Hey Yall
This week has again brought so much rain!! Everyone here, including the old people in there 90's, have said they have never ever seen a summer like this with so much rain! It has literally rained non stop for the past 2 months! Haha we are going to start a branch service project and rebuild Noahs Arch cuz im pretty sure that's whats happening down here! Haha But life has been really good! This week again went by super fast! I swear I was just here writing yall yesterday.
On Tuesday we had another great district meeting. Since we have 3 new missionaries in our district I had to train on how to set up baptismal programs and how to make everything run smoothly. So this district meeting we did fake baptismal interviews and fake baptisms! It was a lot of fun. We went through different situations they you might come across with baptisms and had Elder Hodge baptize the 2 sister missionaries. And we also went through and answered questions about running the baptism program. It was great! This week im excited because we have zone conference! That's great for 2 reasons one is cuz I don't have to plan a district meeting and 2 because I love zone conferences!!!
This is what happens when we see people at night...Haha I'm really not asleep but posing for a sweet pic;)
This week has been kinda weird though. Later this week on Friday the zone leaders came down to do exchanges with us. So that kinda threw off every day before then. Plus to make matters worse everyone we tried to plan to see either didn't open there door or weren't home... I always love when that happens, it makes things really interesting haha But we managed to get through it all:) We were able to mow Dyana's lawn without here knowing. Then she put that on facebook and she was freaking out about who mowed her lawn so we had to go tell her haha but it was good:) This week has kinda just been a normal week though. We were able to go see Jerry. He isn't really progressing and doesn't know what to do with religion. We talked to him about the plan of salvation and prayer and set another baptismal date with him for October.Jenifer we tired to stop by and see a ton of times this week and weren't able to see her. We are probably going to have to set her baptismal date back because its on the 31st of this month and they still aren't married and we still haven't been able to talk with them on it. But yesterday we were able to talk with Brandon again yesterday. So he and a member of the church named Jamie are boyfriend, girlfriend. Well she was pregnant and had her baby this past week! It is so dang cute and I have only seen him once for about 2 minutes. But I wanna go back and be able to hold him. His name is Raylan. But they said I could come back and hold him so im so dang excited about that!:) I will take pics and send them to yall. But anyways back to Brandon. We have just been trying to friendship him and slowly teach him the lessons.Well we talked to him yesterday about setting a goal to be baptized and we set a date with him on Oct 5th! He seemed really excited about it! He even prays for us and his prayers are awesome! So I cant wait to see how he progresses! He is one that we are working with hard right now. And Audrey, we were able to talk with her and she wants to be baptized but doenst know when yet so we are just going to keep teaching her and having bible studies!we were able to talk with her and she wants to be baptized but doenst know when yet so we are just going to keep teaching her and having bible studies!we were able to talk with her and she wants to be baptized but doenst know when yet so we are just going to keep teaching her and having bible studies!He seemed really excited about it! He even prays for us and his prayers are awesome! So I cant wait to see how he progresses! He is one that we are working with hard right now. And Audrey, we were able to talk with her and she wants to be baptized but doenst know when yet so we are just going to keep teaching her and having bible studies!we were able to talk with her and she wants to be baptized but doenst know when yet so we are just going to keep teaching her and having bible studies!we were able to talk with her and she wants to be baptized but doenst know when yet so we are just going to keep teaching her and having bible studies!He seemed really excited about it! He even prays for us and his prayers are awesome! So I cant wait to see how he progresses! He is one that we are working with hard right now. And Audrey, we were able to talk with her and she wants to be baptized but doenst know when yet so we are just going to keep teaching her and having bible studies!we were able to talk with her and she wants to be baptized but doenst know when yet so we are just going to keep teaching her and having bible studies!we were able to talk with her and she wants to be baptized but doenst know when yet so we are just going to keep teaching her and having bible studies!we were able to talk with her and she wants to be baptized but doenst know when yet so we are just going to keep teaching her and having bible studies!we were able to talk with her and she wants to be baptized but doenst know when yet so we are just going to keep teaching her and having bible studies!we were able to talk with her and she wants to be baptized but doenst know when yet so we are just going to keep teaching her and having bible studies!we were able to talk with her and she wants to be baptized but doenst know when yet so we are just going to keep teaching her and having bible studies!we were able to talk with her and she wants to be baptized but doenst know when yet so we are just going to keep teaching her and having bible studies!we were able to talk with her and she wants to be baptized but doenst know when yet so we are just going to keep teaching her and having bible studies!
We are also working a lot with less active members and fixin them back into church! But something this week that we have made a goal to do is to get members in the branch here excited about missionary work. We have been visiting a lot of them this week and talking to them about how they can get involved. We are fixing to go a couple ways with this. One is to get them to strengthen there families. Cuz a lot of families here are either part member or they have a lot of less active family. So we are telling people to start missionary work within there family. The other way we are going with it is setting up a bible study class and a movie/game night. So the bible study class we are fixin to have that every Wednesday night and we are starting this week.This is going to be more for the adults and we are hoping they will invite friends and family that are less active or not members to come as well! Im not sure how the structure of the class is going to go but ill tell yall next week! And the movie/game night we are hoping to get kids and young adults to where we would put on a church movie, or set up softball, volleyball, football game, or play games inside. And that would be for everyone as well. But we probably wont start that til September, because of school starting and football starting, we aren't sure when would be the best time to have that. Im hoping members will get involved with this and it may start really small but hopefully grow little by little. That way we are fulfilling our role as full time missionaries to help members with missionary work.Im excited to start working with the members, it will be a different type of missionary work but good non the less:)
I just want to share a little about Christ. My brother asked me who my best friend was. Well as I was thinking through the people I told him that my best friend was Jesus Christ, and told him that I was his best friend too! Ha but that should be the case for all of us! Not only should Christ be our best friend, but I know that each and every one of us our best friends to Christ. Christ lived a perfect life, not only that but was a perfect example to us. He did things that he wasn't required to do but did them to teach us and show us the way. He was also a perfect example of standing up for what he believed in. He stood alone because and for us! Elder Holland invites us to do this, "May we stand by Christ at all times, in all things and in all places that we may be in, even until death. For surely that is how he stood by us,when it was until death, and when he had to stand entirely and utterly alone." That is what we need to remember that Christ has stood by us for so long! And now we need to stand by him. We need to keep our standers high and never lower them. Stand out and be an example to the rest of this increasingly wicked world. Do and say what Christ would do and say! As we remember that we will become disciples, and we will receive blessings from our efforts.and we will receive blessings from our efforts.and we will receive blessings from our efforts.Do and say what Christ would do and say! As we remember that we will become disciples, and we will receive blessings from our efforts.and we will receive blessings from our efforts.and we will receive blessings from our efforts.Do and say what Christ would do and say! As we remember that we will become disciples, and we will receive blessings from our efforts.and we will receive blessings from our efforts.and we will receive blessings from our efforts.
I love yall so much! I hope that yall have a great week. I have come to know that life is best when we are happy, have fun and work hard! The rest we can leave up to the Lord and he will bless us!
Love Elder Hall:)
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