Monday, August 19, 2013
I’m staying here with Elder Ika!! I can’t believe it!!! No one had changes in the whole zone! That’s crazy but super cool. I didn’t want to go or change comps that’s so awesome so we will be finishing together!!!! That’s boss. I’m so stoked for this transfer. We are going to tear it up and have a great time doing it.
This week we hit some hard times. It’s funny how if you don’t have problems with your comp then you have problems in other aspects. I was thinking this week how I would love to have a transfer with no opposition. But then I was listening to a talk on the sacred grove and how it’s necessary that we have opposition or we start to focus on things that don’t matter. I realized that this was a silly thought I had. What I was really saying was "I wish I had a transfer where I didn’t progress....that would be really cool.” How silly! Anyway so the trouble with the ward and area goes on, but that’s cool-- why not give me a challenge to keep me progressing?
Elder Ika talked to me this week and told me that I helped him shaped up a lot. I guess he wasn’t too obedient before I came. Tongans are pretty good at conforming to other people, but I didn’t even realize that he wasn’t used to being obedient. So that’s cool that he wants to do it. We also talked about what would happen if we didn’t come on the mish. He expressed that he thought that other missionaries would have just baptized the people he had. But we came up with the idea that we are on a team that doesn’t have backups. In football if one gets hurt it’s not that big of a deal the backup just hops on and does his job, but it’s not like that here. There are no backups there’s just us and the Lord and the other 75,000 of his missionaries. So if we’re not here that’s ruff and nobody is just going to do the work for us. The Lord needs all he can get. So anyway it will be an awesome change.
Just like you guys we fasted this week too. It was kind of funny right as we were kneeling down to end the fast and go to the food appointment at 2 the sister called us. Like seriously-- I knelt down, bowed my head and right as the words were going to come out of my mouth to say the prayer the phone rang. It was the sister that was going to feed us and she told us that she was running behind and that we shouldn’t come by until 3:30 --it was like 1:30 at that time. So we waited some more-- but we were having enchiladas verdes so I didn’t really care. I love those things!
Anyway this week was pretty good as we fasted because he have some investigators with marriage problems. They busted out fighting in one of the lessons and a scripture came to my head as they were arguing. It was “contention is of the devil." I shared it with them and maybe it was direct, but I’m known for being direct. They were yelling and screaming and I started to reflect on how common marriage problems has been in my mission. Unfortunately it doesn’t really excite me for marriage, but I guess a house built on Christ won’t fall, right? So they were yelling things like “You cheated on me 5 years ago”. “You weren’t there when I had the baby”, “your family drinks a lot”...and so on and so forth. You can probably imagine. So I told them that we were going to fast to see what Heavenly Father would say about the relationship. So that was Wednesday. We fasted Thursday to Friday and had another appointment with them on Friday night that went pretty good. They were a lot calmer and decided that it was for the best if they could work things out. I agreed with them. A sister was with us and talked a little about her marriage it was pretty cool, so just 2 days and a fast sure changed a lot of stuff. Thanks to Heavenly Father! So hopefully they can keep progressing and get baptized soon and that would be cool in our last transfer for Elder Ika and me! So we are stoked and ready and can’t wait to get working this transfer and finish with a bang. Things have been great here I love the mission! It’s awesome and my comp is great. The ward is rough but we are doing it.
So anyway I heard that Cailan Tuttle got married. It’s funny that Sister Finnegan told me that as if I already knew ha-ha. I didn’t know anything, but whatever. I could care less about silly girls.
Oh, to answer Mom’s question. I feel like the essence of 1st Nephi 3:7 is that Nephi had such confidence in the Lord that he knew all things were possible. I feel like we as human beings say that there are things that can’t be, but we don’t trust the Lord. But Nephi trusted it the Lord and knew all things where possible through him. This scripture was a great help to me when I learned Spanish. My mind said that I couldn’t do it, but my spirit was willing. I had the faith and I did it. So at the end of the day it’s a great example to us missionaries. All things are possible thought Christ and we shouldn’t have to worry. That is what it says in Alma that everyone took off without worrying about what they were going to eat, drink or dress with. That is true faith, the faith that Nephi had. So that’s about everything.
Last night we walked by the church and we found the bishop and we talked to him about the problems that the ward is facing. So we talked to him and I realized he is super dedicated and an awesome bishop! I love the guy. He’s kind of a dork some times and it cracks us up, but he is honestly really respectable and a great man and loves what he does and slaps opposition in the face. It was a good talk and I walked out feeling more energy to work and have success with him and the ward. Anyway that’s it.
Thanks,
Elder Hendricks
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