Tired......

Hey Yall!

Wow this week is one that I certainly will never forget! As yall know the start of my week trying to avoid the tornado. Then Tuesday we had to stay inside all day, which was kinda funny because there were kids riding there bikes, our neighbors were mowing there lawn, it was bright and sunny with like 2 clouds in the sky but to be obedient to prez Hanks we stayed inside. Then Wednesday and Thursday we tired to get work done. We saw some of the recent converts in New Albany since I hadnt been in New Albany and worked in a few days. Then Friday rolls around and we had a huge meeting with all the district leaders in the mission in Birmingham. 

I woke up at 4:30 and another district leader dropped his comp off in New Albany and me and Elder Cusick went to pick up some other district leaders. The meeting was so great! I will tell you about it a little later. Then we drove around all of western alabama and finally at 9 oclock at night ended up in Amory Mississippi doing a baptism interview for a lady. She is great and is going to get baptized this weekend. Then I stayed the night in Tupelo with 14 other missionaries, with only the suit on my back as what i owned. Haha. The next day Saturday Elder Black and the other missionary that was with him came up and brought me work clothes. 

All that day we spent in the sun picking up limbs, branches, logs, and anything thing else you want to call a tree and making piles by the street for the city to come pick up. It was great! There is a ton of damage but it couldve been a lot worse. It was cool to see the work force of missionaries from 2 zones helping everywhere! We were all in our helping hands shirts. At the end of the day we were all sun burnt and had scrapped up arms from a good hard days work. We were all really sore. Then that brings us to Sunday. We woke up that morning and went to church in Tupelo, which we just had sacrament meeting, then we went out and for the rest of the day moved, carried, rolled logs and branches and trees. By the end of that day boy were we all super dang tired! haha our muscles hurt, we had sunburns, but we had so much fun! That leads us to yesterday. Thank you to all for the Happy Birthday wishes! I had a great birthday, I was able to spend it with 14 missionaries and we had a ton of fun going to Chilies for lunch and Elvis's birth place, and then hung out at the chruch while some of the Elders emailed:)

A very busy week of service! We didnt get a whole lot done here in New Albany... Well i didnt cuz i only spent 2 days there the past week and a half haha but I have been busy in other areas helping strengthen them and serve them! Some crazy things I did this weekend are eating 8 krystal burgers from Krystal's (for those of you who dont know what Krystals is, its a fast food restaurant and there burgers are tiny haha but they give you bad stomach problems, which I didnt find out til later that night), Saturday night we went to Buffalo Wild Wings and i got a pulled pork sandwhich made with the hottest sauce they had there. It was fun, it kinda hurt but not to bad, got to climb a tree and get on top of a shed and throw limbs off. So all in all it was a very good, busy, tiring week! The pic of the hotel where prez and sister Hanks had stayed the night before!

Now just a little about the training for all the District Leaders. They talked alot about how our area is where ever our missionaries in our districts are. So this week i was working in my area, even though i wasnt in New Albany. They talked alot about how we need to take care of and help every missionary. How we need to be examples to our missionaries. We need to lead in everything we do. It got me super pumped up and I realized how i need to be a better leader and how I can now do that. So i guess my message today is that we can always be improving. In 2 Nephi Chapter 28 it says,

29 Wo be unto him that shall say: We have received the word of God, and we need no more‍ of the word of God, for we have enough! 

30 For behold, thus saith the Lord God: I will give unto the children of men line upon line, precept‍ upon precept, here a little and there a little; and blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn wisdom; for unto him that receiveth‍ I will give more; and from them that shall say, We have enough, from them shall be taken away even that which they have.

Thats obviously talking about the bible and the prophets but we can relate it to everything in our lives. If we stop improving we are gonna have taken that which we have. If you quit doing the right things, satan wins, even if you arent doing wrong things. As we do that and improve we will want to help others and serve. At the beginning of this transfer I kinda had a break down which no one knows about. I was worrying about myself and was just being really self centered about things that have happened out here. I kept telling myself that things werent fair. Well I talked with Prez Hanks and we got things figured out. That next Monday I wrote him and told him my motto for this transfer will be "Forget myself and go to work" Well just like people say, be careful for what you wish for. This transfer has been the busiest transfer of my mission! I have been working with everyone in my district and working here, serving, teaching, interviewing. Ill tell ya what though Its also been one of the happiest transfers in my mission! When we forget ourselves we really find ourselves and are happy!:)

I love yall so much! Hope you have a great week and remember to be happy!

Love Elder Hall

Here is my pic of my b day. I didnt have my camera all day so i got one that night haha thats how tired i am;)