Nov 24, 2014

Dear Family,

This week felt like a month, but it was good!!! we are also getting ready for another good week. we have exchanges tonight so tomorrow i will  be with sister wan lass and then we will drive into the city tomorrow night for our zone conference on Wednesday and meet my companion and her companion there, then Saturday we have this big relief society activity that we are gonna try to get Sharon to go to.. we'll see.

Jim was confirmed on Sunday.. his wife, sister leavens, wasn't feeling well at all so they did the confirmation in their home so she could be there, it was incredible first they administered the sacrament to her, then the confirmation. with the way she looked Sunday everyone is unsure of how long she has, but we are all praying for incredibly hard. My heart goes out to that family, boy have they been through alot!

well we are still hoping that Sharon and earl will connect the dots as they read the scriptures, we saw them last night and watched the 20 minute restoration video after explaining prophets the second time through, and she said its true but its like something is missing when she says that.. like maybe shes saying it to be said.. i dont know we'll see this week! 

i don't know what else to say because my brain is this muddled mess of memory.. need to get that fixed before i get older.. should be another great week though!!

i love you all so very much, oh and happy thanksgiving to all you americans!

Love Sister Hadley

this blanket is from the harringtons

 

 

Nov 10, 2014

Dear Family,

it has been a week of miracles, and how many more will be coming i am not sure but how grateful i am to have witnessed the few already. near the beginning of the week i had this distinct impression to go check on Shirley and earl (an older couple we had raked leaves for the weekend before, we met them because someone referred them to us) but i ignored it because we had too much to do, and faintly later that day i felt like i should call them but i forgot. then as we were heading to do some dropping by people i felt it again, and i told my companion we needed to go see them either later today or now, then i rethought that through and said no we need to go see them now, so we turned the car around and headed towards their house. there was a  different car parked in the drive way (not their car)  and we had a few urgent things to take care of so we did so, as we finished them the car left and we headed towards the house. the phone started to ring in my pocket, and normally i would just let it ring until after we leave someones house but i felt impressed to pick it up so i stopped where i was standing which was halfway up their drive way and i looked at the number, and it wasn't programmed in but i had remembered the number just by the number themselves and it was Shirley, she was calling us! i answered and right away she said, i am sorry to be calling you again! but i really need your help raking up our leaves, earl and i just cant seem to do it, and my immediate response was we are already here, so we walked up the rest of the drive way and raked her leaves. it was in the moment of checking the phone number to see who was calling that to me it felt like heavenly father was saying you are in the right spot at the right time. that sometimes our planned activities may need to change, but first we have to be able to listen to the spirit, other wise it doesn't work and we don't do the will of the father. 

second miracle--- Monday we started teaching another incredible couple that came from a referral, their names are Sharon and earl. we taught them the restoration and Sharon had questions and as soon a those questions came out more did and a few of them were from negative resources such as gossip of friends of the beliefs that we apparently have that are not true at all or have been twisted. However she and her husband listened as we explained that it is through prayer they can receive a confirmation of what we have taught and is true. They let us come back! and yesterday we taught them again but this time the gospel of Jesus Christ, it was such a good lesson, it seemed as it dot were connecting in their brains, we found out that Sharon is related to an investigator that is getting baptized this Sunday (another miracle i will you all about)and so we invited them to come to the baptism, and they said they would see how they are feeling, Sharon has open heart surgery today (please pray for her that all will go well) and so they may not be up to it, but they didn't say no! and both times we went to teach we had incredible fellow shippers, one of them was a friend from a few years ago and had lost a bit of contact with each other, it was incredible to sit there and to hear her testify of the gospel to her friends.  so more good news to come in the future, ..... they might have already bought tickets to come to Washington in the spring.. or they were talking about it. they are such incredible people!!

third miracle JIM leavens is getting baptized!!! So.. Jim is the husband of our relief society president (who has cancer and has been fighting for a couple years now, she goes for chemo on wednesday, please keep her in your thoughts and paraders as well). this couple is the most loving couple i have ever known, they have taken in her sons kids because he couldn't take care of them so they are about 70 years old each and have 3 teenage kids, they are incredibly strong in that house. anyways... jim has been taught by missionaries for years ever since he met and married sister leavens which was quite awhile ago. but he has refused to be baptized for many reasons. when we first got here he had just finished a baptism interview because the sisters before us had prepared him to do so. well we asked him about it and he didn't want us to teach him , and he didnt want to be baptized even though he goes to Church every Sunday, and get the church news every day, and is a family history consultant, AND shares his testimony in church, so his "nos"  didn't stop us from going over and sharing spiritual thoughts and engaging in doctrinal conversations. this Tuesday we said that's it, this man needs to be baptized so he can go to the temple with his wife before something happens to them. so we went over and boldly but lovingly asked him to let us teach him so he could prepare for baptism and briefly reminded him of the blessings of the temple, but he declined, and we walked away very distressed, actually my companion was in tears and i had felt as if my heart had been ripped out of my chest, we were beaten we didn't know what to do well we did but we didn't know how to do it. so we as we paryed we included jim in our prayers, pleading to know what to do. Well we had asked jm to help us with family history work for a recent convert and his recent convert brother, and he gave us a call on thursday and said to pick it up, then he started to say something but said never mind we'll talk about it when you get over here. i hung up the phone and exclaimed he wants to be baptized (i felt like i was in the best two years where the elder is just waiting for the phone to ring and then starts singing "hallelujah".. even though its not the same thing it felt that way. my companion and i got really giddy we tried not to get our hopes up but just kept feeling like that was what he was going to say.. so we went over when we had arranged to and were very calm as we did so, and then after he explained the family history stuff he said i have decided to be baptized! and he explained why and the whole time i felt like singing and jumping up and down, i am so happy for those two, they truly deserved the blessings of the temple in this life and in the next and now they are going to get them. we have gone over to teach him the few things that were missed or not recorded that may have been taught.  and he will be baptized next week at 7 o'clock on Sunday! the blessings of God are so Great!

we have met with and taught many other great people but i have written a very long letter so i will let that be. i love you all and constantly keep every single one of you in my prayers, how grateful i am for the blessings of temple and the truth that we have. 

Love sister Hadley

ps transfer call are this next Sunday

Nov 2, 2014

Dear Family,

This week we found a couple people who like to test the waters but wont jump in on account of full faith. so we are working with them they are pretty incredible people.

