jakemcgrathmission: Mexican Party 3.0 (Week Дев'яносто чот

Well, another good week in the books. I know that this week was pretty good because I got home on Sunday night and all that I wanted to do was sleep, I was so tired. But I like that feeling, I know that I worked hard and gave it my all, which in missionary work, is the most important thing. But this past week, we had a few good things go on. First of all, as you call see in the title, we had another branch activity this past weekend, it was actually another Mexican Night. This was actually the third time that I've done a party like this, and every time it turns out a bit different. This party actually turned out pretty successful, we had over 20 people show up and the food that we cooked turned out super good. It really helped that the sisters helped us cook and that one of the sisters here actually loves cooking, so she had a really good time on Saturday just making a bunch of food. But yeah, it almost felt like we were back in America eating at Cafe Rio, so people enjoyed themselves. We also did some just dance, just like most parties now, and that was quite the hit. My favorite part was when our district president went crazy over a Michael Jackson song that we put on. Usually he is pretty serious, but when Thriller came out, he jumped out of his seat and did just about every Michael Jackson move that he could, it was pretty funny and cool to see. My favorite part of the party was the piñata though. Our branch president was in charge of the piñata and it turned out suuuupppper poor haha. When he showed up with the piñata, they were too heavy to actually stay up on the rope. What I mean is that when we stuck the first piñata up on the rope, literally the rope broke the first time someone hit it, that was pretty funny, they tried like 5 different ways to get the piñata to stay on the rope, but literally nothing worked. So that was a big bust, but it was fun to watch. All in all, a really good evening, lots of preparations, but worth it for sure.

Other than that, the week was pretty normal. We had a few finding activities where we talked a lot about English Practice and then yesterday we had a book stand with The Book of Mormon in a bunch of different languages. Then we had people come up and try to guess which language the book was written in. Then it was pretty easy to go from that to talking about the Book of Mormon and how that has blessed my life. I quite enjoyed that finding activity, mainly because I had never done an activity like that before. This past week we were able to meet with a few of our investigators. Bohdan, who has the baptismal date is doing good. This past week, he read The Book of Mormon every single day and liked it a lot. We met with him twice and covered some commandments. Honestly, he's super golden, we covered the Word of Wisdom this past week and literally accepted everything and said that he would live it and stop drinking coffee and tea. So that was pretty good to see. Now, the next biggest, and maybe the hardest step for him is coming to church on Sunday, really got to get him there if he wants to get baptized. We had a few investigators promise us that they would come to church on Sunday and none of them came, that's always super sad to see and hear. But hey I did my part, I can't force anyone to come to church, all I can do is invite and talk about the blessings that they can receive from coming to church.

Well, another good week in the books. Another fun thing that we did this past week was service. The funny part was when the car of our Branch President started to die. Literally three times on the way to service the starter stopped working. So Elder T and I had to jump out the car and push it to get it to work again. The hardest part was when we were in the middle of an intersection and we had to do that haha, that was interesting, first time I've done that on my mission. The weather is warm and I'm on my last few weeks. Excited to work hard this next week and invite everyone to come unto Christ. I know that this work is the most important thing that I could be doing and God has a plan for me here in Lutsk. Have a great everyone, and talk to you later!

Старійшина McGrath

3 Nephi 4:33 read and ponder these words. Be humble and recognize that everything that you have is from GOD!!