I hope you're all doing well and
enjoying your summers! It's crazy to think that I've now been out for
all four of the seasons, and four very different seasons than what I was
used to before. It's been great! It's been a great week up here in
the great Canada Calgary mission. It was transfer week this week, and I
said goodbye to another companion heading home. Elder Asay flew out on
Thursday afternoon, and I said hello to a new companion.
His name is Elder Poulter. Born in Payson, Utah, but raised in
Dallas, Texas. He's been on his mission for six months now, and this
is his first time serving in the big city. He's a really awesome guy!
He plays the banjo, looks like Clark Kent, and we have a lot in common.
Best of all, he was just serving in..........RAYMOND! That's right,
we both have the same first area, and it's been a really fun last few
days hearing about everything that's been going on since I left just
about eight months ago. The time has flown by, and the work is still
going strong. Apparently I'm remembered as Elder Poulter actually knew
who I was and a lot about me. Overall a pretty cool new companion. :)
We've tried to get right back into the work, and it's been great!
We met with Bruce again this week, and had a pretty interesting
lesson. We brought our High Priest Group Leader with us, who knows
Bruce quite well, and he figured out pretty quickly that Bruce was
definitely not at the top of his game. Bruce has some addictions he
struggles with, and compared to the last time we were there, it was
pretty apparent that he was still under the influence of something. It
was actually pretty sad, but we hope we'll be able to show him he
doesn't need to rely on those things.
Drey and Cindy also came to church this week! It was great,
especially since we haven't seen Drey there in a few weeks. The ward,
and especially the young men, have done such a great job fellowshipping
him and making him feel like one of them. We'll hopefully be able to
start seeing his step-dad out soon.
Kinda cool story: I was on exchanges just over a week ago with
one of our zone leaders, and we were service tracting. (Tracting but
offering service.) We knocked on the door of this house that had a kinda
shaggy lawn, and a man named Keith answered. He and his wife and young
daughter just moved here a few weeks ago from Wisconsin, and things had
been pretty crazy, so the lawn hadn't been mowed. He said we could
come back and do that if we wanted to, and we did! He was really
grateful, and he said he was actually pretty interested in learning
more. We'll hope to see him again soon!
I finished reading 2 Nephi this week, and Nephi said something
that I thought was really cool. Concluding his writings in 2 Nephi
33:7-9, he says,"I have charity for my people, and great faith in Christ
that I shall meet many souls spotless at his judgment-seat. I have
charity for the Jew—I say Jew, because I mean them from whence I came.
I also have charity for the Gentiles. But behold, for none of these can
I hope except they shall be reconciled unto Christ, and enter into the
narrow gate, and walk in the strait path which leads to life, and
continue in the path until the end of the day of probation." The gospel
of Jesus Christ is the only thing that can bring what I think we all
want: Happiness. Peace. Joy. Love. Salvation. It doesn't matter who you
are or where you've been. I'm so grateful for the opportunity to share
it with others, and I hope I can help them come to this knowledge.
I love you all so much! Have a wonderful week. Be good! Have fun! (Go USA!)
Love ya!
Elder Hafen
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