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