Hello Family & Friends!
Hope you all are having a good day and for the 1/2 of you that just got home from the trip, hope you had fun... without me.. haha ;)So if I sound like I am half asleep - it might be because I am.. haha. Our downstairs neighbors (*yes the bikini wearing old mean lady and her family) were having a party and then a fight broke out ALL night long. So at like 5:00 in the morning someone in the complex called the cops and then I got some of that beauty sleep. Haha, fun times in Lake Elsinore.. I know!So we got to go bowling again for this past Mondays Pday event and hate to sound too prideful...but I am improving my skills... only a couple of gutter balls.. YAY! haha I told them I needed the gutters up, but NOOO! haha, they don't even have those helper-rack things that we have at our bowling alleys..LAME! Oh, we got to go to the temple this Thursday and it was a really cool experience. After the session I got to meet the temple president.. he just walked up to me and said hello! Also when we have our temple days 2 zones (out of the 9 zones) from the mission meet up together to go to the temple. And it is cool to see all the missionaries that I get transferred away from. I got to see E. Varney and E. Williams again! Wow, and can you believe that E. Varney is going home in two weeks! wow, he was only like at 16 months when he was with me!Well I think I better fill you normal people in on some of the mission "lingo" out here... so If I ever use it you know what I mean...-When you are BORN that is the area and date you entered the mission field. (Corona & Feb 11, 2009)-DEATH: is the area before you go home-Gator: Investigator-Dad: your Trainer (E. Varney)-Mom: if your companion trains after he is companions with you-Stepdad: The companion after your trainer (E. Williams)-Son: person you train-Golden: investigator that is for sure gonna be baptized-Bump: 6 months out in the field-Hump: 1 year out in the field-Slump: 1 1/2 years out in the fieldAnd I will update you on more as my mission unfolds :) Well most everythings been going good out here. Oh, on Tuesday I got to give another training to my district and it was really really awesome. My training was entitled "Being There" and I trained the other missionaries on not just being there physically but spiritually to your appointments with members and investigators. It went really well, and everyone enjoyed it... I gave the story of when I was on the doorstep and said "He Is Risen" to that one man .. ahaha :)Well thanks so much for all you do for me and for all your letters of encouragement! I love you allLove Elder McBride
Monday, August 17, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
8/10 From Spirit to Prayer to Engaged
Hello Family & Friends!
Hope you are all having a great day and the past week has been good for you! Wow, this week just seemed to fly by! I just remember typing last weeks message! The weather man has decided to be nice and give us a break for the past week - things have been a little cooler :). But even when he desides to heat it up we'll still be out knocken those doors!If there is one thing that I have learned thus far on my mission is *learning. I have learned so much already! It weird to think if I have not chose to serve a mission - if I would have received all the blessings from learning and getting knowledge from what the gospel brings. Sometimes I think we take the gospel and the church for granted... well a lot. I really didn't have that much of an appreciation for it. I went to church.. went to mutual..did hometeaching [when dad pushed me into it ;)] and etc. When really what we should want to do is go to church EVERY week and want to benefit from the blessings that we would receive from partaking of the sacrament and renewing those sacred baptismal covenants. I should have wanted to express my love to everyone about the gospel and about my testimony. We should want to go out and visit our families that we home teach - and that is a big on! So many families go without being home taught out here and they are just starving for spiritual attention. *when even in Utah our families could be starving for that attention - I guess when I get back, that will want to make me go every month and have an influence on those specific families that I will be assigned to! Its funny, I could report that me and Elder Veater have a lot of 1/2 baptisms coming up... haha, almost all of our investigators are on the wall for that question. Dorothy Hicks is getting so close! We went over there Tuesday afternoon and we gave her a lesson on the Plan of Salvation. She loved it and again - believed everything! It was fun to see how when people don't have the answers to lifes questions (where did we come from, what's our purpose, & where will we go after this) and when they receive them how their face just lights up! After the lesson we committed her to baptism. Lol, we asked her if she would follow the example of Jesus Christ by being baptized and she was like "YES, of course..." my face flew to a smile.. then she quickely said "Yes, in due time".. ughh! so close! haha, I think we just need to get a family in there to support and fellowship her and her kids!On Thursday we had Mulitzone Conference and received trainings from Pres. & Sis. Reeves and the AP's. They all talked about how important it is to keep the Spirit with us ALWAYS! Sis. Reeves started by telling a cool story from Russel M. Nelsons wife. She said that Sis. Nelson was traveling down from Canada and on her way down to Utah she saw a barn and on the barn it had some