Another crazy, jam-packed week in
Lethbridge has come and gone. Before I go on, though, Happy Star Wars Day and May the Fourth be
with you. Watch the Star Wars trailer a couple of times for me, will
ya? Life is good and time is flying. Good things are happening in the
London Road and Vic Park YSA Wards!
The people we're
working with are doing really well as a whole! We met with a lot of our
less actives this week, and had some great lessons with them. One,
Amanda, is a recent convert who is living with her less active
boyfriend. We taught her on Tuesday and took Laksjhit with us, (who
just got engaged, fyi) and taught about eternal marriage and the
importance of it in Heavenly Father's plan. Gotta love YSA wards! ;) We
also got the chance to go out to Taber that day to attend Institute
with the YSAs in that part of our ward. That was pretty awesome, and
there are some strong young adults in southern Alberta. That's for
sure!
We saw Johnny again on Wednesday, and found out he
got a job-yay!- and he's moving-not yay. It's all good, though, he
still wants to be baptized, and we committed him to be baptized in early
June. We'll probably meet with him and his new missionaries this week,
so we're hopeful things will go off without a hitch. We met with
Tanner and Tyler (less actives) and Liz and Lindsey (recent convert and
less active) as well, and things are good there. Liz and Lindsay are
actually planning on going with the ward to the temple this week, which
will be Liz's first time, so that's awesome!
Thursday saw a
lot of lessons, which was pretty great. Ryan is good, though I think
pretty caught up in the things of the world. Jake, who has been
struggling with some depression, actually came to church on Sunday, and
we're hoping to see him at FHE tonight. We also taught Kim, who sadly
lost her job. However, we had a good lesson with her, and this actually
means she can come to church now...which she did! Huzzah! We saw Sam
and Bernie in the evening, and they're awesome as usual. Sadly,
Bernie's brother passed away later in the week, so we're hoping he's
doing alright.
Friday brought a pleasant surprise. We had
a meeting for a lot of the day, and afterwards, some elders in another
one of the YSA wards here in Lethbridge called us and wanted to meet up
to tell us about someone. That someone is named Travis, and he just
moved into London Road Ward. Travis is also getting baptized on
Thursday. So that was pretty awesome! Travis came to church on Sunday,
and then we had a lesson with him, one of our members who he knows from
their college basketball team, and the other elders. It was an awesome
lesson, and Travis is an awesome guy. We'll be meeting with him every
night up to his baptism this week, just to finish up his preparation,
but we're not worried about him at all. I'll have to tell you a little
more about his journey next week.
I've got to get going, but I wanted to share a scripture that I've probably shared before. Moroni 7:33:
"And Christ hath said: If ye will have faith in me ye shall have power to do whatsoever thing is expedient in me."
I want to especially point out the word expedient. I associated this
verse a lot with doing amazing miracles in the service of the Lord
before, but sometimes what is expedient is not exactly what we want to happen. However, we can still do it, and we can still learn what we're meant to as we have faith in the Savior.
Thank you all for your emails and your love! Have a fantastic week. Be good! Have fun!
Love,
Elder Hafen
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