 One of them we just taught yesterday and he laughed at us because we want to come back and teach him but he let us in anyways though he had met with missionaries in the past, when he opend the door he said so your here to debate?! well come in then, and before we entered we tried to assure him that we were not there to do anything of the sort. however we sat with him, i think because he had such an experience in the past he was guarded and you cold feel the spirit of contention there a little bit, it wasn't super strong we tried very hard to not feed it but he was very defensive. we shared with him many truths from the scriptures and tried to teach an organized lesson but didnt get the chance so we set the scene up so that next time we go over which will be Friday (yay!) to teach the paln of salvation. 

       While we were there in that lesson we talked about god and who he is. his questions were along the lines of is there only one god? are there more? and is god masculine or god feminine? and when we become gods do we become higher than him or what? and so i pulled out my handy dandy scriptures and opened to Genesis where in many parts it says the LORD God, knowing that LORD refers to Jesus Christ, so Christ is a God but we also have our heavenly father who is a god and is Christ father as well.. and i dint get to explain it very well becuase he interjected and said Christ couldn't be that god in the old testament because that God is vengeful and the god in the new testament is loving and caring there is no way they can be the same person. and it hit, immediately the spirit taught me that Christ was not exempt from this plan of our heavenly father that he too had a time when he needed to come down that yes in  the old testament he is vengeful at times but he hadn't gone through mortality to completely understand and that is why in the new testament he seems more loving and more caring, he just like us is learning coming to understand, and on top of it we know he had a special calling because not only did he experience his own life but he suffered for everyone's sins, imagine the understanding he had afterwards and now when we call upon him we can do so with assurance that he knows perfectly our circumstance. i thought it was incredible of course i didn't share that with him because it didn't feel appropriate but it was just so ... well i don't have words for it but my chest almost burst from the desire to be taught and understand more!! it just was a proving point that these lessons we have are not only for the investigator but we also learn. i loved it!! that was one of my highlights for the week!!

lots of finding yet to do still many poeple to help. we are working with lots of less actives too. and its incredible this young man i mentioned last week, he didnt come to church but we taught him again and he didnt even know the law of chastity was a commandment!! so it is definitely a blessing we can help him see and understand what god expects of us, beucase he does want to do good he just doesnt know what good entails of really, so its exciting!!

i Love you all!!

SIster Hadley

ps i had exchanges this week, heres a picture.. our apartment was being fixed this week so we didnt get to shower for two days so i just put my hair in a hat the second day becuase it was all greasy... that explains the hat-do

Oct 27, 2014

Dear Family,

It was a great week, we did lots of tracting to find people because that's all about we can do here. But its fun, probably one of the highlights of the week is when we go out and tract, and we don't do it for hours on end.. well sometimes but mostly just here and there a little. another highlight of the week was our skills and interviews this Friday followed up by district conference Saturday night and Sunday morning, we fortunately got to be around our mission president adn his wife for three days, that's not normal for us!! especially since we are way out in the boondocks! but it happened and it was great, boy is that man and his wife inspired from God! There are so many changes being made in our work, or in the process of being made  its really going to turn the work around and help us out. The big focus is on less active work, which i am so excited for!! we are working right now with a young man who has gone less active and yesterday we committed him to come to church and allow us to come over every week to help him prepare to pass the sacrament again, he said yes he would like that, and it was just as exciting if someone had agreed to be baptized,honestly in some ways even better!!

District conference was incredible!! to hear the testimony's of so many people, was my favorite part i love testimony's because you can see where people match in similarities and where people differ and how God makes up those differences, how leads them and guides them. there were a couple quotes that i loved that i want to share.

"Introductions break barriers" -- reach out to those that we do not know that come into our chapel, help them feel at home

"Words touch the mind , but feelings touch the heart"-- again let the investigators feel our love for them, and if you dont have love for them be a conduit for heavenly father so they can feel his love for them (however im sure many people are very friendly with most investigators) let them feel at home 

"the lord will provide a way to help those that cant help themselves" -- this was one of my answers to how i can help investigators make commitments 

"The spirit is alive"-- The spirit is not and IT he is a He because he truly is alive i have never felt so guarded of this before, but knowing who he is, he deserves the respect of being referred to as alive, im sure that wasn't the purpose of why they said that but that is how it stuck out to me.

anyways as you can see it was a good week end! PLUS i got to see everyone from belleville, oh yeah!! that was so awesome, i think i gave about 100 people hugs in about and hour if you were to combine the amount of time we lingered after both conferences. record time? probably not.. i might be able to beat it next time. lots of good people to converse with. 

This week will be interesting we have a few appointments set up with some potentials and visiting teaching with some less actives so we got to get them on the keep commitments train!! Congratulations Michelle and Nate on the new arrival, im sure hes just as precious as the other two! i cant wait to meet him!! 

Happy Early Birthday Spencer!! considering i cant say it on the day of.. 

I love you all!!

Love Sister Hadley

the one is a picture of the sister in my district that slept over so they wouldn't have to travel very far, they are the sister that are actually in belleville now

and the other was a test shot to see if i wanted us to stand there

 

Oct 20, 2014

Dear Family,

My week was great, there were a few times this week that I felt way to passionate about the gospel... if thats even possible... but each time surprised me and almost brought me to tears why did i not know these things before? And how grateful I am to know them now. For example Saturday we visited some members in the branch that have been in the church for almost a year now, it is a mother and her son. the mother said she had been having some terrible pains and blood in her urine, our first reactions were or better the first words out of my mouth were why haven't you gone to the hospital? And have you received a priesthood blessing? Both very important resources to rely on when your body starts to malfunction. There were reasons as to why she didn’t go to the hospital but it seemed as if she didn’t know she could call on a someone to give her a blessing, and if so she wasn't a hundred percent comfortable or sure of how to do it. so we put on our paper, that goes into the priesthood meeting every Sunday morning, please talk to sister so and so today and offer a priesthood blessing due to physical illness... no one had told us if that was done or not. Then yesterday we called this sister to see if she would go teaching and it was about 8 at night and her son informed us that his mom wasn't feeling well to go out and teach because she was having very bad pains in her side, she couldn’t get off the couch, and through some communication difficulties we were eventually given permission to arrange someone to give her a blessing. so we called a priesthood holder, and inside me I felt like he just didn't understand the urgency of the request I could feel this odd feeling building up inside me one that was supportive and it was a familiar feeling that I had felt before after teaching about Christ so I knew it was a good odd feeling but it made me feel like I was coming off crazy or something and so I even questioned myself, am I acting to rash? To quick? To dramatic? but I pushed it further with the priesthood holder and cut right through his reasons as to why she could wait or why she hasn’t needed to receive one yet, and through that persistence he and another priesthood holder went over as soon as they could and gave her a blessing immediately after he called and said she will be going to the hospital tomorrow, and thank you for letting us know about her, she needed that blessing. The thought in my head was she wouldn’t have gone to the hospital if she hadn’t received a blessing and she wouldn't have received a blessing if you hadn't persisted and you wouldn’t have persisted if you hadn’t known the power of the priesthood. And how grateful I am to know of that power, that it is made available to us and many other resources of truth given to us by our father in heaven. 

