Hello All!
How's life?! I hope you've all had a wonderful week. It sounds like
you're all doing great, and I'm so grateful to have examples like you in
my life.
Congratulations to my great friend, Sister Avonlea Dalley on
being called to train a new missionary! She's going to do a great job
and make such a difference in the life of that sister.
It's been awesome as usual here in Calgary, Alberta. The leaves are
changing and the temperature is going down, and summer is definitely
ending. I can't believe it's almost winter again! It seems like just
yesterday that things actually became green again. (That's probably just
because I'm in Canada. ;) ) It's been a good week, though, with lots
going on.
Our visit with Elder Packer was really great,
and it was a privilege to learn from one of the Lord's servants and
leaders. He taught us a lot about how we can help the people we teach
and baptize endure beyond that, and I actually want to share a few of my
impressions from that later on.
The people we've been teaching here are doing well, and we were blessed to find some more this week!
Audrey is doing great, and it turns out she's actually staying here in
Calgary for a couple more weeks before returning to the Philippines.
We'll actually be able to get started on the new member lessons with
her, and I'm really hopeful she could make it to the temple to do
baptisms for the dead before she leaves! She's awesome.
Mauricio is also doing really well. He's been to church every week, and
as we've been teaching him since his baptism, I've been really
impressed by how much he knows and understands about the gospel. We
gave him a Tagalog Gospel Principles book this week, so he'll hopefully
be able to get a lot more from that. We're also hoping that he'll
receive the priesthood soon. He's a little hesitant to, just because he
feels he doesn't understand it too well, but I think he's warming up to
the idea.
Jansley is still doing great. We taught him
about tithing on Saturday, and I'm still amazed by his testimony. We
have a lot to learn from children. He's still moving right along to be
baptized on the 11th, and I'm pretty positive it's going to happen.
We had a great lesson with one of our new investigators last night.
His name is Stephen. He's also Filipino, and has only been here in
Canada about a month. His English is pretty good, considering, but it
was still difficult to get certain things across at times. That didn't
really matter, though. The Spirit was definitely there, and he promised
us that he would read from the Book of Mormon. We also taught him how
to pray, and he offered a really sweet, humble prayer at the end of the
lesson.
Another person we started teaching is Katia.
She's Portuguese, and is YSA aged! We've been hoping and praying to
find YSA investigators, and the Lord has answered our prayers. Katia
has a lot of ideas and opinions that definitely witness to me that she's
been prepared to receive the gospel. There are some concerns that will
have to be addressed, but she seems very open right now, and we hope to
see her out to some activities and church soon.
Back to
what I was saying before, I've been thinking quite a bit lately about
who we all are and what the Lord has in store for us. As He says in
Moses 1:39, "For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass
the immortality and eternal life of man." That's what He wants. That's
why He does what He does. Our Heavenly Father wants to give us all
that He has, and He, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost work perfectly
together to bring that about. We have the responsibility to work with
them on that as well, not just for ourselves, but for our brothers and
sisters. Sometimes, it's easy to get overwhelmed by that, and to feel
unworthy. To be honest, we are! We're very imperfect, and we won't be
perfect until our Heavenly Father gives us that gift. I know that with
His help, though, we can all get better every day, and we can help each
other do that too. And, as we endure to the very end, it will all be
worth it. We will be perfect. We just need to endure.
I love you all so much! I hope you have a great week! Be good! Have fun!
Love ya!
Elder Hafen
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