Hey Yall!
I hope that everyone enjoyed conference as much as I did! Even though I had to dress up in my suit and it was pretty much me and my comp only up at the church I still loved it! Haha this week it has cooled down a little. Im not sure if any of yall heard anything about the tropical storm that was gonna hit the gulf shores, but that was supposed to happen yesterday. We were supposed to get pretty severe weather here, but it wasn't even as bad as a usual rain storm so Heavenly Father protected this part of the country that way. We will probably get transfer calls this Saturday so ill tell yall about that next week. I really hope I can stay at least one more transfer, but we will see where the Lord needs me. Other than that its been a really good week! Hey these pics are for AAlyiah! Haha she is so dang cute and I loved the picture she sent me so I got some for her! Hope there good!
This week has been such a good week full of happy fun and spiritual moments. Ill start off with our FHE and bible study. Now usually we have only been havin around 3 people come each week. Well this week we got 7 adults and 3 children, under the age of 11, up at church for it! It was great! We had another lesson on families, then we played some games. I pulled out Uno, and playin Uno with 9 people takes a while if yall didn't know haha but it got to be an intense game, but we all we havin so much fun! We got done and everyone wanted to play again! So im hopin that everyone can pass the word around to come and have tons of fun with us! And our bible study we had another successful one. I think we had around 8 people up there again.
They are also starting to participate more which is good so that everyone can teach and learn. We are still learning about Christs life while relating everything to the lessons in Preach My Gospel and read from the Book of Mormon too. So now that we have a good set time and game plan we can worry about how we get more people there each week:) So far Heavenly Father has helped us out in so many ways!
Now are where the fun stories begin. This week we were able to go to the cattle sell with a member named Joel, his wife, his LA son and daughter in law Davey and Prissy. I love them all so much! They are so fun to be with and it was so great to be with Davey and Prissy. I haven't been able to be with them to much while ive been here but it was great to get to know them even more then I did. They are great people, just as everyone is down here!
I have sent pics of cattle sale. Man I love it! It was so much fun, and I learned so much about farmin and cows and sailing them. We got to meet some of the men that owned the place and we talked with them. I loved the actioner! Haha at first it was super hard trying to understand what he was saying. Mainly because I had no idea what was goin on anyway. But later in the day I caught on to everything. For anyone that is interested I figured out that the calf's were sailing way high that day. It was there 10 year anniversary, but some calf's that weighed about 280 were sailing for as high as 2.40 a pound. Chick-fil-A would not be happy with this place!
For those that don't know anything about what im talking about then you would've fit in with me for the first hour of the sale hah but that basically means that that little calf would sell for $672. There were some 300 and 400 pound calf's that would sell for around $800-900! Haha that sale changed my whole view on how I look at cows now. I look out into a field and just count up the money it would take to have all of them haha. It was such a great time, I loved every moment of it!! Some of the cows in there pens. This place was huge! And there were thousands of cows and calf's.
On Wednesday and Thursday we did exchanges with the zone leaders. I was with Elder Gale down in Highland Home! It was so much fun those two days! We got a lot accomplished, we "Got more food then ive ever eaten before" says Elder Gale, and we had fun with the whole thing! On Wednesday we spent the day in our service clothes and went around just to offer service to anyone who needed it. Well it didn't turn out quiet the way I expected. Not a lot of people had things for us to do. None the less we were still able to see and talk with people. One being a man named Chris Holt, who has a girlfriend named Sara, who isn't a member. Well we were able to go over there, and see them. Well I wanted to get to know Sara a little more because I haven't been able to talk with her a ton. Well Elder Gale started talkin a lot with Chris, so that gave me an opportunity to talk with Sara one on one. So I was able to learn more about her! She is such a good girl and I really hope we can get her to realize how much this gospel can help her in her life. We were able to talk with both of them and leave a short thought.
Now Chris owns a Subway down in Luverne and Sara is now workin for him. So I asked if we could see them Thursday down there. So we went Thursday for lunch and they gave us free subs! Haha and we were able to talk with both of them so that was so dang sweet! One other thing about our exchange was that Elder Gale used to be in the rodeo and he owns cows back home. He is a huge farmer and cowboy from Ely, Nevada. He did ropin and bronco riding in the rodeo. He had brought a rope out with him that was just a little kids rope. Well him and 2 other missionaries in Montgomery found a store that sold even smaller kids ropes. Well a few weeks ago I had given money to one of the Elders up there to get me one and he did. Then on this exchange Elder Gale brought his rope down. I had him teach me how to rope and then he said I could have his too! Haha so that's my new hobby now! I even was able to rope one of the McGoughs cats the other morning so im getting better!:) haha
Practicing my ropin skills. And this brings us to conference! O what a conference! It seemed like all the talks were a little different this year but they were all so dang amazing! Me and Elder Hodge went up to the church to watch it. The 2 Saturday sessions we were by ourselves and the priesthood session we had a huge total of 3 other men come besides us haha its totally different then back in Utah! But Sunday morning we had John and 2 of his girls come as well as Dyana and Olivia! So that was good to get someone else out to the church! And I keep hearing how all the women that watched the priesthood session felt special. Haha I think that's great! But now getting to the serious stuff haha so I don't know if its just me that picked up on this but I thought the two main themes were missionary work and families. Especially women. But I just wanted to share a couple things I love about the talks. First off I thought that Carole M. Stephens laid down the hammer when she talked about families and then at the end of her talk asked questions about the sons of God and daughters of God. "Sons, do you know who you are and what you have? Are you worthy to exercise and receive power and blessings of the priesthood?
Other than that everything else is pretty much the same. We are just trying to do everything we can this next week since its the last week before transfers. I was able to give 2 more baptismal interviews for a couple of investigators in Greenville. They will be baptized this Saturday. I always love doin those because you can see how much people love the gospel. I hope that yall have a great week. Remember who yall are. Remember what you have. Remember where your trying to get and who you want with you when you get there! I love yall so much! And always remember to be Happy! Sometimes its hard but its always worth it!
Love Elder Hall:)
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