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