HUGE letters that made up a sign written on the barn and said that this phrase inspired her life! Sis. Reeves then asked what we thought was on the sign... my mind quickely thought of the barn on the back highway by grandma Edna's that has the "Dr. Something or other Medicine" on it haha I don't think that was inspiring though.. haha. Missionaries then decided to guess. "In god we trust" "Not of this World" "Jesus is Lord" "Love one Another"... no one was right... then Sis. Reeves put up a picture of what was actually written on the top of the barn: "NOT EVEN ONCE". We all were like HUH?? haha but then we each shared what this phrase could have meant and how it could be inspirational. We talked about how almost every prophet in the scriptures didn't even "ONCE" stray from their path. Joseph of Egypt is who I thought of - He was tempted by Potiphers wife many a times and "NOT EVEN ONCE" did he give in. Another that was mentioned was how David was such a great person of God and that just "ONCE" he slipped up and looked on temptation. That talk helped me a lot on how as a missionary or as a member of this gospel how we can't even "ONCE" give into Satan and always have to have the Spirit with us!!!Well guess what! The power of prayer works! That Thursday night we went over to the dear trailor park and had dinner with one of our members. Now if you really knew me you would be so proud of me for doing this - I am a very picky eater and not so keen about dirty things.. especially eating it. Well she cooked us some chicken and so when we started eating I bit in and blood just started gushing from the chicken, BLAUGHH! I tried to slice around it, but I don't think that would have done a difference. Later that night me and Elder Veater said about 100 prayers that we wouldn't get sick and that we could stay healthy to do our Heavenly Fathers work. Well our stomachs made some noises a couple of hours after dinner but no getting sick or anything!!Oh and just an announcement.. I am now engaged! Last night we were at the Rices house for dinner and I was playing around with this cute girl and she said "guess what, We are going to get married!" haha, I was like "really! where?" she then quickely said "the TEMPLE!" haha so just to let you know, that's the plan... oh ya and she is 4 years old... so I might have to wait a little bit... hahaWell I love you all! Be safe! Have fun in St. George without me! Love,ELDER MCBRIDE
Hope you are all having a great day and the past week has been good for you! Wow, this week just seemed to fly by! I just remember typing last weeks message! The weather man has decided to be nice and give us a break for the past week - things have been a little cooler :). But even when he desides to heat it up we'll still be out knocken those doors!If there is one thing that I have learned thus far on my mission is *learning. I have learned so much already! It weird to think if I have not chose to serve a mission - if I would have received all the blessings from learning and getting knowledge from what the gospel brings. Sometimes I think we take the gospel and the church for granted... well a lot. I really didn't have that much of an appreciation for it. I went to church.. went to mutual..did hometeaching [when dad pushed me into it ;)] and etc. When really what we should want to do is go to church EVERY week and want to benefit from the blessings that we would receive from partaking of the sacrament and renewing those sacred baptismal covenants. I should have wanted to express my love to everyone about the gospel and about my testimony. We should want to go out and visit our families that we home teach - and that is a big on! So many families go without being home taught out here and they are just starving for spiritual attention. *when even in Utah our families could be starving for that attention - I guess when I get back, that will want to make me go every month and have an influence on those specific families that I will be assigned to! Its funny, I could report that me and Elder Veater have a lot of 1/2 baptisms coming up... haha, almost all of our investigators are on the wall for that question. Dorothy Hicks is getting so close! We went over there Tuesday afternoon and we gave her a lesson on the Plan of Salvation. She loved it and again - believed everything! It was fun to see how when people don't have the answers to lifes questions (where did we come from, what's our purpose, & where will we go after this) and when they receive them how their face just lights up! After the lesson we committed her to baptism. Lol, we asked her if she would follow the example of Jesus Christ by being baptized and she was like "YES, of course..." my face flew to a smile.. then she quickely said "Yes, in due time".. ughh! so close! haha, I think we just need to get a family in there to support and fellowship her and her kids!On Thursday we had Mulitzone Conference and received trainings from Pres. & Sis. Reeves and the AP's. They all talked about how important it is to keep the Spirit with us ALWAYS! Sis. Reeves started by telling a cool story from Russel M. Nelsons wife. She said that Sis. Nelson was traveling down from Canada and on her way down to Utah she saw a barn and on the barn it had some HUGE letters that made up a sign written on the barn and said that this phrase inspired her life! Sis. Reeves then asked what we thought was on the sign... my mind quickely thought of the barn on the back highway by grandma Edna's that has the "Dr. Something or other Medicine" on it haha I don't think that was inspiring