The Priesthood IS real!

this week did lots of finding and we foudn a lot of people that are interested. the people that we are teaching right now are doing quite well, they just need to decide for themselves if what we share is true, so that they can move forward, but they wont pray.. SO.. we will continue to invite them to pray and explain why they would need to and do all we can to help them. BUT if soon they arent willing to do much we may have to start focusin on some other people as hard as it would be .

we have district conference this coming saturday and sunday which is the equivalant to your stake conference, and i am excited! for multiple reasons one of them being i will get to see people from belleville. 

we also this wednesday hvae skills and interviews, so in other words, interview with the mission president!

well i love you all and enjoyed hearing about all the accomplishments of everyone. i am very sad that i will not get to come home and see bouncer, can you send me a picture of him mom before he passes? 

Love Yous!

Sister Hadley
 

Oct 14, 2014

Dear Family,

We had thanksgiving yesterday it was an interesting dinner at a recent convert/part member home but we were very grateful for their love and friendship. we forgot to get a picture with them so we will have to send one another time. The night before we also had a thanksgiving dinner with another member of the church her husband, her son and his wife and his son and daughter and ex-wife, also an interesting meal, but once again we were grateful to them for allowing us to be a part of their holiday celebration. yesterday for thanksgiving we did lots of finding, and it was super fun. it wasn't much different than what we did last year, some street contacting and door knocking but maybe it was just the year difference the time i've had to grow accustomed to those activities, i actually enjoyed it! 

Saturday we also had a really great day where a member was with us almost every hour of the day taking pictures of what we were doing on putting them on the internet (due to The Book of Mormon play being shown in toronto) so we did normal activites but had members with us the whole day to show the world what we do!

we sang in sacrament meeting for thanksgiving and everyone enjoyed it, including myself i love to sing! 

Citlali congratulations!! i am so excited for you, you will absolutely love it out there, but you probably already know that, enjoy the next year and a half with the people of Chicago!!! 

here are some pictures form the week, oh yeah we went fishing last monday it was fun, i caught two fish a pike and a smaller fish, sister christenson caught a pike.

ps rob and vivian the ones who helped me with my stomach issues in belleville came and took us out to luinch it was anice surprise, and we made squash soup this week mine in on the left. 

Oct 6, 2014

Dear Family,

This week was incredible we got into the homes of many including investigators, new people to teach, and the homes of those who have chosen to forsake their covenants with God. My heart yearns for these people so very much, often times i feel myself reflecting on the words of the Book of Mormon prophets who have much grief for their brethren because their hearts are hard or they have forgotten their God for a time or that they just have not opened their eyes to truth. Conference was incredible it helped me see alot of what i need to do to help these people and after i have done all that i can thats when i should truly be sad becuase i can do so much more. And so after this conference i have made a promise with myself and to God to work as hard as i possibly can, harder than i am at this moment to be a mouth piece for the lord, to get out of the way, to let him use me as much as is possible for the next 6 months so they can truly come to know their Heavenly Father and his son our Savior Jesus Christ. Almost every single person testified either about our Father in Heaven or Jesus Christ or both of them, i took note of every one of them and if they didn't testify of them they testified of our prophet who is Gods mouthpiece for the world today so in that round about way testifying that god does exist and that he lives. I want each and every person to know this i cant believe the amount of people that do not, it seems so hard to believe but there are so many people who are unaware or if they are choose to walk another way, we cant let them do that!! i am going to try even harder i promise! .. Other than an insane love for the work being intensified in my heart the work continues to move on and we definitely have our work cut out for us.

I love all of you so incredibly much, here are a few pictures from the week.

Love Sister HAdley

ps i am staying in napanee with sister christenson!!

 

Sept 29, 2014

Dear Family,

This week was incredibly long/short feeling and super jammed packed!! i had so many good experiences i dont even know where to start!!

Monday we taught this guy named Glenn, we met him on the street the first couple of week we got here, it was such a hard lesson because he talks incredibly much and its not necessarily about the gospel so we had to keep him SO focused it was like moving through molasses.. no joke. But he allowed us to come back on Saturday and so we did and this time was a bit different he accepted a baptismal date and basically said it would be ridiculous to not be baptized by someone holding the authority of god when the ones who previously baptized him are sitting in jail, "shows there real authority" he is super funny!! but sometimes i question if he is telling the truth, my companion thinks otherwise so until he proves us differently i will trust in her judgement! he has a few things to overcome but nothing that atonement doesn't cover!

Tuesday we helped a less active/part member family pack to move back into napanee (they were in a surrounding area) and we taught Nate and Sharon, who are doing amazing!! Sharon went to the woman's broadcast which she loved!! and they both came to church this Sunday. they are definitely on their way to making a covenant with God, i am so excited for them just want to shout it from the mountain tops   which is weird because we don't have mountains here.. hills? not much of those either...housetops?! that''ll do!

Wednesday i had exchanges, that was miraculous i don know if you remember much of Melanie and Chris who i taught in Belleville who ended up moving right before i moved, well just so happens where they moved is where i had exchanges... so i got to go and teach her with sister wanlass (my exchange comp) it was amazing to get to see her nad hear what has been keeping her from church and her desire to go back, if was incredible to sit there and to hear her speak of the strength she was gaining from god to keep her going to church even though other and situations wouldn't have her be there. there were a few more experiences on my exchange that just made it a sacred exchange. i will share one. 

As we finished having dinner with this incredible family we knew we had to start heading for napanee or we wold be late to home, but we hadn't contacted anyone on the street all day we had been in appointment after appointment, so we followed the spirit and went to search for someone to talk to, to our surprise there was a man sorting his recycling as we talked to him he could see in our faces the faith we had to talk to everyone we meet to share the gospel, about 7 times he said i want what you have, i want your fatih. we told him of course that we couldn't have it, but that we had a message that could help him develop his own faith and one day it can be just as strong if not stronger, i don't know what happened to him after i left that day but i hope good things because he was definitely prepared by God!

and this experience just left a feeling in my heart i thought my chest was going to burst becuase of how happy i was, i was so filled with the spirit from that day, it was beyond expression but saturday during the broadcast something that sister marriott said reminded me of this if you want to give a light to others you must glow yourselves.

we found some other investigators and the week finished storng that we even hit our standards given to us by our mission president, this wekk will match it!!

i love you all!!! 

p.s i would be happy to help with lambing in the spring.

he horse is from last week email, the flowers and watrer fountain are from a lucnh we packed and had in belleville becuase we couldnt go home, and other picutres

Love SISter HAdley

Sept 22, 2014

Dear Fam-Bam!!

