8 Days!!!

Thank you Mom and Dad for the early birthday wishes, yes don't worry about sending me anything because all I really want is to be home with you all! AHH I love our calls it makes me laugh so hard especially when I hear the kids being so grown up and more mature, so fun! oooo China Beach when I get back, no I haven't ever been there sounds like a blast though! 

Final week seems serial in my mind to think that 2 whole years could move so quickly. 

One thing that I wish to talk about with you when I get back is a kind of sensitive matter but I have had constant spiritual impressions to do accordingly, in brief terms I need to find out more of my own family history and find the work for those on my other biological blood line, I have felt nudges to go and do it...though I don't exactly know how to go about it I know God will provide a way that his children may find the gospel. I wish to discuss this more with you and Dad when I return of course and make a plan how to go about this.

I am super excited to see so many faces, one worry that I have is that I may not remember names and match them to faces in the ward haha. One other interesting thing that I have been thinking is strangely enough my Name haha I feel I will go back to Dylan, Kinda make it a Saul/ Paul moment haha this will be interesting to see all the confusion everywhere. 

Well my talk is complete and I am typing it out today getting it all prepared. I thought it was so amazing to hear about all the non member attendance for that Sunday, I hope that they can make it and I can meet all I can. 

Got to go and teach Sherry this week and taught her first discussion and also invited her to go to the family history center. Cool thing was that she went without us being able to go, AMAZING! 

Also went to see a Sister who has been Less active due to health reasons, she lives in Port Burwell. After our lesson with her we explored the beach there. They have a submarine, and a cool walk way on the water, took some pics. 

Elder Allred and I have been also busy helping out our single sisters with service from chopping wood, clearing lawns, destroying sheds, and throwing logs out of ditches (which we turned into a caber toss competition, which I won of course having more Scots blood than Elder Allred :P ) 

Oh how I love this work it is so true! It will be hard to leave it for what it is, but I will still have the duty to go and find those who need the gospel with or without a badge.  

Again Mommy, Happy Mother's day! 

I am so blessed to have a mother whom has brought me up in righteousness, 

with patience, love and kindness 

that I am not worthy to have at times.

Even then I am her's and she is mine, 

God provided the means for that to surpass all our life lines, 

She prays for me holding father's hand every night, 

it bring upon me a miracle of an increase of divinely guided heaven's light. 

Her anxiety must be off the charts at the moment, 

having to wait the last home stretch must be a pull on the strings of her heart.

Soon enough she can have her family as a whole, 

it would probably happen faster if that power was in her control. 

I love my mother as Christ to Mary, 

I am glad to strive to be like him and say "Father it is finished," and carry on with the next chapter, 

things that we all will discover only a little bit later!

-A poem by request ;)

Love you all,

Elder Muirhead

When Missionaries complete their service we act like goofballs and mourn them. HAHA

Trust in God and be Faithful in Time of Struggle

This week has been a week of both stress and miracles! 

There was a few days where I was realizing that life is going to be a bit different very very soon. That spooked me and I got kinda down in the dumps. I was praying to the Lord to know how to recoup and continue being as upbeat and motivated as possible. One day as I had a rough start, we were walking down this street and we heard a "Hello" from a back yard. There was a lady there and we greeted her back, then she asked "are you from Salt Lake?".."nope!" Eventually she invited us back and we started talking a little more and she started off with "I have a question that no one else has been able to answer, so lets see what you have to say about it, Why are there so many denominations in the world today?" (All that was running through my mind was "wow low hanging fruit much, I love this question!" I was surprised and grateful that the Lord blessed us with a prayer answered with a miracle. We will be seeing this woman on Tuesday. 

Around the weekend I again was kinda down and so chatted with my mission President on how I was feeling. He told me to just take that stuff I was worried about and anything else I shouldn't focus on at this time and put it in a box and leave it there until I can chat about it with my stake president. He helped me out a lot minimizing the mass of my worries and thoughts. Doing much better now, don't worry.

Sunday again was another couple of miracles, we had 2 people we weren't expecting to show up who in fact did come to church. One was someone we where already teaching and another someone entirely new! The new investigator told us that she wanted to be baptized even before we taught her...."Okay!"  

I have learned a great deal about being able to trust in God and be faithful in times of struggle, but now that knowledge has grown again that as we continue to do that which is good and right, God will bring us light and peace of mind for a season until we are to learn some more things at his hand.

As for being able to have a speaker before I talk I would love it if I had Joshua and Brigham be the speakers before me! That would mean a whole lot!

So who are the ones who want to be at the airport? I will welcome anyone who wishes to come see me at the airport. But they must realize that my time is going to be with family first of course! I can't wait to see everyone I love.

For mother's day I will be available to Skype you at 6 my time so 3:00 your time. Does that work at all? Let me know and I will fit it properly.

Oh how I treasure my time out in the service of God.

Love,

Elder Muirhead