though.. haha. Missionaries then decided to guess. "In god we trust" "Not of this World" "Jesus is Lord" "Love one Another"... no one was right... then Sis. Reeves put up a picture of what was actually written on the top of the barn: "NOT EVEN ONCE". We all were like HUH?? haha but then we each shared what this phrase could have meant and how it could be inspirational. We talked about how almost every prophet in the scriptures didn't even "ONCE" stray from their path. Joseph of Egypt is who I thought of - He was tempted by Potiphers wife many a times and "NOT EVEN ONCE" did he give in. Another that was mentioned was how David was such a great person of God and that just "ONCE" he slipped up and looked on temptation. That talk helped me a lot on how as a missionary or as a member of this gospel how we can't even "ONCE" give into Satan and always have to have the Spirit with us!!!Well guess what! The power of prayer works! That Thursday night we went over to the dear trailor park and had dinner with one of our members. Now if you really knew me you would be so proud of me for doing this - I am a very picky eater and not so keen about dirty things.. especially eating it. Well she cooked us some chicken and so when we started eating I bit in and blood just started gushing from the chicken, BLAUGHH! I tried to slice around it, but I don't think that would have done a difference. Later that night me and Elder Veater said about 100 prayers that we wouldn't get sick and that we could stay healthy to do our Heavenly Fathers work. Well our stomachs made some noises a couple of hours after dinner but no getting sick or anything!!Oh and just an announcement.. I am now engaged! Last night we were at the Rices house for dinner and I was playing around with this cute girl and she said "guess what, We are going to get married!" haha, I was like "really! where?" she then quickely said "the TEMPLE!" haha so just to let you know, that's the plan... oh ya and she is 4 years old... so I might have to wait a little bit... hahaWell I love you all! Be safe! Have fun in St. George without me! Love,ELDER MCBRIDE
8/3 Pancake in August
Hello Family & Friends,
Hope you all had a great July and are having a great August .. wow, the summer's just flyin by ain't it!!Well things in Lake Elsinore have been going good. We are finding some new 'gators to teach which is always great! Haha, we actually found this lady who lives on a street named "Moroni" haha and she is really a great lady who had us come over and teach the family and told her kids that we had the power of God. haha when I told her about the 'coincidence' of her street name she was like "ohh,... I thought it was mor-own-ie" haha.Haha, still more trailor park drama with the less-actives, recent converts and investigators.. I think they could make a soap-opra from it for those hilbilly tv watchers... they would love it... haha. And to make the show a sure hit, we will stick to missionaries in it preaching and teaching the gospel... ehh ehh, want to see it huh!I have gotten to be really good friends with some members down here: the Yokshas family. They are friends with our investigator Geo and had us over for a pancake breakfast on Saturday (and our next breakfast adventure is going to be good ol ableschevers!!! YAY!) But ya we had a lot of fun eating apple pancakes!! so good!Yesterday we ate dinner at this family who lived kind of up in the mountains and when we went out to our car there was a family of coyotes by our car.. haha they were waiting to eat us.. one jumped at me and bit my arm and I had to go to the hospit.... okay, so we looked out the window and they walked past our car.. but would have been a cool story for the week right... maybe next time.But Hope you are all safe and have a great week!Congrats Cami on getting into school!!Love you all!!Love Elder McBride
Hope you all had a great July and are having a great August .. wow, the summer's just flyin by ain't it!!Well things in Lake Elsinore have been going good. We are finding some new 'gators to teach which is always great! Haha, we actually found this lady who lives on a street named "Moroni" haha and she is really a great lady who had us come over and teach the family and told her kids that we had the power of God. haha when I told her about the 'coincidence' of her street name she was like "ohh,... I thought it was mor-own-ie" haha.Haha, still more trailor park drama with the less-actives, recent converts and investigators.. I think they could make a soap-opra from it for those hilbilly tv watchers... they would love it... haha. And to make the show a sure hit, we will stick to missionaries in it preaching and teaching the gospel... ehh ehh, want to see it huh!I have gotten to be really good friends with some members down here: the Yokshas family. They are friends with our investigator Geo and had us over for a pancake breakfast on Saturday (and our next breakfast adventure is going to be good ol ableschevers!!! YAY!) But ya we had a lot of fun eating apple pancakes!! so good!Yesterday we ate dinner at this family who lived kind of up in the mountains and when we went out to our car there was a family of coyotes by our car.. haha they were waiting to eat us.. one jumped at me and bit my arm and I had to go to the hospit.... okay, so we looked out the window and they walked past our car.. but would have been a cool story for the week right... maybe next time.But Hope you are all safe and have a great week!Congrats Cami on getting into school!!Love you all!!Love Elder McBride
7/27 Aguirre Baptism and Celebration!
