tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16525173403023170162024-03-19T15:05:41.827-07:00Elder David MackeyMinnesota Minneapolis MissionElder Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164530697044769968noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652517340302317016.post-72204739451770758632012-07-24T00:14:00.000-07:002012-07-24T00:50:36.961-07:00Elder Mackey's July 2 and July 9, 2012 E-mail<div>
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July 2, 2012<br />
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The work here in St. Paul is still on the low. My companion got burned out and he hates being in the city. Today was transfer calls and he has been transferred to Akin, MN up in the Duluth Zone. He said it is really nice there in the summer and very pretty. My new companion is Elder Reed. I have served around him. He and I will hopefully get this area back up to par. We will baptize this transfer! The ward is so awesome! It was so hot these past few days! It is suppose to be real hot this week. :/ Right when I walk out I just get drenched in my own sweat. Thank you for your prayers. I love you all!! I hope Stacey is doing better. I have been praying for her.</div>
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This past week has been good. My new companion is Elder Read. He is from San Diego where the weather is nice. He has been out on his mission for two transfers less than me. He learned sign language in his last area since he had to interpret for his branch. He is so awesome and is a hard worker. I love making people smile. This past week was horrible. It was so hot and humid! Especially the forth of July. Saturday was really nice though and Sunday. I dont have much time now. Our ride was talking to us too much. Love ya everyone! Thank you for your prayers! <br />
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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!</div>
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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.</div>
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Elder MackeyElder Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164530697044769968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652517340302317016.post-29854369330878407792012-06-04T23:07:00.002-07:002012-06-04T23:07:47.521-07:00Elder Mackey's May 31, 2012 E-mail<div id="yui_3_2_0_5_1338876118793543">
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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!<span><span style="color: #888888;"><br clear="all" /><br />-- </span></span></div>
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Dear Family,<br /><br />I have been feeling for the past few weeks that I will be transferred and I have been saying it but I did not want it to happen. It is true, I am going to leave Cedar Lake and will now be serving in St. Paul. The city next door to Minneapolis. I use to be a district leader for this area and its a pretty hard area I believe. Well I will make it a baptizing area!! I forget who my new companion is. Its a bike area so thats a great thing. <br /><br />The last week has been really slow improving for our area. Elder Larsen sang a duet with the Opera singer in our ward yesterday and it sounded really good! I loved talking to everyone at Mother's Day! I am so happy for my family! You guys are awesome! I get so excited and a little nervous but it is a great "refeshing drink of water." I pray for all of my brothers and sisters and grandma and grandpa and mom and dad. I love you all.</div>
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I didnt know Julia and Kevin are leaving to North Carolina!! Things are really changing over there. I love you all! Thank you for your support and prayers! I loved the comment of your friend Mandy. Really funny.<span class="yiv139079996HOEnZb"><span style="color: #888888;"><br />-- </span></span></div>
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So I havent received any letters from anyone yet. Or e-mails. I guess thats how you feel when I dont send anything either huh...Well the weather is so great right now! We had two or three days of just rain. We got soaked. Everything was so wet! But it was fun! We had a great week. So we got a new Stake President yesterday. We got a new bishop the Sunday before and now a new Stake President. We got this awesome referral from <a href="http://mormon.org/" id="yui_3_2_0_5_1337050817993454" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span id="lw_1337050822_3">mormon.org</span></a>. She referred herself and so we met her. We scheduled a time to meet up with two sisters from the ward. She got really nervous and scared so she kinda bailed. Well we said the sisters could go and have lunch and let us know when they are done and we will check again. We went next door and taught her neighbor. They called us and we checked her apartment again and the card we left was gone....She was home! She didnt answer her door though. For some reason I was "pushed" to walk down the stairs to the bottom floor. We saw a girl (which was her) come through the door and start going up stairs on the other end. We said something but she just looked back and kept going. She we "chased" after her and right before she got inside we talked to her. We tried to "chase" after her in a non-discrete way. She told us that she was scared and nervous but she told us that she would meet us outside in a little. She did and we had a great lesson with the sisters! She told us when we were going back to her apartment that we are so nice that it makes her nervous. She has some trusting difficulties from past experiences. :( The sisters are doing awesome and are building a great relationship with her! <br />
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Sunday and Mothers Day!! I hope to see you all there. Even you Lauren! I want to skype and maybe call as well. I get home or where ever we will be eating around 5. depends on how much stuff we have to do after church. I really dont know when to call so I will guess it. I can only talk for 40 min. MAX. President does not want us to go over. Help me to keep that blessing.<br />
