Hey Yall!
This week has been a good week! Probably the hardest time on your mission is every transfer about half way through. At the beginning of the transfer, you are really excited for new and change and things of that sort. At the end of the transfer you are realizing you dont have a lot of time left and try to do anything and everything you can to make it the best transfer, or help the new missionary that will be coming in, or trying to get that last baptism in. Now in the middle, you sometimes find yourself in a rut, or in the routine day to day things, that is Satan trying to stop the great work that you can be accomplishing. I cant say ive been perfect and overcoming the mid transfer blues, but I have realized them, and this transfer they will not happen. The weather has been cold, then its warmed up the last part of the week, yesterday we had a big storm hit here and kinda a cool story: We were driving back home from church, and we hit the dirt road back to our house, we only had a mile to go. Well Butch, the man we stay with, was right behind us, and so I for some reason didnt want him to catch up with us. Now the dirt was more of mud, but I usually just casually drive down this road in no hurry. Since Butch was behind us I was going a little faster. We made it back, but noticed that Butch took a little longer getting back, which is unusual for him, he usually flies down this road. Well when he had gotten back, he told us that he was watching our car, and about 3/4's the way down the road, we had passed a house and right after we passed it, a huge tree branch broke off and fell right where we were. He said that if we had been 5 secs slower, it wouldve fell right on top of our car. We didnt notice anything though. A cool reminder that Heavenly Father is watching out for us as his missionaries:)
This week was kind of unusual, on Wed I got really sick. My head pounded and ached, my stomach was hurting real bad, and my nose would not stop running down my throat. I stayed in bed til about 12:30. Then I got up and got ready. We went out for the day, and we actually were able to see a few different investigators. I prayed that morning that Heavenly Father would help me through the day. And we were able to see and teach, Bobby, Dell, Robert, and Authur! Later that night we went back and I was still feeling really bad, I just had no strength in me, Bro Stockman asked if I wanted a blessing. Now I really wouldnt ever get one with my pride and saying its just a little cold or something, but i accepted. Well the next morning we got up to go to Montgomery for Zone Conference and I felt so much better! I still had a little cough and runny nose, but it was 10x's better then the day before. A couple of lessons, one is that I made it through the day, I knew i needed to get the Lords work done, I wasnt sure how i was gonna do it with no physical strength at all, but the Lord helped me, the power of prayer is real! Second, the power of the Priesthood is restored on the earth today! I and thousands of other worthy men hold it and can perform miracles! I know that I was healed through the priesthood blessing, so i could continue to work and do what the Lord needs of me!
Joe and I at the Alabama River. We had Zone Conference this week and it was great! We mainly talked about overcoming fear with knowledge. Now we do need faith, but as we learn about things and understand them, our fear begins to dissipate. So that was pretty cool:) But other than that, it was a week full of lessons, we are still finding every day. We tract and are gonna go back this week to follow up with people we have found. A little update on Bobby. He actually had a seizure early Sunday morning and wasnt able to come to church, we are pushing his date back to Sunday, so we can get him to church and going to baptize him afterwards :) He is doing really well, he is reading the BOM, praying and cutting back on smoking alot! We also saw Brittany this week and she is going to try to quit drinking coffee and tea. A couple days after we talked about that and we went back and she was drinking hot chocolate, so that was great! We also got to see Josiah again and he will give us a baptism date next time we see him, he has been crazy busy with work! haha but that is the update this transfer, sorry its short.
This week is Thanksgiving, hope yall remember to be grateful IN your circumstances not just FOR your circumstances. The thing we should be most grateful and hopeful for is the atonement of Christ, "...ye shall have hope through the atonement of Christ and the power of his resurrection..." (Moroni 7:41) and remember our purpose in this life.. "...for we have a labor to perform whilst in this tabernacle of clay, that we may conquer the enemy of all righteousness..." Give thanks, be grateful, live gratitude and you will come off conquer this day, year, and life! :) I love yall very much, and hope and pray for your safety! Have a very happy Thanksgiving! Remember to be happy when your stuffing your faces;)
Love Elder Hall
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