Hello Family & Friends!
Hope you are all having a great Monday and had a good safe week! Wow, it's been a whole transfer since I've been gone from Corona - & yes I am staying in Lake Elsinore.. for at least another transfer?? Life has been full of ups and downs over here - I am still loving being with Elder Veater; we have tons of laughs [which reminds me - we need to send you our music video] haha. The other elders in the appartment (Worthen & Olsen) I have also grown really close to. Except we just heard that Worthen was getting moved :( goll sometimes transfers just arn't fun! - well I guess I will make more friends! Oh dang... hope the new elder cuts hair!!! hahaSo on Monday after emailing on my SLOW computer we went over to one of my favorite members houses: the Yokshas's and they had our investigator Geo over to eat. We ate and then watched "On the Way Home" - haha, I haven't seen that movie forever, but Geo loved it and afterward Bro Yokshas asked Geo when he wanted to be baptized and Geo said he wanted to but he just had to get permission from his dad- which he said was probably going to happen :) so fingers crossed on that! Afterward we went out and had a fun ice cream party with them at Cold Stones! I think I might have ate a little too much... hahaSo one of our referrals I might have mentioned: Dorothy Hicks, we went over to teach her about the Restoration. She is such a great lady and she eats up all of what we say.. So then we told her to pray about it and she gave us a weird look and said "why, I already know it's true?" we were like "huh!!!" lol, she said that it was all about Christ and that she believed it and wanted to know more - so we are thinking that she is pretty darn hopeful for becoming a member of this gospel! Haha, I can't say I will ever get sick of those experiences!Oh, so funny experience that I forgot to write about last time and just expresses how blond I really am... About a week ago me and E. Veater were tracting and we got to the last house on the block and knocked into this born-again christian guy who then talked to us about the trinity. Being E. Veaters door and turn to talk I guess I zoned out for a split second...and he (the born-again) started talking about the "son" a lot and how he is dead and I thought he was talking about Jesus Christ - so with a bold voice I told him "He Is Risen!!" .. They both gave me a funny look and E. Veater then said "he is talking about his son that just got into a car crash and died"... well... If that isn't false doctrine, lol, I felt like a total idiot! - I swear I didn't hear car crash in there though. Well I guess it just goes to show that you ALWAYS need to stay paying attention... haha, that was the joke of the next week - everyone was saying "He Is Risen" to me.Al Aguirre's Baptism was great! He had tons of people that came to his baptism! Unfortunately the AC wasn't working ..so everyone was sweating bullets! But everything turned our really good. He is going to be teaching Gospel Doctrine in no time - like everytime we go over there he is like: "tell me more thouroughly about Joseph Smith and the Egyption translations".So the whole stake got together and had a huge dinner and game night for Pioneer day on Saturday. We ate so much (everyone fed us there left overs) and then we played a couple of rounds of tug-o-war and got sooo sore! haha Great fun though! Did you guys do anything fun for the 24th???I have no idea what I am going to do with my wards though. Sometimes they just drive me CRAZY! We have explained the mission plan to them so many times and they still arn't grasping it... ughh. I do just try to smile and make the best of it but sometimes I just want a little help! Oh so I have been having a lot of weird dreams lately. For the past couple of nights I have had this re-accuring dream of the old lady down stairs that dresses in the bakini come up and yell at us again the shut up. Then last night I had a dream that I was tracting with E. Veater and I didn't have my contacts in so I couldn't see like an inch in front of my face.. so E. Veater said that this kid was throwing rocks at us so I started swinging my arms and hit this african american kid right in the face and he called it a hate crime so we started to run from him. Haha, don't think I would ever have dreams like thoughs if I didn't come on the mission... maybe I will start praying for GOOD dreams!Well how is everyone else doing? Sorry if you haven't gotten a letter in a long time - I'm quite the slacker with that, but I will try my hardest to write back! I love receiving all of your letters though, and they make me feel loved :) Well any big news updates?Hope you are all doing well, and staying safe! My prayers go out to each and everyone of you! I love you and miss you all very much and know that my Heavenly Father is there and keeping me safe and I know that He will keep you all safe too :)Love Elder McBride
