Happy 19 months to
our Elder Hayden! (Only 5 months and a
few days to go…) We are so looking
forward to talking to him in less than 4 weeks for Christmas. We measure the year by Mother’s Day calls and
Christmas calls. He is doing so well but
misses to talking to everyone so if you have a moment, send him a quick
message. He would love it. His email is on the side bar of the
blog. Love and miss him but oh, so proud
of him! Enjoy!!
Chapter 82:
1) Bike Week Once Again
2) Be Grateful!
3) I’m in Alma and I think it’s true
4) “I Like To Cause Trouble”
5) We Have these three people coming today...Actually, next
week.
It was bike week again for the first time in what feels like
forever. So we got to be out and about for longer periods of time and lots more
people that CS. There are some pretty cool people that I can talk about in this
email.
First off, we had a FHE with a member family that was taught
by their 7 year old son. He taught about gratitude and did a great job! All he
did was explain gratitude and ask us how we can show gratitude for things. We
went around the circle of people and said things like “be kind in return”,
“don’t complain”, “serve them back”, etc. then he surprised us all by asking,
“Will you do the thing you said you could for three whole days?” It was pretty
sweet. Mine was to serve so I had to serve for three extra days. I think every
day of being a missionary is service but still.
Children make really good FHE teachers.
Two, we got to meet with a really cool former investigator.
He is in the middle of Alma because he just kept reading the Book of Mormon
even though the missionaries stopped coming by. He wants to come to church and
understood most of the Restoration. It went really well and we had a member of
the church come with to help us out and his testimony was fantastic. The Spirit
was super strong throughout the lesson. So cool.
Three, we were able to go and visit a Less Active member and
he offered to buy us milkshakes for coming by. He drove us to Steak and Shake
and he was hilarious the whole time. He told us “I like to cause trouble.”
After he accidentally drove into the wrong parking lot he sees one of the
Salvation Army bell ringers out front of a supermarket. The person was getting
his speaker hooked up and it was playing his own music instead of the Christmas
ones. The member rolled down his window and jokingly yelled “What are you
doing?! You’re supposed to be playing Christmas music! I’m going to call the
police and have you put in jail tonight!” I put jokingly in bold to help you
realize he was being sarcastic. The man just looked at the Member and said
“okay...” and the member told him to have a good day. We were so confused and
trying not to bust a gut laughing.
Four, during ward council, we had just pumped everyone up
about who should be coming to church. Right after we told them, I felt a couple
buzzes on the phone and opened it up secretly and read that everyone we planned
on coming just sending us a text saying they can’t make it. HAHA! These are
things that happen as a missionary lol! We said “next week all these people
will be here!” It was really funny!
That was my week! It was a good time with lots of laughs and
cool people to meet. Hit me up if you want to talk!
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