11-16

Hello Brothers and Sisters, Hope you all had a great week! Mine was great!So this week me and Elder Fly have been teaching a lot of our investigators - we bearly have time to tract (which we are supposed to do for an hour each day.) The only sad thing is when we go over and they haven't kept their committments to read the Book of Mormon or on Sunday to go to church.We got to have a "relax" lesson @ the Flores famlies house (haha, everytime we have a baptism that Wendy Flores comes to we only show 3/4 the "Restoration" DVD so she has been wanting to see the rest of it - so we watched that) It was really fun we brought over popcorn and her husband even sat it and watched. Afterward we asked if she knew how Joseph Smith died and she was like "NO, don't tell me in a bad way.." Joseph Smith was persecuted every single day since he saw that miraculous vision. When I was with Elder Williams I got a stronger testimony in the prophet Joseph Smith. Elder Williams said that in his mind Joseph Smith and Christ went through the most of any persecution than any man had ever gone through - which is true if ya think about it - not one day was the same for Joseph after that day in the woods... Many want a vision from angels and God ...but I don't think many want that kind of persecution. So really great experience that happened.. One day while we were at dinner we got a message from this one lady that lives in Murrieta (a couple of miles away) and she said to call her back ASAP, so I did. She told me that she was a therapist and that she had a new patient come into her today. She said that never are you to mix religion with work.. BUT with this older lady who came in telling her her problems she had the strongest urging to share with this lady the Book of Mormon. She said she tried to fight it, but couldn't anymore.. She did it.. and the lady loved it and wanted to hear more. She gave the lady (Katherine) a copy of it and said that the missionaries would call her. Later we called Katherine yet another amazing part.. she said that she was in our church parking lot the other day and knew she "had" to come into our church to learn more & she lives like 3 blocks away from the church. She said that she would come to church and she DID!! and said that she felt the spirit so strongly & said that she was led here! WOW, how cool huh!The baptism for Wendy and Joey Flores was also amazing... we got some pretty good pictures I'll have to send you. I couldn't help but do a grinchly grin when I saw each of their faces when they came out of the water... oh the spirit was so sweet... and the worst part is when you congratulate ladies or children for their baptisms... This no hugging thing stinks!!! but rules are rules and I will be obedient :) I have no idea if I am going to be leaving Lake Elsinore or not... Nov. 30th will be transfers...Got to go, God be with you, be safe and I love you all!Love Elder McBride