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<div id="yui_3_2_0_5_1333002566676510">Love,</div><div id="yui_3_2_0_5_1333002566676523">Elder David Mackey</div>Elder Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164530697044769968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652517340302317016.post-68186450767064243932012-03-15T22:49:00.000-07:002012-03-15T22:49:50.398-07:00Elder Mackey's March 12, 2012 E-mail<div id="yui_3_2_0_5_1331876796932500">I am doing amazing! We had a baptism this last Saturday and a confirmation! Donna Takayama was baptized! I was able to see someone whom I started to teach and then see her get baptized. Elder Earley performed the baptism and I confirmed her. This past week I have been recognizing being led by the Spirit and I see that this whole time I have been led by the Spirit. We got in contact with a member referral and we taught them a lesson. These new investigators are pretty old and the husband (Leroy) didn't look too good. We mainly talked to Shirley, the wife. Well the next day we were driving by and I happened to look over and I saw an ambulance infront of their house. I called up the member and told her. Well we tried to stop by but they left already so I didnt know what hospital they went to. The day went on and we had the baptism. After we were going to go to Donna's house for dinner and we drove by the hospital they were at and then we got a text that Leroy probably wont make it he needs a blessing. So we turned around and stay with her for 2 hours to keep her company until the member got there. I know we were there and gone that certain way because we were suppose to keep her company. God is great!</div><div id="yui_3_2_0_5_1331876796932513"> </div><div>The weather here has be AMAZING!!! It is already spring yesterday!!!! The winter is done and it only dropped below zero twice and it wasnt very much. Thank you for your prayers! Or maybe the people here really need to repent. ;D These past few weeks have been a little lonely. Thank you so much Valerie for the package and the PICTURES! I got a ray of sunlight! I love you all! </div><div>Love,</div><div class="yiv2146439540HOEnZb" id="yui_3_2_0_5_1331876796932507"><div class="yiv2146439540h5" id="yui_3_2_0_5_1331876796932506"><div id="yui_3_2_0_5_1331876796932517">Elder David Mackey</div></div></div>Elder Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164530697044769968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652517340302317016.post-28068421397275156072012-02-28T22:04:00.002-08:002012-02-28T22:04:56.381-08:00Elder Mackey's February 27, 2012 E-Mail<div id="yui_3_2_0_5_1330495110410505">Dear Family,</div><div id="yui_3_2_0_5_1330495110410514"> </div><div id="yui_3_2_0_5_1330495110410506">Oh Mandy I forgot to thank you for your package! You will be getting a letter soon. So yesterday we had the Restoration fireside through music and it was awesome! I played a lot of the songs and I sang one as well. I didn't have that much time to practice but it all worked out. I made some mistakes but not many. :D It was very successful in that a lot if not all of the members invited a lot of their friends. The only unsuccessful thing was that not very non-members were there. I think there was three and one of them was singing a song. (which was awesome! He is an opera singer) I sang "Oh Lord, My Redeemer" and played as well. I was hoping to just sing it because I dont do that much and I want to get better at doing that. </div><div id="yui_3_2_0_5_1330495110410507"> </div><div id="yui_3_2_0_5_1330495110410508">We had a lesson with a part-member family and it was amazing! To see the Lord prepare this family, and it wasnt just a few days but years, and the change in them is humbling. I really learn that I am just a tool in Heavenly Fathers hands doing the work that he wants me to do. I had a member teach me amazing truth yesterday and the showed me that patience is implied in everything. It took him 6 years to learn this one thing. </div><div id="yui_3_2_0_5_1330495110410509"> </div><div id="yui_3_2_0_5_1330495110410511">Ha ha there is now James Bernard Mackey the 3rd. Is he a little guy? I want to see pictures! Send me one in the mail if you could! Yea for Adam! I hope he does go Spanish! How awesome! Man I am so jealous that he knows Spanish. I think I will need my one wisdom tooth that is halfway out pulled. who knows. Thank you for all your prayers! This week we sould be getting some snow. This is suppose to be the biggest storm this year. We did get snow last week and luckily we didtn have to bike in it! Well I need to go. Talk to ye'all later! </div><div class="yiv2142050023HOEnZb" id="yui_3_2_0_5_1330495110410519"><div class="yiv2142050023h5" id="yui_3_2_0_5_1330495110410518"><div id="yui_3_2_0_5_1330495110410521">Love,</div><div id="yui_3_2_0_5_1330495110410523">Elder David Mackey</div></div></div>Elder Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164530697044769968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652517340302317016.post-82804692273208464762012-02-18T21:01:00.000-08:002012-02-18T21:01:56.261-08:00Elder Mackey's February 6, 2012 E-mail<div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1329627009621122">Hey Family,</div><div> </div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1329627009621120">Alright Valentine's Packages! Whoo-hoo!!! I am doing pretty well. Donna, our baptismal date set, is doing awesome! She has tried to put back to baptismal date to like April. She gave a good excuse because she wanted her son to baptize her but wasn't able to do it till April because he does MMA fighting for a living and will be done with his fights in April. But as we taught her with her sister she decided to keep the baptismal date because her mother has been coming to her in her dreams and her sister said that their ancestors are getting antsy and want their work done. So she is determine to keep her date and quit smoking. Please pray for Donna Takayama to quit smoking! </div><div> </div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1329627009621117">So yesterday I wanted to take a short cut to get home. It turned out to be a very long cut but was worth doing. <img height="15" src="http://us.f1206.