Family,
Well to the most sweetest and awesomest Family in the world, I hope all is well. Holy moly things are going well back home, Mom thanks for sharing you spiritual experiences that is awesome, i love those things. I feel like powerful spiritual experiences are catalysts for our testimony, we gain a testimony "line upon line..here a little and there a little", but those experiences boost us and our desires in an instant to a whole new level. Also i am overcome by the stories of Paul and Chance Dahl putting in their papers. When i first heard that Paul received the Melchizedek priesthood i was overcome and almost cried, and then when i heard that his papers were going in, i wept. There is just something that is so special about coming back to the church, their LORD and their home. I have also been so grateful this week for the LORD blessing Elder Stephens and I, First i know that the LORD chooses the companionship in a mission and he does it out of Love. So all who have ever served a mission know, that far and away, the best missionary work is done when members invite family and friends to be taught by the missionaries. My whole mission has been teaching people we found on our own (the baptisms I have been a part of were already taught before i met them), and have not led to people fully receiving the restored gospel. When i got to this area we didn't have anyone to teach, and members didn't have referrals, it was a slow area. So we did the only thing we could... work really hard going out and finding people, its not the funnest thing to do but we worked hard. We found people to teach, but most of them were un-interested and didn't progress. Well this last week we have received 5 member referrals and all of them are so so solid. One girl who lives in Texas and just joined the church, sicked us on her mom and she was very accepting of the message. Then two families in the ward have asked us to teach their 11 year old daughters, and one of them is really close with elder Stephens, she loves him. Then a guy in our ward invited us to have lunch with his sister-in law and we taught her and He said that she (Kayla) felt the spirit, and a long with teaching Kayla her husband has been inactive for a long time and he is really interested in getting back into church, its been cool to see the Brother in our ward feel so much joy seeing the change in his brother and sister-in-law. Then on top of all of that: yesterday at church a lady in our ward came up to us and said "i have someone (her granddaughter) for you to teach...she told me she wants to be baptized", i thought about it for...oh about .000001 seconds and said "ok, we can do that". So we went over last night and taught her the first lesson and she is going to be baptized on April 16th, (And the story behind that is awesome too but i don't have time right now). So the moral of the story is: As we show the LORD that we are willing to do hard things and be obedient he will bless us, he will show us that our efforts are never in vain. I must say that we are nervous because transfers are next Wednesday (6th) and we are both hoping that we don't get transferred. Keep your fingers crossed. All is well i have been emailing too long so i better go, i miss you all, prepare for conference, i love you!
Elder Hendrix
Julie,
Sorry i don't have much time but ill answer your questions. I LOVE THE PEOPLE I AM TEACHING, because GOD loves them and he lets me feel that love. I love my companion, i am thankful that i get to serve with him and get to learn to love him too. I haven't eaten anything gross yet, ill let you know when i do. I am crazy because mom had YOU, ask her what happened when she told me she was going to have you. I love you Very much too.
Elder Hendrix
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