January 6, 2015

Hey Family,

So I can say that this week was the hardest week on my mission... Thanks everyone for the emails I love you guys so much and I appreciate it more than you know!  Being a missionary strengthens you more than I can even say.  Heavenly Father is real, he's there. He knows and loves each and every one of us better than we know and love ourselves. He is our Father and he wants us to become like Him, and the only way we can do that is if we go through trials and pains and suffering, and make sacrifices. When I accepted my mission call I accepted all that comes with it, I accepted to leave behind all other personal affairs, I accepted to sacrifice all of the old habits that I had and to become sanctified. The past 4 months have been so amazing and I have learned more than I have in my entire life. I know that the Lord needs me here and I know what I have been called to do. I know that whatever his plan is for me that it will be the one that makes me the most happy whether I know it or not. I know that there are people out here that need me and I am going to give it my heart, might, mind, and strength! Anyways, haha This week we got quite a few new investigators! One of them is a family which is great, I've never taught a family anymore and it's super cool! Hopefully we can baptize all of them! We ate dinner at their house a couple nights ago and it went really well, we were able to share a message at the end and they loved it and said we could come back! We are eating dinner with them again on Saturday so hopefully we can set a baptism date with them and continue to teach them! Randy is going to get baptized in two weeks!! We are so excited for him and we can't wait to see his face when he comes out of the font! He reads the scriptures every day and he loves every bit of them! We also found another investigator named michelle, we just found her as we were going around knocking on doors and we knocked on hers and we told her who we were and we shared a scripture and prayed with her and she said we could come back, so we are going to go back and teach her this week! Other than that we didn't get to teach Ilva cause she told us to come back this week so we are going to teach her sometime this week! Elder Gardner and I are doing so great together and we are both loving it! I think my district took in the district meeting pretty well because the key indicators this week skyrocketed!! Hopefully they can all keep it up! I love each and every one of you and I hope all is well! We get to go golfing today so that's sweet! We hit range balls last p-day and it was SO good to get back on the course! Anyways, talk to you later!

Love Elder Summerhays