Holy Toledo!! we had another kid! congrats to Cherise and Richard!! send pictures asap! And theres another one coming that will be so exciting! i cant believe how much time has gone by. This Wednesday marks my one year mark out on the mission! Everyone was right time does just whiz on by, and continues to go by faster and faster! i hardly know anyone that i am serving with in this mission, the ones  i knew have all left so it looks like it is time for me to make more friends!

This week was great!!

Monday we did nothing for preparation which is probably what we will be doing today..

Tuesday we had a zone conference and it was so good!! our mission president is amazing he and his wife are so inspired from God, you simply can not argue a single thing they say.

Wednesday-thursday we found a new investigator. We went to dop by some we had met before and unfortunately she wasnt home, so we turned around and there was a lady putting out her garbage and we asked her if she knew where this woman was she said no but you could try looking around the back so we walked back and nothing, so we said oh well, and went to go talk to this lady standing by her trash, and we taught her the first vision right then and there! she loved it and told us her son was very much into our religion and when we come back she will be excited to have him there too! it was great. So we left with smiles on our faces, and a better hope for the area. friday we received instruction from Elder Craig a Cardon of the seventy during a mission tour. that was amazing as well. It just felt like he was teaching us exactly what we needed to hear according to our preparation and prayers, seriously every time i wanted to raise my hadn and ask a question he went on to answer it. He was being taught as he was teaching. then coming off of that spiritual high we went to teach this new woman (sharon) and her son (nate) and they both had such amazing questions and nate sat there just so intently listening and waiting for more spiritual food, you could tell the spirit was so present. they set a date to be baptized for october 19th! we are so excited to help them reach their goal! and they came to church sunday and everyone was friendly to them and inviting. also saturday we did service in the community, handing out stickers for a scarecrow festival, for a head count. it was the smartest thing we had ever done, we proabably met close to 500 people that day, and some of them were people that had given us excuses not to talk to us or had slammed their door in our faces, it was good to get out in the towns eye!

well all in all as you can see it was fun!!

so the one is a giant unicorn that is 26 years old that  amember forced us to get on and take a picture iwth at the end of the festival.

the other is of the mission tour, this is only half of the missionarys in our mission they had to do two days for the tour

then there is one of all of the sister we had to sleep with 19 sister is one apratment one floor too, so some were in the kitchen on towels others in the living room and the bedrooms, i was in a crack between wo mattreses honeslty i thin i had the warmest spot becuase everyone woke up freezing

Sept 15, 2014

My Dear Family,

The work of God is powerful, if thats all i could say in one letter thats all i would say. i love feeling that intense feeling of love every time i force myself to do something im not 100% comfortable doing. Often times i have heard members say i cant do that im not a missionary ah aha.. well the only difference between a full time missionary and member is that we have the responsibility of making sure a nonmember is taught all they need to know before baptism and that they are ready to make their first covenant with God and even then we need members help. I as a missionary get nervous too! and im not going to say i don't because i do, and maybe the reason it looks easy is because i have the time to seek out the spirit every morning of every day, of every week, of every month for a year and a half that when push comes to shove i do all i can to listen to and follow his voice. And that allows me to talk to people and that allows me to teach people and that allows me to invite people to be baptized and that allows me ask strangers on the street to come to church. But its not me, its the spirit giving me that strength because i asked for it and CHOSE to act on my faith, and as members we have the exact same access to him as missionary's do if we so choose to act on that faith that each of us has. Maybe there isn't time in a day to read scriptures daily.. make time.. maybe there isn't enough time to say a prayer before running out the door.. make time.. and maybe there isn't enough time to be grateful.. make time.etc. Because each time we do we invite him into our lives more and more, and then we start to see that we can do instead of we can't do. Because its not us, its Him.  What a lesson to learn let me tell you!! and im probably not even done learning haha 

I feel like even though we may not have many investigators right now that we are doing alot of work for this area, there is never a moment where we are not doing anything... unless we are eating. Busy bees make for good honey!!

I love all of you, i will send some pictures of our adventures this week, one of our recent converts James Berry has a chinchilla (i may have spelled that wrong)

I love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love Sister Hadley!

 

 

Sept 8, 2014

Dear Family,

Well this week wasn't a complete bust, we meet a whole lot of new people! we are constantly talking to people, and even though there aren't as many people on the streets of napanee like there are in the city, if you seek out people to speak to you find them. 

 ive learned alot recently about putting in the extra effort, i feel like i have been putting in the effort, but its in that moment when we put in more that is required not only do we see the work change for the better, but we see ourselves change too. I am so ready for this area to hit its peak and it will be there soon, we are just building its foundation right now. and in doing so i have also learned that working with the branch leaders and having a good relationship with them is important one set up of trust and understanding, we are working on that, seems like it may have been a bit rough in the past but it will get there. So much good is happening and there isnt a moment to rest!!

we lost two of our investigators this week, but have lots of appointments to meet new people, so we are excited for a new week. in that process of meeting people we met a man the other day who is from another religion, hes very strong is his beliefs and i admire that of him, he honestly felt like he was doing what was right and there was no convincing him even show him the evidence, i took my thoughts from that contact to heavenly father and asked him to confirm to me that what i had said was right and correct and in doing so i came across 2 nephi chapters 29 and 30 everything that man said was the filling of those words, it was an incredible experience for heavenly father to confirm that the missionary work we are doing is his work. The church is true God DOES love his children!

I hope you all are well, Love you all tons!!

Love Sister Hadley

 

Sept 2, 2014

Dear Family,

I miss all the people i came to now in Don mills BUT I love my new area!! the branch is small, but the people have great big hearts. There are lots of people here that are ready to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ and sister christenson (my new companion shes from farmignton utah) and i are so prepared to find them!! 

The gospel is so true, its as true for us as members of the church as it is for those who are just discovering it!!

i dont have much time today, ill try to write more next week.. we have lots of fun acitivitys happening this week and lots of lessons penciled in that we are excited to teach, some of them are from people that the missionarys previously taught but most are from us just talking to everyone, thats how the message is spread, through talking to everyone!!!

I love you all so very much!! spencer that is so stinking exciting, congrats!!! 

