Dear Family!!!!
Sorry about the later reply last week and MAREN!!!! I feel so
terrible I am the worst brother ever for not mentioning happy birthday. I
Had it on my internal to do list and totally spaced it..... grhhh.. Any
ways this week has been pretty good. Not the best but good. The last
three days my companion has been plagued with a migrane so its been a
lot of time in the flat this week. But the good side of it is that I was
able to clean out the area book this week!!!! When we got to the flat
the area book was a mess. Just a complete jumble of record. Well I
decided that i wanted to fix that and so I put the task on my self. It
was long and arduous but I was finally able to make some sense of it.
But it was so bad I just decided to make a new one and start from
scratch, so i reached up to get a new one and BOOM! The area book I
thought was empty was huge and heavy. I opened it up to find an entire
area book of just Former Investigators...... So i had to resort
everything and finally put it together and it shed some despressing
light on the area. My area has been in opperation for years!! We have
teaching records from 06 and my companion says that those should have
been destroyed since we get rid of the older records. So it goes even
farther back. We start looking and the area has just been knocked to
death, the street that the bishop prayed for us to knock, was knocked
about 6 months ago by the previous Elders. So we are not giving up, but
its good to know what approaches we can do now. We NOW know not to knock
but to try and street contact. Harder than knocking, but hey I need to
learn. Im not discouraged family, I just know now how to work! Work
smart mom? Haha!
So this week you guys should have received an email from me with
some attachments in it. That is the testimony and convertion story of
one Jo Wakefield and her daughter Sabrina. The Mission mom/ daughter for
the area. This testimony is amazing and I highly encourage the family
to read it for FHE or something.
So this last few weeks has been ones of miricles. Well pertaining
to one family. Do you guy remember that Mother and Daughter who appeard
Golden but we could never teach or get a hold of again? Zoe and Judie?
Well me and Elder Harrison have been trying different ideas to try and
get in contact and one day we just felt like we should drop it for a
while. Just leave them be. It was a weird thought but one that we both
agreed on. Well that proved to be insperation because about a week to
two weeks later we ran into them everywhere. Seriously everwhere. We ran
into them during completely random moments where it was litteraly a 10
second window. But we ran into them over and over. Ok so maybe only
about 2 tops. But we kept seeing them and talking to them and they
started opening up again. Well last time I wrote you guys. I got done
and went to find my companion and guess who we ran into again???? Zoe
and Judie for the third time. And it was not just Zoe and Judie but
their brother/son and his girlfriend and son. And we talked to them and
we thought that they took a real shining to us again. They asked tons of
questions and we basically taught the whole 4 of them the first part of
the restoration. I told Aaron ( the Brother) How I miss yard work from
back home and he said that he needed some done! He got our number and we
are praying that they will call us to do service with them. It was just
to awesome! Now this story is not finished because Zoe texted us the
other day saying that her phone was working again. We texted her for a
while, but when we mentioned teaching she stopped texting us. We can not
give up on this family and we feel as if we NEED to teach them. Please
put them in your prayers. Ask for obsticles to be taken out of their
path so that they will want to be taught. Pray for their hearts to be
softened ANYTHING!!!!!!!! We feel like this family is special. They
could really build the kingdom of god. Pray that Aaron will call us to
do the service.
This week has been a really cool study week. We have been doing
everything we can to be able to find people to teach, but we just cant
seem to find anyone. Well because of this I was a little depressed. I
could not really see the work we were doing or see the fruit of our
labors. This week though I decided that I want to read through PMG all
the way through. I've never done that so I figured that i better. Well
it turns out that, that was exactly what I needed. The end of the first
chapter talks about the success of a missionary and how to judge whether
you are a good one or not. The thing that I found most interesting, and
that I found in all the scriptures that they gave for references, was
the fact that the lord praised his servants for being missionarys first.
He always did that. Good job Nephi for preaching! Way to go Alma for
preaching the word! He blessed them highly for their work. The other
think I realized while reading was the fact that Alma and Nephi (the
third one) did not have much success at first. They were actually quite
down trodden with the sins of the people and how even though they tried!
No one seemed to listen. The next thing that I noticed was that god
commended them on keeping the commandments. Now that made me think....
Who called Alma and Nephi to be missionarys. I couldnt remember a
scripture where god asked them. So then it must have been one of their
desires! Reading about how they kept the commandments and thinking that
thought brought me to the conclusion that the more we keep the
commandents, the more that we learn and understand the doctrine, the
more that we want to share it. I mean it says it in preach my gospel
that the more we understand the atonement the more we want to share with
the world what we have. The more we LOVE the work. I decided right then
and there, that if I want to be a better missionary, if i want to love
the work, if i want to be able to fall asleep every night knowing that I
did my best as a missionary. Then the first step is to completely
understand the doctrine my self. But I also realized that the way that I
can truly messure my success as a missionary is by how much i grow. I
have no idea if i have already given this as a spiritual thought but if i
have then maybe there is a reason.
I love ya guys. Im really sad that I wont be able to see our Uncle
Jason and the family. I miss them so much and keep remembering Lagoon
with them. Talk about a blast. I love you guys. Tell Kaylee that If I
WOULD LIKE her boyfriend... then he can stay. ;) Haha im happy for her.
She is awesome and one of my Heros. Im glad you guys get to spend more
time with her and grandma. Well i think thats everything im going to
write this week. But really quickly one more thing. Mom I cut my hair
super short today. Its weird. Its a classic british hair cut that my
companion wanted me to get. Its a number 5 short back and sides. Parted
at the side. Look it up. Haha but i look weird.
Love ya guys!
Til Next Week - Elder Hale
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