Elder Hayden never ceases to amaze me. Seriously!
The things he does is so outside his comfort zone which reaffirms to me
that our Heavenly Father is completely and totally mindful of us including our
shortcomings and comfort zones. Then He
help bolster us up when we are doing His work.
I know that He is doing that with our handsome Elder. Miss him, love him more – but oh so proud of
him ~ Enjoy!!
Hello!
1) Yea, the days went
by slow and weeks went by quickly
I am pretty sure my mom is not going to agree with that
"scripture". I want to start off this week with an extremely awe
inspiring testimony builder that we received over the phone on Thursday night:
On Thursday morning, we get a text from the zone leaders.
They simply told us to check our email the next day. The next day we left to
exercise early so we can stop and check our email first and there is nothing.
They tell us that it should be there when we leave for proselyting. We check
then and nothing. This pattern repeats itself until we are back inside for the
night without having received an email. We call the zone leaders to get to the
bottom of this mystery and they give us the news.
The email read that, "Elder
Gardner and Elder May, your companionship, along with two other companionship's
have been prayerfully selected by the leaders of this mission for a special
challenge. In your area, there is a
person prepared to be baptized on August 6th. You task is to find them and
bring them the gospel. The only way this
can happen is if you, be exactly obedient, have the faith to find them, have
your eye single to the glory of God at all times, work efficiently at all
times, rely on the Lord. They are in
your area and we know that you can find them. This challenge is to increase
your faith and the faith of those in your district. Do you accept this
challenge?"
We were chosen by the leaders to find a prepared person. I
know that we could do it. We accepted (obviously) and went to work the next
day.
We taught, we found, we blessed, we committed and all other
aspect of the work. We found a ton of people and we testified to them. Only two
came to church and they can be prepared by then but I don't know about trying
to force a baptism in order to fulfill a challenge.
I think that even if we don't baptize someone on the 6th, we
still now have many more prepared people that will be baptized and I want to
write about one. Her name will be changed just because it is a touchy situation:
Victoria: Victoria is a media referral. A lot of her family
is LDS already and her father told her to request a Book of Mormon because she
has had a few challenges in her life. In the past couple of days since we met
her we have brought her the Book of Mormon, she attended our scripture study
class and said that the Book of Mormon is true, we set her baptismal date, we
committed her to come to church, she overslept and missed church
(unfortunately) and when we came by later that night she apologized and felt
terrible. But she is still extremely excited to learn and be baptized and I am
excited to be a part of it. She is a miracle.
I love all of you and know that you are praying for me
because I couldn't do this without the prayers. Thank you for them and
everything else you have done.
Love,
Elder May
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