Dad´s email was awesome! Everything I wanted to hear about. High School sports, and the NFL. Okay so again… I completely forgot about Christmas. You can call me from the 23rd to the 28th but only once. However, the 24th, or 25 is the best time because we are in the house all day. I will get you the number and all that this next Monday. I don’t know what Dad can do about the Fulham jersey but that would be the best present of all time. Oh and I saw Van Persie’s goal the other day. Beautiful!
Okay so this week was much better!! Yesica and Yamilet came to church and are ready to be baptized this week. It’s so great to see the change in Yesica.
So during my study i have been reading Jesus the Christ. This book is Amazing. Also I was reading in Preach my Gospel about the attributes of Christ. I read a quote that said your diligence is a sign of your love for the Savior. I thought about that as I started reading some scriptures. I thought about the atonement. And how all the apostles were sleeping as Jesus suffered. Jesus suffered for all these people´s sins here in Ecuador. The harder I work, the less sin these people commit. I have the power to lessen the burden of the Savior’s suffering by helping these people change. So i don’t want to be one of the apostles that is asleep. I want to be the missionary that the Savior is grateful for by doing everything I can to lessen what He had to go through.
As far as the people… the people who crucified Jesus beat him, spit on him, mocked him, and finally nailed him to a cross to die, and Jesus didn’t say one thing bad about the people. These people don’t come to church and then we think that gives us the right to talk bad about them. Until they nail me to a cross, i have decided to just love them and not complain about them. There is always going to be frustration but my mission is to help the people and to love the people. So that is something I learned this week.
SO… to answer some of Dad’s questions…. We have a lady in the ward that washes our clothes for us. There are little shops on the streets with computers that we pay for to use. I forget to tell you guys stuff because i have completely forgot about the US. This just feels normal and like home so when I see crazy things, I don’t pay attention to them because they are normal to me now. Anyways, it’s good hearing from you and how Liberty is doing in soccer. I imagined they would take a few solid beatings this year. A few of the things i miss about home are football and soccer. Anyway, my companion, elder Curtis, and his companion, and I are going to the mall now. Chao!
Love,
Elder McRae
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