TEN DAYS!!!

HELLO!

It’s been raining all day and boy has that been nice. The weather has been completely ridiculous. Friday it was topping 70 I think and Saturday was the same. Sunday was ugly raining and today is the same. It’s been cool to watch. I mean it always just testifies to me anyways that there has to be a God. There has to be someone who created all of this. There has to be someone in control. No one could control the weather unless you created it right? Well that’s what I think anyways :)

It’s been a decent week. We had some really amazing things happen that I still can’t believe actually happened. So one story was we just got out of an appointment from a referral from some other missionaries somewhere in the mission. That appointment was whatever. The family wanted help, with food and money but anywho both Elder Woodward and I had to use the restroom and we found a place where we have been many times before just looking and shopping around...Marshalls. As we exit the restroom we bother were looking at ties because that’s missionary’s style is to get the "coolest" tie right?! But there was this man who just turned and said hi and then just kept looking at us. And he just asked if I was holding a bible (we carry Books of Mormon around everywhere everyday) and I politely said no but that it’s the Book of Mormon and the things it teaches will really help with anything he is going though. And boy that just opened the channel for the spirit. He just opens up and tells us his life story and how he lost everything, his business, wife, got hurt in a car wreck and can’t work because his back in jacked. And his name is Rafael and he just talked and told us here’s my address my # and when can you come. I need help to find God again and to secure my soul for him.... Got his info and parted ways and sat in the car for the other elders because we car share and they needed a ride back. As we were sitting there something didn’t feel right and then it hit us both. We forgot to invite him to baptism! We left the car went back inside to find Rafael and invited him. He gladly and excitedly said yes and then we left. It was amazing the Lord needs Rafael and he needs the Lord. It was really amazing!

We also did some service the other day with bishop. They fell a tree and cut it up into logs and he asked that we bust them up and stack the wood. Everything seemed all good and dandy until the maul broke. Lame. But we bought a new one and busted that wood up. I was soooo sore the next day. I have little chicken hands from not doing any work like that in so long. I know some of you out there..mhmm dad and Dan mhmm.. Will tell me that I was always a chicken and so forth but that was tough work cuz... :)

I was trying to think what to write all week and I couldn’t really think of anything. It’s crazy and sad to watch the days dwindle down that I’ll be serving as a full-time missionary for the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s been by far the best journey I could have ever taken and that I will ever take. I’m sad to leave and to end the mission for the Lord but I am so thankful for this experience. There are so many things that I have learned that I will be able to take into the real world and be able to use. My testimony has grown immensely. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this church is true that the gospel is true that that Jesus lives. The Book of Mormon no matter how daunting it can be to read will always help with anything you go through. Christ will help you and the best and most amazing thing I have learned over the past 2 years is that He and Heavenly Father loves us so much that He was willing to lay his life down for us to enable us to come back home :)

Love,

Elder William L. Macoubrie