October 26, 2015
So apparently there was a massive hurricane in Mexico that was
supposed to just destroy everything here but luckily it stopped and
all we got was some rain. But the rain was super nice. Cooled down
everything so it hasn't been hot the last couple of days. That's been
super nice.
This week there was a baptism for a member. That was super great. We
had 3 investigators show up for it. So that was awesome. They all said
they enjoyed it.
We talked to one of the investigators named Chris who was at the
baptism the day after about it. He really liked it. He told us that
the girl who was baptized just looked like she was glowing after. Said
she just looked so clean and happy. And then he said he wants to feel
just as clean and happy as she was. Now we just gotta help him so that
he is able to do that. But so far he is doing great!
Everything is going great! The Lord is preparing his people!
Love y'all!
Elder Mackay
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Big Dogs - Week 9 Carrizo Springs
October 19, 2015
This week we got to do a bit of flood relief help up in Eagle Pass. I
guess when it rained last week it actually flooded pretty bad over
there. Some houses got hit with 5 ft of water. Crazy! So that was fun
destroying walls and stuff!
Other than that the week was pretty normal. We did have a really
awesome lesson with Chris. We taught him like a month ago but then he
moved to San Antonio, but now he is back. It was a great lesson.
Everything finally made sense to him which was super cool to see.
There's a baptism this week for a member and Chris and his family said
they are going to go watch it, so that will be awesome.
We did have a giant German Shepard try to eat us. That was exciting.
Looks like I am going to be translating sacrament every week now. That's exciting. It is so hard. It was pretty embarrassing. The speakers kept saying Sacrament and I completely forgot the word. So I just made up the word "El Sacramento" then the final speaker used it near the end of his talk and finally I remembered the word "La Santa Cena" good job me.
We also had exchanges this week. So Elder Smith came down to Carrizo
with me. It was the day that we helped out with the floods so it was a
super short exchange but it was fun. Elder Smith just barely came out
as well. He is super funny, that was a fun day.
Love y'all
Elder Mackay
This week we got to do a bit of flood relief help up in Eagle Pass. I
guess when it rained last week it actually flooded pretty bad over
there. Some houses got hit with 5 ft of water. Crazy! So that was fun
destroying walls and stuff!
Other than that the week was pretty normal. We did have a really
awesome lesson with Chris. We taught him like a month ago but then he
moved to San Antonio, but now he is back. It was a great lesson.
Everything finally made sense to him which was super cool to see.
There's a baptism this week for a member and Chris and his family said
they are going to go watch it, so that will be awesome.
We did have a giant German Shepard try to eat us. That was exciting.
Looks like I am going to be translating sacrament every week now. That's exciting. It is so hard. It was pretty embarrassing. The speakers kept saying Sacrament and I completely forgot the word. So I just made up the word "El Sacramento" then the final speaker used it near the end of his talk and finally I remembered the word "La Santa Cena" good job me.
We also had exchanges this week. So Elder Smith came down to Carrizo
with me. It was the day that we helped out with the floods so it was a
super short exchange but it was fun. Elder Smith just barely came out
as well. He is super funny, that was a fun day.
Love y'all
Elder Mackay
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Great Week - Carrizo Springs Week 8
October 12, 2015
This week has been pretty good. We got some rain this week which was
really nice. That cooled everything down a lot.
Everything is going great down here in Carrizo. It's been a pretty
exciting week. We had a lot of great lessons, part of our ceiling fell
down and we also found out that since we have had to go to San Antonio
twice this month that we only have 200 miles left for the rest of the
month. Yay! Bike time!
We had to go all the way to Kyle again for the new missionary meeting.
The meeting went great. But that was a lot of driving that day.
I think the best part of the week was Sunday. We had an awesome family
move in from Mexico. They are going to help the branch out a lot. They
only speak Spanish too which is fun. Their 4 year old son taught me
the alphabet in Spanish haha. Since they only speak Spanish I had to
translate for them. That was super hard. My brain just wanted to
explode.
