Monday, October 10, 2016
Mom and Dad,
I hope Austin and Emily
get well enough to run soon, that's a bummer that they've had a slow start to
their season. [Dad Note: injuries, shin splints etc]
Your relief society
responsibilities are keeping you busy, I'm glad you're enjoying that, looking
forward to saying hi nto Sister Rutherford again too :)
By the way, how was
Dad's birthday? Which food was eaten, etc.?
To answer some
questions. My days in the office are good. I have a much better idea now of
what my responsibilities are and how to do the various tasks that belong to me.
I think I mentioned already what I'm in charge of. With the orders it reminds
me a bit of Golden Spoon, sorting yogurt and taking inventory. Here however I
sort different languages of the Book of Mormon and other missionary materials.
I had probably 3 missionaries who needed new phones this week and I'm still
working on organizing the driver's license materials so that missionaries can
receive a translation of their American licenses. Exciting stuff in the office!
Not really to exciting, but I enjoy it and it makes missionary work possible
for the other missionaries in many ways. Emily mentioned a few weeks ago in an
email how much she likes organizing things (in the things that she's involved
in at school right now) and I enjoy the same privilege in the office.
Unfortunately we don't
have as much time as we currently want to do typical missionary work, we've
been learning and catching up on projects and tasks that need to be done. We had
ward council this week and the relief society president gave us a list of
people to visit. We're also starting to meet with the R family again (from
Columbia) When I was here last time Elder Taylor and I worked with them. On an
exchange Elder Passey (my district leader) and I taught a man from Argentina,
Spanish and English mixed lesson. His name is Mr A and he is so open to the
spirit, we had such a special lesson together talking about the plan, centered
on the atonement of Jesus Christ. He is working on a German fluency exam, a
masters thesis, has work and other things going on in his life, but still makes
time to meet with us. We all have the same amount of time, life is just about
priorities and what we choose to do with our time. We watched the last session
of conference in church yesterday and I really liked the focus on service
throughout and Elder
Bednar's message about knowing the Savior. Not just
knowing about Jesus Christ, but building a personal relationship to Jesus
Christ. He listed 4 points, faith in him, following him, serving, and believing
Him. All of this takes time and the personal relationship to Jesus Christ needs
to be a conscious priority. I love it :)
Love you all!
Hayden
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