McClain Mission

Mon, May 31, 2021, 9:00 AM Hey everybody! Happy memorial day! I didn't find out that is was memorial day weekend until Saturday, I had completely forgotten and thats just how it is as a missionary, but we decided we would all take the day off from 8-6 to have a good holiday. That is the exact same time we take off every week on Mondays, but today it will feel a little extra special. Had a really funny experience this week. We recieved a referral for somebody that wanted to learn more that lives way out in the fields, so we drove out and found a small lot with some scrap wood, a largish building in the middle, and a small mobile home in the corner. We knocked the mobile home, and nobody answered, so we went to the building in the middle. It seemed like an office building of sorts, but it had the same address as the house, so we figured we'd knock it as well. We went on the side and found a door, and I knocked, and it came open a little bit, so we yelled out to see if anybody...

Mon, May 17, 2021, 9:01 AM What a week! Skyler was baptized yesterday! Such a great day. I have gotten to know him over the last month or so since I have been in Delano, and it was truly remarkable to see how ready he has been from start to finish to apply the gospel into his life. For him it was just a matter of finding the gospel and learning more. Yesterday we held his baptismal service at the chapel here in Delano, and it was an incredible experience. Elder Shoemake and I made the programs and planned out the whole service, and on top of that each of us gave a talk, Elder Shoemake baptized him, and I confirmed him a member of the church, so we had a lot to do. It was a little bit stressful knowing how much things depended on us, and just hoping everything would run smoothly and ward members would show up, but once things got going we started to relax a little bit. The best part of the service was seeing how excited Skyler was to make the next big step in his life. The spiri...

McClain Easton Attachments Mon, Apr 26, 2021, 12:18 PM to me Hey from Delano! This week I got up to my new area, and it has been awesome so far. For anybody who has seen McFarland USA, the Disney movie, we are about 5 minutes North of that, and it looks exactly the same up here. We live right next to an enormous almond field, and there are massive grape and cutie fields nearby as well. It is a really humbling experience to see where all the food I have been eating my whole life is grown, and a really unique view. I do definitely kind of miss the hills from Santa Clarita, that was like a little piece of home! We are working with a man named Skyler, who is really progressing towards baptism and an absolute stud. He coaches football at McFarland, and said he sees a bunch of the guys from the movie all the time. Other than him, we have our work cut out for us in this area, which makes it a really exciting challenge. I am also now in a ward, rather than a branch, meaning the group of m...

Hey everybody! This week we had a blast! We were super blessed to find 3 new friends to start teaching and working with! One of them, named Daniel, was a man we met on the side of the road, and then we were able share a short message and made plans to come back again this week. That was a little miracle for us this week. This week I was studying on what it means to be charitable, and one of the aspects of charity is "suffereth long." Something I read that stood out the most is that suffering long means to endure well long trials, but more than anything to have patience with the everyday trials and challenges. And Jesus Christ is our perfect example of this! "9 And the world, because of their iniquity, shall judge him to be a thing of naught; wherefore they scourge him, and he suffereth it; and they smite him, and he suffereth it. Yea, they spit upon him, and he suffereth it, because of his loving kindness and his long-suffering towards the children of men." This...

Hey everybody! So sorry I didn't write last week, I completelt ran out of time on monday, so today I have some extra highlights to fill you all in on. And some exciting stuff for sure! To start, I have finally gotten some more info about Costa Rica! The church is beginning to send missionaries back to latin America, and I talked with my mission president this week and he said he was working on my papers, so I am thinking that I will end up down there by the end of May! More good news, he said I will most likely get to stay in Santa Clarita until I leave, which was another thing to be excited about. Our area is really moving along, and I am enjoying life down here, so hopefully I don't have to move before I leave the country! This week during service the radio was playing, but our service coordinator picked a different station, and we heard my favorite song in the world. The lumineers have never sounded so good. You are a real one if you know what song I am talking about. Def...

Hi McClain, I have been thinking so much about your letter, I loved it! I loved that you have been studying your patriarchal blessing. What a special time in your life to be able to focus on such important and amazing things! I remember when you had your blessing and thinking that Heavenly Father truly has amazing things in store for you. I have been looking for my blessing and can't seem to find it at the moment. But I remember that in mine it states that my children will be stalwart examples of the Gospel. I have remembered that my entire life as I have raised all of you. I have known that you would each have a special witness and testimony of your Savior and Father in Heaven. I have always felt that part of my mission on this earth was to share my testimony with you kids. I love that you were able to feel such a strong spirit at the Baptism you went to. I have always loved to attend Primary Baptisms or any Baptism for that matter. The spirit is always so strong. ...