Hi Family!
Hey! This isn’t one of those letters where I sum up my week, but it will have a little of Tuesday. So how’s life in Idaho? I need some juicy updates on my friends and family. All the letters and packages I have gotten brighten my day! I got a big package of cookies from Molly and Allison and they are great!
Two things I want to know extremely bad: 1. How are the little cousins doing? 2. How is my lemon tree doing? I know that these questions are easy to answer, but I need to know how my family is doing. I miss you all a lot and most days I will look up at the ceiling and think of ya’ll and all the good times. Two families here remind me how a mission helps and how missionaries in other areas are feeling. One, the Harters. They have a son, Jason, in Washington. He has his ups and downs. He baptized a lady, but he also had 15 rejections for lessons right after. The second, the Irwins. Their son, Jeff, went to Nevada and loved it. He’s back, now. He and his family went on a cool cruise for 5 days when he got back. When I come back, what should we do that would be fun as a family? [On our budget, a cruise down the Payette River.]
The mission is fun. Basically, we spend a lot of time with the Harters. We try to reinforce our less actives and are still trying. We try a lot to get in touch with our investigators. They all have two problems: 1. They are not around when we come by to teach a lesson. 2. They can’t keep committed. Good thing we got Mrs. Nan baptized, but it has been awhile since then. I have to admit that this is the mission with a lot of perks and a lot of hardships. The perks are free food at La Hacienda, the beautiful church, nice members, the beautiful countryside, and a pretty good apartment. But the area is really big. We don’t get a lot of people to church. The stereotype of crappy house, but kick-butt car is very real here.
I’m always trying my hardest to do the work. The cool thing is that everyone notices the fire of my passion for this work. Well, Tuesday we got up, studied, and went with our Branch President to see some people but they weren’t there. I love our members and President Irwin. We went up to Surry to try and visit an investigator named David, but he was asleep. We then went to La Hacienda. I keep ordering fries because I don’t like Mexican rice, just Chinese rice. Then we went to tract through an area and then went to the beach. We helped someone move into a house that belongs to one of our investigators who is going to Waverly. Then we went home and Sister Dayton had left us some banana bread. E. Carter has become a better companion since we had our long talk.
I talked to Erik and he loved it. I will try to get to talk to him more. I love you all and I want you to know that Heavenly Father has a plan for us. Please all of you write more letters to me! I love them!
-Elder Max McClure
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