Dear Family,
Good to hear about my family and how everything is going
well! I am writing Casin (Mom’s note: His cousin.) today so I will send it
today to his parents because I don’t have his address or anything. I have not
gotten your package yet. I did go to the mission home a couple of times but
never got around to checking for the package! No one told me either about my
package being here so I don’t know hopefully I see it sometime this week. Glad
to hear that Ryan got the letter. I wrote Erik also last week so he should have
gotten my letter, if he checks his mail haha. Also I think so about the high
school, I am not quite sure which BLVD but yeah our church is right next to the
high school on Treat BLVD.
So about district meeting this week; It went better than I
thought it would. Actually what happened is we talked to some of the
missionaries in our district on Monday and they told me that some of the
members are annoyed by us and we are losing our trust with them. That really
got to me and so Tuesday we all met together as a district to work some things
out. We talked for a while and figured out what has been happening and found
solutions! It was really good because I really want this district to be unified
and so I told them I loved them and that we must work together to grow this
branch. So I was happy and we felt a lot better together. We also had
interviews with the Mission president. I told him everything that I was doing
with the district and also our branch and he was very impressed and said for me
to keep working. It was cool he was excited for us. On Thursday we had our
district meeting and I did a training on "Raising the Vision" of the
leaders. I read about Captain Moroni in Alma 46 about how his armies were a
little discouraged because of the situation but that Moroni stood up, raised
the standard of liberty and his armies , "came running together." I
explained that like Moroni and like us, we need to raise the vision of the
leaders of the branch. Then the leaders can raise the vision of the members. We
then practiced doing this "raising the vision" for our correlation
meeting on Sunday. The Zone leaders were there also and gave us some good advice
and it went really well! After district meeting we practiced our class that we
were going to teach on Sunday to raise the faith of the members.
Yesterday at church we talked to the bishop about him having
the power to raise the vision of the members. We invited him to raise their
vision and also to remind them of our goal as a branch of 17 baptisms this
year. He was excited and so when we had the class he talked about that and got
the members excited. Two of the missionaries in our district taught the
restoration and then shared short ways of sharing the gospel. We had talked to
a member earlier who is a little less active but shares the gospel with
everyone to share his testimony and his experiences with sharing the gospel. He
was so nervous but he explained about his experience of overcoming drinking and
how he shares his experience with everyone. It was so powerful and I was so
happy for him. We are working with him to get him prepared to bless the sacrament
in a few weeks. He is so excited!!!
We are excited for conference this week. That is golden for
us. Investigator with a prophet present haha.
Investigators: The old lady grandma that we are teaching is
doing well but we are not sure where we will be going with her. We have taught
here almost 5 times and still barely on the plan of salvation. She is so old
and doesn't understand a whole lot and its hard. We didn't feel comfortable with
inviting her to be baptized. Her daughter-in-law is a member and we told her
that and she told us that we were crazy and that she is ready. We don’t know
where we will go because we can’t keep teaching her if she doesn't even
understand us. We will see. Pray for her that she will understand:)
She is the only investigator that we have right now. Our
district as a whole though has almost 7 baptismal dates. That is so awesome! I
love my district and they are such good missionaries. I am learning a lot from them
and pushing forward. Our area is so tough no-body wants to listen to us at all.
We are going to be working in different areas this week and more with members
for referrals. We will see what happens. The Lord is in charge of the work
here.
I love everyone. Not much other than that happened.
My heart oh yeah. I sent my report the first time and when I
got a call from Dr. chamberlain. I was freaking out. When he told me that the
report didn’t look good and that there were some blips on it and I did not feel
good. I then sent in another report that Friday. It took 30 minutes to send
that one in. It wouldn't send it and that wasn’t helping. I felt really bad for
making Elder Peel help me with that. Tell him thank you if you can. Everything
is good though. I have been having dreams about having to go home because of a
heart surgery or something so it’s weird and a little shaky but I have felt
peaceful. I am doing well eating peanut butter and honey sandwiches and
drinking a lot. Don’t worry I am doing well. thanks for everything family!.
Thanks for sharing with me mom your experience. You haven’t failed with her.
The thing that matters is that you two love each other. If you do then all is
well. The Lord loves you and knows you personally like you realized. Don’t
forget that. Not one of us is perfect. It’s interesting that you felt that way
this week because I have too. It’s been a tough week with everything going on
and our area is not doing very well. I feel like a bad missionary, but I am
trying just like you are. Just love her and make sure she knows that.
Tell Mckenzie that I love her and that the Lord loves her
also. I wrote to Maylin. Thanks family:) You make me happy and I hope I get
that package soon.
My Spanish has been so good this week. I dont even think
anymore and I just talk to people. I can understand so well and I am more free
in the language. It clicked really good this last week!
Love Elder Hill
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