Hey Ya'll!
That phrase is starting to become more comfortable to me... haha but this week was so so much better than last week!! But I want to mention the best part of my week first which was Elder D. Todd Christofferson who came to our mission! We got a huge mission picture with him( which you can probably find on the blog) then we each got to individually shake his hand and tell him where we were from. But not only him we got to shake his wifes hand, Bishop Causse( 2nd councilor in the presiding bishopric), Elder Soares( in the 1st quorm of 70), and Elder Blooth(area of 70 over Birmingham)! It was the coolest thing ever!! Then they all talked to us and i dont have time to write everything that they taught us, but I will tell you my feelings. First is that I probably felt the spirit so strongly then ive ever felt it before when Elder Christofferson got up and talked with us! It was the coolest thing to just feel Gods love through a modern apostle! Next was something that his wife told us. She said that we can only get blessing when we are prepared to receive them. Christ is waiting to give them to us but we have to be prepared to get them. And we can get more blessings than we can imagine! Then Elder Christofferson got up and bore a 2nd witness to what his wife just said! How cool is that?! I thought it was amazing:) Then the last and probably most powerful part was when Elder Christofferson bore his testimony! He said simply and powerfully that he KNOWS Christ lives!! I have no doubt in my mind that he has seen Christ personally as have all the apostles and prophets! The spirit was so incredibly strong when he said that!!
So Elder Chirstofferson coming was so amazing! It was short and I wish it couldve been longer but Im so grateful to have sat at the feet of a living apostle and heard him!! But anyways. So last saturday president Holtzaple said that each of the new missionaries will have a baptism their first transfer and will get to baptize someone. So since then ive been praying to find someone or to let someone feel the need for the gospel in their lives right now. This week we had an absolute miracle! There is a guy named John he is in his 60 or 70's that the missionaries taught before i got here. One day he just called one day and told them the gospel wasnt for him and dropped them. This past week he called out of no where and said Hey how would you like it if i got baptized on the 3rd or the 10th of March?!?! Holy cow!!!! that is such a huge miracle! So we went and taught him the next day and asked him what changed his mind. He said that he felt bad about not coming to church and he said he liked coming to church and socializing with people. Even though his personality is not social and he likes to keep to himself! We told him that he was feeling the spirit and taught him more! Wow I was so excited so ill keep ya updated. Right now it looks like he will probably get baptized on the 10th!:)
Mary the lady i told ya bout last week. We have still been teaching her. We asked her if she had any questions which she was wondering about tithing so we talked to her about that and she said she wanted to pay tithing! So we are slowly but surely working on her! Both mary and john came to church yesterday so that was awesome! Now one last thing is on friday we did splits with the district leader. He and my comp went together and I went with his comp who is Elder Prisbey. We tracted for 2 hours and actually gave 2 blessings and 5 people said they want us to come back!! And one lady asked where our church was so I told her we would come back and show her!
Lots of miricles and blesssing going on! THank you so much for your prayers and know yall are in mine!:) This church is true!
Love yall!
Love Elder Hall:)
Hey one other thing i forgot to tell ya'll!
So if ya have time i want ya to go visit a couple of sites. One is my mormon.org profile! Go onto mormon.org and search jansen hall and read it:) the other one is the mission blog. Go onto google and type in Birmingham Alabama mission blog and it should come up! Look for the pic with our whole mission with elder christofferson! Im in the front left of the pic kneeling down:) Hope everyone gets this email:)
Love ya'll!:)
Love Elder Hall
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