This week was such a fantastic week and honestly I am super excited for what we could do. I feel the Lord magnifying me more and more as the weeks go on. And a quote I have been thinking a lot about lately and thought I would start this week's email off with is from the movie Ephraim's Rescue, "You can't move mountains while you're sitting on your backside". :)
I am going to start doing these week emails differently because I realized that I write a ton, and I have to remind myself I am not in english class, so hopefully you all can make it through this week's.
The highlights of the week were:
- District Council on Wednesday. It went super good where we went over how we can be leaving everyday the best that we can. I used the EFY song No Regrets from 2011 for my training and had everyone share their testimony for why they came out on a mission. Super powerful.
- We taught 33 lessons this week. Most everyday we were either running from lesson to lesson, or dialing one phone number after another to teach a member or someone we are teaching to get baptized. It was so much fun to just be constantly engaged in the work.
- We also found 6 new people this week. A very cool family was a few of those new people and we had a 90 min lesson on Saturday night with them about God and how we know Joseph Smith is a true prophet. Super awesome lesson and I am so excited to keep meeting with them.
- We went to Waverly Food Pantry and were able to help bag food and move boxes and carry food in for a couple of hours. The housing specialists called us that day and said they were coming for a cleaning inspection, so we hurried home and made sure the house was clean . . . Which it was, and they passed it 100% McEwan clean! (of course they didn't put it that way, but I did so I knew we had a clean apartment.)
- We both spoke in sacrament meeting yesterday. I spoke on Member Missionary work and used Elder Smith's powerful testimony the night he passed away. I challenged everyone to pray for the person they need to find in this life to teach and serve. It was a good talk and I was so appreciative I could do it.
Something I learned this week is the importance of Christ centered love. In fact I found myself constantly on my knees asking Heavenly Father to be there to help me and strengthen me. In high school I always would tell myself that I knew what love was and how I could treat others with respect and the way Christ Himself would treat people. Jesus Christ is the center of all love and of all peace. He is also the author of all respect. He wants to help us strengthen our relationship with others, and ultimately I think deep down we want to strengthen those same relationships also. How do we do this? We turn our hearts to be in tune with God's and His basic teachings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We always have to remind ourselves on a daily basis that we are not perfect, if we were we would not be here on earth, because there would be no need for it. But as President Nelson says, "don't demand perfection on things in your life, only demand improvement."
I figured I would save the best for last this transfer. Just like that another 6 weeks has flown by, and . . . I am staying here in Chillicothe! I will be serving as District Leader again, and will be with Elder Bennett which is super good. Super excited to be moving the work forward here in Chilli! :)
How did things go for you guys this week? How are things going for school and work lately? I hope everything is going well at home too with all the projects, and hopefully the garage door is able to get installed by that company soon too! I miss you guys a lot, and hope you all know how super grateful and appreciative of you I am. Thank you for your examples to me, and for always striving to teach me and believe in me.
I love you all always and forever❤
Elder Dylan McEwan
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