But we also had 3 investigators at church which was awesome! Bro.
Chavez from Mexico already became pretty good friends with an
investigator we have been working with for a while. He told us that
next time we come over he wants us to bring Bro. Chavez with us. So
that is just super awesome.
President Russo's brother was visiting as well. So they had a big
Argentine BBQ. That was some really good food. I'm pretty sure it was
all from some weird part of the cow, but I'm not sure. I decided it
would be better not to know cause it was pretty good.
The Gospel brings happiness! Love y'all!
Elder Mackay
really nice. That cooled everything down a lot.
Everything is going great down here in Carrizo. It's been a pretty
exciting week. We had a lot of great lessons, part of our ceiling fell
down and we also found out that since we have had to go to San Antonio
twice this month that we only have 200 miles left for the rest of the
month. Yay! Bike time!
We had to go all the way to Kyle again for the new missionary meeting.
The meeting went great. But that was a lot of driving that day.
I think the best part of the week was Sunday. We had an awesome family
move in from Mexico. They are going to help the branch out a lot. They
only speak Spanish too which is fun. Their 4 year old son taught me
the alphabet in Spanish haha. Since they only speak Spanish I had to
translate for them. That was super hard. My brain just wanted to
explode.
But we also had 3 investigators at church which was awesome! Bro.
Chavez from Mexico already became pretty good friends with an
investigator we have been working with for a while. He told us that
next time we come over he wants us to bring Bro. Chavez with us. So
that is just super awesome.
President Russo's brother was visiting as well. So they had a big
Argentine BBQ. That was some really good food. I'm pretty sure it was
all from some weird part of the cow, but I'm not sure. I decided it
would be better not to know cause it was pretty good.
The Gospel brings happiness! Love y'all!
Elder Mackay
Pictures:
I made some really good taco stuff. Thought you would be proud so I
took a picture. And also part of the ceiling fell off...
took a picture. And also part of the ceiling fell off...
Conference and Transfers - Carrizo Springs Week 7
Oct 5, 2015
Well we had transfers this week. And I have the opportunity to train a
new missionary! Basically I need to show him how to do missionary work
and what I teach him will probably affect the rest of his mission.
Haha no pressure right?
So I'm with Elder Hutchings now. He is great! It's funny cause
everyone here would always say how tall I was, well Elder Hutchings is
6'5 so that's exciting. I'm now the short one. :(
Conference was amazing. God has called the 98th, 99th and 100th
apostle since the restoration. What a historic day. I definitely
learned a lot from conference. I really loved the Ponderize idea, so I
decided to take the Ponderize challenge.
So this week I'm going to be pondering Moroni 10:32. So far, I've
learned a few things from pondering about it. As we continually
progress and strive for perfection in Christ (like what Larry R.
Lawrence talked about in his talk) as we do that and love God with all
our might, mind and strength we will receive the grace of Christ. And
through that grace we continue to become perfected in Christ. Until
eventually, it says "ye can in nowise deny the power of God" we will
have a perfect, unshakeable faith.
Have a great week! Love y'all!
Elder Mackay
Here is Elder Hutchings and I. (With our ceiling that is caving in)
new missionary! Basically I need to show him how to do missionary work
and what I teach him will probably affect the rest of his mission.
Haha no pressure right?
So I'm with Elder Hutchings now. He is great! It's funny cause
everyone here would always say how tall I was, well Elder Hutchings is
6'5 so that's exciting. I'm now the short one. :(
Conference was amazing. God has called the 98th, 99th and 100th
apostle since the restoration. What a historic day. I definitely
learned a lot from conference. I really loved the Ponderize idea, so I
decided to take the Ponderize challenge.
So this week I'm going to be pondering Moroni 10:32. So far, I've
learned a few things from pondering about it. As we continually
progress and strive for perfection in Christ (like what Larry R.