Love SIster Hadley

Aug 25, 2014

Dear family, i dont have much time i kind wasted it telling everyone the news about transfers. so hears the behind stoy with transfers. so i made transfer predictions monday and bought a kinder egg ( its a toy, put inside a container dipped in chocolate, they are illegal in the states, but all the missionarys use them to predict transfers) so did my companion. right before we paid for them, my comp said im buying yours and your buying mine right? and i said said jokingly haha i guess! we got home and opened them. mine was a frog that you attach to your shirt like a pet (i immediately thought of you of course!) and hers was a car. so we said i will be training, because i am going to get a pet and she will be leaving becuase she has the car. the whole week i tried to figure it out. well last night i got a call that said i was getting transffered to NAPANEE!! and she is getting a pet, she will be training, haha we totally bought each others predicitions!! This week was great. Went to the temple with ricardo and raymond, raymond got to be baptized for family members, it was an amazing experience. This sunday we had a ton of less actives at church, it was a mazing peopbley one of my most happiest sundays out here, we had been working with each of them diligiently trying to get them to come and they did the last sunday!! love you all SISter HAdley

Aug 11, 2014

Dear family,

What a week!! i cant even remember all the way back to monday!

well i will go backwards and see if i cant jog my memory. yesterday ricardo was confrimed a member of the church!!! One of our new investigators came to church, her name is kathy, we et her through and esl (english second language) class that we teach. Shes's awesome!! we also had two less actives come to church, it was a amzing to see the ward just flock to them, one of them was so worried that she would be judged for the situation she was in and that it would be embarrsing to be there, but no one said anything about it and just asked her where she has been, that they have missed her, you could see relief on her face, and she said she felt so good being there. I was so happy to sit net to her and know that we had done everything we could to get her there and our works werent in vain, she came and she was happy. She refilled her spiritual canteen that was bone dry..

saturday our esl class had a culture lunch afterwards and i tried iranian food, it was SO good!!!  we met a guy named richard, and we have started teahcing him, we see him this week. we are excited to be teaching him. his father recently passed and he lives with his mom and he really is interested in hearin about the difference between our church and other churches, so we're gonna show him!

friday was zone training! it was so good!! we are going to try and apply what we learned  into our teaching we both feel as if that would help our investigators oversome their concerns. and i got a box of love from home!! (thats what i call it) it brightened up my week:)

thursday we taught a man named theophile, hes not an investigator yet it just kinda depends on him, he said he wants to pray abou tit first, he wont even read the book of moromn he said he needs to pray abou that as well, but we believe that god will direct him to truth, so we keep him in our prayers, this cute old woman sister gayle, and her son , brother gayle came teaching with us. sister gayle loves the work of god and is just this amazing 90 year old missionary, she had us all laughing a few times and others it was like she was teachign the lesson, we did however have to corect her on the fact that joseph smith did not write the book of mormon, he translated it.. they are so amazing to coem teaching with us all the time, and so very willing too!!

wednesday was the day after tuesday which was our preparation day and teaching esl at night. for preparation day we did alot of window shopping, my comp needed a new staraightner so we walked around, it was alright kind of day.

Best part about the whole week, i discovered i lost 5 POUNDS!!!!! yeah!!!!!!:)

Things i learned this week, never let satan tell you that you dont matter, or let him tell you that you have outgrown the churh. Always wear a smile, and say hello even if the other person looks angry cuase you don tknow what that kind of power will do!!

i love you all so very much!! congratulations spencer on the awesome news!!

Love SIster Hadley

Aug 5, 2014

Dear Family,

Sorry i spent most of my tiem writing mo and dad haha so ill have to be better at magaing my time next week. I am sending pictures of ricardo hes the tall one with no glasses and the one with glasses is brother ellingson. i seriously didnt get a good picture it was sad.. oh well these work

This week was better than the last in many ways. We just kep talking and talking and atalking to people its awesome, we talked to a man yesterday on his porch while it was pouring rain, and he had so many question that other chruches wouldnt answer for him that the gospel of jesus christ could, it was amazin gto see him turn it around and around in his mind, instead of just tossing it out, we might go back this week. I love you all!! ill be better next week

Love Sister Hadley

July 28th, 2014

My Dear Family,

Another Interesting week done and probably hundreds more to go at least in my experience nothing is normal anymore. We were walking down the street just talking to people and this sweet middle aged old lady (well she looked sweet anyways) looked at us so we said hello and tried to hand her a card, but she didnt want it, she looked at us as she walked away and said you are on the wrong path girls, you really are, you are on the wrong path and she walked away.
Then soon after we contacted this young couple and a lady walked up to us while contacting and asked if we were Mormons, and we said yes , then she looks at the couple and says dont listen to a word they say, they are a colt, they were these special underwear to protect themselves, they are telling you lies. then she looks me in the eyes and says in "the name of jests Christ i command you to stop.." she says you are on the wrong path, you really are and as she was walking away she says they believe in the trinity God the father, Jesus Christ and Joseph smith."
THEN yesterday i was sitting on the bus, this time by myself just singing a hymn in my head waiting to get off the bus, and this guy in white robes comes sits next to me and says are you from a church and i say yes from the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints and he says can i share a scripture with you and i think in my head you're going to anyways.. but what comes out is sure.. so he does and then he shares another one and another one and his voice gets higher adn he shares another one the whole time i say hardly anything in a very calm and quite voice praying that he will return to his seat. after we get to the station he gets off and i follow a few people behind him and he catchs me again to share more of his opinion so i listen and finally say i know who i am, i am a child of god, and i wish him the best in his endeavors and leave.

From each one of these experiences my testimony grew, i knew as i walked away that what each of these people tried to tell me was false it didnt make me feel good, it all actually made me feel empty, but when i thought about God and who he was and the plan he had for each of us and the way he made it possible for us to have a prophet today the time way the children of ancient record had one i felt loved and comforted and peaceful and i knew there was a difference and the difference mattered. I also learned that it is important to know the truth because if you don't know the truth you can be fighting the battle for the wrong side and not even know it.

My companion had lots of fun relieving those experiences this week, honestly they just made us laugh. Speaking of laughing there is this amazing old lady in our ward, her name is sister gales and she is like 90 years old and at missionary correlation they were complementing her on her efforts in missionary work and her response was, "its no that hard when i see someone on the street my first thought is, i wanna see you in the promised land." hahaha shes amazing she brought us a whole chicken for us to cook and eat with potatoes and everything, so we did ... we may have burned the skin a little but it was so good and it was nice to eat through out the week!!

Ricardo is the most solid investigator that we are working with he is actually planning on getting baptized next week, he had a few concerns we are hoping that we helped him resolve them but we will see on tuesday. Most of our week was spent walking and talking to people, almost all of our appointments bombed so we ust went to drop by people, the most amazing part that each morning we would ask heavenly father to place people in our paths and each day we found some amazingly prepared people. I am so excited to see what happens with them this week. Well i love you all!!

