We went to the Temple today! It was a good experience, really
enjoyed it.
This was a long week, I had two
companion exchanges, one with my district leader Elder Bravo and another with
my Zone Leader Elder Pendleton, whom I just love :)
With Elder Pendleton we spent
the entire morning knocking doors (we can do that now) and inviting people to
baptism right then and there on their doorstep. It was really cool. I felt like
I was fulfilling my calling, because I wasn’t just contacting, but teaching
basically a lesson at the same time :) It was really cool, and good experience.
We have kept on visiting our
amigo Luis, the recent convert with cancer, and he is super awesome. He gave me
a seashell as a gift from the first time he went to the ocean. He doesn’t have much,
so it really meant a lot to me.
Things have been picking up, we
are having more lessons in a day and finding new people, so that is cool. We
are pretty sure that the two of us are going to leave in a week with Transfers
though. We were told that we are here temporarily, so we will see what
happens. I have 4 more transfers left.... what does president have in store for
me?
On Sunday I didn’t have to give
a talk or teach a class :) But! I was able to see Ivon, an investigator from my
last (not so far away) area, get baptized! I was a spiritual experience, her
whole family came to support her and see, the ward did a wonderful job to make
her feel accepted into the ward (especially the young women) and I hope they
can keep fellowshipping her so that she can keep faithful and develop a testimony
of her own.
Yesterday was cool, because
Hermana Olga, a recent convert of Elder Pendleton's. signed herself up to feed
us lunch! We always eat with the members, but I have never eaten with a convert
so recent before, and it was a lot of fun. She is always so happy and bubbly
and was just thrilled the whole time. She didn’t want us to leave. :) It was a
fun experience :)
Our Zone Leader talked to us
about how important our attitude is, and Elder Pendleton and I have been trying
to figure out the relationship between making our decisions and taking initiative
and following the spirit and such, so as I have tried to apply these things, I
have seen good results. I said to myself yesterday, picking a certain area that
we were going to work in, 'there is someone here that will listen to us, and I
am going to keep contacting and knocking doors until I find them.' And then we
found one, a pretty cool young man name Tomas :) Our attitude has a HUGE part
in our lives :)
Say congrats to Noel for me, and
I am glad that ShayLynn was able to go to Prom and have a good time :)
Love you all and wish a great
rest of the week!
Talk to you on Sunday Mom!
Elder Hayden Redford
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