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9/8

Hello Familly & Friends, Well ... where to start.. where to start? This week there has been a lot that has gone on! So, sad to say, but Elder Veater got transfered (MAJOR :'( ) I will miss him sooo much! He has been my favorite companion yet.. maybe because we are both a bunch of goof-balls, but hey - whatever it takes right??!! He is going to Riverside to train a new Greenie (another term for ya [new missionary]) So on the Saturday of the end of the transfer we have transfer calls given to the missionaries by President Reeves and by the APs (Assistants to the President). Early in the morning @ 6:30 President gives leadership calls to those who are called as new: APs, OAs, Trainers, Zone Leaders, and District Leaders. and then later at night the AP's give the transfer calls to who is leaving their areas and who is not. ... Well, early in the morning Elder Veater got his call and President said that he was going to be training a missionary in Riverside and then he gave the phone to me and said that President wanted to talk to me... so I nervously got on and was like "HELllooo" haha President said that he wanted me to train a new missionary too here in Lake Elsinore and that he was so proud of what I had been doing... So right now me and Elder Giles (the spanish missionary in the area) are together and are going to pick up are greenies tonight at the mission home... exciting huh! I will let you know what he's like next week and how that all went!Well for me and E. Veaters end days we had a lot of fun saying good bye (for him) to our most favorite people. The Yokshas family is one of our favorite members who help us out soo much! They even made me my favorite desert: Peach Delight! YUM! haha Oh, and on a not so happy note, one of our members died last sunday so we had a funeral for him on Friday. His name was Bro. Seti Mose. He was a really good guy, he had terminal cancer - so he was in a lot of pain, but the cool thing is that he made it out to church and the temple!! wow huh!Well I love you all soo much, I am growing tons and can't wait to tell you about my greenie next week! Wish us luck! Stay safe!Love Elder McBride

8/31 Power of Prayer

Hello Everyone! Hope you are all having a great week! And for those of you are at school right now.. haha Sorrry to be you!! Just kidding ;) wink winkWell this week has been a pretty fun week. Last monday we got to go over our favorite members house: The Yokshas family and play games with them "Mexican Train" if ya have ever heard of it, its a pretty fun game - except when Sis. Yokshas steals my dominos!! golly!Wow, so I had some really cool experiences this week, one being when I went on splits with a member from the Lake Elsinore ward. Me and him went to this family who had a non member daughter: Anna Melton and so we went over and taught the first lesson (Restoration) and then I asked her if she would be baptized on the 19th of September and she was soo excited she jumped up and said "YES!!!" haha wow, that was really fun - she wants to do baptisms for the dead too.Also this week we found another less active member in the trailor park. She had a heart attack because her son is a pest and getting in fights - so after she got home from the hospital we gave her a blessing and told us that she needed help (food for her and dogs and a washer and dryer to fall out of the sky for her) - so we told her that we would get food for sure and that we would pray for the washer and dryer - then on Sunday when we were walking up to the church this other less active guy came up to us and said that he and his business were giving away free washers and dryers and that they would donate them to anyone we wanted... WOW! We were so excited! What an answer to a prayer! The old lady who wanted the washer/dryer sat by me and church and I wispered in her ear what had just happened and she looked at me.. gasped.. and started bawling! After sacrament she turned and gave me a huge hug and I kinda had to pull away before she smacked one on my cheek.. haha life of a missionary I tell ya. - - but way cool huh!! Prayers work people!!I have no idea if I am being transfered or not... its about 50/50 right now?? So if you have letters just send them to the mission office on: 3233 Arlington Ave. Suite 107 Riverside, CA 92506 and the will get to me either way there.!!Love you all so much! Have a great week and be safe! choose the right and pray always!Love Elder McBride

8/24

Hello Hello! Well how is all of my AMAZING family and friends!? Hope you are having a great week! This week in Lake Elsinore has again gone soo fast - seriously, does time seem like it fly's by for you? Transfers are coming up again in 2 weeks! wow, that went fast... I had Interviews this week with Pres. Reeves and he said that he really doesn't know what me or Elder Veater are going to do.. stay or go?? .. I'll explain later..Haha, so the other day me and E. Veater were walking down the street and we talked to this old man (kind of a creepy bum-looking guy) and he turned us away so we started walking to the next house and saw two ladies across the street talking - so we walked over and said Hello and started talking to them about the gospel. One said she had a headache so she went inside. But the other lady (who was older, probably late 70s) was really interested and she said that she could feel the spirit of our message and new it was true because of what I was saying. So of course my eyes lighted up .. but then she started talking about how she always goes "soul Flying" -out of body experiences - and she also sees angels (with Fealers by the way) and when she is done she is all weak. Haha,... I was like um.. That's how Joseph Smith fealt when he had his vision.. hmmphh. haha. Then E. Veater started talking and she shut him up and said that he didn't have the spirit and he didn't know what he was talking about.. I was like "EXCUSE ME!" haha, she said that she could tell from across the street that I was a PERFECT angel of God and E. Veater was NOT... haha - I think she was CRRRAZY!! haha - she then said the only way if she could see if this message is true is if we wrote it down in black and white and sent it as an email attachment... haha.. wow.. only in California right... hahaPresident Interviews went great. I got to see E. Worthen again (who is our Zone Leader) and he gave us a training on getting more investigators haha- using his cowboy rope as a prop.. haha bracken ty and shaun would have liked it! When I got into the interview with President he said that I was such a great missionary! and that he was so greatful for what me and E. Veater were doing. He said the maybe me and E. Veater might stay together for one more - but that he would eventually want us to both train new missionaries... so he doesn't know if I am going or if E. Veater is????Haha, so we met with one of our investigators Elda on Friday. We taught her the plan of salvation and she started crying and saying that in the end that if it takes her getting divorced with her husband -that she would come to church and become a member... we were like...uhhh, ... don't want to brake up a marriage... ahhhh so hope everything goes okay??Well Life is great! I am having a lot of fun! It's still very very hot down here.. but loving it still, all is well in Zion, how is everything at home with all of you? having fun in school???Love you all, stay safeLove Elder McBride