Great Opportunity to Play Guitar!

So this week was pretty sweet. We gave a lot of lessons to the members called the ATM.  At the end we asked them to pray to our heavenly father and ask him who it is he has already prepared for you to help come unto Christ. Once you've received the name you must go back in prayer and ask what you should invite the person to. For example....a family dinner, a walk or church it can be anything. me and my companion have gave that lesson to 38 families throughout last month and this month. So far we had a couple people receive an answer but not a lot yet. This lesson is suppose to encourage the members to do missionary work and that It’s not a onetime deal. That we should be always be asking heavenly father who we can invite to this gospel. President Gelwix likes to say that when Christ comes, two things will be going on...missionary work and temple work, so we need to start now.  I know that it sometimes not easy for members to ask their friends to go to church but it doesn't have to be. It could just be talking to them about what they believe and being an example to them. By doing this you are planting the seed and eventually that person will be more interested in the church.
Last Saturday there was a huge California state wide service project going on called "Mormon helping hands." We went to a place called Woodward Park.  We raked, cleaned the lake, painted the bathrooms, and other landscaping things. I did repainting in and around the bathrooms....it took forever haha!  It took about 2 hours to complete one bathroom and I learned something that day....I never want to be a painter for a living haha, It’s not fun at all. The whole thing finished around 12pm and we started at 8am. Our ward mission leader brought us to good old McDonalds for lunch mmmhhmmm it was yummy.
I forgot to tell you that after D. Todd Christofferson came we had a big mission lunch and I was asked to play guitar while other missionaries sang the song "Army of Helaman" and I was a little nervous because I was playing it front of the whole mission but everything went fine. A man took some pictures of us so I need to get them from him. Yesterday President Gelwix wanted me to play guitar and my companion to sing at a youth fireside in Porterville which was 2 hours away.  So our church finished at 4pm and then the Assistant Presidents came to pick us up and we went to Porterville immediately. We got there at 6:30 pm, practiced a bit then played the song in front of the youth/members. Everyone really enjoyed it and our mission President loved it. After that we headed to the Assistants Presidents house for the night because we didn’t get home till 11pm haha. It was sooooo fun.  We talked a lot during the car ride and sang a lot of hymns.
By the way thank you for the package, I love it! And I love using my GPS. I got a package from Mike Ahern and his brother nick and their family. I was excited he gave me some awesome talks and quotes that I can use. If you hear from them tell them I said "thank you soooo much". I’m not sure what’s going on for mother’s day but I will know next Monday.  Hope you and everyone is doing well.Talk to you later.

Love,

Elder DeMarco