ever has been, and I've realized too that D&C 6:36 is true to its word too. When we look to Christ, He helps us and blesses us not to fear and not to doubt. Time in quarantine has been hard, and there are times the last little while that I have wanted to give up and stop . . . I'm reminded of Elder Holland's talk though when he says, "It was never easy for Jesus on the road to Damascus, so why should it ever be easy for each of us". I don't know what is going to happen in the coming weeks and months with missionary work, but I do know this: God is in charge. We are the players and we have to choose which side of the "line of scrimmage" we are on and then stay on it. "Do the spiritual work to find out for yourself that it's TRUE, and please, Do it Now. Time is running out." - President Nelson.
President and Sister Stratford will finish their mission here in Ohio in 5 days on June 29, and then fly home the morning of June 30. President and Sister Horgesheimer will land in Columbus the evening of June 29 next week, and begin their service as mission president and wife. I'm so stoked to meet them!! We have scheduled to do zoom call interviews 1 on 1 with the Horgesheimers all of next week, so that'll be great! President Horgesheimer is a distance runner and he was on student council, so I think we will be a great match here in the mission together 😉
Some fun things we did this week:
- Had zone conference via zoom
- Went on many of walks to the pond and it was sweet! :)
- Made a sweet video with the Canton elders and posted it on Facebook
- Watched some church movies on Sunday too, that was fun!
- Went on 2 mile run on Sunday night and on the way back it poured rain on us, so we were sopping wet when we got to the apt. What a night!
I've been thinking and decided that starting this week, instead of doing invitations and challenges, I'm going to share with you guys my testimony and I invite all of you to share your testimony each and everyday with anyone you see that day ❤.
"I know Jesus Christ lives. He is my Lord and my Savior. Above all, He is my older brother. He does not leave us. I have felt His hand in my life on my mission. This has been the hardest point of my mission up to this point and He is that sure and solid/firm foundation that I build my salvation on. Helaman 5:12 will forever remain embedded in my heart for eternity. Heavenly Father has a plan for each of us. He doesn't expect us to know the end from the beginning. He just wants us to trust Him enough to do what He asks, and help others along the way. I love this Gospel, and I love my family ❤ Each of you! Family is the centrepoint for this life and the life to come. Do everything you can each day to strengthen the family unit and build up the kingdom of God." 😀😀
I can honestly say that I'm a different person than I was August 14, 2019. I used to be afraid of change and growth but I now love it and know that change is so crucial and vital to progression and to becoming all that we need to be in this life. Be creative everyday and have fun while doing it. Growth is meant to be fun. It's meant to be everything Heavenly Father intended it to be. Trust Him and He will endow us with power. I've been remembering a lot lately about what was said in my blessing when I was set apart as a missionary on August 13. It was said, "That I would be brought to be humble and that my heart would grow in love and wisdom for the people I serve on my mission". I know that God is blessing those things to be brought forth in my life at this point in time. He has helped me to get through hard things. I was telling Elder Johnson the other day on the way back from getting a drink at the gas station, "You know, we CAN do hard things. Why not us? Let's do this, and finish what we started". We ALL got this. We haven't come this far, just to come this far (Elder Holland) 😀
How are you all doing today? How is work and school going for everyone? :) Mom you're almost finished with this block of classes. Are they doing the freedom festival balloons this year for 4th of July maybe not just with Covid?? I'm so proud of all of you guys and everything that you're doing and accomplishing. It's so so very much a huge blessing to see your growth and progression every week when we talk. I truly have the best family ever 👨👩👧👦👨👩👧👦.
I pray for you guys much everyday and I miss you guys very much everyday. I'm so grateful for each of your examples everyday to me and for who you guys are to me in my life. I'm so excited to talk to all of you today!!
I love YOU ALL forever and always 🧡💕
Elder Dylan McEwan
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