Monday,
November 30, 2015
Hey mom! I’m super glad that Spencer is getting you and the family all cleaned up and spiritual just in time for when I get home! Haha. I and my companion just read that email and we both laughed at the same parts thinking to ourselves that you and the rest of the family are just super special people! Haha I love you guys wayyyy too much!
I can honestly
tell you that this Christmas will be one for the record books. My companion and
I have been transforming our house into a winter wonderland and it has been
quite the adventure! We have begun quite the number of modifications; one of
them is a fireplace. It has been lots of fun! I’m sure the house at home has also
gone through a grand number of changes. I’m super excited to see how all of
your little projects have gone and I’m sure I will hear about even more before I
make it home. I must have inherited that gene from you to always be looking for
projects. I have been focused on making people my projects more than I have home
improvements and I have always had a need to fix people that seem to be a
little broken.
I think it’s a blessing to be drawn to fixing broken souls but it’s a sad and painful path to go down when you realize that you just aren’t able to fix them like you really wanted to do. To make matters worse sometimes it’s not even us the fixers who can’t get the job done but it’s the broken hearted, lost soul, who isn’t ready to be fixed or found. I have noticed that many times here in the mission we have to look at those two possibilities and we have to at times come to the realization that we aren’t equipped to take on some of the projects we encounter or at other times the project just needs to be put off for another time. My companion and I are the leaders of a group here in San Marcos and many times I feel like he and I are going to have to make the decision between those two; whether the person is ready to be fixed or not.. At times it’s a very sad thing to come to the knowledge that we weren’t able to bring about the change we wanted to in the lives of those we come to meet but we can at least be comforted by the thought that we put the idea of a self-correction a little bit higher on their to do list.
I love being in the mission and I wouldn’t change the time I have spent here. Not even a second of it. I love you all and I love that Spencer has been able to point out the projects that we should be tackling spiritually in our lives! I hope that each and every one of you remembers that sometimes we need to make improvements to our own lives and not just in the material but also in the spiritual, or in other words the things that actually count. This Christmas should be one to remember and it can be! Just think of 3 spiritual projects you wants to make a priority to accomplish leading up to the Christmas Eve! I promise that if we each think of 3 things we could do better before Christmas then we will be happier and we will have the Christmas spirit with us sooo much more than we could have ever hoped. Not just the Christmas spirit, but, The Spirit of God. It can be something small such as a taking a vulgar word out of our vocabulary, maybe dropping a vice we may have to a certain destructive substance, or just telling people we love them twice the normal count. I know if we change something in our lives then we will feel enlightened.
I love you all,
Elder Jonah McKee
PS There is a new christmas video that has been posted on youtube its called "A SAVIOR IS BORN" go watch the video!! I promise you won't regret it!!! #ASaviorIsBorn
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