Last Week Of My First Transfer

This was the last full week of the transfer and it was a super good one. It's been snowing most of the week and It's so much fun. I shoveled the church parking lot for about an hour and a half. It was my first time ever doing that and it was the best, I wish it snowed in AZ. Me and my comp went onto the roof of our church building and made 100 snowballs to throw at all the YSA that were walking into the church building. Earlier that day I also threw a snowball from across the entire intersection and hit a window of the church building that the sister's and Elder oldroyd were looking out of. It was maybe one of the coolest moments of my life. I couldn't do it again if I tried like 200 more times. I will also say that I hate ice. We walked outside of our apartment and my comp looked at me and told me to watch out for the ice. I said ok and I was super careful and 5 steps after we left the apartment I had my back on the ground with a book of Mormon a couple feet away from me and a laptop flying the other direction. It was straight from a cartoon, it hurt but it was super funny. My comp was laughing for like 5 straight minutes. I'll stop talking about snow now but it's a lot of fun.


We had a Christmas dinner with our ward on Saturday, it was actually a lot of fun and we got free food. There's a family I've gotten close with that has a single mom with 4 kids, and the kids are so crazy! Well there was this pepper. I didn't think the pepper was hot. But the 12 year old girl across from me had one. I told her she should eat it, and she was like maybe but it's going to be super hot. I was like come onnn it can't be that hot, just do it! Well of course she did it cause i told her to and after about 20 seconds her face started getting red and eyes started watering and she was freaking out. I told her to go eat a bunch of snow outside haha so for the next 2 hours she was eating snow. But before that after like 10 minutes of her basically dying she told me i had to eat it. If you know me, you know I can't eat any spice. I can't even finish a spicy chicken sandwich at Chick-fil-A haha. But I said I would and that I wouldn't make a face after. Well I did really good for about 30 seconds. But then I got the hiccups, and I was hiccuping every like half second. I thought the girl was exaggerating but the thing was so freaking hot. I felt super bad after,  but then my comp and another sister did it too and it was super funny. I really thought my comp was gonna throw up cause he was outside of the church for like 5 minutes just eating ice and leaning over a ledge waiting to throw up. Basically I'm a super good example and every little kid trusts me now!! 


On Sunday we started our Book of Mormon marathon. From Sunday afternoon to Tuesday afternoon, we are reading the book of Mormon as a mission for like 30 straight hours. It's going to be really cool and my understanding of the Book of Mormon is going to be a lot better. So throughout my entire p day I won't be taking my eyes off of the book of Mormon except for like a few ten minute breaks. 

This past week was a lot of hard missionary work that could definitely be boring if you make it boring. It's been snowing pretty hard so you could make up so many excuses to not go contacting, but I think it's actually so much fun. One of the days we went tram contacting for about an hour and I saw a cool little miracle. I was talking to this one dude and he was cool but he had to get off so I said bye to him. Then there was a dad with a stroller behind him and he looked at me and said hi to me first. I was like, this has never happened to me before, nobody ever says hi to me haha. I kinda recognized him and he was speaking English so I asked where he was from. He said Mexico city and then it clicked. It was the dude I chased down in the mall a couple weeks ago. It was so cool to follow up with him but he's still not ready, he's super busy with his kids and stuff but it's definitely not a coincidence that we saw each other. There's 1.5 million people in Prague and I saw this dude in two different random places. It was insane and I hope he felt something from our convos. 


Another dude texted us saying he wanted a Bible and so we met up with him. This dude is having a rough life rn, it was so hard to see. We talked to him for about 45 minutes and shared so much with him and every 5 minutes he would pull out another cigarette and start smoking it. I really think our conversation helped him and I hope that he chooses to turn his life around because I know he can. We also gave him a Book of Mormon too because we told him how good it was. He was excited to read it so hopefully he reaches out to us again. 


We've been praying for “unexpected events” to happen to us. It's actually really cool because every day we have had something super interesting come up. One day a member said we needed to come give a BoM to a girl he worked with. The last story I just talked about was super random and sick. We got to do some service for our mission president and get 4 tires from the basement and bring them into his car. And then we got a tour of the attic of the church building and stuff, kinda random but fun haha. We had a member meal get canceled but because it got canceled we got to go to a YSA thing which was a lot of fun. It's been really cool to see how powerful prayer is and what it can bring to our missionary work. 


I've been thinking about what if I go throughout my whole mission and I don't baptize a single person. It feels like that is a possibility right now haha. There is for sure a chance that I could work as hard as I can every day and won't see any of the friends I'm teaching ever get baptized. But that's just what my mind thinks, that's not what heavenly father thinks. This is not my work. I'm just here as a representative of Jesus Christ and heavenly father. They can do it all on their own, I'm just here to help them out. It doesn't matter what I think will happen, heavenly father knows what is supposed to happen. As long as I'm working as hard as I can, he is going to help me see miracles and the fruits from my labor. Right now it doesn't feel like I'm doing much and it's rough haha. Something Elder Alliaud, the general authority told us, was that positivity multiplies missionary work. If I'm doing missionary work without positivity then I'm doing it wrong. As I've gone through my mission these past 4 months it has been my goal to make every part of my day great through positivity and that's something I'm going to do the rest of my mission. Why would I want to serve Heavenly Father these next two years and have no fun while doing it? It's supposed to be fun and staying positive through everything can really help with that.  I'll end with my favorite scripture that I put on my plaque hanging up in my church building back home. 


3 Nephi 12:16 

“Therefore let your light so shine before this people, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.”


We should all share the light we have with others! I love and miss all you guys! Have a great week!

Google photos is broken right now for all missionaries so i haven't updated it in like a week, but hopefully they fix it soon. Also I have no time to send emails today so if I don't email you back today I will for sure email you next week. But I appreciate your emails so much so please keep sending them!


Email: hayden....@missionary.org 


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