NOTICE: Elder McClure will report his mission in sacrament meeting of the Timblerline Ward on Sunday, November 27, at 9:00 AM. 600 East Swallow Road, Fort Collins, CO. Our home phone is: 970-225-6946
What a beautiful time
of year! We have had such a fun and
amazing time this past week having meetings with President and big councils
with mission leaders, reunions with stake presidents and Area Seventies and 3
of our 7 zone conferences! We have been
busy and busy is just how I like it!
Last Saturday was the
meeting with President Mecham. We did it
in his home and the goal was to get a better idea of what should be taught in
the zone conferences. Sister Mecham made
us homemade banana cream pie and, oh boy, I sure love banana cream pie!
Sunday was special
too. We had to get up early and
President picked us up at our house. We
went to the Ermita Stake and there we participated in a meeting with all the
stake presidents in our mission (there’s 7 of them), Elder Castiñeda of the 70
and President Pino of the area presidency.
President Pino used to be part of the Temple Department and so he knew
all about the Fort Collins Temple being dedicated. Our meeting was set so we could learn how to
use Facebook and other social webs to help in missionary work. Mostly it was just fun to participate from
the back and watch these incredible leaders as they do their thang.
Monday we had a large consejo (council) with all the zone leaders and sister training
leaders. We did practices and talked
about needs. My comp and I made a test
about Preach My Gospel that everyone had to take. Half the mission has taken it now and not one
person has pulled off an A. Ha. We are pretty good test writers I guess.
Tuesday was a big and
rough day for just about all of us. One
of our missionaries just took off while his companion was in the shower. We got the call and went to go help his alone
comp, but as we were on our way there President called us telling us he needed
us with him in his house. So we ran back
and got to his house where we waited for phone calls from Elders who had been
sent to check all the bus stations to see if they could find him. After a few
hours we decided to take a break and go shopping with Sister Mecham while
President stayed by the phones. We hit
up City Market and Michaels so she could get Christmas supplies and really it
was just so fun to get out and do some shopping with my mission mom. When we got back to the house President took
us to the airport where we went looking for the lost elder, but there we didn’t
have luck either. We still don’t know
where he is. We are sooo worried with it
now being 4 days since he took off. We
are very hopeful to find him soon. At
the very least he sent a Facebook message to his family telling them not to
worry.
Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday we have been in zone conferences teaching missionaries about health and
food and exercise. We dance a Chicken
Fat routine and it’s so fun, haha. President has focused much of his teachings on
living the temporal gospel, which I absolutely love learning about. Sometimes I feel like we get so spiritual and
totally forget about the temporal things. He’s taught about tithe-paying and work and
saving money. He teaches by stories and
life experiences and let me say he’s got a large variety to pick from. We also helped Sister Mecham make chicken
salad sandwiches for lunch. It’s pretty
fun. But yeah, this week’s been a week,
let me tell you. I can’t explain how
much I’ve learned just from these conferences and it makes me sad that I don’t
have much time to apply what I’ve learned in my missionary life. I wish I had more time. I wish I was just starting, but that’s just
how it goes, I suppose. I’m doing great. No complaints from me. We are just still worried about this
elder. I hope he comes home soon. We are all praying for him, as a
mission. I’m just so happy I can be a part
of it all. I love helping, even when its
mostly from a distance.
Love from Mexico from
an elder not wanting to go,
Elder McClure
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