Elder Mackeys June 4 and June 11 E-Mails

Dear Family

St. Paul is such a beautiful place! There are so much vegetation and greenery it is just awesome! We have been doing a lot of finding since we have no investigators. It is just amazing seeing the miracle come as we exercise our faith and open our mouth to everyone we see! We have now gained 4 new investigators. (Just to put in here, we also got some new sweet phones!! The church is becoming more high tec) I love my new companion Elder Judkins! He and I work pretty similar and came out together. Since our time is coming close to an end we have desires to become even greater! We both have had (more him than me) companions that were "hard" companions and we do not want to become like them. We are striving to be more obedient and focusing more on the Lord, and giving of ourselves. Thank you everyone for you prayers and love and support! Continue to pray for missionary opportunities! They are the most happiest things in the world!

This week:

Dear Family,

 

This past week has been a good week. Our lesson number went up and we found some concerns with one of our solid investigators! That was exciting! The ward is way awesome, like most wards are. Sorry this is way late. The work is still pretty slow but hopefully it will pick up and it is. Thank you so much for your thoughts and prayers for me. I feel them everyday.

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Love,
Elder Mackey

Elder Mackey's May 31, 2012 E-mail

Dear Family,

 

Sorry I didn't write on Monday. This week my companion and I decided to go to the temple so we had our p-day today. We got to the temple late so we were not able to do the endowment session. But we did initiatory and then went to the Celestial room. Then we went shopping at COSTCO!!!!!!! I love that store! We had it in my last area and we went there a lot! When I got into this area we had barley one investigator that we probably are going to drop. The work has been pretty slow. Right now we are just trying to clean out the area book(s). Yes this area use to be two area's but has now eaten the other one and we have their work as well. Which does not have any investigators. Plus, to add on all the top of that, our area is a bike area as well. I believe it is 40 square miles. I thought there couldn't be in a bike area bigger than Minneapolis but St. Paul is now the biggest bike area. There are a lot of hills so it really is a work out. Our focus has not only been on cleaning out the area book but we have been talking to everyone that we see. We have seen the miracles occur as we exercise our faith! What stinks is that we mainly get referrals for other areas. Nonetheless, we have been seeing the Holy Ghost direct our work and where we go. Thank you everyone for all of your prayers! I love you and I pray for you! Happy Birthday Mom! and Happy Birthday Jimmy!

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Love,

Elder David Mackey