Love Sister Hadley
 

July 21, 2014

My Dear family,

The city is definitely not the country! so many more people!!! the work in this area has its ups and downs for sure. we have a few people with baptism dates and one of them is ricardo and he is so prepared! i love it, he just soaks everything in and his fellow shipper is this recent convert who is just on fire with the gospel! my companion is awesome, shes been here for 6 weeks so she sorta knows the area, she always know where to go next anyways and im constantly having to try to keep up with her. She been out on her mission for 13 months and she was mtc companions with caroline whitney!! small world, eh?

We teach ESL here, so i will be doing that again so i got to get back in shape with my teaching English skills.. we arent as involved with the members here its a bit sad. But we will work on that! so this week there isnt a whole bunch to report on either becuase i am still getting used to the area i also dont know what to say.. what is going on over there an with you people?? Love you all!!! Love sister Hadley

ps my new comp and the mitchell family that i said good bye to last week, they always fed us!!
 

July 7, 2014

Dear Family,

Sorry i waited till the last minute to write, ill repent and be better nest week. It was a rough last couple of days, but thats part of the work you have ups and you have downs! This week will be better i know it will. Heveanly father is preparing this area through our branch and through the work that we are doing every day. We have found lots of new people to teach some of them choose not to keep appointments when others do, and becuase some do we et a man named len and he wants to be baptized in august so he can be free from all of his sins. It was incredible to hear him say that, i love this gospel i love being able to recieve a testimony of it each day! I love you all and wish you all well!! mom and dad enjoy your trip, you deserve it!! tell mary and monty hello for me. 

Love Sister Hadley

June 23, 2014

Each day this week brought a weird crazy trial and a blessing. ill

give the runddown. monday was alright we just rested.

tuesday a member came teaching with us and in the middle of teaching

appoinments she told us that in the celestial kingdom there will be

pilygamy and we dont have a choice.. and my companion and i were torn

apart cuz we didnt understand and if it was true well we didnt really

have words for that, part... so we went to ask someone else and they

shed some light on the topic and brought our minds to ease.. but then

soon after our hearts were troubled again becuase later that night we

had a huge storm blow through, we had tornado warning that night,

thankfully we were safe and we didnt have to do too much clean up with

fallen trees or broken houses, everything got fixed pretty fast.

blessing part is we found out the truth and we got to teach michele

and aaron with a different memeber who ended up being really good for

them both.

Wednesday we decided to save kilometers on our car by riding bikes we

borrowed from members as soon as we peeled out of the driveway my

chain broke.... so i fixed it .. and conitued to ride down tot the end

of the road, as soon as we get to the stop sign my pedal falls off..

just falls off out of nowhere!.. so a man see us in distress and goes

gets his tools fixes the bike and we are off again... 20 minutes later

in the middle of downtown as im crossing the street it falls off

again... so i ahve to wait for the pedestrian light to turn on again

to go collect my parts that were still in the road.. we chian the

bikes up to the tree and finally give in and call for help, by the

time we get out to work its about 1 oclock, so frustrating! blessing

of this day was we had dinner with a member that night who opened up

alot about things that we could help her with such as continuing to

reach out to her children she even gave us the general area of where

one of her daughters live.

Thursday we locked our keys in the aparment and had to wait an 1 for

help so we made phone calls and walked around to try to talk to people

didnt get to work until about 1 .. again! .. belssing we now have a

spare under our porch, out there by the member we live with.

Friday actually went really well, michele was interviewed and we went

out to help the sisters in our district find new people to teach.

Saturday sister whytes dog passed away, so that was really hard. and

we were running around to appointments. blessing we were so busy we

didnt have time to think about anything that was troubling, and we had

a birthday dinner for  aaron and sister whyte at the harringtons

Sunday we found out late that night that one week ago nick passed

away, i didnt know what to do, so i painted until i wasnt frustrated

and then went to bed. Blessing of this day, MICHELE WAS BAPTIZED. The

programm went really well. the branch is making a really go

dconnection with her, her mom and husband were there. They aren't

interested in the church right now but whos to say in the future they

wont change their minds, thatll be a really good day too!

Well that was about my week in a nut shell. Things are going well here

and they just keep getting better, this week will be fun spending lots

of time on lookign for new people. I love you all and hope all is well

that way!

Love Sister Hadley

June 16th, 2014

Dear Family,

MICHELE IS STILL ON SCHEDULE TO GET BAPTIZED SUNDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!  I

could just sing it from the roof tops 24/7 but i think i would

embarrass my comp too much so i wont .. Apparently Michele told my

companion last week when she called to cancel her ride for church that

the reason her asthma was acting up was because she had been smoking

and she couldn't breathe.. she said she thought to her self what am i

doing, im suffocating myself i cant breathe so she decided to quite

right then and there, she threw the cigarette in her tin can and

walked inside and she hasn't smoked since:) And we didn't find out

till a whole 2 days later!  she is right on track, she will have her

interview on Friday, we are so excited!! Members came up to us and

asked if they could go teaching with us to her and that never

happens!! we always have to ask, it was so cool!!

              We also received a bunch of referrals this week so we

spent time contacting them and we found one new investigator from it,

they are

the cutest older couple ever. The only problem is that they are not in

our branch boundaries, but the boundaries they live do not have

missionaries, so the district leader in our area and his companion

would be the ones to teach them but because his companion is sick they

cannot make the drive yet, so we have permission to teach, but when

they feel well and who knows when that will be, we could be told to

hand them over and that will be a sad day, complicated but it will all

be well for them. We are STILL looking for people teach as always.

          The majority of the week was a bit slower due to the fact

that i got a bug and then passed it on to my companion and there was

now way we were going to just sit at home so we did our best without

passing the bug on to other people.

        My discovery of the week...    Recently i have been reading

in the end of 3 nephi, 4 nephi and the beginning of Mormon, i never

understood or looked at those books and chapters they i did the last

few mornings, i find excitement to read about the time leading up to

Mormon and how much love there was for our god and how obedient the

people were and how they all lived n harmony and there wasn't a poor

or rich among them but they were all the same, and then a couple

hundred year laters or so a group of them decide to willfully rebel

against god.. could you imagine knowing the truth? knowing where you

belong? knowing how much god loves you and then just one day saying i

don't want this anymore i choose to live the way i want? and from then

on dragging other with you by your example, so not just destroying

your chance at salvation and exaltation but others as well? The part i

find incredibly touching is Mormon and his reaction to the wickedness

of the people, he wants so much to tell them of the truth to enlighten

their minds but has been commanded not to because God knows they will

not listen, and through all the years he stays true to his beliefs and

is forced to hold it in, how hard would that be? Then finally in the

great battle he lets out a crie to his fallen people, it just touched

my heart. I cant believe i missed this before, but i am so grateful

that i got to read it now and will again. I love The Book of Mormon,

and am so greateful for the examples of righteousness that the men and

woman in it have set before us, and because of that we have no excuse

to not follow them. I love you all and hope all is well!!!!

