Monday, February 27, 2012

February 27, 2012


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

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