Hello hello!
This week was another great week in the life of a missionary! But before I get into that... HAPPY (early) THANKSGIVING!!! Today is our Pday, and we're having the Turkey Bowl later today (american football) to celebrate! Gonna be fun :)
Back to missionary work! :) We've been working super hard to find more and more people to visit and teach about the church and it's been a very successful week in that sense. Then to top it off, Christian and Lemily came to church! AND it was the primary presentation so it was an extra special sunday! Lemily is one of our investigators and Christian is her boyfriend who we found out is actually a less-active member of the church. They were only able to stay the first hour, but they loved it and said they will definitely come back next week! The ward was really loving and kind to them too, I was glad that they were able to make friends to quickly in the ward!

Also another cool miracle happend this week. Last week, or maybe the week before, we were out contacting names on our "potential investigators" list. In other words, we were out visiting people who other missionaries have met before but never formally taught any lessons to. We went to visit a girl named Emily, but she said she wasn't interested. So we decided to knock some doors on that street, and we said we would keep knocking until we found at least one person who was interested. After about a half hour of knocking doors we met this man, Rob, who didn't seem interested but then said that he would love to have us back to teach his family... uh What!? We were so excited to teach this family about Jesus Christ. But then, we go back during our next appointment with them and his wife answered and said they aren't interested, stop coming by. We were pretty discouraged after that, but once again, we wouldn't let it stop us! We saw this man across the street sitting outside with his kids so naturally, we walked over and started talking to him. He's the man! His name is Cory and we invited him to learn more about what we teach and he accepted. We've taught him again once since then and invited him to church this upcoming Sunday and he said he'd love to and he might bring his kids along too! I can't wait to see his family progress!
The reason I share that story is because it taught me a really important lesson about Faith. We were met with discouragement a couple times and didn't give up. We showed our faith and kept pushing forward, striving to do whats right and share what we know to be true. As we continue to show our faith, we are able to see miracles come into our life. Show your faith in Jesus Christ by striving to become more like Him. Having faith in Christ will lead to repentence, which will ultimately lead you to our Heavenly Father and His eternal love for each and every one of us. Be strong and of good courage, the Lord is watching :)
Love you all!
Elder Macfarlane