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f310122%5fABdVimIAAPdTTz%2f79ghwsUJ8vq0&pid=2&fid=Inbox&inline=1&appid=YahooMailNeoCL" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" width="12" /> Elder Earley and I walked on water! Yes we walked across the lake to the other side. We actually rode our bikes some of the way until Elder Earley slipped and fell. It is very hard to walk on the ice with no traction on your shoes. It was a little scary because I don't know ice very well and there were a lot of cracks some places and I was thinking we were going to die. ha ha but Elder Earley said they were "deep" cracks, whatever that means, and so I just kept praying. They have Zamboni's that go over the lakes and smooth them out so people can go ice skating. I think yesterday the ice was at 14 feet. </div><div> </div><div>Things are going great! Thank you for the Let....or wait havent received any yet ha ha. Thank you for your prayers! I love you all.</div><div> </div><div>Love,</div><div>Elder David Mackey</div>Elder Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164530697044769968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652517340302317016.post-76801264608730302692012-01-17T19:06:00.001-08:002012-01-17T19:06:51.096-08:00Elder Mackey's January 16, 2012 E-Mail<div>Dear Mandy,</div><div> </div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_132685583829493">This last week was wonderful! The work is going along real great! We have just been stopping by less-actives in this ward and we have been seeing a lot of success. We saw a less-active couple on Wednesday and she said that she would go to church. She did! And she also told us her real concern and it was just awesome! I was talking with a member who actually is a opera singer as a profession and we are setting up a fireside where we teach the first lesson through music. He brought it up with the stake presidency and they are taking it off! The Lord is blessing us here! So my companion, Elder Smith, will be transferring this week and will be going to Shoreview. I will be getting Elder Early who came out with me. He served here before. </div><div> </div><div>I am so grateful for this last transfer. I have learned so much! Thank you so much for your love!<br />
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-- </div><div>Love,</div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_132626028097393">Elder David Mackey</div></div></div>Elder Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164530697044769968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652517340302317016.post-224736018070352432011-12-08T22:08:00.000-08:002011-12-08T22:08:09.778-08:00Elder Mackey's December 5, 2011 E-mail<div id="yui_3_2_0_1_132341058776583" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Dear Mandy,</div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_132341058776587" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I am doing wonderful! The work here goes pretty well I guess or well at least as far as I see it and then I get transferred. We had 14 investigators with one who was making such a big change in his life. His name is Mitchell and he was a gang buster who went to jail for a long time. He was actually in the Florence jail in AZ. But anyways he really changed his life around and his giving it all to the Lord. He is like King Lamoni's father in Alma 22. He gave God 30 days of no drinking and asked the Lord to help him. Then after the 30 days he will be done for good. It was a miracle because after that he said the desire left him. Man its so awesome! Like I said though I get transferred always. But that's ok, I need to change all these habits I have of mine and gain a new life. I am going to Cedar Lake in the Anoka stake. It was near where I served in New Brighton. So yes everything is sent to the mission home. Then they forward it to where I am serving. Its better that way just in case I get transferred it doesnt go to my old area and I cant get it back until a much longer time. So just send it to the Mission home unless you are wanting to use Fed Ex or UPS then let me know and I will give you the address where I am living but its tricky near the transfer date since I wont know if I will be getting transferred or not. Ya last week I was not in the mood to e-mail. I just dont know what to say in the 45 min I have. I did recently receive a letter from mom but it was after Tuesday I think. Hey so does everyone want to talk to me on skype or just over the phone? Skype was a little to hard to talk to certain people. Maybe just the phone. Well we had a mission Christmas conference this Sunday but since I am getting transferred the one I will be going to will be on the 18. I was thinking about doing something but then I had second thoughts. I just love the Christmas season though! The Spirit is so strong and it is just awesome! It seems that poeple are more open at this time of year. <br />
Dad's party sound like it was fun! I really want to see pictures of Dad's cake! Sounds like it was amazing and very artistic. When I get home everyone is going to look so different! There will even be new faces. Good luck Jacob on your boards! You are in my prayers! Way to go Orrin for passing them! That is awesome!</div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_132341058776594" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I thought I knew everything about being a missionary but every transfer I learn that there is more. I was talking to Elder Whitehead about this and he gave the thought that I am not "emotionally attached to my mission." I talked with my mission president and he gave me some great scriptures to ponder on. The first one was Matthew 10:37-39. I need to lose my self in the work or forget about my old life and receive the new life that Christ gave me. D&C 121:33-46 where I need to do this for the glory of God and not my and to trust in Him and put aside my pride. Pride comes in many forms. Then he told me to memorize Mosiah 3:19. I need to be humble and willing to submit to God just as a child. Keep up the work and stay sweet! Trust in God! <span class="yiv174955633HOEnZb"><span style="color: #888888;"><br />
