Hello All!
Another transfer has
passed us by, and the Medicine Hat zone has got some great new
missionaries. It's gonna be a great transfer, and I can't wait to see
what the Lord has in store. It's been a fun and busy week with
missionaries leaving, missionaries coming, and everything else going on
in our area. Things are good.
There have been some
miracles and some disappointments as far as finding the people the Lord
has prepared for us this week. I'll let you know right off the bat that
Michelle is no longer interested in meeting with us. Our second lesson
with her fell through, so we called to set up another one, and she let
us know that she had a couple of churches she was looking into joining,
and I guess we weren't on the list. However, in testimony meeting
yesterday, the non-member wife of a returning member got up to bear her
testimony of prayer, and said something like "though I'm not a
member...yet." I really admired her courage in getting up to say what
she said, and we're working with the ward to see if she does have
interest in meeting with us at the moment. We will see! There was also
a young woman in the ward who apparently has a friend we gave a Book of
Mormon to while tracting, and may be interested!
Otherwise, we're working with some awesome less-actives right now. One
couple we've met with a couple of times, Jason and Brenda, seem to be
especially enthusiastic about coming back to church. They haven't made
it yet, for a variety of reasons, but we're hopeful that will change
soon. We also started meeting with an older woman named Eva this week
who was baptized several years ago by a senior couple, but stopped
coming for health and other reasons. Her home teacher invited her to
meet with us a few weeks ago to take the lessons again, and she
accepted! So, we started to do that this week, and it was a really cool
experience to see the Spirit influencing her. It's been a great
blessing to see the Lord soften hearts so that they can receive His
Spirit.
In our bible study class last week, we reviewed
Acts 17 and a scripture I already knew stood out to me a little more.
In chapter 17, Paul is preaching to the Athenians about the nature of
God, and teaches them this: "For in him we live, and move, and have our
being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his
offspring." (v. 28) Something else I've realized as a missionary is how
important our immediate family relationships and experiences are, and
that the family really is the best possibly place to learn things
like love, communication, patience, forgiveness, fun, and lots of other
great things too. No matter what happens in our families, there's
still love, and I wonder what would happen if we all realized more and
more that each and every person on earth really is a son or daughter of God, and therefore, that we all are really brothers
and sisters, one big family. How would that change the way we treat
each other? How quick would we be to forgive? How much heartache and
hate and envy could be avoided? I ask those questions because I'm not
terribly good at seeing my brothers and sisters for who they truly are,
but I hope to get a lot better at it, and I hope to make the people
around me one big happy family.
I hope you all have
a fantastic week! I'm so grateful for your love and emails. It really
means a lot to hear from you all. Be good! Have fun!
Love ya,
Elder Hafen
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