October 7, 2013

Family!

OH how i love my mission. the people that the lord has put in our paths have gone through so many trials and still are, each day they struggle with knowing whether or not there is a purpose to life. i just want to take there faces look them strait in the eyes and tell them that there is, and for them to believe me, but it takes a lot more than that. This one fellow we just met this week he was put in a orphange at the age of 5. So were his siblings but they eneded up going back to his parents, and he was abandoned. so he has been living by himself since chidhood. He tells me that his grandmother on his dads side taught him about jesus christ, to help the needy and the poor, to give part of your money back to the lords children because he has given us so much, when he tells us of the things he believes i sweel up inside with so much joy because honsetly its basically everything we believe in. we are going to teach him today. but yesterday he came to conference and after i talked to him alone because my companaion was behind me talking to another incvestigator that came. anyways he said he has tried to end his life but says that he thinks the reason he can't pass on is becuase the lord decides when we go, he also expressed that important people or thinigs are taken out of our lives to make us stronger. And i just got excited to share my story. he listened so well as i told himi about my experience with imoirtnat people being taken out of my life when i was younger, but that had to happen in order for me to meet even more important people ones that have changed my life for forever. and even in that amazing part of my life some one very dear and close was taken away from me and that reason i am still trying to figure out perphaps for a reason i will find out in the future, but i also said that i know it doesnt stop important poeple will be taken away from me in the future as well, and if they werent i would not have turned to the lord, if they wernet i would not be the person i am today, if they werent i would not be here today sharing what i know to be true. it contiued to get a lot deeper and always going back to the love our heavenly father has for us. but he just makes me want to teach even more people everyday! i cant wait to see where his life goes. oh and he has a really bad stutter but it doewsnt bother me and yesterday when we were talking he hardly stuttered at all!!! That is all because of the spirit!

canada thanksgiving is next monday so i wont be on next monday but i will be on wednesday. its starts to snow november or december so maybe by then end of this month would be good. the blankets we have are very thin and so is it gets colder in our aprtment during the winter im gonna have to sleep with tights on!! and maybe a few pair of socks.. or just by a heavier balnket, ill cross that bridge when i get there i guess. the enrtire time jeffery r holland was speaking i could not stop thinking of our family, teo things that stuck out are Hope is never lost!, and Broken minds can be healed, when he said that i thougt broken hearts can be healed too. Also i loved when the prophet spoke because he said the more the storm the more the strength, and i can definetly see strength in our family. also i loved this, "Whether its the best of times or the worst of times he is with us." that stuck out so much with me because when i was at school when little carson passed a way i drew away from christ, i wasnt happy i wasnt understanding why any of that had to happen, and i got angry. that went on for maybe a week and a half, but one day during church someone bore their testimony of prayer, so i decided i would ask why, and so i did and i started to read my scriptures again and when i did i could feel the comfort and love through them i knew what i had donw wasnt right i knw that drawing away from him wasnt the answer and the oly way to get the answer to ask him, and although i still dont fully understand i know that what Prophet monson said is true, whether its the best of times or the worst of times He is with us, we are the ones that draw away not him. i like the scripture in 2nephi chapter 7 verse 1 it goes perfectly with all of that. i love all of you very much and keep you all in my prayers! life here is great! its hard but great i dont want to be anywhere else right now. the lord trully knows each and everyone of us, i find comfort in that each day as i go and teach his children.

Love Sister Hadley