Love Sister HAdley

June 2, 2014

y Dear Family,
I AM STAYING IN BELLEVILLE!!!!!! with my companion sister ogden,
yahooooooooo!! i am so excited so much is happening and happened this
week, we have just seen miracles from all the hard work we have been
putting in and i would have been so sad to leave it all.
First on Tuesday i went on exchanges and had an incredible experience
teaching and talking to people there. then as we were driving home we
had to call sister ogden and the other sister to confirm our meeting
spot and right before she hung up she said michele wants to be
baptized, you could imagine i almost peed my pants!!!!!! i wanted to
cry i was so happy and confused and i just wanted to be in belleville
and at micheles house ASAP! so i got there and sister ogden gives me
the whole story. Just after an appointment with on of our potentials
bombs, the phone starts to ring and it says, michele, so she yells at
the other sister and says i have to answer it, so she does.. and
michele says that she has a few questions could we come over, and she
said we'll be there in ten minutes, so they went over and apparently
she hadn't been thinking about church the last three weeks hardly at
all, and as sad as we were we didnt feel like we should call her or
anything until June 2 because she wanted us over for dinner that day,
but the last three days leading up to Tuesday she felt this HUGE push
from heavenly father, telling her she needs to be a part of the
church. SO on Friday she picked out a quit smoking date for the 16th
of June and she will be baptized on the 22nd!!!:)
Then on wednesday aaron gave us an address of another one of his
sisters and told us to go talk to her so we did, and because we did we
will be seeing her this week, hopefully it goes well!! Then we also
received potentials of our own from talking to people that hardly
happens, most of them just take the card and keep walking but we are
so excited to see if any of them are truly ready to learn!
Then Thursday was our skills and interview day and guess what?? I sang
a solo! In front of people and before hand we went to this really rich
family's house who is like super musically inclined and those that were
listening said i had a beautiful voice i think that gave me the help i
needed not to choke in front of the missionaries. But it was an
incredible experience becuase the reason i like to sing, is to feel
the love in the music, and ive notice that its only when i can feel
the spirit when i sing that i actually do well, if i try to do well to
do well i fail. But that day i could feel so strongly the love from my
heavenly father as i sang dearest children god is near you, oh man i
wish you could have all been there it was incredible. but the training
went well too haha and it was my last interview with my mission
president because he goes home july 1st, and president clayton will be
coming in. thats probably when i will leave this place.
saturday we were allowed to go to the adult session of branch
conference and it was so different, the mission president is the one
who spoke and there was hardly any people.
Sunday was the oddest, but coolest experience of conference ever, So
in a branch conference we heard from elder holland, elder eyring and a
man from the seventy, and sister linda k burton. It was broadcasted
from salt lake to all the Canadian branches that day, and we just
watched it in our chapel. pretty incredible. They spoke on coming to
Christ and faith in eternal family's, and remembering who we are. i
didnt bring my quote book with me other wise i would have quoted
them, my apologies..
and then today we are going to picton again( we went last week with
sister harrington) but this time with a less active family that wants
to take us to the sand dunes.should be a nice preparation day.
There is so much more that has been happening that my brain cant even
recollect, all i can say is its not until you give your all that the
lord gives a little, because our all isn't really our all and his
little is actually a lot!
patrick i am so sad to miss your tennis matches but boy it sounds like
you are doing well, you'll get em next year:)  sharia i cant believe
you finished the Book of Mormon, i just about jumped out of my seat,
thats incredible! Tell citlali that i am so jealous she has the
opportunity to go out with the sisters thats some good training right
there! and she will love it in utah!!

You are all constantly in my prayers, Love you all!
Love Sister Hadley

May 26, 2014

Dear Family, My week went alright i had a few embarrasing situations and we now think our zone leaders think we are apostate.. We had an investigator (adam) show us this amazing freestytle rap by this man who spent some time in jail. Thing is he didnt have any beats or anything and he was just rhyming, but the rap was incredible iwish you could here it. It was all about the savior and god and his decision to follow chirst. How we cant let satan have any power over us and i cant quote very well because i have only heard it twice but at one point he said sometinhg about god haveing one vision and i was like uh yeah!! .. its called the church of jesus christ of latter day saints, the best part about it was that mutiple times as i was listening i could feel the spirit testifying of the truths that were in his rap. I want to rename it to his testimonial rap becuase thats exactly what it was, anyways he showed us this rap and we got to aarons how and we thought how awesome would it be for him to hear this to know that there is better type of music to listen to than just a bunch of songs with swearing in it, so i have my comp text adam to find out what the name of the rap and rapper was, but she accidentally sent it to the Zone leaders.. she freaked out when they texted us back and said i dont know im not well versed in rap sisters... we almost peed our pants, and of course i got to clean up the mess when they called us 2 seconds later and all of this is happening during our lesson mind you, so not only are we embarressed because the whole situtaiton could have been avoided but we are also getting into "trouble" in fron tof our investigator and member. we assured them that we felt the spirit from it and it didnt draw our thoughts away from our purpose but in fact added on to it and if i had the chance i would recommend it to the mission president to listen to. they hung up and then sent us another reminder via text. so it kind of was resolved but we still arent comfortable to see them during skills and interviews this thursday. so it kind of was resolved but we still arent comfortable to see them during skills and interviews this thursday becuase they dont know the whole part about adam and wanting to share it with aaron and they havent listened to it so we feel like they dont completely trust us as much as they say they do.haha what a wonderful experience, right? Other than that we are still looking for people to teach, we actually have been meeting with this less active member for over 11 weeks now and just building a realation ship of love by serving and teaching her, and just when everyone kept telling us that we were wasting our time and that nothing would come of it, she had an entire week off wrok so her inlaws came and soent the week with her. we've met them beofre and shared the book of mormon and restoration messgae with them one day and then the restoation video the next. but this week we got to talk to them more in depth amonst the times we were serving this LA, and they are incredible people i just love them so much! The husband asks question syou didnt even think were possible and the wife not as interested in the church seems to just let him be interested and not keeping him from asking which is just as good, and last night we had dinner with them so we shared a message about the plan of salvation and as we were testifying of it you could see his eyes getting teary eyed! we invited him to read the pamphlet to find out more for himself and if reallys wants to know more we are willlingly to meet with him to talk more about it with him. BEST DAY EVER. so i got a picture with them so that i never forget them becuase im oretty sure i wont last another transfer. Still Looking for people to teach and thankfully we have a few names to work with, we will see how it goes this week.

