Family,
Well we had a great week. I think I told yall about my new companion last week so i won’t go into that except that he is awesome. He is really wise, i think i told you that he turns 25 in September so he is really mature and just knows what he wants and how to get things done. We had a really cool experience this last week, it was our first day together and we weren’t finding anyone at home and nothing was happening, Elder Landsaw suggested that we pray so we did. We ended the day with 5 people who set dates for baptism, and then all of them came to church on Sunday!! We were really excited. We had a great experience with one of our investigators, i won’t get into details... it would suffice to say that the Lord made possible something that to our investigator and US thought was impossible and he is set to be baptized next Monday! As missionaries, especially myself, we worry about all of the challenges that people face to progress towards baptism and there are tons, but the Lord is always preparing a way for those people who are the elect of God. As we were sitting with this investigator and he was telling us how he overcame this challenge i felt so blessed to be an eye witness to the Lord working miracles in someone’s life. My testimony this week was strengthen that this is truly the Lords work, We were taught by Elder Gay that the Lord is preparing people but we have to come unto him and find his way, to find the "Effectual Door" (D&C 112: 19) and then we will be able to bless the Lives of people like Ammon and his brothers. The Gospel is so dang true!! But even better than that, if you can believe that we had literally a once in a lifetime opportunity on Saturday. Elder M. Russell Ballard came to this area along with Elder Gay, who came a couple weeks back. I was able to sit through two meetings as we were taught by one of the 12 apostles of the Lord. (One quick funny story: I was heading to the bathroom before our first meeting and i was walking kind of fast around a corner and I ran into Elder Ballard head on....Kind of cool....but kinda embarrassing too) The First meeting was really small, 14 missionaries and President and Sister Satterfield and Elders Ballard and Gay. WOW I literally sat 6 feet away from an apostle as he taught us for an hour, as I looked at his eyes and listened to his voice i could feel nothing but purity. Pure Love for us the missionaries, and the work of the Lord. It was amazing to see how non-chalaunt (i don’t know how to spell that) he taught such amazing doctrine. Something i will never forget is the person that i saw that day, i felt like he was completely a servant of the Lord! Then we had a two hour meeting with All the Missionaries in our mission all of the Stake presidents, Bishops, and ward mission leaders from our mission and Elder Gay and Elder Ballard Pretty much told us, of the "Georgia Atlanta Council" That we are not doing as good as we should, they told us that there are 100,000 people in our mission area that are being prepared now. It has been cool to see that the work is really progressing in our mission in the last 2 months, and i got the feeling that it is starting now and will continue to explode. There have been prophecies about the church in the south growing to like a million members and it’s just cool to be able to be a part of that, I feel that it is definitely happening. Well the Work is really really going well, thank you so much for your prayers last week, you have no idea how much they really did help me i have a strong testimony of the power of prayer, thanks for strengthening it! Love you All!
Elder Hendrix
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