Tuesday, June 11, 2013

June 10th, 2013 Jacob

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOO HALE FAMILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY!!! ( And others)
 
This week has been one of ups and downs resulting in a kind of medium well week. We taught our first member present this week but it was kind of in a round about of a manner. We taught his kids and wife who are mormon and he stayed around to listen. Haha! But talking to his wife she says that very slowly, we will have an impact on him and that he will eventually want to hear the whole of the gospel. By small and simple things right? I actually was on exchange this week with our New district leader Name Elder Mckenne from NORTHERN Ireland. Becuase if you just say just Ireland he will get mad at you. Haha but we were on exchange and got a call from the women I was just telling you about name Louisa. She called to tell us that we probably should not come around for another 24 hours because her son was radioactive..... Weirdess call I've ever gotten in my life. Well apparenly her son went through some tests recently and they had to inject him with radioactive Isotopes for the tests. Wow that was crazy.
 
So a little miricle this week. Wendsday to Thursday afternoon I got to lead the area. The district leader, who is only 4 months older then me, came on exchange to my area and I led it for about 36 hours..... AHHHH! That was hard. Well thursday afternoon we ran into a member that we were not planning on visiting that day. In fact my companion specifically asked me not to go see her, because he wanted to do something special with them the next couple of day. Well when we ran into this member she asked us to stop by and we were kind of taken a back and just said yes... I was scared my companion was going to kill me.  But anyways we were out and about visiting potentials and we ran into one of our potentials right as she was leaving to go pick up her kids from school. This is Suzette, her kids are the ones that we played with for an hour the other day. We got one of the little kids a badge from Elder Sutcliff (one of the old and favorite missionaries from this area) and we gave it to Suzette to give to her son. We had some stuff we wanted to talk about, but it just didnt feel right, so we didnt say anything. We said goodbye and then went to visit some other potentials. We got the call from Louisa, and then we went to try by the member who asked us to stop by. Well she wasnt home and we were kind of worried about what we were going to do next. We tried to call a few people but nothing was falling into place. So we just started walking and all the sudden we hear this HEY!!! We look up and Liam (One of Suzettes kids) Is running over to us. On his shirt he has the missonary badge. He yells for his mom and 2 seconds later Suzette walks around the corner. We started talking to her again and we told her why we were still in the area ( to visit the member who she lives next door to) and she said that we could wait at her place.... Now that was crazy. We have never been able to have a sit down with the potential yet. She has always been to busy. So we went over to her house and had an amazing chat with her and got some insight on how to help her. It was amazing!
 
So that was my miricle this week. The last couple of days though have been hard because my companion has been super sick. Mom you were asking me questions about my companion. Honeslty I dont know why I was chosen to be his companion. Maybe because I do have a little bit more compassion for people or maybe because of my experiences with you. All I know is that its been pretty hard just sitting in the flat just trying to find something to do. He has bad migranes but also he has stomach problems as well. They also make each other worse so sometimes he can pretty out for the count.
 
Thank you guys for praying about Judie and Zoe. We have not been able to contact them this week and it has been really frustrating but then we were reminded that this is exam time right now. And exams are hard over here. Like ACT and SAT hard. They also determine what school you are going to for a higher education so we are wondering if thats why. We are hoping that it is and that if all goes well we will be able to set up a celebration for them or something to just get us in contact again! Hopefully their brother/son will call us also to get us to do some service.
 
Mom I will try to write chandler today. Hes going to be there this thursday? A letter from here to the MTC should only take about 2 days. So I think we will be good. I just hope I can remember the Address. Haha! Maybe ill shoot him an email as well. It will be good to hear from chandler.
 
Dad! The Narrows?? Really?? with out me??? Ouch. Haha you lucky people.
 
Well I got to go, I have Elder Gull and Elder Mckenna  are right over my shoulder and they want to go mini golfing. Cya guys. I love you. see you next week. Good luck with all the camping and running about. MOMMMMMM I love you. I still miss you every day. But its good to know that you guys are always there supporting me.

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