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