Another week has passed away and another mile stone has been
reached. In 6 months from today my mission will be over... Its a scary thought.
Its one of those thoughts that makes you look at yourself in the mirror and
realize that you have very little time left to improve. By August 6th, the
sisters I came out with from the MTC will be home. Elder Lawlor will be gone
with them. In a missionary sense, you can consider me "old."
In short, the week has been pretty good. We taught Ian twice
this week. Both the Restoration and Plan of Salvation. He wants it to be true,
he just needs to get a spiritual witness that it is true. He's been reading the
Book of Mormon daily and has a baptismal date for August 9th. He came to church
on Sunday too. Levi and Sonya got back from vacation on Saturday so we'll be
able to teach them again soon. We haven't been able to meet with Dawn yet.
Early in the week we found a young man named Ryan who is
interested in the church. Before we saw him the next time, his family found out
he was being taught by us and they are interested as well! They had to move the
appointment they set with us Friday evening to this week but we have great hope
that we'll be able to see them this week.
The biggest wow moment of the
week was on Saturday. We were at a members house for dinner. Dawn Sutton is his
name. As we were eating, I noticed an old black and white photo I knew I
had seen before. It was of my Great Grandpa Prete with his family (who was my
dad's mom's dad.) I told him about my relation to the Pretes. Turns out his
mother was a Prete and she happens to be Great Grandpa Prete's sister! That's
not even the crazy part. He told me that President Burt's mother was a Prete
too, another sibling of Great Grandpa Prete! That basically means that
President Burt is a first cousin of my Grandma Samis! Don't ask me what that
makes me to him but its a small, small world when it comes to them Mormon
families. I hope everyone keeps enjoying the summer. It won't last long! The
days are getting noticeably shorter and we're already two-thirds done July.
Love you!
Elder Maclean Samis
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