Family,
How is the world’s greatest family? Mom let me answer your questions :) I don’t need any new garments. Now i need everyone to listen to this one...NO CANDY!! I don’t need any sweets, I’m filling out as they say, I look extra plump so i don’t need any sugar to speed up that process. I want you to send me nothing for Christmas, I’ve never had a Christmas without any gifts and i know that i have taught people who have, so give some gifts to someone else that actually needs it. But if anyone wants to send me something, a letter/pictures would be awesome, ill open them all on Christmas morning. Look now it’s easier on everybody, they don’t have to feel obligated to get me anything. It will be a great Christmas, plus that just means i get double presents next year. Though i do not want any presents i could use another journal, i now crazy I actually write in a journal....sometimes.
So this last weekend Sister Gladys Knight was in Atlanta with her Grammy winning SUV (Saints Unified Voices) choir and they put on a series of firesides, 2 a night for 3 nights. It is completely geared toward missionary work. And our mission has got over 1,000 referrals since they started on Friday. We went last night it was really fun, unlike any other LDS choir concert, it was upbeat "Gospel music", and people were shouting amen and clapping. Then Gladys and her Husband bore there testimonies and essentially told there fellow African Americans that they could not afford to not look into this church, they were very strait forward and blunt. But the spirit was really strong, the music was great and she is just a great lady. She pretty much feels like the Lord has given her the gifts that he has so that she can preach the Gospel. Ya know that is truly how we all should feel, it has been interesting to me to find out how vital sharing the gospel is to our salvation, that is pretty much what the D&C tells us over and over and over. But she was a great lady, the fireside definitely made me want to be a better person, and come to know my savior more.
We had a good week. We are teaching 5 young kids and they are so much harder to teach than adults, its testing our abilities, but they are great kids and it is great to see their family do so good, all (but Dad) came to church yesterday. We also got a referral from a guy who had checked out mormon.org and requested a missionary visit. He is a super good guy. He’s 24 and married, played college baseball, and his wife actually did her grad school at Utah State. We met with him at our church and he just wants to love and serve God. I think he is looking for religion that is deeper and more spiritual, and more in line with the New Testament, so we are excited to teach him and his wife we will be seeing them tomorrow. But the work is good and we are trucking along with our little diversified companionship, the other day we were eating at Chili’s and everyone there was staring at us, but why wouldn’t they: A chubby white guy, a short Asian, and a tall Black guy all about 20 yrs. old dressed up in suits on a Saturday afternoon. I love you all, keep up the awesomeness!!
Elder Hendrix
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
November 14, 2011
Family,
365 days I’ll be seeing y'all (I come home Nov 14, 2012). I actually have been thinking a lot about the last year of my mission and how I want it to be so much better than my first. I have really reflected a lot on my mission the past few days. Missions aren’t easy, especially for a over worrying, over analyzing, far from perfect wanna-be perfectionist, non-goal oriented, weak-finisher, complicated minded individual such as myself. Ha ha I have sure had some great experiences and even some great let downs. I definitely feel like I could have done a lot better, but I feel like I’m giving all of my heart, might mind and strength (I probably just don’t have much to give, jk). I have felt a strong desire to make this next year truly excellent, and I have felt the Lords help and guidance in my thoughts that last couple of days. I have learned so much that has been truly a great blessing, I have learned a lot about the gospel and about myself and my character. I have had some great experiences, truly ones I will never forget. I have met some great people, and have made some great friends I’ve seen a lot of success and plenty of seemingly fruitless work. It’s going to be a great 2nd year. I am very glad that I came to the Georgia Atlanta Mission.
We had a great week, we just have so much work to do in Thomaston right now, and it’s great. This is just a fun place to be a missionary. 7 investigators came to church yesterday, and 4 less active members came that we have been working with real hard recently. The other day we knocked on a ladies door that was asking all of the right questions. She was truly confused at why there are so many religions when there should only be one, etc. She was very honest and very sincere about her questions, we don’t know when we are going to see her again but we are excited to teach her! We are working hard and real busy, ya know the trio is workin out pretty well too, so all is well. One of our investigators has a date for Dec 10, we are excited for him he’s a cool guy, his wife is a member.
