Kyle gets baptized!

8/29/11

Hey! What's up?

So, this week went pretty well! We tracted for about 8 hours, taught a few lessons, and it got up to about 110 degrees! Dang! And, we had a baptism! Kyle is now a member of the Church as of Sunday! It's so awesome and such a blessing to people! Lives change right in front of you! It's amazing to see the Lord work through you!

So, as part if my responsibilities as District Leader is to give a training every week. This week I gave a pretty sweet training that I got from Elder Proffit (my trainer) It's all about making your mission an adventure, working hard, and having fun while you serve. So that was pretty sick! I wish I could have a copy of it or something but it's all good.
I'm doing pretty well! Just working hard and trying my best to serve the Lord with all my might. It does get hard sometimes but the Lord is always there to help us. He's like a light. I found this sweet scripture earlier this week about the Jaredites and how they used a stone that the Lord touched as a light to help them through the dark times, if applied.

I love you all!
Have a good week ttyl!
Love, Elder McNew!

Families, Companions, and Silviano's baptism

The Knoll family.  The youngest is a girl and she's so cute.  She gave Elder McNew flowers!

The Mitchell Family.  They are super cool!

The Dase Family

The Hamblets

First day of transfers with new companions

Scoff & McHand

Sister Barkley, she's featured on Mormon.org here :

New companions, Scoff & McHardy

original letter from Elder McNew about this baptism here

Mike & Heather get baptized

June 27, 2011

Hello to everybody!

So I just want to update you all on what's been going down lately. I'm in Corona with a new comp Elder Reimann.  Since we have the same goal and purpose on a mission it makes getting along a little easier. I'm in a car and over two wards so the work is much different.  We do a lot of visiting members and we have been teaching quite a few people the ward mission process (W.M.P.) so that's cool to get the members involved!  

The coolest things about this week are that first, I've seen the blessings that come from bearing simple testimony while trackting in our OYM's (open your mouth).  This past week we were tracting and we did a whole street and didn't have a lot of luck but, as one of the new things we try and give everyone a mormon.org card to check out our website to learn more about our church.  If you haven't checked out this website, I definitely encourage you to because it's awesome and a great missionary tool.  Anyway, so we knocked on this door and I talked to this lady named Maria .  She told us that she wasn't interested.  I went ahead and asked her if it was okay to give her a card and she was cool with that.  So, as I gave her the card I just bore a simple testimony to her and let her know that our message could definitely bless her life and bring happiness.. something like that. She accepted the card and we went away. Then later that day we got a referral via text message on our phone for Maria. She wanted a Book of Mormon. Later that week we gave her one and we will see where it all goes.My main point is that a pure and simple testimony is all that it takes for someone to get the message and to feel the spirit.

A couple of months ago in Yucaipa a very similar situation took place. We were trackting and gave this lady a mormon.org card and we later got a referral. Well, that lady and her husband were both baptized this Sunday (yesterday) :) and it all started with a small simple pure testimony. A little seed that was planted and I've seen that seed grow into a plant and that plant still has allot of growing to do but the point is, that reaping the rewards of your labor is so worth it!

Yesterday i got to go back to Yucaipa :) I got to see Mike and Heather get baptized. which was an awesome experience and I won't forget it. I also got to see Elder Proffit, Elder Kirk, his new companion, President and Sister Reeves (the mission pres and his wife) and a bunch of friends that I made in Yucaipa.

This week has definitely been great! I'm enjoying the mission despite the rough times. Well that's about all for this week but I'm going to attach a few pictures so you can all see whats new and stuff :) alrighty!

I love you all! have a good week and God Bless!

Love, Elder Justin Charles McNew

First Baptism

Hey everybody! :)

How are you all doing?  Well, as for me and the mission, all is well.  I confirmed Silviano a member of the Church this week and it was a great experience. It's good to see that we are bringing people into the fold of the Gospel! It's so awesome to see the Lord work through you.  I have been so blessed while I have been on my mission to see the Lord work through me to bless other peoples lives.  But, don't get me wrong, if it weren't for my companions I wouldn't be able to see so much awesome stuff.

So I am doing well this week.

Other than the baptism not much has happened.  Well, we got a few new investigators but it's hard to see what will happen right away. One cool thing that happened was, we were riding down the boulevard on our bikes and we saw a car towing a car and something was wrong.  So we rode over there on our bikes and saw that they needed some help. The car had slipped off of the car dolly. It was a lady and her four kids and one white friend.  So they couldn't have done anything by themselves so we called a member in our ward that has some skill and he came with his truck and between the three of us we got the car off the dolly and then back on the right way.  It was funny because while we were waiting for the brother in our ward to come, we got talking to everybody and they were pretty friendly people.  We became instant friends.  When we got all done we looked over and the kids had picked up our bikes and they were riding them around.  It was funny because they hardly knew us yet they were comfortable enough to jack our bikes :)

Anyway, I don't have much to say other than that. 

Love you all!

Have a good week.   

Love, Elder McNew

Elder Kirk, Silviano, Elder McNew