A New Spunky Companion: Elder McBride

Hello Everybody!!!
     
   This week was amazing!
     
    I have a new companion.  I'm serving with Elder McBride and he's
so great!!!   If I could describe him in one word, I would say that he's
humble. He's willing to learn and grow and therefore is a fantastic
missionary.

Elder McBride is the one at the front.

 Some things about Elder McBride...

 - He is from Arizona, a little town called Paige.
 - He worked at a fancy resort in Montana REALLY close to where I grew
up - Missoula - and did many things there. He was a clown in circuses,
helped people with archery, picked people up from the airport and
dropped them off, and lots of other things.
 - Ran cross country in high school.
 - Doesn't think that I'm too weird/awkward, which may be a first.

     We worked really hard this week! For the last few weeks the work has
been a little slower and we haven't had a lot of visible success. This
week was different! We talked to many people, we had a lot of visible
success, and we saw miracle after miracle where God put people in our
path who we needed to talk to. What it came from was our desire to
work and our sense of urgency. A wonderful prophet of God told us to
expand our vision and lengthen our stride, and so that's something
that I've been trying to do for the past few weeks. Whether that's
literally walking faster and taking bigger steps or maybe less
literal, it's blessed us this week. So this week's poem will be dubbed
"Why are we walking so quickly?"

Why are we walking so quickly?
Why such a spring in each step?
It's raining, it's muddy, we're tired and hot,
Not a single appointment's been kept.

Each step brings us closer to victory,
To finding a new child of God.
So many souls out there now waiting,
So many it almost seems odd.

So our steps must be brisk,
And our pace must be quick,
As we knock every house,
Whether wooden or brick.

We're here finding who's ready,
They who will hear God's words.
Fire burning through our hearts,
And we're singing like birds.

        So yes there it is. Expect a Elizabethan Sonnet next week and then
Petrarchan the week after. I might need my mom to help me brush up on
that...
        Love you all and I hope you have such a great week!

                        Elder McMullin