jakemcgrathmission: Another adventure awaits! (Week двадцять шість)

Well as you can tell from the perfectly alliterated title of this email, another adventure awaits. On thursday we received transfer call and I have been transferred out of L'viv. I will be heading to Rivne, a smaller city in North-West Ukraine. Also, when President Rizley called me, he said that I would be a zone leader in Rivne as well. I will have the opportunity to serve as a zone leader over the Volynska zone.To be honest, this might have been one of the last things that I was expecting, considering that I'm only going into my fourth transfer and have never even been a district leader, so my heart was kind of pounding when I received that call. For a while, I was a bit nervous, but as time went on it started to sink in and I became more and more excited for this. Now, I'm extremely grateful for this opportunity that President Rizley has given me and I will strive my hardest to serve the people in my zone to the best of my abilities. I also know that God will help me in this adventure, and as I put my full trust in him, I'll do better and more that I could even imagine. In addition, another perk of receiving this call in L'viv is that I have three former zone leaders here. Both the AP's and my companion, Elder Hill, has served as a zone leader at one point. So last night and this morning, we actually spent some time together and I did a bit of a q and a session with them and lemme tell they're some wise Elders haha. I hope I can apply a lot of what they told me!

In other news, the week was really great. On Saturday, our branch had a primary activity and all the missionaries had the opportunity to be a part of that. The topic of this activity was following the prophet and it was super successful. All the missionaries actually were assigned a prophet and were given something to do. Some of these prophets include Moses, Noah, Nephi, and President Nelson. I ended playing the part of Jesus Christ. So I got to dress up as Jesus Christ for a few hours, that was quite the experience. I've got some good pictures that I'll send. My only speaking part of this activity was at the end where I had the opportunity to say, "come unto me. I will make you fishers of men." The only problem was that I really didn't know how to say fishers, so that morning I was saying it over and over because I didn't want to mess up in the actual performance. I probably said it over a hundred times and guess what, I didn't mess up!! haha I said that line pretty well and all the little kids came unto me and I got to shake their hands. Such a great activity and the kids really loved it!

Finally, on thursday, we had the opportunity to do some exchanges. I ended up going on an exchange with Elder Swasey, and if you read my emails from the MTC, you'd know that he was one of my companions there. So it was super fun to do an exchange with him and see how much we have grown over these last six months. And I can tell you that we have, our languages have gotten far better than at the MTC where we couldn't even string two sentences together haha. We ended up contacting a lot, and had a lesson. Learned a lot and am excited to do a bunch of exchanges over the next transfer. Thank you all for everything you do and I hope you enjoyed this letter. Have a great week!

Старійшина McGrath

Proverbs 3:5-6 read and ponder these words. Put your full trust in the Lord and he WILL raise you up!