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