Hey everyone!!
Sooo this week freally flew by! hahha it
really pretty crazy! I can't believe that its already been a month since I've
been out on my mission! haha wierd huh? Thanks for the Emails they are so
awesome! This week was pretty dang good! haha it wasn't super full of lessons
like normal but it was full of some good missionary work I though!
First off we
had a zone conference that was way cool! I learned abunch about new teaching
skills and how I can improve myself as a teacher! haha I thought I was a good
teacher but then I realized I need a ton of work lol.. Thats actually been
something that has been kinda hard for me this first month.. I used to be such
a confident teacher and I felt like my teaching was way more effective! but
recently Its been hard to get my confidence back and get back into the rythm of
teaching again. We are now supposed to have only 10-15 minute lessons because
we are focusing on shorter and more powerful messages.. haha and teaching the
entire plan of salvation and restoration in 15mins is way hard if you try to be
an effective teacher by using scriptures and asking inspired questions and all
that! haha pretty much your lesson has to be perfectly planned out! which is
something that really hit me because back home if I had to give a talk or teach
a lesson I would spend a few hours getting it ready and preparing it. That is
how our missionary lessons should be with the same amount of preparation and
all that stuff! haha because I have gotten into a bad habbit of thinking I
already know the lesson and how to teach it so I really don't need to put a
whole ton of prep work into it. So thats something I've been trying to work on!
and my companion is working really hard too! We teach way different and we've
kinda clashed with our teaching styles so we've been working hard to get
unified so we can teach powerfully.
Ummm We found a new family this week!!! the
Chockers!! they are a young couple with 2 way cute kids and a little blonde 2
year old named Miranda haha which actually kinda looks like the wittle version
of you dear sister ;) haha but anyways josh is a convert of 10 years and sarah
has taken missionary lessons in the past but just never had a desire to find
out if it was true or not.. anyways they have been going to a bunch of
different churches the past little while and each one has fallen apart by some
kind of disagreement or scandal.. They were talking about it the night before
we came over and they decided that they wanted to raise their family in our
church because its the only one that has always remained constant! hahaha sooo
we had a bomb lesson and we are going to set a baptismal date with Sarah this
week!!! I'm so stoked because they are definitely really prepared and they want
to raise their family in the gospel and support eachother and its way cool!! We
had a bomb Mexican breakfast and lesson with Silvia this week! haha she like's
to cook for us before lessons so we don't complain ;) she's the same way and
she wants to raise her family in the church and she says that she has just felt
more at peace the past few weeks since she has been coming to church! We had a super
powerful lesson with Rick and Ranae last night where we watched the restoration
video with them and then we testified about the prophet Joeseph Smith. I really
realized how much I loved him this past week. I've always felt close to Joesph
Smith and I've never really doubted that he was a prophet but we had a lesson
in church about him and it seems like we've been listening to a bunch of music
about him and what he did and I just felt in my heart that I knew him before
this life and that he is my close friend and that I know he was a good and
rightous man who really did see God and our savior and was actually called to
be a latter day prophet. It just felt cool :) haha because I get to tell people
about what he did and I get to defend who he was! Anyways Rick really sarted to
feel the spirit and the Elder manygoats asked his wife ranae what the Prophet
Joesph Smith meant to her and as she bore her testimony I could definitely tell
Rick was touched! He's coming along ;) haha those were the highlights!
This week
we are teaching a special easter message that me and manygoats prepared to a
bunch of Ward members and we are super excited about that! I love Easter! I've
been reading the gospels and a bunch of talks on the Atonement and I have just
felt so grateful and so happy that Jesus Christ is a real and actual person and
everything that is written about him in the scriptures is true :) anyways its
been a good week and I know this next one will be a good one too!! Remeber
Jesus this week ok? remeber that he died for us but more especially remember
that he lives for us still! I love the scriptural account in Luke 24 "why
seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, He is risen!" That is
so true and I love it! I love you guys!! have a super dope week and get work
done! Mic and Joe you need to get some school work done from all this crazy
break you have been haveing ;) haha I'm gunna miss you guys on Easter but just
know that I am haveing a blast and I'm with people I really love and care
about<3 haha But since your my fam and all that I guess I love you more ;)
anyways I love you guys! Happy
Easter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love Elder Macfarlane!
P.S.
so we ran into a few families with the cutest little kittens
and the we went to this fam who seriously has a doc dewlittle type thing going
on with like every kind of animal possible but the baby rabbits where the
cutest :) haha they have this giant rabbit that is house trained and you can
take for walks on a leash and stuf!! so dope! haha and then I ran into Rockhard
is my little brother from the last family I lived with before I left! It was so
awesome to see him again!!! soo yup! lol fun times :)
Que pasa calihasa?
haha thats not even close to correct
spelling but one of my zone leaders is a Spanish missionary that came out at
the same time with my so he's been teaching me up en some espanol slang haha.
Its suppose to mean whats up pumkin? haha anyways.. This week was so awesome!!!
man I can't even believe its Monday again because this one seemed to fly by!
Conference was awesome as always and man! It was just way good!
We got to go on a temple trip as a district on
Tuesday!! that was so incredible! The spirit was so strong and it was just nice
to feel confidence and recharge to do the Lords work! I was thinking about and
praying alot for added strength to become the absolute best missionary the Lord
can make me and the opportunity to have the holy ghost with me all the time to
guide me in my work this time around. I felt like I definitely got some
specific answers in the temple that helped prepare me to receive even more
during conference! After our Temple trip on Tuesday I went on exchanges with
elder Spencer in his area! man that was so fun! Him and his comp E Teione the
big poly guy are so awesome! They both want to work hard and be the best
missionaries they can be which to me means everything in the world. That's
something I felt alot this week was just overwhelming gratitude for the
missionaries I get to serve and work with. Anyways Friday we did exchanges
again but with our Zone leaders this time. I got to go with E Eisenhower which
was sooo awesome because he was in my mtc district and we have always been good
friends! It was awesome to catch up with him and learn from him. He's a little
older then the rest of us(24) but even if he's older I've always admired how
humble and Christlike he is. He is always willing to learn and listen and for
the most part be obedient ;) haha I love him! 
then of course this weekend was
conference!!! I loved all the talks! it just really hit me again that these men
truly are prophets and they receive direct revelation and authority from God.
It made me want to strengthen my testimony in a living prophet so that I can
always have the faith and humility to boldly follow anything the prophet tells
us. I was just super grateful that we have direction from Jesus Christ even
while he isn't currently on the earth. I definitely felt the spirit confirm
that it really is Christ who is at the head of our church. I loved E Uchtdorf's
talk it was super bomb! I've needed to hear it because we really can be
grateful in any circumstance! like Richard the dude I told you about last week
he has just about nothing in the world as far as possessions but he can still
tear up praying to God and praising him for is continual goodness and mercy
towards all of us. I know that's true and that's a lesson I need to keep
learning. Hahaha probably more know then ever because things have been going so
awesome! I do love being a missionary! I love being able to make a difference
in someone's life by showing them a way and a person who makes all of the
difference. Something else in conference that hit me was just the need to
always be willing to do what is right and let everything else follow how it
will. I want to live the gospel always and put it first because really what
else matters in the end? The Gospel covers like everything that is of real
importance in this life especially our families! I love you guys! I love your
examples to me and the people around you! have a good week! and live what we
learned in conference! I know that its by living true principles we receive the
full blessings!
Love E Aaron Mac!
