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HELLO Family & Friends,

Hope you are all having a good week and are all safe! Is it still cold up there?
I had like an AMAZING week! Not a lot has been going on in Riverside for the past months BUT this week has changed that! Really we picked up like 6 investigators!
-One night me and Elder Clements were wondering what to do (our appointments just canceled) so we went to this less-active lady's house and we knocked and this guy opened up and thought we were like the cops or something - he was kind of scared (it just might have been because Elder Clements had his huge trench coat on - because of the rain). Anyway we started talking and the guy; Qunell said that the lady moved BUT we then started talking to him about the gospel and he said that he was just looking for a church to join and wanted us to come back!
-This ones a MIRACLE! On Friday me and Elder Groesbeck went on an exchange into my area. Our first two appointments in the morning canceled so we decided to pick a street to go tracting on. 12th steet came into our minds. So we said a prayer that we would have a miracle experience. We knocked on the first house and there was no answer & then the second house we went to had a big lock on the gate... I fiddeled with it for a couple of seconds and finally got it off the fence [No one stops Elder McBride from coming in!] So then we knocked on this door and a guy answers, grunts loudly and says "ALRIGHT, come in.." so me and Elder Groesbeck look at eachother and go in. He sat us down and said, "Brother Fenn sent you didn't he!?" (Brother Fenn is our first councelor in our ward) we said "no". He then told us how brother Fenn came over last night and talked to him. He and brother Fenn are both good friends as well as their kids. We then got into this way spiritual conversation! The guy (Robbie) said that he was having the worst day and that he just needed happiness! We told him that it was not a coincidence that we were brought here and he agreed saying we were "sent from God". Now the cool thing! We had dinner scheduled with the Fenns that night! So I invited Robbie and his family over for dinner and he accepted! Dinner was so great! Robbie said that he was not someone to commit suicide - but if he was that would have been the morning he would have done it if it wasn't for us coming! WOW! He and his family sat down and us and the Fenn family taught them about the gospel and the restoration and they accepted the commitment to read the Book of Mormon!
-Just yesterday we were tracting on 12th street again and this woman invited us in and said that her husband had just been put in jail. She was devastated! We asked her if she had ever read the Book of Mormon and she brought a quad out! Haha and she wasn't even a member! (she said a friend that past away gave it to her.) We taught her about how much her Heavenly Father loved her and cared for her and that there is a reason for why all of this is happening and to just look for it. She said her husband is reading from the bible in there (and has never done that before - so we think that is the reason.) Also we told her gospel truths such as if we make a mistake even though we are sorry and may have repented, we still have a consiquence for our actions.
Me and Elder Clements were asked to give a talk in church for this past Sunday. Haha, how I "love" giving talks! jk. Well all week I was thinking about what I should talk about, then it hit me - I needed to talk about focusing! I came up with all these stories from my past and stories and quotes that general authorities have used in the past. In the morning of this Sunday that we were supposed to give our talks (yesterday) Elder Clements was really sick and had been sick all night. We made it to church and he got up and gave like a 7 minute talk right after a deacon gave his talk on missionary service, a hymn was sung by the choir and I was left with 20 minutes to talk - - AHHHHHH I had never spoken in sacrament for that long, my farewell wasn't even that long! But with a prayer I started and went for a wopping 25 minutes! and the good thing was it wasn't even blabbering stuff I talked on! Haha, I started off my talk with the story of Cami getting ran over by a four wheeler by Ashley because she was not "focusing". haha everyone loved it!!
Well I love you all & have to go now. Thanks for everything and keeping me in your prayers! Be safe and choose the right!
PS. We had to get new accounts, so if this email adress looks different that is why - google and the church merged - so I am at gmail.com now :)
Love ya,
Elder P. McBride