May 20, 2014

Dear Family, I don't even know where to start this week.. ill start with the bad news then finish up with the good!! Bad news Aaron isnt doing well, he actually was upfront with us about it yesterday... so enough of the bad news and time for the crazy good news!! WE FOUND SOMEONE NEW TO TEACH THIS WEEK!!!! His name is Adam, the elders actually ran into to him the day that they came to our area to help us talk to people (blitz is what they call it) we got ahold of him scheduled an appointment and finally saw him this saturday. funny story: as we were teaching him this man walks into the room and goes to the washroom (cuz he lives in a rooming house, which means a house that has a lot of rooms has been turned into basically an apartment and each room belongs to a different person, and they all share the kitchen and washroom and we were sitting in the kitchen and the washroom was behind us) apparently he was listening to our conversation while in their because he comes out and says did i hear you were a spiritual person.. and we look at him and not sure what to say and so we very faintly say.. yeah.. so he starts talking to us about the power of women and how we have to be aware of the power of Satan so that we dont let it overtake us. then he starts SINGING to us, and i tried SOOOO hard not to laugh and i cracked once hahaha it was terrible but it was a terribly funny situation i think i did pretty well for myself.. then he leaves and about 10 minutes later walks in and says to adam "dog i need to talk to these girls" so he stops us AGAIN by singing to us the very same thing he sang 10 MINUTES AGO HAHAHA, i had better composure this time! But as he was singing i realized i recognized who he was, when i got to this area everyone said i need to met "the Crane" they said he was this man who walked around town with a cane and when he was stopped would put his one leg up as if to make himself look like a crane and hes super tall to boot! so ever since i got here i have looked for him and i saw him a few times here and there but always when we were driving by but never got the chance to speak to him.. until now when i realized that this man who wasn't holding a cane had just infact left it in his room!!! So when he left i asked adam, trying to hold back bursts of laughter, if he normally carry's a cane with him, he said yes! and those bursts of laughter came rolling out of my mouth with the assist of too many NO WAYS! anyways it was the most weirdest situation ever and this guy continued to interrupt us with his attempted singing that sounded like a Jamaican man.. even though he did not look Jamaican at all. So that's my funny story for the week:) We continued to teach Adam and he came to church on sundae, he seems to pretty interested in everything we are excited to see how this week goes, he does have a baptismal date for June 8 which is 7 days after the transfer so everyone please pray that i will stay here! We did tons of tracting and walking and tracting and walking and tracting in the rain and walking in the rain, it was fun!! i LOVE tracting in the rain, i really do it surprised me so much that when we were finished i didnt really want to be finished. We did lots of service for members and nonmembers, we met this cute little family waking to the hospital tuesday this week, and we stopped to ask if we could help them garden they said yes and we were shocked, not many people say yes. But we found out that she had tons of health issuses and her husband was passing from cancer and so they couldnt do it on their owen, so we went back to their house a few times to wrok on their garden, it was so nice to know we could help them, however they werent interested in religion we figured we could plant a few seeds not only in her heart but in the garden. Everything sounds so nice back home and the cabinets look good, I love you ALL!!! Sister Hadley

May 12, 2014

Dear Family, Well im not sure what to say since i said most of it last night haha. But we had a rough week, a lot of our investigators gave us the boot or we decided they needed the boot, so we are looking for new investigators, we found two this weekend, unfortunately not from the any of the doors we knock on or any of the people we talked to,through an advertisements we do through a website for free bibles and books of Mormon and chapel tours and etc, anything that has to do with the church! We will hopefully see them again this week and see where they go from there! We laugh at our embarrassments and pick ourselves up after the rejections and we try not to let anything get us down because if we did we might just miss that one person who is waiting for us. I am still amazed at the miracles that heavenly father sends our way every single day, i don't think i have ever witnessed this many miracles ever in my life its incredible. I love you all so very much and enjoyed talking to ya'll last night. everyone was so different i was shocked, i guess i forgot that time keeps turning in every corner of the earth even when you aren't there. Ill have more to write next week!! Love Sister Hadley

April 28, 2014

Dear Family,
Its been a weird week, just completely thrown off because of the
Holiday, its put us in a weird groove, not a bad one just an odd one
haha. Despite that the work went really well for this week. We had
four of our investigators at church, we should have had five but he
wasn't feeling well so he stayed home..
So Melanie and her less active fiance came to church for the first
hour which was huge! they would have stayed but they had to go pick up
Melanie's son from his fathers. We'll get them there the full time
next week because Chris and Melanie will finally be meeting with the
branch president to get to meet him, we are so excited  Melanie is
just loving reading her scriptures she has the few questions here and
there, and she is getting nervous for baptism but we know that with
the time we have, by the time September comes around she will feel
ready!

Wendy came to church, she is the one we found by a miracle, we have
been working with her slowly and she came to a bit of conference but
ended up going home cause she wasn't feeling well  and her husband
(nick) is the one that is dying, he has been moved from the hospital
to her care, and he is the one that should have been at church, but
wasn't. they are both growing more and more in the gospel very slowly.
we are way excited to help them move forward, sometimes we get a bit
scared because Wendy has a VERY STRONG opinion sometimes, but we love
her nonetheless.

Michele, she has to move her baptismal date to may 11th because she
cant quit smoking in time, so we are going to help try to overcome
that by then, shes been working really hard i truly feel like shes
almost there! so because we have her baptism planned on the 11th we
probably wont be able to call home more like in the later after noon,
like 3 or 4 depending who Skypes first. and what is the skype address
that i will be calling?

And finally Aaron he came to church but bombed our appointment last
night, he hasn't been keeping his commitments lately, he is loosing
the fire. It comes in spurts he has until December to be baptized, so
he is a bit bugged about that. But he's a good guy and all will be
well in the end.
These are those we are working with right now and we are constantly
trying to find more, its hard sometimes especially when you get all
nervous that they will reject you, however it is not us they are
rejecting it is Christ they choose to reject, i am not myself out here
i am his servant, his mouth piece and his hands. I love that knowledge
so much! The Sun is out( finally) and shining there is nothing better
to ask for, oh and i got to do yard work, not once not twice but three
times this week it was SO nice!! Its even more enjoyable when we get
to do it for other people! Well i love you all and mom i really loved
that thought you have no idea how much i needed that after this week!!
I will talk to you all soon!! Love Sister Hadley
ps the person in the red is michele and the man and woman is a less
active family we see and serve every Friday, shes one who we got to
help with yard work this week.