Family,
First of all next
week I’ll probably call you around 5 or so your time. I’ll let you know the specifics
in a few days. Um, I forgot to ask president about skyping and such. If we can,
and i think we can I’ll probably do that. Can the whole family be in
on that or just one other computer? Sounds like you are all having a wonderful
life in the good ol' west.
This week was crazy. I don’t
think that I got more than about 5 hours of sleep any night this week. We are
just crazy busy, running around to different meetings and preparing for
meetings. But this week we had a couple exchanges, Both times I was able to go
with some young missionaries and do some real missionary work. It was so much
fun, honestly I had fun tracting and walking around in the hot humid weather.
We did some awesome teaching. One of the guys we talked with, his name was
Victor, he told us he wasn't interested but we kept talking to him. And we were
just talking with him as any person would talk with someone, which is important
as a missionary because it shows that we really care about people, and we cared
about this young man. Anyway as we were talking he told us that he
just had a new baby boy. So we started asking him questions
about being a father and how God has given him this child. He
understood that he had a responsibility to God
for that child, but we felt impressed to ask him if he knew how
he was supposed to do that. He said no, and we testified that we had all
the answers that he would need. We set up a return appointment
and I haven’t followed up on that yet, but it was just so fun to
"invite others to come unto Christ".
This Sunday
Melanie bore her testimony. She mentioned that a big part of her conversion had
to do with the way that she was treated by the members of our singles
ward. She said that she had never seen people so kind and caring and
loving in her whole life. She had been looking for a church that could
help her become a "true follower of Jesus Christ" (Moroni 7:48), and
it was through the example of our members that she was able to see, find and
accept that. President Hinckley (I think it was him) was once
asked why we don't display crosses in our church. His response was to the
effect that the symbol of our Christianity is found in the lives of our
members, and I thought of that as she bore her testimony on Sunday.
She is set to go into the army in October, she has already singed her contract
and been sworn in, But last night she said that she wants to try and get out of
her contract and go to BYU-I. Which we were excited about and had been secretly
wishing for the last couple weeks, but I’m not sure how easily one can get out
of one of those contracts, but I think the Lord will provide a way, I hope so.
I love you all so much, the Gospel is the only true way, and it just makes you
so dang happy!!
Elder Hendrix
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