Well love you all so very much; pray for the people we are teaching this week, you’re the best family ever!!!
365 days I’ll be seeing y'all (I come home Nov 14, 2012). I actually have been thinking a lot about the last year of my mission and how I want it to be so much better than my first. I have really reflected a lot on my mission the past few days. Missions aren’t easy, especially for a over worrying, over analyzing, far from perfect wanna-be perfectionist, non-goal oriented, weak-finisher, complicated minded individual such as myself. Ha ha I have sure had some great experiences and even some great let downs. I definitely feel like I could have done a lot better, but I feel like I’m giving all of my heart, might mind and strength (I probably just don’t have much to give, jk). I have felt a strong desire to make this next year truly excellent, and I have felt the Lords help and guidance in my thoughts that last couple of days. I have learned so much that has been truly a great blessing, I have learned a lot about the gospel and about myself and my character. I have had some great experiences, truly ones I will never forget. I have met some great people, and have made some great friends I’ve seen a lot of success and plenty of seemingly fruitless work. It’s going to be a great 2nd year. I am very glad that I came to the Georgia Atlanta Mission.
We had a great week, we just have so much work to do in Thomaston right now, and it’s great. This is just a fun place to be a missionary. 7 investigators came to church yesterday, and 4 less active members came that we have been working with real hard recently. The other day we knocked on a ladies door that was asking all of the right questions. She was truly confused at why there are so many religions when there should only be one, etc. She was very honest and very sincere about her questions, we don’t know when we are going to see her again but we are excited to teach her! We are working hard and real busy, ya know the trio is workin out pretty well too, so all is well. One of our investigators has a date for Dec 10, we are excited for him he’s a cool guy, his wife is a member.
Well love you all so very much; pray for the people we are teaching this week, you’re the best family ever!!!
Monday, November 7, 2011
November 7, 2011
Family,
We had a great week. We didn’t get to teach a ton with transfers and some other stuff, but we are seeing such great progress with the people in this area. Ya know I don’t know if it is just a mission but, if you are obedient, diligent and have faith, you see so many stinkin little miracles it’s crazy. We are seeing so many people doing such great things, it’s fun to see, it makes me want to see more, I think I’m feeling a little greedy. We are teaching a family, i told you about last week, the K family. The kids came to church this week, they loved it! Mom is going to come but she has a crazy work schedule and she is just going to have to dig down deep, toughen up and come to church. We have been working with another family the entire last transfer, the B family. The grandma and Son have been at church 4 weeks in a row, and we are teaching 4 of her grandkids (that are her sons kids) and they all want to get baptized and come to church. Before we even taught them the kids were doing "bible study" with the gospel principles manual, they are fun to teach. Then we had another brother in the branch, Bro S. He has been less-active for a while and he came to church this week. Then a man we have really come to love, Bro S has come 4 weeks in a row and missionaries have been trying to get him to come for a long time. He’s a great guy, he has some type of mental health issues, he is super OCD, and just lacks a lot of self-confidence, but Elder Morris and I have spent a lot of time with him, and we have grown to love him. He’s really funny, one time we decided to help him clean his house (it’s a wreck). He loves to read, and has like a thousand books, but one of his books looked like it had been through a hurricane, fire, tornado, and his dog but he would not let us throw it away, so we kept that one. But when he isn’t looking we will throw away stuff like newspapers from 10 years ago and Watchtower magazines (it’s a Jehovah witness magazine), if he is looking we can’t throw anything away. He absolutely LOVES Glen Beck, so we brought a cd about his conversion and listened to it with him. So ya things are going well, I’m excited i didn’t even want to have P-day I’m ready to go out and work, but i do like P-day. Oh ya, so I’m still with Elder Morris....and Elder Tran, it’s his last transfer. We are in a trio, trio's kinda stink, they are hard so there is lots to learn. It’s funny, I’m white, Morris is black, and Tran is Chinese (he’s not from china, he’s from New York). It’s funny though, we just need a Hispanic and we got it all covered. We also took on a new area because there used to be two companionship's in the Thomaston branch, but next transfer they will bring in another set. Mom no i didn’t get your talk yet, and yes i would love some more pictures. How are Grandpa and Grandma doing? Will you give them a birthday present from me,….., thanks. Tell Darren to tear it up for me (skiing), Dad should get him a pass to Targhee. You did tell me that Cody and Avery had their baby. Tell the Spence family I said hello, also can you tell me what the Russon family’s address is? What is with this Brice character getting married and I haven’t heard a word from him yet, tell him that he’s not married yet and still needs to take time for me and write me a letter. Mom you are awesome to help Joe like that! That kind of service is sharing the Gospel and if we want to be saved in the Celestial Kingdom, we must share the Gospel. You’re awesome Mom!!! I love all of you, "keep on keepin on"!