Lawrence talked about in his talk) as we do that and love God with all
our might, mind and strength we will receive the grace of Christ. And
through that grace we continue to become perfected in Christ. Until
eventually, it says "ye can in nowise deny the power of God" we will
have a perfect, unshakeable faith.
Have a great week! Love y'all!
Elder Mackay
Here is Elder Hutchings and I. (With our ceiling that is caving in)
Another Week - Carrizo Springs Week 6
Well this week was really hot. It rained one day which was nice, but other than that it is still very hot here.
Everything is going great here. This is probably going to be a short email because I can't think of anything to write. Nothing really happened this week but we did have 3 lessons in Spanish which was super fun. We also had 2 investigators at church which was awesome. We also have an investigator who has a baptismal date in 3 weeks. Super excited for that!
There was a member who needed help building some stairs so we went and helped him. Building is pretty hard. We helped him for a long time and still weren't able to finish it. But it was some good service. It was pretty fun.
Not much else happened besides that. I'm excited for conference! Hopefully we can get lots of people to come watch it with us!
Have a great week! Love y'all!
Elder Mackay
Mexico! - Carrizo Springs Week 5
September 21, 2015
This week was pretty interesting haha.
Last P-Day we went down to Eagle Pass and went right next to the
border of Mexico. It was pretty sweet. So we took some pictures with
the giant Mexico Flag in the back.
So on Tuesday we had exchanges. It was the funniest exchange ever. I
went up to Eagle Pass again with Elder Tingey the new District Leader.
The day went great. We taught a lot of lessons and it was all in
Spanish so that was sweet. But to make a long story short we broke 2
bikes so we ended up having to walk around all day which took forever
but it was awesome!
There was a Mission Spanish Conference on Friday up in Kyle which is
about an hour and a half north of San Antonio. So we drove 3 hours to
San Antonio on Thursday and stayed with some other Elders then drove
the rest of the way on Friday. The conference was great. Learned lots
of cool things about Spanish. Then we drove the four and a half hours
back to Carrizo. So basically we were sitting down all day.. But it
was fun.
On Saturday we had a super hard lesson in Spanish. We were teaching an
old hispanic man and I would say something to him and he would look at
me like he had no idea what I just said, then he would ask me what a
word I said meant. So at first I thought it was weird cause he
actually speaks Spanish but then I realized that the words he asked
about had a TexMex version that I had heard people say. So I used
those words and then it was making sense. So we had to teach using
words that we aren't used to using. Which is really hard. But it was a
good learning experience!
That's all I can think of for last week! Have a great week! Love y'all!
Elder Tingey and I
Elder Caleb MacKay
This week was pretty interesting haha.
Last P-Day we went down to Eagle Pass and went right next to the
border of Mexico. It was pretty sweet. So we took some pictures with
the giant Mexico Flag in the back.
So on Tuesday we had exchanges. It was the funniest exchange ever. I
went up to Eagle Pass again with Elder Tingey the new District Leader.
The day went great. We taught a lot of lessons and it was all in
Spanish so that was sweet. But to make a long story short we broke 2
bikes so we ended up having to walk around all day which took forever
but it was awesome!
There was a Mission Spanish Conference on Friday up in Kyle which is
about an hour and a half north of San Antonio. So we drove 3 hours to
San Antonio on Thursday and stayed with some other Elders then drove
the rest of the way on Friday. The conference was great. Learned lots
of cool things about Spanish. Then we drove the four and a half hours
back to Carrizo. So basically we were sitting down all day.. But it
was fun.
On Saturday we had a super hard lesson in Spanish. We were teaching an
old hispanic man and I would say something to him and he would look at
me like he had no idea what I just said, then he would ask me what a
word I said meant. So at first I thought it was weird cause he
actually speaks Spanish but then I realized that the words he asked
about had a TexMex version that I had heard people say. So I used
those words and then it was making sense. So we had to teach using
words that we aren't used to using. Which is really hard. But it was a
good learning experience!
That's all I can think of for last week! Have a great week! Love y'all!
Elder Tingey and I
Elder Caleb MacKay
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