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He came to our apartment to check it out and then he prayed for us and our appointment we were having right after. :D Then we had a training from him and his wife and it was awesome! During the break he came up to me and apparently President told him about my accident. He wanted to give me a blessing and asked if I wanted one. I said ya! It was so awesome! He pretty much healed me in the blessing. But I thought it was so cool that I had a General Authority lay hands on my head. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The coldest I have experienced so far or from when I payed attention was 28 degrees with wind shield 18. Our first day of snow was <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321930635_0">on Saturday</span>. It was at least three inches of snow! And guess what, I fell for the first time on the first day of snow fall. This is my companions first area on a bike so he was slowing down while coming up to the side walk and I was coming in pretty fast and hit the curb to miss him and went straight down. It didn't even hurt. Then I fell a few times the next day because it all turned to ice and I was trying to slide on the ice with my bike. I do have plans for Thanksgiving. We have a Turkey bowl in the morning (I am praying the snow will melt before then which its says it will) which is a big huge one they say. They have three games going on and tons of people come. Then we will be going over to a members home for Thanksgiving. So that will be my P-day and I will be writing letters then.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I think we had Thanksgiving at our house but I don't remember. We had the opportunity to go to a members wedding reception and they gave us the left overs and there was so much turkey that we got! I am going to be sick of it by the end of this week. I am with you, I love the sides; the jello, chips, carrots with that good dip. Thats a bumber that <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321930635_1">ASU</span> lost. oh well. Maybe next year or the year after that so I can be there to watch it.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_132193065804397" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I have experienced a man who was like "the hypocrites when they pray". He prayed for like 10 min. saying Jesus Christ and "in the name of Jesus Christ" like half the time and the majority of the prayer was about how God is one and that they knew Him and the Bible was the only word. What I really liked about it was that my companion and I were very calm and not bashing. I said at the end, "well we have no purpose here in teaching you since we have already answered your questions" and the guy goes while trying to fake cry "you have a purpose, and that is to find out God and find God." I think there would be some spark in the other guy that we were teaching and his wife maybe.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The investigator (****) that had a baptismal date set will not be able to get baptized <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321930635_2">on Tuesday</span>. :/ She loves coming to church and she will continue to but she has one thing that is holding her up. She has a strong testimony of the other questions so we are waiting for God to work miracles with her. She is so solid. President said that once she starts to live the thing she struggles with that she can be baptized on that day. But she is working towards it.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">That is awesome about the Baptist lady. The Baptist out here really focus on the "rapture" which has no Bible reference. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I remember going down those McDonald slides in wrestling with a tray. You go really fast. I do concur with the smell of pee in the balls area. Not very sanitary especially for children.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
I feel though that I'm not being a perfect missionary wastes Heavenly Fathers time that He has set apart for me. I will try to improve my relationship with Him and ask for more help. :) I love you and thank you for your prayers! I still have not received any packages yet so I dont know if you have sent them yet or not. </div></div><br clear="all" />Love,<br />
Elder MackeyElder Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164530697044769968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652517340302317016.post-4218889502768648502011-11-08T18:56:00.000-08:002011-11-08T18:56:10.942-08:00Elder Mackey's November 7, 2011 E-mail<div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVYtvsAfbz3G7oFOkPiGmtuT91jqMVSkDpQ7AtUn9pMkHLMDkC1-Z8_2CTUkxUXqsVG7AWcnVb_N9EqNzEihMn4dDWlURAVnLIglbGnwP-uRJ5mXDaGk4YxpFvFU84OL0U0zsbKjvKZjU/s1600/SAM_0135.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVYtvsAfbz3G7oFOkPiGmtuT91jqMVSkDpQ7AtUn9pMkHLMDkC1-Z8_2CTUkxUXqsVG7AWcnVb_N9EqNzEihMn4dDWlURAVnLIglbGnwP-uRJ5mXDaGk4YxpFvFU84OL0U0zsbKjvKZjU/s320/SAM_0135.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Its like we are starting from scratch. Its tough getting the area going. There are pictures of Elder Whitehead and I raking the leaves of our new investigator. There were a ton of leaves. It was fun, I am having a lot of fun with Elder Whitehead. Another investigator that we obtained while we were here as a date set for November 22. That was pretty cool. Tracting on Halloween was fun too. Although we were talking to a group of young kids and their parents and one of the kids kept hitting me in the face. He did it like 5 times. haha It was hard for me not to pick him up and throw him...not really but man. We got candy while we tracted and some people would talk to us. But very ineffective. </div><div> </div><div>I still have not received any packages yet or letters. :( I hear that they are thinking about having the post office be closed on Saturdays. I hope that doesn't happen but I think it has or will. Thank you for all of the notes that you wrote and mom sent to me. :D They made me smile