How are you guys doing this week? How did the week of events and such things go? Mom, I'm so glad you were able to have a great birthday! Grandpa Losee, Happy Birthday today!🥳
This week was full of events, so I'll get right down to it:
- We had 2 service projects on Wednesday afternoon. Both were pretty big ones too. The first one, we helped a lady take down her gazebo in her backyard. Took about an hour. Then, realizing we were late we rushed across town to help a lady move out of her house for another 2-ish hours. What a fun night.
- Had interviews and district council on Thursday over in Talmadge. I had everyone focus on "The happiness we have when we focus on obeying God's commandments". Overall really good district council, and my interview went super great with President Horgesheimer. We had exchanges with Spanish elders (Elder Carter and Elder Bird). Me and Elder Carter helped a member here move some mulch into their back flowerbeds, super fun and brought back all the memories ;)
- Friday it rained all day. Funny story actually, it was super windy at about 3 am on Friday morning. I was laying awake just listening to the wind because it was that loud, and then Elder Foster was like, "McEwan I think there is a tornado going on" . . . and just like that, the power went out😂 The whole west side of Akron had no power until about 8 am that morning(sadly no tornado though). Then it poured rain all day, so we did a lot of calling and texting people. We went and did the 'Smash the Can' lesson with the Bunts family.
- Saturday was traveling day. We left our apartment at 7:30 am and picked up the New Portage elders (Kofoed and Brown) and drove 3 hours to the west side of Columbus, where we were able to receive our first dose of the COVID vaccine! We got to the place, and was about a 2 hr wait in our car, so we had some good time where we actually met a few members of the church while we waited:) We drove 3 hrs back to Akron and stopped to get some Subway on the way back. The vaccine wiped all of us out, we all were very exhausted by the time we got to New Portage apartment. And the fact we had been up since 5:30 am, and driven a total of 6 hrs, and the vaccine too. But I was so happy I could get it this weekend! We will go back in 4 weeks for the 2nd dose.
- Sunday we had our Ward Council call at 7:30 am. Then, we were asked to bless the sacrament which was cool because it'd been a while since I had done that. We got back to the apartment, and called up the 7 new self referrals we got last night, where we were able to teach 5 solid lessons over the phone and find 2 new people who were interested. After those 5 lessons, me and Elder Foster were both extremely fatigued and our arms were super sore from the shot yesterday, so we ended up falling asleep for a little while. We had our mission wide devotional and had the Columbus Stake President speak to the mission. Super fun!
- We were able to teach a total of 22 lessons, and find 6 new interested people who are wanting to learn and know more about the church. This was definitely a week of tender mercies on so many levels.
I'm filled with so much gratitude this week. I was reminded in my studies earlier this week, about the importance of "Leading By Example in High Love, & High Expectations". As Nephi did when he was faced with challenges to be the example to his older brothers, we too need to be having the strength and the courage to stand up for what is right, even when the 'peer pressure of the world' gets strong. Ultimately, our quest in this life is not about if we will have opportunities to show who we believe in. Elder Holland promises that "WHEN we are presented these things, we must be ready and we must be willing to act in the name of Jesus Christ". This is my testimony this week. I'm grateful I have a knowledge of who I am, more so I'm grateful I know who I am when the game stands tall. My invitation, is to ask yourself this week: Who are you when the game stands tall?
ALSO, prep for General Conference this weekend! It is going to be exciting :)
I love you all so so much! I'm so grateful for you guys and for your examples to me :) Mom, good luck this week with your surgery. I will be praying for you.😊
I love you forever and always . . .
Elder Dylan McEwan
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