Family,
I’m definitely so jealous that i missed out on the family reunion!! I want one of those shirts, if you don’t have an extra I’ll take Scotts! I got so much joy from looking at those pictures, fun times, I’m disappointed in Brad for getting the truck stuck. Wow sounds like a wonderful experience. Well we had probably one of the best weeks of mine, or my companions mission (he’s been out two years now), it was just filled with so many awesome experiences. Monday with Elder Gay, Tuesday G (with the ladies from Brooklyn) Wednesday with the temple i already told you about. There is another family that we are working with, that we have been teaching we are excited about that. Then we met with G again, which was probably one of the coolest experiences of my mission. When we met up with her we went on a walk with her, she was really upset. She started to tell us this story about how she had walked around Atlanta all day (she lives in the down town area), looking for churches to ask if she could volunteer there. It is kind of a long story but because of the way she Looks (she has dreads and full sleeve tattoos, and dresses very casual) they wouldn’t even come outside to speak to her, she says that she was standing in front of a glass door crying right in front of these Christian people and they would help her, she was very upset and even a little angry with us. My companion said it best "she just witnessed firsthand the great apostasy". We just listened to her for a long time, then finally she said "ok well what do you want to tell me" in an annoyed tone. Now we had prepared a really good lesson, with really good scriptures, but we simply told her that we just wanted to help her, and that it wasn’t about what we had to say but what she needed to hear. Everything from then on was completely directed by the spirit, we really just testified to her that she was lead to the Chruch by the Lord. (both E. Wunderli and I have agreed that we have not taught anyone who has been more prepared by the Lord than her) We taught her the importance of her reading the Book of Mormon, and gave her a Restoration pamphlet (its lesson one in a pamphlet), it was so sweet as she opened up that pamphlet and looked at the pictures and words with a priceless smile on her face, like she had found her most prized possession, the spirit was so strong! We invited her to church and she said she would be there, and that she wanted to know how to find peace more than anything, she said she would give everything. Also on Saturday we met a lady who is Jewish, but doesn’t really believe it, or she is looking for the truth. She is married to a good man, and has 6 kids; she also said that she would come to church. Later that day an 18 year old kid stopped us and asked us if we would teach him, he lives in the ghetto and has really bad friends and smokes weed, but he has a desire to quit, he really does. He’s such a solid kid and we felt the spirit with him, and he too committed to come to church, wow what a blessed week. That is how our week went, until Sunday. Remember when Elder Wood and I had such great weeks, only to be followed by extreme disappointment on Sunday. Yesterday was a rough day, we didn’t have one investigator come to church, we had 6 really solid commitments and nobody pulled through. I know that moping about it doesn’t do any good, but this one hurt....a lot, i don’t get it we did all that we could do the Lord had obviously prepared these people to receive the Gospel, it was very discouraging. I hope that they all come to church next week. And i have faith that they will progress, pretty over it now, just concerned and at a loss of explanation but it’s the Lords work, he is doing it not me, he knows what’s best. I love you all!
Elder Hendrix
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