Nampa... A day in the life

"Wow - Missionary work is about to go crazy!"

Hey there family!!!

holy cow! another week! its pretty crazy, I feel like I'm starting to lose track of days haha. Anyways this week was crazy as all get out.. haha on Wenesday my bike like completely broke.. the pedals just snapped and the gears got all bent and yeah its not good lol. Sooo we walked over to another missionaries apartment and fixed up the other bike we have and it took forever but we have 2 functioning bikes now!! It was pretty crazy I got all mad at the bikes and stuff and then later n in the day we were just blessed out of our minds!! 

This one lady who at first told us to never come back and we've been working with for awhile watched the restoration video with us haha(we kinda had to trick her into watching by telling her we just wanted her opinion as a non member) The spirit worked on her the whole time we watched it and at the end she said she believed that Joesph Smith saw God the father and Jesus Christ!!!!!!!! she's still getting stuck on the Book of Mormon but we'll help her understand that no problem!! she watched Gen Conference and she said she definitely felt something when the Prophet and Apostles spoke!!! its so awesome! and on top of that she's going to the temple open house with us! Wow it felt like we were flying and I am so grateful for the Holy Ghosts ability to soften peoples hearts and testify of truth!! 

I was so stoked to hear that conference was good for yall! I hope you guys got a ton out of it! I have never been so excited and eager to watch pretty much anything as I was to watch conference this time around! and wow!! watching it as a missionary is super humbling and makes you feel like you got to be perfect for these people! haha i'm not perfect but me and my comp are gunna try flippin harder then ever know! haha we got to watch conf with this super awesome super rich member family in their basement movie theatre! haha that was cool i wish I woulda taken some pictures but I have been better! 

WOW missionary work is about to go crazy! that announcement hit me like a brick! just think if that was last year I would have already been out! I bet there are gunna be a ton more sister missionaries now! including a particularly special one! haha I'm so glad you all got to watch it together! anyways that's about it for my week. The rest was the same ole same ole. We are gunna challenge a few people this week though and I'll let you know how that goes! 

I Love you all a ton and miss you! keep on chuggin yall!!! Love Elder Aaron Steele Macfarlane

"Crazy week in the great city of Nampa, Idaho!"

Hey yall!

Its been another crazy week in the great city of Nampa Idaho lol. We probably road more miles this week on our bikes then most missionariies did in their cars! 

Hahaha on Monday we visited a less active named Dan and we had a family home evening with him and his family which was really cool! They loved it and we mad arangements for them to have family home evenings with another active family in the ward and I think it will go along way to gettin em back to church and in the swing of everything! for Tuesday Wens, Thursday we did ALOT!!! of finding haha which especially on Thursday ment door-to-door trackting haha which actually was sorta fun! we made a game of it by seeing who could get the most positive responses on a door aproach! haha my brief door sales gig paid off and I won very handly! haha we are really just trying to increase our teaching pool right now. We have a few solid investigators and a few more that have been eternal investigators who are starting to progress finally!!! we have this one couple named Byron& Francis who have been tought by the missionaries for over a year now and Byron who is the none member has really started to open up and he said that he feels the spirit when we meet with them and that he knows now that the Book of Mormon is a real and true book!!!! haha it was awesome to hear! Francis is a inactive member who hasn't been to church in 30 years but she's super excited about the Boise Temple open house and she's reading her BOM at least weekly now and praying so yeah! they are finally comeing along and its awesome!! 

we also had a cool experience on Thursday, we went to a investigator named Brother Florez(the rest of his family are members) we asked him why he visits with us and he told us that he's been praying alot lately and that he loves the spirit that he feels when we teach him and He also said that he knows the Book of Mormon is true!!! we are gunna challenge him this week! its awesome to see people change, even in the short time I've been out! We have a Baptism this Friday! her name is Leanne Brown and even if i didn't play a huge role in her converstion its still gunna be sweet to see her take this step! she is super nervous but also she's very ready. 

Well thats about all going on! I got 2 packages from you guys this week! Thank you sososososososo much for my sweaters and P90X thats gunna be amazeing! can't wait to tell yall how it goes! I love all of you and miss ya a ton! -Love Elder Aaron Macfarlane

First full week doing all missionary work!

Hey guys! 

Its been a crazy past week haha! we got to do our first full week of all missionary work and we sure did our best haha! On Monday we taught acouple lessons after our P-day activities lol! we tought a older German Woman named Anna and introdueced her to the plan of Salvation and it was so cool! she totally acepted it and said that she had believed something similer her whole life! she just said that it made sense! Hopefully it will stick! we are going back tonight to teach her about the restoration and invite her to the Boise Temple Open house! The open house has been an awesome missionary tool! even people who don't want us to teach them have been super interested in checking the temple out soo hopefully when they all go they'll have some more questions for us. 

Boise Temple open house

Boise Temple fountain

We have been really focusing on finding more investigators and developing member trust. Soo we do this thing called member tracking where we vist members of each ward and share brief messages with them throughout the day and ask them if they know anyone who would like our message... haha sooo its sorta cheating the trackting gig but it helps us find way more people actually! we have apointments with like, three people this week who have'nt been to church in like 10 years sooooo we hopefully we can change some of that! I got to go do splits acouple of times this week! which is cool cuz I get to completly lead lessons and stuff cuz normally we go with priests and they're too shy to be of much assistance lol hahaha not really the people I went with were way cool and we tought some sweet lessons! we tought this woman who has been struggling with alcohol for like her whole adult life and we talked to her about the blessing that come from following the word of wisdom! she threw out her booz and said she would follow the WOW!(word of wisdom) which is awesome!! That was deffinitly not me, i got some major help from upstairs lol! haha The members are so awesome!!!! 

The bikes were nice while they lasted....  :)

Our bikes have both broke and members drove us around and paid for them to be fixed this week! I really do feel pretty dang blessed to be serveing where they take good care of their missionaries! 

I miss yall a ton!!!! Thank you so much for my hoodie and cookies and my LETTERS!!! haha I love em! I'm writeing back! hopefully I'll get em out soon! Love and miss you guys!!! your prayers are totally helpin me!! Love you Son/bro.. Elder Macfarlane lol