Hope you are all having a great Monday and had a good safe week! Wow, it's been a whole transfer since I've been gone from Corona - & yes I am staying in Lake Elsinore.. for at least another transfer?? Life has been full of ups and downs over here - I am still loving being with Elder Veater; we have tons of laughs [which reminds me - we need to send you our music video] haha. The other elders in the appartment (Worthen & Olsen) I have also grown really close to. Except we just heard that Worthen was getting moved :( goll sometimes transfers just arn't fun! - well I guess I will make more friends! Oh dang... hope the new elder cuts hair!!! hahaSo on Monday after emailing on my SLOW computer we went over to one of my favorite members houses: the Yokshas's and they had our investigator Geo over to eat. We ate and then watched "On the Way Home" - haha, I haven't seen that movie forever, but Geo loved it and afterward Bro Yokshas asked Geo when he wanted to be baptized and Geo said he wanted to but he just had to get permission from his dad- which he said was probably going to happen :) so fingers crossed on that! Afterward we went out and had a fun ice cream party with them at Cold Stones! I think I might have ate a little too much... hahaSo one of our referrals I might have mentioned: Dorothy Hicks, we went over to teach her about the Restoration. She is such a great lady and she eats up all of what we say.. So then we told her to pray about it and she gave us a weird look and said "why, I already know it's true?" we were like "huh!!!" lol, she said that it was all about Christ and that she believed it and wanted to know more - so we are thinking that she is pretty darn hopeful for becoming a member of this gospel! Haha, I can't say I will ever get sick of those experiences!Oh, so funny experience that I forgot to write about last time and just expresses how blond I really am... About a week ago me and E. Veater were tracting and we got to the last house on the block and knocked into this born-again christian guy who then talked to us about the trinity. Being E. Veaters door and turn to talk I guess I zoned out for a split second...and he (the born-again) started talking about the "son" a lot and how he is dead and I thought he was talking about Jesus Christ - so with a bold voice I told him "He Is Risen!!" .. They both gave me a funny look and E. Veater then said "he is talking about his son that just got into a car crash and died"... well... If that isn't false doctrine, lol, I felt like a total idiot! - I swear I didn't hear car crash in there though. Well I guess it just goes to show that you ALWAYS need to stay paying attention... haha, that was the joke of the next week - everyone was saying "He Is Risen" to me.Al Aguirre's Baptism was great! He had tons of people that came to his baptism! Unfortunately the AC wasn't working ..so everyone was sweating bullets! But everything turned our really good. He is going to be teaching Gospel Doctrine in no time - like everytime we go over there he is like: "tell me more thouroughly about Joseph Smith and the Egyption translations".So the whole stake got together and had a huge dinner and game night for Pioneer day on Saturday. We ate so much (everyone fed us there left overs) and then we played a couple of rounds of tug-o-war and got sooo sore! haha Great fun though! Did you guys do anything fun for the 24th???I have no idea what I am going to do with my wards though. Sometimes they just drive me CRAZY! We have explained the mission plan to them so many times and they still arn't grasping it... ughh. I do just try to smile and make the best of it but sometimes I just want a little help! Oh so I have been having a lot of weird dreams lately. For the past couple of nights I have had this re-accuring dream of the old lady down stairs that dresses in the bakini come up and yell at us again the shut up. Then last night I had a dream that I was tracting with E. Veater and I didn't have my contacts in so I couldn't see like an inch in front of my face.. so E. Veater said that this kid was throwing rocks at us so I started swinging my arms and hit this african american kid right in the face and he called it a hate crime so we started to run from him. Haha, don't think I would ever have dreams like thoughs if I didn't come on the mission... maybe I will start praying for GOOD dreams!Well how is everyone else doing? Sorry if you haven't gotten a letter in a long time - I'm quite the slacker with that, but I will try my hardest to write back! I love receiving all of your letters though, and they make me feel loved :) Well any big news updates?Hope you are all doing well, and staying safe! My prayers go out to each and everyone of you! I love you and miss you all very much and know that my Heavenly Father is there and keeping me safe and I know that He will keep you all safe too :)Love Elder McBride
7/13 Sizzled, Quenched, Spiderless & Baptized
Hello Family & Friends!
