Family,
Hey hey, we are doing good
here in GA. Let me just tell you, the weather here is so so nice, I don’t think
(with the exception of 4 or 5 days) it has got below 50 degrees. We went to a
ward members business party on Saturday and it was an outside party at night
and we were fine in our suits. I’m telling you snow and 0 degrees is overrated,
though I do miss snowboarding. Anyway, I am curious I feel like my e-mails are
not that interesting, what would you all like to hear about. Mom that other
Journal you told me about, send that one too. Thanks.
So we have been pretty busy again.
We have gone on like 5 exchanges in the last 2 weeks, so time has flown by, out
transfer is over next Wednesday, this transfer has gone by faster than any
other on my mission. It has been a tough transfer for me. I have tried to
do so many different things that I haven’t really ever tried before and I'm not
doing a very good job of it. I’m learning, and that is good but it’s like we
have been treading water for the last 4 weeks. We haven’t really found many new
people to teach, and most of the people we have found have not been making any
progress. We just had one guy (the guy from panama), who without a doubt knew
that we were teaching him truth and that he needed to read and pray about the
Book of Mormon, dropped us. There were some family issues going on, we think
his wife didn’t want us to teach him. It is sad because he had been prepared
for sure, but agency is agency and we each have to choose for ourselves. A lot
of our other families that we were working with are kinda falling off. It’s
sad, and just frustrating (that we have to watch people choose to be less
happy). In other words our area has been suffering, in part becuase we need to
go to the Lord and ask him where he wants us to go, and also because we are
really focused on helping missionaries develop skills too. But we are teaching
a family, the Hatch family. Dad is a member; Mom is
an inactive Catholic, and 3 of the sweetest little kiddies.
Anyway, things are going pretty well with Sis Hatch has felt that what we are
teaching is good and she has felt the spirit, but she hasn't been reading the
Book of Mormon very consistently yet. And she needs to so that she can have
that spiritual witness that every member of the church needs, that the Book of
Mormon is true, to remain active forever. Speaking of the Book of Mormon,
it is so stinking true! I was reading it last night and it just teaches
so clearly the doctrine of Christ. I know that a person cannot come to a true
and complete testimony of the Savior until they accept the divinity of the Book
of Mormon. You know something I have learned about on my mission is that the
sacrament is, A TIME FOR REVELATION. So on Sunday I was thinking about how our
work was going and how I didn't feel like I was doing good enough and that I
needed to work harder and how I was weak and how I felt inadequate, and how I
struggle to be an effective missionary because of my weaknesses and sins and I,
I, I, I. It was all about me, and the Lord simple taught me that great
principle "if any man will save his life shall lose it, but he who loses
his life for my sake shall find it". It has been a re-occurring theme
throughout my mission, and it is amazing what change can happen, immediately after
our attitude switches from me, me, me; to selfless service to others. I know
that I am engaged in the work of God the Father; I know the I teach the Only
true way, and happiness and goodness come, only, through the Grace of Christ. I
love you all, thanks for being so awesome!! Yall have no idea how often I think
about my family, and how wonderful you are, and I’m inspired to be a
better person... thank you!
Elder Hendrix
