Hey family!!!!!
So this week was a special one. We worked really hard and we area now seeing the fruits! We have an investigator that is going to be baptize on July 11th. His name is J. R. and He is awesome!! He is one of those 30 year old nerdy lives with his mom kind of but he has a great desire to follow Christ!!! I wants to be good and keep the commandments and return to live with our Heavenly Father. We taught him the Law of Chasity this week and one thing that he told me really impressed me. He said that the law of Chasity was "hard to keep, but I have to do it, to be pure, to be with Him" pointing at a picture of Christ in a white rope. It was an amazing statement by him. He makes us so happy and we area so grateful for him.
We have other investigators that are really great and well we hope that this week they will be able to progress and receive more blessings form the gospel. He have been working really hard this week and we are seeing the fruits. We are helping a lot of people come to church and helping a lot of people come BACK to church. One thing that I am learning here is how to help less actives come back to church and I am growing a new love for them. I am grateful for the chance to help and serve this ward and these families.
Referring to my letter last week things are getting better. I am focusing more and trying to be more righteous and more reverent. the thing is that I get along really well with my companion and he is a really funny guy and sometimes we end up just joking around and losing our concentration. But I am trying to stop that and help him focus on the task at hand, and to myself as well.
This Sunday was a very special Sunday in Peru. The Peru Trujillo temple was dedicated. It was dedicated on Sunday in three wonderful sessions. It is the second temple in Peru and it is a great blessing for the people here and now many more people area going to be able to receive these blessings. There are more then half a million members in Peru and they are now so so happy to have another temple in their country. People had to travel days to get to Lima to receive ordinances and do them on behalf of their dead. Now there is one in the North of the country for so many faithful members of the church.
Presidente Utchdorf, Elder Bednar, and Elder Teh of the seventy came to dedicate the temple. They gave many messages but some things really impressed me. President Utchdorf said that the temple should be the central part of our lives, that we should be focused on it continually. He said "We shouldn't have two lives, normal life and temple life. There shouldn't be a difference. Normal life should be Temple Life." It was a great message. he said that we should always carry our temple recommend with us and it should NEVER expire. NEVER.
Elder Bednar talked about doing the work for OUR dead. He talked about that it is nice to go to the temple and to work for the dead but when we go we should do the work for OUR dead, not for the dead but for Our dead. HE said OUR dead about thirty times. He emphasized the importance of looking for our family names and bringing them to the temple to do work for OUR dead. In the mission I have learned a bunch about Family history and well I know that our family tree and is missing a lot of names! We have to go find them!!!
It was a really good week but my time is running short so I hope to hear from you soon and I hope you have a great week!!!!
I love you so much and thank you for everything that you do for me and all the missionaries everywhere!!!!
Keep on Keepin on!!!!
Elder McIff
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