Hey all,
No email last week, so here's a quick recap of the past 2 weeks.
We went over to the Roberts twice and did service for them. Me and my comp gave him a blessing a couple weeks back cause he had a shoulder surgery. He's doing good though. The service was pretty rough haha. We moved a bunch of boxes and they were HEAVY. They were full with books. He had us take the boxes from his garage and put them on this old rusty cart and bring them down the hill in their backyard. It was a lot of work but that makes the payoff that much greater! He was truly grateful. The first time we went over we forgot our gloves and that was a mistake. The garage and the boxes were super dusty. It all turned out okay and we remembered gloves the second time haha :) they ordered dinner for us too which was so kind.
The covid restrictions in Washington have just been changed which is great to hear! I believe we used to be in phase 1 and now we just got bumped up to phase 2 which means we can eat in restaurants and in members homes!! That's good news for sure. Its definitely weird/hard to be a missionary during this whole pandemic. I hope things continue to improve. I'm gonna be honest... not a huge fan of this covid thing haha. I can't complain too much though cause I wouldn't change anything about my mission experience so far.
We had several dinners this past week in members homes which was awesome. We went over to Sister Goodmans and she fed us lunch. She needed help setting up a printer in her office so we helped with that. Turns out its actually super easy. We had Dinner with Brother Loeshes yesterday too. He lives in the Crescent Valley ward but they invited us to join him and the sister missionaries. He had this whole dinner set up for us and he served us steak, corn, potatoes... it was way fancy and way good. He told many stories of his relationship with God and how he converted to the gospel and they were powerful. He's so cool.
Me and my companion played quite a bit of basketball this week. We usually play in the mornings and during pday. We started getting together with some guys in the ward and playing on Tuesday nights. It was really fun. It's good to get to know the ward better. There were a handful of priests and their dads there. It's fun to get to know the youth and the priests in the ward who are excited about serving missions (or we motivation them to be excited haha). Looking back, I'm not sure how excited I was to serve a mission as a priest but I knew I should do it... and here I am! So grateful for that decision and all the people around me who directing me down this path. Missions are the best... but not without a little sacrifice ;)
Elder Macfarlane
Pic 1: Double rainbow!
Pic 2-3: Service at the Roberts
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