I hope you all had a great two weeks! Sorry I you didn't get an email last week, I swear these computers drive me CRAZY!! But all is well in Elsinore :)To catch you up on the latest two weeks: my 4th of July ... hum hmmm, well lets just say there's no 4th like Cache Valley's. We went to a pancake breakfast in the morning with one of the wards and it was pretty darn good. I was so excited for fireworks (I heard every year they shot them off over the lake!) Well that morning it hit the newspapers that Lake Elsinore was running low on funds - so they couldn't have ANY fireworks - L A M E! haha but thanks to the fam I had fun throwing firework poppers at the other elders ;)Last Monday me and a couple of elders from the zone went out into the mountains to scout for some terrantula's! We went up to one of the highest peaks and found a trail and started hiking. We brought some equipment with us to catch these deadly beasts: a Box, a Broom (to sweep him in), and a mallot (just in case things got out of hand). - You could imagine what you'd think if you saw a group of boys in the mountain with equipment like that ..haha. Oh and a crucial part of the story - we didn't bring water (who needs that right??). So we hiked in 5 miles up and down the riggerous terrain ..and NO terrantulas. Then hiked back 5 miles - scorched, quenched, and spiderless!! So going down the mountain we thought that we would stop at the nearest restaurant to get a drink of water - and yes the place that was nearest was a biker bar called "Hells Kitchen" haha and we were realllll thirsty.... haha and the rest is another story ;)This weekend was a blessing in itself. Jan Judd decided to get baptized and wanted me to come back to baptize her! And President Reeves being as nice as he is; let me! Bro. & Sis. Teter came and picked me up - Oh, it was so great to see them! Seriously I miss Corona soo much! The ward put together so much for Jan for her baptism: her own scriptures, family home evening stuff, music, etc. And being it was my first baptism.. I was ... A little nervous - Jan is a tall lady! haha so I took Jan into another room and told her we were going to practice - I told her not to be scared and just trust me and BEND her knees... we did a demo and she screamed so loud! haha... I told her she might not want to do that during the real thing, lol. The baptismal program went amazing and then it was time. I said a prayer to my Heavenly Father to help me through this baptism and He was there all the way - Helping me through it all. All me and Jan could do is smile at each other and then after saying the prayer she was baptized [just once ;)]. There is probably not a lot of things in life that could make you as happy as I was at that moment. I am so proud of Jan and for all the progress that she has made! I know she will be a great member of this great Gospel! And I am so thankful that I could participate in her baptism and that I chose to come here on a mission and meet her! The night ended a little too fast and as soon as I knew it - I was back in Lake Elsinore away from one of the best experiences in my life... well I guess it makes me want to have more of those experiences if anything... oh and Ruby got baptized on Sunday... I was sad that I didn't get to go to that one but am so proud of her too!!!Well I hope you are all doing fantastic! I am getting fried down here! The temperature hit 111 degrees yesterday... ya - burn baby burn! haha Stay safe, I love you all!!!