and feel loved! I forgot to take them with me today so I cant really respond specifically but I will next week hopefully. I will write it down in my planner. </div><div> </div><div>That is an awesome story/ miracle that your ward had! That is so EXCITING! Keep me in the know about the families that are still going. I love hearing stories of re-activation. </div><div> </div><div>-- </div><div>Love,</div><div>Elder David Mackey</div>Elder Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164530697044769968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652517340302317016.post-11205707192246429902011-11-02T19:18:00.000-07:002011-11-06T15:27:18.705-08:00Elder Mackey's October 31, 2011, E-Mail<div class="tripane message content showqr" id="yui_3_2_0_1_132028644654546"><div aria-label="Message header" class="y-module message-header"><div class="info"><div aria-label="Message header" class="focusholder" tabindex="-1"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Dear Mandy,</span></div></div></div><div class="msg-body inner undoreset" id="yui_3_2_0_1_132028644654590"><div id="yiv251702612"><div class="yiv251702612gmail_quote" id="yui_3_2_0_1_132028644654589"><div></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Wow Adam is amazing!!! He has so much faith! Way to go for him. I did send him an e-mail. Man I wish I had that kind of experience. </span></div><div></div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_132028644654594"><span id="yui_3_2_0_1_132028644654593" style="background-color: white; color: black;">So it is getting really cold now. It was pretty foggy today and chilly. I am now in East Bloomington. I am in Presidents ward with the AP's. This ward is awesome!! They help out so much with missionary work its just crazy! We really don't have to do much except tract, teach, study, and be obedient. So my companion, Elder Whitehead, and I white washed the area so we knew nothing here. He has never served here and he actually has never been in a bike area and he goes home in 2 transfers. We just had a wedding followed by a baptism this last Saturday. It was awesome! We got in here with a baptism and wedding. That was pretty much it though. We don't have anyone else. Maybe one but we called and she said she wasn't interested. There hasn't been missionaries in this area for 2 weeks. But we were visiting a less-active and as we were coming out Elder Whitehead contacted a lady who was walking by. We invited her to come to church and she said she had a previous engagement but felt she needed to go. She did and she had a great experience. It was the Primary Program. There was this one kid who got up there and started to say his part and then he says "I don't remember anymore" loudly and throws the mic up and gets down. It was so funny. So yes this is a bike area and it is a huge one and I will be in it for probably the whole winter. My companion is awesome! He works hard and he contacts really well. He teaches with the Spirit and finds with the Spirit. We cook a lot here which is good because I am getting really good at it. :) Although I do need recipes that are good. And spices, good ones please. :) Maybe not as good as Kevin and Ju. I did not get Her package yet. :( The ward had it <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1320286470_3">last Friday</span> but we were thrown into the ward and we didn't know about it so we didn't attend. </span></div><div></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">The Police story is not even that cool. We just tracted into this one house and the girlfriend was really interested and was trying to leave the place. We stopped by again and the guy answered and he was really mad and said that he was going to call the cops because we were there again and said stuff about our church that was not true so I wanted to beat him up but I said have a great night and left. Ya I probably made it sound like it was intense but it really wasn't. </span></div><div></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">I think we are finally on our feet here in this area and now we will be working our butts off I hope. I love you all! Oh, I have a request, Can everyone in the family send me a letter in the mail, like every person, and send it so I get them all on the same day. I just think it would be so funny for the lady in the office. So just coordinate it with everyone. You don't even have to send me a long letter. It could be a little note on a 3 by 5 note card. :) Also all the nieces and nephews send me something and send it in its own envelope. I hope you guys agree. ;) I love you and thank you for your prayers. :)</span></div><div></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Love,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Elder Mackey</span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"></span></div><div class="yiv251702612h5"><div><div class="yiv251702612MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="shaded showqr" id="quick-reply" style="display: none;"><div data-action="toggleQR" id="qr_close" role="button" tabindex="0" title="Close Reply bar"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div aria-live="polite" id="quick-reply-status"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"></span></div></div>Elder Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164530697044769968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652517340302317016.post-25779510985314122042011-10-22T01:19:00.000-07:002011-10-22T01:19:11.244-07:00Elder Mackey's October 18, 2011 E-mail<em>Amanda says "FYI - I asked him why he was emailing <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1319271198_0">on Tuesday</span> in stead of Monday, and I asked why the cops were called and what happened."</em><br />
