April 18, 2011

Quierido Familia,                                                                                            

    Well things are going great. "Les Quiero todos" means -i love you all and i really do.  Tell Elder Weeks that just before i left Carlos wasn’t really progressing, he felt like the answer to his prayer was that he didn’t want to join any "organized religion", but he still loves the missionaries and he’s awesome, tell elder weeks that I’ll try to relay the message.  One of the investigators i taught in Burnt Hickory got baptized yesterday, so that was cool!  Mom it’s so fun to hear your spiritual experiences, i really appreciate them.  That is so cool to hear about chance going to Maryland, if you get a chance give him my best wishes.  Well this last week we worked so hard and we were seeing blessings left and right.....then the weekend came and we just got kicked in the gut repeatedly!  But that happens to us in life, and I’m so grateful to have a companion who has such a huge capacity for Faith, we were talking last night about our week and he was so optimistic.  We decided that we were going to do the same thing this next week: work really hard and if we don’t meet our goals then we will just have to do it again and be thankful for our experience.  It sure makes life easier when you have a really hard working, faithful, and obedient companion, I am so grateful to be serving with Elder Wood.  And as for the Spanish, i mostly sit in silence during the lessons and smile.  But we are teaching a couple, and the Guy speaks a little English, and the girl speaks no Spanish so we mostly teach in English.  Elder Wood has taught me how to pray and bear my testimony in Spanish.  I actually said a prayer in Spanish during a lesson and at Church on Sunday, so I’m learning a little bit.  The work is going great, we have so much potential in our investigators, and we are very excited for the future here in Auburn!  I love you all, work hard at serving others and study the scriptures every day!

Elder Hendrix

PS: Julie way to go on cleaning Darren’s room, you are the best sister.

PSS: but you’re still crazy!