Elder May: Chapter 79

We received this picture from a ward member - Love this boy and his Hadlock smile!! 

18 months for this Elder!  

We joked with him saying if he was a girl, he’d be on his way home.  He said “LOL, but I am not… “ – typical Hayden humor.  Boy, do I miss this boy!  I miss his humor and his positivity.  He did tell me that he is going to be a Facebook missionary along with a proselyting missionary for the remainder of his mission so that will be really cool as well.  I loved seeing Hunter post each day – it helped me to know he was okay and doing well.  We love him and miss him so, but we are oh, so proud of him!  Enjoy!!

Chapter 79

1.            So much happened on Tuesday.

2.            Wednesday we went 3/4 on formers

3.            Will you please just baptize me already?

4.            Trunk or Treat for the win! 

5.            We love that idea! But can we change it a little bit? 

Hi everybody! A ton of stuff is happening in Providence and they are all good things!

Tuesday was a super busy day. We had an invitation on Tuesday to help us be even more motivated to talk with people in our district Meeting. However, we were so busy, we didn’t even get a chance to talk to anyone that wasn’t already planned to have a lesson. We taught quite a few people and they are progressing very well. 

Ready for the local food bank

Our main person, Danny, is doing a great job and if all goes well this week should be baptized on Saturday. Let me tell you a little something about Danny. He’s doing great. We taught all of the “difficult” commandments and we thought the word of wisdom would be hard for him. We taught it and his “hold-ups” were tea and coffee. Instead of setting up some plan to wean himself off them he

just told us “just take them”. He then proceeded to bag up all of his coffee, tea bags, creamer, and other things that he had just bought at the store. Then poured out his coffeepot that had coffee still in it. He said we could donate it at the food bank we volunteer at. He also committed to live the law of Chastity and Tithing after he is baptized. Like we said good to go if all goes well.

Wednesday we actually had some time that we tried to visit some former investigators to get in the general vicinity of new potential Investigators. We chose four people that lived nearby one another and visited them. Of those four, three were very interested in meeting again. They also each set up a time we could come by. They had their copies of the Book of Mormon and one person had finished reading it as well. That rarely happens but it makes my day when it does. 

On Friday some cool blessings came our way. We called a part member family who told us we could meet on Friday. It is a sister who was baptized about 10 years ago and her daughter has not been baptized yet. After getting to know one another I asked “now, we know you’ve met with missionaries in the past and wanted to be baptized. Is that still something you’re wanting?” She quickly responded, “I’ve wanted to get baptized since my mom was but I was 5 or 6 at the time and couldn’t. I’ve met with missionaries so I could get baptized but you all stop coming by after a while. Will you please just finally baptize me?” Trying to play it cool we told her we would and joyfully finished our lesson.

Later that night we had our ward Trunk or Treat and many non-members were there! We had a portion of a family of five that were being taught and then stopped learning show up and they are interested now, Danny came, our bishops neighbors both came, two or three non-members from different part member families came, etc. and it was just awesome to be able to have them all there in one place to talk and fellowship. 

Then on Sunday we got to have a lesson with a member family that are great missionaries. They both are returned missionaries with a young family and just want to help us out. We asked about their neighbors and they had one neighbor that they know very well and has come to many ward events. We shared with them an idea that a Seventy brought to us to try to help members be more involved and they absolutely loved it. Then they said “wait, my daughter is having a birthday in a couple weeks and we are going to invite her and couple member families to come. Maybe you could come to that so she can see that you are normal first and then when we invite her over to have dinner with y’all she’d be more open.” We thought it was a great idea and planned to do that. They are champions. 

I love you all and pray for you daily. Thanks for all you do to plant seeds and live the gospel so missionaries, or even yourselves, can harvest the blessings of new people joining the church. It helps us out a lot. Please keep it up! 

Love, Elder May