Hello All!
I hope you've all had a
wonderful week, and that you're all being righteous and awesome like I
know you are! Things sound like they're awesome back at home. I want
to congratulate two of my best friends really quick: Rachel Guymon, who
is going to be the best wife ever, and Mason Aldred who is going to
preach the gospel like nobody's business in the England, London mission!
Man, I love you guys.
Things are really starting to pick up here in Ray-town! We
picked up a couple of new investigators this week, and we have some
things coming up that should really build our teaching pool. While our
area is heating up, the weather here in Southern Alberta is really
starting to cool down. We're also getting much more wind. I think the
wind today is supposed to get to something like 100 km/hr. (about 70
mph) Winter's going to be so much fun! ;)
Things are going well with our investigators. We fasted for
Megan, Caelin, and Ethan's dad again yesterday, and we're really praying
and hoping for a miracle there. Megan especially has such a desire to
be baptized, and I hope that she doesn't have to wait four years to do
it. Joe's also progressing well. We taught him about a few of the
commandments this week, and his biggest hang up was on
Tithing....because he said he has no problem with it at all, but that
it's something he wants to give because he wants to give it, not because
he has to. He's amazing. It really gave us an opportunity to
teach how important our willingness to obey the commandments is and
praise him for how well he already does at that. He is having a few
issues with his mom and step-dad at the moment, and they have a lot of
power over him because he's just here as a visitor for now, but that
will hopefully be resolved soon. :)
Our two new investigators are named Shayden and Shareen.
Shayden is about to turn nine, I believe, and his dad, Seamus, is a less-active
member who hasn't been coming to church, we think because fo a Word of
Wisdom issue he has. He's a really sharp kid, though, and we hope he
can be baptized within a couple of months. Shareen is Seamus', girlfriend. ;) She has a lot of questions about
the church, and seems impressed with the members here. She actually has
a really cool story about a run in she had with the church. She was
out in the middle of the night one winter, when a bunch of dogs started
chasing her. She was freaking out a bit, when she saw a light on in the
LDS chapel that was just across the street from her. She ran over to
it, and the door was unlocked! She spent the night there, and the next
morning some members came by and the one who was in charge of locking up
the building commented on how it was so cool that the one night he
forgot to lock it, she needed help. Alma 37:6-7! She does have a
couple of Word of Wisdom issues, but we hope that she'll be able to feel
the Spirit and gain enough of a desire to change that she'll be able
to!
Elder Musselman and I had the opportunity to be part of the 5th
Sunday program in one of our wards this week, as well. It was on
missionary work, surprise surprise, and especially the Work of Salvation
broadcast in June. We watched a couple of video segments from the
website the church set up after that. It's called "Hastening the Work,"
and if you haven't checked it out yet, do. One of the videos was
called "We Are One," and it was all about how we should be one as a
church in missionary work. One of the people in the video made a
comment that stood out to me especially. He basically said that there
are not two different churches. There isn't an ecclesiastical church
and a missionary church. That doesn't make sense! We are all one
church, one body, committed to accomplishing our Heavenly Father's work,
"to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." (Moses
1:39) As we better become one in this work, we will better become one
with Christ, and as we become one with Christ, we become one with our
Father, just as they are one. (Romans 12:5) We are all part of this
work.
I hope you're all having a great week! Be good, have fun! I love you all!
Love,
Elder Hafen
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