Slow Days Fast Weeks

Hello!

Eish the weeks are going fast now. I am in that classic "slow days, fast weeks" feeling right now. It is quite funny because in a way it's nice and in a way I just can get exhausted and really burnt out before the day is over. Maybe an effect of working out harder in the mornings. I dunno. By the way, I bought some protein (vanilla whey) and take it morning and night with some morning work out. Obviously it is too soon to see a difference but the nice thing is there is an elder in my district that lifted and all that jazz back home. He is giving me good advice on how to effectively lift and use the protein. Maybe it'll help me put a little meat on my bones - haha.

Anyways, the week was good. We found some promising people. First is a family of 6! The Alfred family. So Alfred is from the east. He has a farm in Mbale, Uganda and is preparing for harvest so he is back and forth all the time. He has a wife living in Jinja and 6ish kids. A lot or all are of baptismal age. He has heard about the church in the past and wants to know more. We have shared with them twice and they came to church on Sunday! It was great for them. They said they even have more kids coming back from Jinja this weekend to teach. We are going to set a baptismal date for the family this week. They have one small problem, they want to be baptized in fresh water, not tap water because Christ was baptized in fresh water. To make things easier on them, we will probably just go to Lake Victoria and have a member perform the baptisms there. It will be powerful! 

Second is Flavia, or Faith. She is also from those ends of Mbale/Palissa. She is a super smart, educated, well mannered and cool girl. She is 22 and has a bachelors degree in something medical and is already working and very independent. This week we taught her a lesson which could have been my most spirit felt lesson in a long time. We tried to begin with a lesson on the Restoration. She politely declined saying she wanted to skip the "basics" and go straight to the word of God. We kept telling her that it wasn't "basics" but something she should learn before we began. Then she dropped the child of record card and said she would struggle to learn from us knowing that both of us were born into our church and not converted. She was being super duper difficult. So I calmed everything down and just testified of the uniqueness of our message and that if she took 15 minutes to listen, we would share with her things she had never heard. She finally decided to listen and we went on teaching her a most powerful Restoration lesson. We had a returned missionary member with us who helped teach and it went so well. She was incredibly attentive and then pieced so many things together that we didn't even teach. For instance, she realized that all of the talk in the Bible about a restitution and restoration of all things is answered according to our doctrine. So to wrap up about her, she is super duper uper luper powerful and we are excited for her. She will easily be a future leader in the church.

Next is David. He is a younger guy, probably around my age. He is Catholic but was taken by the Book of Mormon. He loves the messages and is so interested in the new doctrine he is learning. We picked him up in town this week and walked with him to church. He enjoyed it a lot. Another promising investigator.

We also have a lot of Muslim investigators right now. Like 4 to be exact. I think I talked a little bit about Helen last week. She is fun to teach because she knows nothing about Christianity, the role of Christ, the Bible and so forth. So we are teaching her absolutely from scratch. Mostly about the Godhead and the Atonement. It is really fun and new to me. She is great and is progressing well!

That is my update on the work here. Everything is going good!

I hope you have a good week! Love you all!

Love,

Elder McLain

Meeting my MTC Brothers. 

First time seeing Elder Mbuli and Elder Mokoena since we left the MTC

Also Elder Gooch

Made some Ethiopian food for the district