Elder Hendrix
Ps: oh ya, wow it’s been a whole year, crazy!
We had a great week. We didn’t get to teach a ton with transfers and some other stuff, but we are seeing such great progress with the people in this area. Ya know I don’t know if it is just a mission but, if you are obedient, diligent and have faith, you see so many stinkin little miracles it’s crazy. We are seeing so many people doing such great things, it’s fun to see, it makes me want to see more, I think I’m feeling a little greedy. We are teaching a family, i told you about last week, the K family. The kids came to church this week, they loved it! Mom is going to come but she has a crazy work schedule and she is just going to have to dig down deep, toughen up and come to church. We have been working with another family the entire last transfer, the B family. The grandma and Son have been at church 4 weeks in a row, and we are teaching 4 of her grandkids (that are her sons kids) and they all want to get baptized and come to church. Before we even taught them the kids were doing "bible study" with the gospel principles manual, they are fun to teach. Then we had another brother in the branch, Bro S. He has been less-active for a while and he came to church this week. Then a man we have really come to love, Bro S has come 4 weeks in a row and missionaries have been trying to get him to come for a long time. He’s a great guy, he has some type of mental health issues, he is super OCD, and just lacks a lot of self-confidence, but Elder Morris and I have spent a lot of time with him, and we have grown to love him. He’s really funny, one time we decided to help him clean his house (it’s a wreck). He loves to read, and has like a thousand books, but one of his books looked like it had been through a hurricane, fire, tornado, and his dog but he would not let us throw it away, so we kept that one. But when he isn’t looking we will throw away stuff like newspapers from 10 years ago and Watchtower magazines (it’s a Jehovah witness magazine), if he is looking we can’t throw anything away. He absolutely LOVES Glen Beck, so we brought a cd about his conversion and listened to it with him. So ya things are going well, I’m excited i didn’t even want to have P-day I’m ready to go out and work, but i do like P-day. Oh ya, so I’m still with Elder Morris....and Elder Tran, it’s his last transfer. We are in a trio, trio's kinda stink, they are hard so there is lots to learn. It’s funny, I’m white, Morris is black, and Tran is Chinese (he’s not from china, he’s from New York). It’s funny though, we just need a Hispanic and we got it all covered. We also took on a new area because there used to be two companionship's in the Thomaston branch, but next transfer they will bring in another set. Mom no i didn’t get your talk yet, and yes i would love some more pictures. How are Grandpa and Grandma doing? Will you give them a birthday present from me,….., thanks. Tell Darren to tear it up for me (skiing), Dad should get him a pass to Targhee. You did tell me that Cody and Avery had their baby. Tell the Spence family I said hello, also can you tell me what the Russon family’s address is? What is with this Brice character getting married and I haven’t heard a word from him yet, tell him that he’s not married yet and still needs to take time for me and write me a letter. Mom you are awesome to help Joe like that! That kind of service is sharing the Gospel and if we want to be saved in the Celestial Kingdom, we must share the Gospel. You’re awesome Mom!!! I love all of you, "keep on keepin on"!
Elder Hendrix
Ps: oh ya, wow it’s been a whole year, crazy!
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