Elder Macfarlane's Wonderful Washington Adventures: Zoom call with Elder Christofferson!

December 7, 2020

Hey guys!

This week was the BOMB. First off we had Elder Christofferson talk with the whole mission! That was so cool. He did like a Q&A and it was really good. It was all over zoom but you could still feel his presence and the spirit he carries. He talked about the virus and missionary work. I loved when he said that God specifically called us to serve a mission at THIS time during THESE circumstances. I guess I never thought about it like that. God knew the virus would come. God new which missionaries he need at this time. He chose me. It was so cool to think about and my relationship with my Father in Heaven has only strengthened.

We had to say goodbye to Elder Stringham this week

He was one of my comps and he's so nice. He was originally called to the Japan mission and had to be reassigned to Washington because of corona. He got the okay to go back! His flight was this past Wednesday so hopefully he's doing well. We got to go over to President Metts house and have dinner with him and his wife (and the APs). It was sad to see him go but I'm grateful that we crossed paths and that he has the opportunity to go back to his original assignment.

We got a random text from Elder Colby who is the vehicle coordinator and he said we needed to drive to the mission office and trade in our car. We had a 2020 Nissan Rogue and now we got 2021 Chevy Equinox! It's way niceeeee. I'm blessed haha.

Me and Elder Stanger have been teaching alot recently. We've been teaching Brian for several weeks now and he's planning on getting baptized on the 19th! We are super excited for him. I was a little nervous going into one of our last lessons cause we had to talk about the law of chastity and the word of wisdom. Elder Stanger has only been out 8 weeks and neither of us had ever taught the lesson to an actual person. It went SOOO well. I gotta give props to the Holy Ghost though cause it was so strong. Me and Elder Stanger were stoked walking out of that lesson.

Being a missionary is the best