September 7, 2015
Mom and Dad,
Hi :) Happy Birthday
Mom! It sounds like you did a lot for your birthday, good friends and good
stuff going on with the family too. Thanks for the updates all around. To
answer some questions, my address is
Elder Hayden Blanchard
Karl-Sack- Straße 15,
35398 Gießen
Germany
(remember those funny looking ß can be double ‘s’ (ss) ).
As far as ward council,
ward mission and other things going on in the ward: since I´ve been here I´ve
been to two funerals and one ward council, August is the vacation month in a
lot of Germany so less of the ward is there, but from the people whom I have
met so far I like this ward a lot. We´ve found a few investigators (told you
about a few- with whom we met but no longer are meeting with). And don´t really
have anyone consistent yet, but we´re working on it :) It´s probably better to
send packages to the office and letters to the apartment, except close to the
end of transfers. This is the last week of the week of the transfer, oh my how
it has flown! The bishop made some comments this past Sunday about serving and
supporting immigrants with so many refugees coming in.
Other things going on,
grateful for the ward, grateful for finding people, grateful for my supportive,
fun, honest, sweet companion, for the district that I´m in going on splits, and
for journal writing. In the past couple of busy weeks I´ve gotten behind on my
journal and I recently made some time to catch up (since it´s honestly more
about Making time than Having time, we "find" time for the things
that we really want to do). I´ve seen very clearly once again how so many of my
prayers have been answered, to be able to help and support Elder Domine, to get
to know the area, to have more joy in missionary work, to find people to teach.
At so many levels :) I know that God answers our prayers, he cares about us and
what matters to us, not only that we read our scriptures and get answers to
lifes biggest questions (he most definitely cares a lot about that, put God
first!) but he cares about what matters to us, our day to day happiness, our
relationships, the decisions that aren´t necessarily good or bad but matter to
us (career, hhhmmm, engineer or school teacher?) I´ve really seen that personal
love that Father in Heaven has for me and for each of His children so much.
Have a great week!
I love you!
Hayden
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