No for real. It wasnt bad, we just walked away from the house. We e-mailed on Tuesday because it was Columbus Day and the Libraries were closed (they actually weren't, only some of them) so they said we could e-mail on Tuesday. We are gaining a lot of trust with the Ward! This is awesome because now the ward will hopefully begin to give us referrals. But that is not the hightlight of my week. So this <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1319271198_4">last Friday</span> Elder Cook came to visit the mission. It was so awesome! The first thing he did was shook all our hands and ask us where we were from. Then he explained why he did that. He was giving us a "spiritual interview" where he looks into our eyes and see how we are doing. I knew they did something like that! He said that everyone looked good spiritually and physically. He talked about how we need to focus on having all those we are teaching keep commitments. His wife spoke too and she is a very musically inclined person. Very sweet. Also, President Clements worked for Elder Cook in a law firm and they have known each other for a very long time so they are really good friends. Its starting to get cold here like 50 - 45 defreeze!!! I need to go and take my boy to get some warm winter stuff. I love you all! <br />
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<div class="yiv1196769731gmail_quote" id="yui_3_2_0_1_13192712159291724"><div><div></div><div class="yiv1196769731h5"><div>Love,</div><div>Elder David Mackey</div></div></div></div>Elder Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164530697044769968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652517340302317016.post-43887477891135493632011-10-16T00:49:00.000-07:002011-10-16T00:49:04.279-07:00Elder Mackey's October 10, 2011 E-Mail<div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1318751062506101">Dear Mandy,</div><div> </div><div>Well it was pretty hot during the beginning of the week. We had to start wearing suits all the time now (except on bikes) and I think someone complained to the President (which I'm glad) that it was to hot for suits. So they moved it to <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1318751075_3">last Friday</span>. It has been really nice. There are leaves EVERYWHERE. Its so fun to bike right next to the curb and then put my foot down and gather a huge pile of leaves that makes it up to my lap. Crazy huh? How is Grandpa doing with his recovery? I love them. :D Was the fair fun? I dont remember ever going to any fairs. I went to one down here and it is way boring. Cool animals but ya not my way of entertainment. Actually I went to a fair in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1318751075_4">Mesa</span> with the Blood family and Lauren went to. Did you throw up at all? Which one did you go on? the one off of the movie Sand lot? :P</div><div> </div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_131875106250694"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1318751075_5">On Sunday</span> we had an amazing lesson to end the day. We are teaching a women whose husband is in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1318751075_6">Iraq</span> right now. She has four kids. She said she was going to make it to church earlier but didnt make it for some reason. We were a little bumbed and we tried getting a hold of her throughout the week but were unable so we were nervous that she dropped us. I was praying and praying that this lesson will not fall through and it didnt. We were able to get two Sisters there to the appoinment and we decided to teach CPR (church, pray, read) instead of throughing more information on her with the plan of salvation and it was very spiritual. Everyone in the room was crying (except me) and it was just awesome! It boosted my excitement and will to do better. (And then all of the sudden I got a ton of rejection and cops called on us the next day) </div><div> </div><div>Thank you for the quotes! I love you Mandy! You are awesome!</div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_131875106250697"><div></div><div class="yiv468177601h5" id="yui_3_2_0_1_131875106250696"><div> </div><div>Love,</div><div>Elder David Mackey</div></div></div>Elder Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164530697044769968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652517340302317016.post-55655205538497145892011-10-10T19:57:00.001-07:002011-10-10T19:57:31.921-07:00Elder Mackey's October 3, 2011 E-Mail<div id="yui_3_2_0_1_131830160576289">Conference was awesome!! I had a lot of prayers answered for sure. Tons of talks for investigators came to mind. Too bad none of them came. Hopefully they watched it on the Internet. So this past week was so awesome!! We had some amazing miracles!!! One investigator we tracted into a week before accepted to be baptized. We will see how serious he was. He kept saying sure and ok. He wants to quit smoking. Then we were in the area and thought we should stop by this one kid. We were going to do it next week but the idea came to our mind. We stopped by and his parents were out front. Their son (the kid) moved for good to <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1318301620_3">Texas</span> to do pipe lining. We taught the parents the restoration and invited them to be baptized! They accepted. The mom said that she was saying a prayer looking for guidance and she knows that we were an answer to her prayers which she asked like a few hours before. Then after the last session of conference we were going over to our dinner appointment and the neighbor was outside. We talked to her. She was very friendly and open. We asked if we could teach her at the members home and she said yes. We did and it was a spiritual lesson!! We invited her to be baptized and she accepted!!! So 4 accepted baptismal invitations during this week!! That was a pretty uplifter. </div><div> </div><div>I came into the mission with the determination that I was going to be 100% obedient and I am not even close to that. Mandy, I feel like I am getting into the "funk" again. :( Its hard to get out of this funk. Seriously I thought I would be a better missionary than who I am right now. Well I love you oh so very much. I love the family and I am so grateful to be apart of this family. Thank you for your prayers. and that picture is so funny and thank you for sharing that with me! <br />
