Family,
Well this week has been so great especially the Last two days, let me explain. So the reason I am E-mailing on Wed, not Monday is because on Monday we had a special meeting with Elder Gay of the Seventy (did he come to your stake conference?), so we switched our p-day and since my companion is going home in 21 days we went to the temple (like an hour ago, so I’m flying high). On Monday we had a great meeting, Elder Gay is an extraordinary man! He taught about doing things the Lords way, not our way. To do this we must seek his Will through revelation, because he is preparing people everywhere, we just have to reach them in the way that the Lord is preparing them to. I learned that the only way to be successful in any aspect (all aspects too), we have to find out how the Lord wants us to do it, and that applies to regular life too, as a parent as a student as someone serving in a church calling, the ways are different for everybody and its our blessing to be able to seek that through personal revelation. Receiving revelation helps us prepare for Exaltation. Great meeting! After the meeting my companion and I followed our plan (that we felt we had received only a couple days earlier by revelation), and we were able to find a mother and daughter to teach, that are very interested in the Gospel, then last night we used the same plan and we found another lady, her story is awesome. Last night we knocked on a referrals' door that we had tried to see a few times before (last night we were definitely lead by the spirit to go there), well we finally got to meet her, she has full sleeve tattoos and dreads but she is very educated, so she took us out to dinner. We sat with her for two hours and she told us about her past. She was born in Brooklyn and after college she became a police officer for the NYPD, later she worked narcotics undercover and then became a detective for the NYPD, so she was very successful, and she thought she had everything: money, cars, friends, nice home ect. She got heavy in to drinking and partying and she says that she did a lot of bad stuff. Then she spoke about her Mom dying, and talked about coming to the realization that she lived an empty life, and was not happy and she felt completely alone. It brought me back to how i use to feel exactly! She cried as she told us that her mother was the only good she knew in the world, and that because of her righteous example she was lead back to a search for God. It was just a reminder of how blessed i have been, that the Lord gave me my family that through their example i was inspired to find my faith which brought me back to the way of Peace, the only true way, Jesus Christ! She is so awesome, we are so excited to teach her and to see her progress in the Gospel!! She is one of the coolest people i have ever met, she is extremely humble, and is so wise. She loves baseball [of course though she is a Yankee fan:( ] which is great for me and Elder Wunderli. That was just such a great experience!! Then today I was able to attend the Atlanta Temple, it is truly the House of God, the spirit that is there cannot be denied! I it is so peaceful and quiet, i loved it. I love you all. The Book of Mormon is Great! Keep reading
Elder Hendrix
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