07-01-14

You think that elder Judkins is STILL going to be in cottonwood when I get home?!! Ha-ha.  Mom... slows down the watch :) Hashanah.  I’ve still got FIVE WHOLE MONTHS! ;)  You make me laugh so hard. :)  Ha-ha Man I miss you. :)

I am glad things are going well back home. :) Ha-ha. I have been working like crazy this week. :)  Lots of stuff that needed planning and seemed like it was all planed by me. :)  But all ended well, except for a mini Hic-up yesterday when the hermanas from La Paloma came to our church building to have a baptism.  They got here and we had the interview and her family showed up and the hermanas were so excited because they haven’t had a baptism in over 5 months... and then the father touches the cold water in the font and calls the baptism off.  I totally understood the father’s position, the water was absolutely freezing, but the hermanas were so frantic and despite to have a baptism this month that they were ready to FIGHT! Ha-ha.  I love their desires to serve the Lord, but it ended up with a heated conversation that had to be interrupted by me, trying to solve both problems, getting a worried father to accept the plan of moving the baptism to the next week while at the same time calming down the Hermana so that she could feel at peace about the decision. Ha-ha. :)  All ended well and the father accepted the new baptismal date for next week, in the mean time we will be buying new gas tanks for the hot water heater. :)  Ha-ha.  funny how experiences like that have now become second nature to me, it is now "Normal" and lots of times, I forget to write about stuff like that on P-day.  The missionary life is now the Logan life and I love it. :)  It is now normal to have spiritual highs everyday, with investigators breaking through hard tasks or missionaries in my district meeting a goal that seems impossible to start with. Ha-ha.  Sorry if I don’t mention those things in my email... ill have to work on that. :)

For example.  Today is pay and when we went to the cyber to do Email, I almost never begin writing emails right off the bat, today I was preparing some spiritual messages for the district and putting together the zone newsletter.  I also wrote up a Dialog of a Prayer between a young boy and God.  Trying to get the focus on LISTENING when we pray, it turned out really well, I had part of it clipped out of an old magazine or something, and just edited it and changed it to make it interesting and funny.  Trying to get my point across.  :)  Ill send it to you but you have to translate it... maybe one of the elders that speaks Spanish can read it for you. :)

Things are going well in the companionship, elder Brown and I are finding our grove and he is learning a TON.  Both President and I are amazed at the progress he has made thus far in the change.  He went from a very shy elder that really didn’t know how to share his testimony to an elder that can take a difficult teaching situation and teach a POWERFUL and testimony built lesson. :)  It has been amazing to watch his progress. :)

I love this work and I am so thankful for the opportunity I have to work in it. :)  There is nothing better than seeing a son or daughter of God repent and see a change in their own life! Alma 29:9

I love you all,

Elder Reay