Dunwoody

Hello everybody,

Well I am no longer in the ghetto so I suppose now I have to speak somewhat proper English now. Haha. What a good week this has been indeed. Dunwoody is a good area. It’s really affluent and a lot of white people so I am a little bit out of my comfort zone. It’s been an interesting change that’s for sure. It feels like I have to develop a new way of talking with people. I say that because generally most of the people here have everything they need. They have family, house, the basic things they need but they maybe don’t necessarily see that they need God. They maybe don’t understand that God has given them all those things so it’s going to be a process of trial and error to find how to approach them better. That’s why I love missionary work you get to learn adapt and do :)

My new companion’s name is Elder Woodward and yet again he’s from the amazing state of Utah. He’s a good kid. He has been out for nearly 6 months and he’s super funny. Just like every companion you have to learn how to get along with him how to teach and work with him. So far we get along great. So I don’t have any worries. The ward here is great. We have a little work to do with getting them to be on board with the work of salvation. We get to work with the members a lot more and build the trust with them to help increase the number of referrals that we receive from them and to be able to teach your friends. They like missionary work and they want to do them but I don’t think they see that they actually have to do the work for this work to go forward. But I don’t want to have it sound like I’m being judgmental of this ward or anything other ward. It’s just that it’s a commandment that we share the gospel with our friends and our neighbors. They need the gospel just like we do and in order for the Lord’s work to go the way it is supposed to go we need to be willing to share our testimony, put our beliefs out there and share this amazing gospel with everyone. It’s simply not just the missionaries job to find and teach it’s the ward members as well.

We are teaching this amazing guy named James. He recently lost his wife this past year and he is still coping with the depression that sets in. He’s super humble and he really wants to find the truth and he loves the fact that we teach families can be together forever. And it strengthened my testimony and my faith that as I went home and looked at the pictures of my family it hit me like a sack of potatoes... I love my family! I am so thankful that we have the vision of eternity.

Thank you so much for all that you do for me

Love,

Elder Macoubrie

aka E MAC