McClain Mission

Week 56 Mon, Sep 20, 2021, 3:01 PM Hope you all had an awesome week! Things were awesome here in Delano. On Wednesday I had an exchange with my good buddy elder Szmyanscki, and we got to stay here in Delano while elder Martinez headed down to McFarland. That was an awesome day. We had a lesson in the afternoon with a family we had taken food to in the past as a donation, and they weren't interested at all, but this time we went and things were different. We made it clear we aren't the church of Mormon, but the same church of Jesus Christ, and they loved our message so we started teaching them! Then after that, we hustled off to earlimart and had a lesson with our buddy angel. He is 17, and recently lost most of his hand in a firework accident, and is really a humble kid. We had a great lesson and invited him to be baptized on October 9th! Super excited for him. Then on Thursday, Elder Martinez and I were put back into a trio, and our new comp Elder Bishop is a beast. We

Week 55 Inbox McClain Easton Attachments Mon, Sep 13, 2021, 2:49 PM to me This was an awesome week! The work is continually picking up here in Delano, and we couldn't be more grateful. This week we taught my all time high for lessons, almost 20 to our friends, so we were do busy! Some of the highlights: Our friend Jonathan passed his baptismal interview and will be getting baptized this week on Saturday. We have been working.with him for about a monthnow, and he is a really a special kid. He is a senior in high school, and has shown such a sincere desire to become a better person. He doesnt come from much, so it has been a humbling and eye opening experience to share the blessings of the Gospel with him. We also began teaching a senior at a differenthigh school, named Angel, and we think he will progress super quickly. He came with us to church yesterday and had a wonderful experience. Similar background to Jonathan, and has already taught me so much about simply having a goo

Week 54 Inbox McClain Easton Mon, Sep 6, 2021, 4:42 PM to me Hey everybody! We had such an awesome time this week! Early last week we picked up elder smith from the mission office, and he is in his first week so elder Martinez and I have had a great time training him this week. We were really grateful he was so willing to jump right into the work, because we were super busy. First night he was here on tuesday, we headed out to Alpaugh looking to teach a friend named juan carlos. He feeds horses, and wasnt home, and considering there is virtually nothing in Alpaugh we figured we could find the horses. And we did! However. The horses were very protected by a lot of sleeping dogs. So we decided to be extra quite and go knock the door of the house next to the horse pen, and one small little dog came out barking, and you know that means?? Big dogs woke up, so we got chased away from the houses by some pretty vicious shepherding dogs. Probably one of the scarier moments of my life and