Sounds like a
long, busy, but successful week :) I am glad that Girls camp turned out well, and
that the girls enjoyed it, you put a lot of work into it.
That is awesome that Dad was a
great help at camp :) I know that his work was extremely appreciated. I am sure
that he enjoyed some quite time alone when the girls were with Kathy.
Ouch! I am sorry to hear that you
bruised your leg and rib! I am sure that that hurts. Hopefully you can rest a
little, even with the Andres over :)
I found the nephew of the Loos’ in
the ward! He came up to me after the temple and introduced himself. The Mormon
world is so small!
And I am getting skinnier! I had to
adjust my temple pants with the buttons on the sides because they were too big
:) That’s good though, because a lot of elder put on weight here for the food
(really greasy); I feel good though, and hope to avoid gaining too much! I have
learning that being full does not mean feeling stuffed :)
I am not sure what there is to
write about since Thursday and today, other than the baptism, in the other
email.
Well, I guess I can say that I
successfully had my ingrown toenails taken care of this morning :) hopefully
they don’t bug me too bad :) but I was finally able to get tem taken care, so
one less thing to worry about.
The baptism itself was a great
experience; Elder Hernandez did the honors of doing the baptizing. It was his
first on the mission, and he was beaming the whole time while in the font. We
had some great help from a recent convert, named Carla, who is like 20, who
helped us out a ton with the girls; she got them ready, and helped them out of
the font when they got baptized, and everything. We are very grateful to her
:)
I was also really glad to see the
turnout; all the seats were filled :)
The whole experience this weekend
was a little bitter sweet, because they moved away, though. We spent the good
part of the day helping them pack, and then said goodbye. Both Damian and Belem
started to cry as they were about to get in the truck, and thanked us. I KNOW
that they will follow their daughters soon, and I pray that they will find the
missionaries there and that they will be able to take this decision as well,
and be an eternal family, as we have stressed the whole way through as we have
taught them.
I tried to console my companion by
quoting Elder Uchtdorf, who said in the last conference that there are no real
endings, only interruptions, and that we have the opportunity to endless
beginnings. That was my favorite part of his talk on Gratitude :)
But yeah, now we are excited to
¨start over again'' it feels like, and find new people to teach. It does feel
different without them (the lived around the corner, and we always saw them
passing in the street :D), but changes are good, and they help us to grow and
move on and learn new things. What would life be without changes, if everything
was the same forever? I am glad that Heavenly Father has given us this
opportunity to grow and progress, and I hope to be able to help others to the
same, and help myself to do so in the process :)
I love you all and send my
love, I hope to be able to write of many successes this next week :)
Love,
Elder Hayden Redford
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