Dear Friends & Family, Well the mission is going great, and we are really busy. We are now teaching our 4th course. We teach 5 days a week one week, and 4 days the other. We have 4 lesson topic preparations for the 5 classes. Our first Eternal Marriage class was on Friday May 2, and we had 5 married couples show up. 2 of the couples have only been married for less than 6 months. It went very well with a lot of discussion. The next class is this Friday, as we teach it only twice a month. All the other classes are weekly. The attendance has been good and we have had a lot of good gospel discussions. On Tue Apr. 29th, I baptized a 25 year old young single sister Charissa McCabe. She came to our opening social with Bett Lacorna in November and has been fellowshipped by many of the YSA's for the last 6 months. She has been coming to our institute classes for about 2 months and Sister MacPherson (Aka Mom / Pat) and I have sat in on 2 of the discussions with her. She came up to me a couple of weeks ago and asked me if I would baptize her. I had to baptize her twice, the first time I got all of her under the water except for the pinky finger on her right hand that she was holding on to my left arm with. She was a little flustered when one of the witnesses told us she had not gone entirely under the water as is required in baptism, but I immediately repeated the prayer and took her to the bottom of the baptismal font the 2nd time, pinky and all. There were 80-90 people at the baptism, more than are at sacrament meeting in some of the smaller wards. Mom made some taco soup and cookies and others brought more food and the was nothing left at the end of the night. Except for Sat nights we have been out every night in the last 2 weeks. Sun Apr. 27 we had a YSA Fireside and testimony meeting in which 3 of the 4 involved in the bad auto accident we previously wrote you about, bore their testimonies. We also had 3 short talks and 3 musical numbers. It was one of the most spiritually powerful meetings I ever attended, almost all were crying at some point in the meeting. One of the girls involved in the accident sang the primary song "Heavenly Father are you really there". All those present knew that this same song was song by her while they were waiting for the rescue squad after the accident as she held Eddie's head up to keep him from aspirating his own blood. Many cried as she sang the song in the fireside. The testimonies could not be stopped so we went 2 &1/2 hours then socializing and Food. We left at Mon Apr 28 was Family Home evening with YSA's where we had some great scripture study discussions, games. and food; Tues night is our regular Old Testament institute class, with socializing and food; two Wed nights ago we had Seminary in-service class with a seminary teacher and then a meeting with member of the Stake presidency who is over the institute and YSA programs and Dinner with both of them who are married to each other. Thur we had 4 YSAs over to the flat for Dinner and discussion . Two of them were leaving Wed May 7th the BYU Young Ambassadors came to This last Friday we attended a YSA dance session in which they were learning Salsa and Bollywood dancing. Last night for, Mothers Day, I took Mom to dinner at the Tonight, Sunday we are having people over for a Mother's day dinner. .We are truly on a CES, party and food mission. Eddie Canton, the one that was hurt so badly in the auto accident is progressing slowly after making a miraculous recovery from massive head and brain injuries. We visited him a couple of times last week and he is off all life support, is conscious, but sleeps a lot – 20 hours a day. He has full use of his left side, but is still paralyzed on his right side. He has hearing, and sight, but is still unable to speak. I asked him if he knew who I was and he shook his head yes. He can only communicate by nodding his head. Prayers still go up for him in almost all the YSA and church meetings we attend. The doctors said his progress, if it occurs, will be very slow from here on out, and should take up to a year. They are waiting for a bed in a special neurological rehabilitation hospital near Our computer crashed and the Church will not supply us with a new one. We apparently supposed to supply our own. One of the YSAs, who has a lot of computer experience and works as a information technician, supplied us with a used computer that we are now using. However, so far, we have been unable to use our mac9pcom@msn.com e-mail address as it will not accept my password or my special question answer. We are going to use our macphersondr@ldsces.org e-mail site until I can figure how to change passwords. All it does is tell me that the new temporary password has been sent to my e-mail address which I can't access. If any of you know what I can do further from here let me know. Otherwise, the Lord has blessed us with better health which means less joint pain. I have realized that we have had no spells of flu or colds since we have been here. Macpherson adult kids, please e-mail mom some Mother's Day messages as she has not been able to receive anything in the last 3 days via e-mail. |
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