-- </div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_131830160576292"><div class="yiv957221451h5" id="yui_3_2_0_1_131830160576291"><div>Love,</div><div>Elder David Mackey</div></div></div>Elder Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164530697044769968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652517340302317016.post-5367698079134751542011-10-09T21:03:00.001-07:002011-10-09T21:03:09.454-07:00No E-Mail for October 3, 2011Elder Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164530697044769968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652517340302317016.post-30095719658635357432011-09-30T23:19:00.000-07:002011-09-30T23:19:17.824-07:00Elder Mackey's September 26, 2011 E-mail<div>Dear Mandy,</div><div> </div><div>So we found General Conference 2008 on CD in the apartment so we have been listening to that all the time in the car. It was great! So the Weather here "I think" is getting a little cold. The people here say it is really nice and great but I think it is cold. They laugh at me. I thought I was ready for the winter but then I am remembering that my toes froze a lot. :/ I do miss the one season state. Its easy to prepare for that...shorts or shorts. :D </div><div> </div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_131744971624393">I am finding out that my companion is very different than I am. He is too laid back and tells me that I need to be more "loose". He is just a green bean though haha. I just laugh. Anyways this week was pretty hard, we received a lot of discouragement. I mean we got a huge package with the sender Satan, Lucifer. (that was a dumb joke hehe) That's the thing though. We can be interested and open it up and get the surprise or just leave it alone and still have a positive attitude and receive the blessings from God. </div><div> </div><div>Its hard for me to write right now because my feelings are going all over the place. :/ Thank you for your prayers Mandy. I love you very much. I read the letters you gave me before I left on my mission this morning. Thank you so much for those letters. :) They are great council for me to follow. I think I am being a worry wart. ha <br />
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-- </div><div> </div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_131744971624394">Love,</div><div>Elder David Mackey</div>Elder Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164530697044769968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652517340302317016.post-88223122541847845952011-09-20T00:28:00.001-07:002011-09-20T00:28:32.777-07:00Elder Mackey's September 19, 2011 E-mail<div>Whaaa Hannn!!! This is the funniest saying that I have heard. My district leader, Elder Dillard whom I will love forever, made it up when he was young and been saying it since then. It means "whats happenin?" There is this special way to say it and its just great. He got the Mission Presidents Wife to say it now. She calls us the Whaa Hannn club. haha Its just silly. Anyways....</div><div> </div><div>Yesterday was the Presidents Fireside and I was called to do the musical number. She wanted me to sing "Redeemer of my Soul." This meeting was so good and the Spirit was strong! This Fireside is where a few recent converts are chosen to speak about their conversion. There is a missionary from Ohio, the big time hood part, who told his story. He joined like two years ago and then went on a mission. He is 26. He got shot twice, he was in a gang. But anyways, then there was this guy who found out the church to be true during trial and then went to jail for 10 years and read the BoM, Jesus the Christ, Bible, Miracle of Forgivness, and a bunch of other stuff 10 times. He got out and then got First Presidentcies approval to be baptized. It was so good! It was a good Spiritual day yesterday. I will put in here my letter to the president.</div><div> </div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_131648225117483">Dear President,<br />
Thank you for the opportunity to attend the Presidents Fireside. That was a very spiritual meeting and I was able to participate and even contribute to the meeting. What a blessing! I think it was good for Elder Van Orden to experience that to boost his enthusiasm. We are going to be running chapel tours on Tuesday at 6:30 pm to help with the members in inviting their friends in missionary opportunities. This will help them invite their friends to something a little less overwhelming and help them get into the church to feel the Spirit, see the Christ center pictures we have and to have a lesson from the missionaries all at the same time. I feel that this will be a good experience and will hopefully bring success into this area. Elder Van Orden is doing great! He is a really good companion in helping the investigators in their individual needs. We are on tract with the training guide and I am helping him learn the lessons. I am trying to work with helping him talk to everyone no matter what situation he is in. He is a little shy about that but he is working on it. <br />
We found this couple while tracting and they said they have been meeting with the mormon missionaries for 28 years. They said to stop by another time and so we did and we caught them working on their yard. We dropped our bags and went straight to work. They were impressed and felt bad we were working in our "nice" clothes. They let us "fellowship" with them and I learned how to take the conversation and environment and direct it all towards the plans which we have made (which was restoration) and we were very bold and testified powerfully in te Book of Mormon and about the gospel of Jesus Christ. I invited the wife to be baptized and she accepted. I then invited the husband and he declined saying he was already baptized. So then the wife backed down. :/ She said she will read and pray about the Book of Mormon and so did the husband. The Spirit was so strong in the house and I learned how important it is to point out the Spirit and then TESTIFY! This Saturday a member will be coming with us to help with their yard and also teach. I am trying out here. I hope it is what Heavenly Father wants. I just dont see baptisms. I know thats not how you measure success but I would like to have a baptism. I love you President. :D<br />
