Well, we are keeping up the
fight looking for new people to teach :)
We have been working well but
with few results, no one came to church yesterday, everyone with one excuse or
another, but that is ok. My companion is awesome (even though he yells at old
ladies; no just kidding. Yesterday we had a Bible Bash with a Christian
lady yesterday for like 20 minutes, and he got super worked up. It is great to
see his testimony though :) It was an interesting experience :) and we are
trying our best.
I keep learning to be a better
leader, and we even had a District Leader Training Meeting on Saturday, and was
able to learn more. I was a little embarrassed to walk in 15 minutes late,
because we misjudged how much time the bus would take. President wasn’t there
though, just the assistants, because he got sick.. Hope he gets better soon
:)
We had a cool experience
planning the other day. we were going to visits a less active family and we
were trying to figure out what to teach, as this member is super worried about
other people being hypocrites. So we took a long time to think and bounce off
ideas, until we came to the conclusion of what we should share, and what the
real problem was. So, we learned that the promise in D&C 9 is very true,
that if we study it out in our minds and ask if it is true, the Spirit will
help us feel that the answer we have arrived at is the right one. That is how
He works. We have to work for the answers, and on the journey to them, we
will learn a whole lot. :)
We also had a day when we just
feeling really down, and a random guy from a parking lot yelled out to us in English,
asking how we were doing. we find out that he is Catholic Musician or Singer
type deal, whose work is to go around singing Religious music and devotionals,
and that they were there waiting to go the airport to fly out to some place to
have a concert. He is from Texas, and knows perfect English, but is
Mexican. It was really cool to talk with him, and he thanked us for what we are
doing, a as there are a lot of people who need to more about God and his
gospel, and that even though we were from different religions, he respected out
efforts and congratulated us. It was a good experience, because we needed
someone to say that to us, and in our prayer before leaving to work, we
prayed to be more excited to work, as we felt a little down, and
that morning God answered out prayer in that way. It was really cool, and we
feel much better :)
On Sunday I had the opportunity
to conduct a baptismal interview, which was really hard because she felt she
was ready but I didn’t, as I saw that she lacked a solid testimony of the
prophet Joseph Smith and Pres. Monson. She hoped that it was true, but hadn’t received
an answer yet or she didn’t feel a she could say she knew yet. So it was a little
difficult. I was able to tell her about how I had received my own witness of
the prophet Joseph Smith, singing Praise to the Man in Seminary after learning
about his Martyrdom. So that was cool. It took a really long time with her,
sharing scriptures and experiences, and it took like 50 minutes, but it
was good, and I have hope that she will get an answer.
Today we played soccer as a
Zone, which was fun, but the member whom I have mentioned before, the 70 year
old who lives the Word of Wisdom, played with us! And he is really good. I got
a lot of critiquing though, as he saw that I didn't know how to play, which was
a little frustrating for me. But it was good, over all.
This next week I am going to
have a lot of Companion Exchanges :) So that will be fun and
different.
Well, sorry that there isn’t
much to report on this week.... it was supposed to be a busy week, but the rain
and the weather didn’t help us out in a lot of things. It was super cold
some days, and there is more to come!
Thanks for all the emails, I
have a lot to read today!
I send my love,
Elder Hayden Redford
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