March 14, 2011

Family,

    Hello all, i love you.  Well things are going great, we have a bunch of new investigators like 8 i think and plenty of potential investigators too.  All of them were found through our own efforts in the past two weeks so they are all very new.  Its exciting but it means we really have to focus on helping them keep commitments so that they can gain a testimony of the restoration.  We have one investigator Carlos, hes awesome! He has been investigating for like 6 months but hes been out of town a lot since i got here, but yesterday before church we went over to his house and cooked him up some cowboy breakfast, him and his wife were impressed. A while back he was really close to baptism and I think he is close still but i feel like we can make some progress with him now that he is back, but hes such a cool guy.  The Lord has really been blessing us, there have been so many instances were we are guided by the spirit to find someone who is interested.  Our ward mission leader told us yesterday that missionaries have never been able to find people like we have, so I really feel that the Lord is mindful of us here in this area.  So we are getting pretty excited around here for the temple open house and re-dedication.  First of all we, as the missionaries, are so so lucky to be able to experience a temple being opened to the public while on our missions.  It is going to open so many doors for us to teach.  We are placing a focus on encouraging members to invite their friends and family that arent members to go with them to the open house.  And i truly believe that when the temple opens up the spirit that a House of the Lord will bring to the Atlanta area will really give a boost to the missionary work here. I am excited for the temple to open up, the open house goes from April 9 - 23rd, it will be dedicated on April 26 it think, and we do get to go down for one day during the open house and help with parking or something too.  I just want you all to know that i love being a missionary here in Georgia. I love the opportunity that we have, as missionaries, to be constantly mindful of the spirit and spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ.  It is hard, it is overwhelming at times, but it is truly blessing me every day. I am thankful to God for my family, i miss you all and love you tons.

Elder Hendrix

PS: Its alright to tell me about sports. 

(I told him about BYU basketball and Jimmers 52 pt game, then questioned myself Mom)