Love Elder Mackey</div><div>Thank you for all your love and prayers. Pray that I will get a baptism!! I really want one really bad!!<br />
-- </div><div>Love,</div><div>Elder David Mackey</div>Elder Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164530697044769968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652517340302317016.post-22026347669920420572011-09-12T19:41:00.000-07:002011-09-12T19:41:23.438-07:00Elder Mackey's September 12, 2011 E-mail<div>Dear Family,</div><div> </div><div>It is a lot of work being a trainer! I have never ever thought about someone and worried about someone so much. Thank you so much Grandma Flaherty for the e-mail! I am actually not serving in Blaine. I did serve in New Brighton just under Blaine. I am still in Farmington. My new companion is Elder Van Orden who is from Blackfoot, Idaho. He is the youngest of 5. He works really hard and wants to be a great missionary. </div><div> </div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_131588103758485">I have been playing the piano a lot at random peoples homes because it helps us get into their home. But I really like it because I don't play piano that much so I get my practice at random peoples homes. Whoa, a missionary just walked in who has both legs cut off. He has two prosthetic legs!! Man its so cool.</div><div> </div><div>Anyways....umm well I am just working really hard trying to train my "boy" so he doesnt go down the deep end. </div><div> </div><div>Missionaries want to use the comp so I got to go. I love you all.....<br />
-- </div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_131588103758488"><div class="yiv1400641239h5" id="yui_3_2_0_1_131588103758487"><div>Love,</div><div>Elder David Mackey</div></div></div>Elder Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164530697044769968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652517340302317016.post-69001377809493372042011-09-06T20:29:00.001-07:002011-09-06T20:29:40.574-07:00Elder Mackey's September 5, 2011 E-mail<div>Dear family,</div><div> </div><div>The weather here is turning cold! :/ My feet get cold now when I study. It feels great though. I am a little excited for the winter to come but I am getting a little nervous because I am not use to it. The leaves are changing a little but not to big of a change. </div><div> </div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_131536577058693">So this transfer ended a week early because the MTC did a mistake about the scheduling. Next transfer will be a week longer. Anyways, Elder Waller will be transferred to Blaine, just north of New Brighton, and I will be staying. They called me to be a trainer so I will be training a new missionary!!!! I am pretty excited about that!! I hope I do a good job. I am pretty nervous! Laurens sister said a quote that I really like and applies to me at this point, "The Lord doesn't call the qualified but He qualifies the called." When you train you usually train for two transfers so I will be here in Farmington during the winter months. Luckily its a car area but I love biking so I want to use it at the least except for big trips. You can talk to more people on a bike and do more work than in a car I think. </div><div> </div><div>This week I have been studying about goals. I want to really focus on working towards the goals I have set and not only that but pray and have my goals be the same as Heavenly Fathers goals. I feel this is a way of submitting my will to the Fathers will. Its gonna take a lot of work because I want to see some outstanding miracles here. </div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_131536577058696"><div class="yiv1909165388h5" id="yui_3_2_0_1_131536577058695">-- <br />
<div>Love,</div><div>Elder David Mackey</div></div></div>Elder Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164530697044769968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652517340302317016.post-30774502537213418962011-08-29T20:39:00.001-07:002011-08-29T20:39:23.642-07:00Elder Mackey's August 29, 2011 E-Mail<div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1314675156581179">Dear Family,</div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1314675156581177"> </div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1314675156581176">The work here is going pretty well. We had a few days that were slow, no teaching at all or contacting, but that happens in rural areas. We have been really building the trust with the members and it is working really well. There were some less-active and investigators who might of dropped out of our teaching pool because of me being bold but thats what we do. Thats our purpose, to baptize. I tell my companion that (he isnt as bold and doesnt open his mouth too much) why our purpose is to baptize is because that opens the door for their salvation. They may not know it yet but they will. We dont just extend the invite because its a number to write down but because we love them so much that for them to be even more happier is to make those covenants with God and then receive the Spirit and then enter in the straight and narrow path to eternal salvation which is the greatest gift of God. We lost one baptismal date set but we still have one. He went to church all three hours and he loved it. He was bobbing his head in priesthood but he made it. ;p He might want to get baptized even sooner. We will see. So how is Sam doing? I need to write him a letter and Becca too. Has Adam gone to Argentina yet? The weather is getting beautiful now. It is starting to get into the fall season and it is just nice! Oh guess what.....I helped a member of the ward (I pretty much did it for him) put in the inside and outside barrings of his fron wheels for his huge truck. He broke his right hand so he needed me to do it for him. He told me what to do and taught me a lot about cars. It was so cool! :D So now I know how to do barrings and brakes. ;) so dad if you need help, just give me a call...when im home of course. Love you all.<span style="color: #888888;"><br />
</span></div><div><div></div><div class="yiv853909465h5"><div>Love,</div><div>Elder David Mackey</div></div></div>Elder Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164530697044769968noreply@blogger.com0