Love Elder McBride
I hope you all had a great two weeks! Sorry I you didn't get an email last week, I swear these computers drive me CRAZY!! But all is well in Elsinore :)To catch you up on the latest two weeks: my 4th of July ... hum hmmm, well lets just say there's no 4th like Cache Valley's. We went to a pancake breakfast in the morning with one of the wards and it was pretty darn good. I was so excited for fireworks (I heard every year they shot them off over the lake!) Well that morning it hit the newspapers that Lake Elsinore was running low on funds - so they couldn't have ANY fireworks - L A M E! haha but thanks to the fam I had fun throwing firework poppers at the other elders ;)Last Monday me and a couple of elders from the zone went out into the mountains to scout for some terrantula's! We went up to one of the highest peaks and found a trail and started hiking. We brought some equipment with us to catch these deadly beasts: a Box, a Broom (to sweep him in), and a mallot (just in case things got out of hand). - You could imagine what you'd think if you saw a group of boys in the mountain with equipment like that ..haha. Oh and a crucial part of the story - we didn't bring water (who needs that right??). So we hiked in 5 miles up and down the riggerous terrain ..and NO terrantulas. Then hiked back 5 miles - scorched, quenched, and spiderless!! So going down the mountain we thought that we would stop at the nearest restaurant to get a drink of water - and yes the place that was nearest was a biker bar called "Hells Kitchen" haha and we were realllll thirsty.... haha and the rest is another story ;)This weekend was a blessing in itself. Jan Judd decided to get baptized and wanted me to come back to baptize her! And President Reeves being as nice as he is; let me! Bro. & Sis. Teter came and picked me up - Oh, it was so great to see them! Seriously I miss Corona soo much! The ward put together so much for Jan for her baptism: her own scriptures, family home evening stuff, music, etc. And being it was my first baptism.. I was ... A little nervous - Jan is a tall lady! haha so I took Jan into another room and told her we were going to practice - I told her not to be scared and just trust me and BEND her knees... we did a demo and she screamed so loud! haha... I told her she might not want to do that during the real thing, lol. The baptismal program went amazing and then it was time. I said a prayer to my Heavenly Father to help me through this baptism and He was there all the way - Helping me through it all. All me and Jan could do is smile at each other and then after saying the prayer she was baptized [just once ;)]. There is probably not a lot of things in life that could make you as happy as I was at that moment. I am so proud of Jan and for all the progress that she has made! I know she will be a great member of this great Gospel! And I am so thankful that I could participate in her baptism and that I chose to come here on a mission and meet her! The night ended a little too fast and as soon as I knew it - I was back in Lake Elsinore away from one of the best experiences in my life... well I guess it makes me want to have more of those experiences if anything... oh and Ruby got baptized on Sunday... I was sad that I didn't get to go to that one but am so proud of her too!!!Well I hope you are all doing fantastic! I am getting fried down here! The temperature hit 111 degrees yesterday... ya - burn baby burn! haha Stay safe, I love you all!!!
Love Elder McBride
6/29 Short and sweet :)
Dearest Fam & Friends,
Sorry, I only have like 10 minutes, but I loved chatten with all of you! This week had acctually gone by really fast - but each day as the sun came and shined its rays on my head seemed to drag for a couple of hours... It got seriously up to 110!!! AHHHHahah, so funny story... w6/29e went out tracting one day and we knocked on this one persons door and it was just kind of a scronny looking guy and we asked him if he wanted to hear more about our message and if we could help him out in any way and he said... "No, but I have attack dogs if you want to meet them.." HAHA, wow, we almost laughed... rude but funny!So we got this one referral to visit this "Eve Lee Sweeney" girl who called into the MTC and wanted us to come visit. So we went over there and talked to her and she invited us in and started crying saying that she got on the MTC site to bash and just as a joke but she actuallly liked what she saw and wants to convert... haha - funny huh! But she keeps looking up anti stuff and so we are going to have to ween her off that!!!Sorry for the shortness, hope you are all doing great!!! love you all sooo much. Stay safe!Love Elder McBride/Sunshine
Sorry, I only have like 10 minutes, but I loved chatten with all of you! This week had acctually gone by really fast - but each day as the sun came and shined its rays on my head seemed to drag for a couple of hours... It got seriously up to 110!!! AHHHHahah, so funny story... w6/29e went out tracting one day and we knocked on this one persons door and it was just kind of a scronny looking guy and we asked him if he wanted to hear more about our message and if we could help him out in any way and he said... "No, but I have attack dogs if you want to meet them.." HAHA, wow, we almost laughed... rude but funny!So we got this one referral to visit this "Eve Lee Sweeney" girl who called into the MTC and wanted us to come visit. So we went over there and talked to her and she invited us in and started crying saying that she got on the MTC site to bash and just as a joke but she actuallly liked what she saw and wants to convert... haha - funny huh! But she keeps looking up anti stuff and so we are going to have to ween her off that!!!Sorry for the shortness, hope you are all doing great!!! love you all sooo much. Stay safe!Love Elder McBride/Sunshine
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