Dear All,

This week has been interesting for many many reasons; We got to go with the missionaries to the new area to help get them the hang of that area. Then we started talking with the ward Mission Leaders of each of our assigned wards, talking about who in their area needs help and who they would like us to visit. We got several names, which we tried to contact, resulting in a little disappointment and a little success. All of our wards received a little work in each and have alot of work to be done which makes me feel good about what we are doing.

We ran into a less active family and talked with them for a bit and got the mother to come to church with her 2 kids. We also did service on Saturday at a member's house; apparently the previous owners built a make-shift cat house in the rafters of the garage and used what looked like scrap wood and carpet samples. They also didn't have a litter box for the cat/cats. Four hours later it was all taken down and out of the garage.

A sister in one of our wards was sick along with all her kids, so we were able to stop by and give her and her children a blessing. On Sunday, she came to church for her son's Priesthood ordination to a Teacher.

We have an appointment with a new move in in another ward. This is a whole new experience because that ward has not seen a person investigating the church in some time. The Missionary Progress record we gave to that ward was full and our ward mission leader said he had not seen a full progress record since he was a ward mission leader! On Sunday, the Bishop told us that he was the happiest he's seen him in a long long time.

I had a doctors appointment this morning and got shot up with steroids in my foot. Apparently I walk funny and it's causing issues in my foot. In fact the doctor looked at my foot and pointed to a part of it and said,  "Is that normal?" I said,  "Both feet are like that so, yes". My companion and I were cracking jokes as we were in the room with the doctor and even when the doctor was out of the room. He must have had a good visit with us.

So we have lots of stuff to look forward to this week and we hope the work goes forth and is unstoppable. I hope all of you are doing well, I wish I could give a custom E-mail to each person but with the time I have and the fact I don't seem to type as fast as my companion sometimes I get cut short on time.

I hope all of you are doing well and keeping the commandments, God be with you all.

Love,
Elder Hedgecock

Transfers!!

Dear All,

So I have a really exciting week to share with you all. This week we got transfer calls and I'm staying in my area but to make things complicated our area is getting split! We are taking 6th, 7th, and 8th Wards who have little work and the new set of elders are taking 5th, 9th, and 4th Wards. So we lost 5 of our baptisms. The Stake President allowed us to still teach those who we are teaching and guide the new Elders on those wards and then ease them off and let them work it out. Kinda excited because we can focus our attention on 7th and 8th Wards, which need alot of attention to get the members more active and more into missionary work. What great task it is, and a great task I'm willing to take up and work on.

We wanted to do Mountain Biking today but the path was really really muddy so it didn't happen.

We were told the coolest experience from our investigator in 6th Ward. He said after we taught him how to pray he prayed and he felt weird. My companion and I both had the "oh no it's going to be bad" thought in our mind. Then he said he felt like his fingers could type forever and he could run forever, he felt like he could take on the whole world and it was a good feeling. We told him it was the Spirit. We are excited to teach him because we know this will probably be one of the easiest people to teach with the experiences he has and willingness to follow what we tell him.

We have made maybe 7 or so calls to our mission president in a few days for multiple reasons. Two of our baptism dates wanted to avoid the whole standing in the front of church on Sunday to be confirmed, but the Mission President will not allow it, and then we hear our area is getting split, so we called to see what he had in mind for the area. The last time we callled we said "I don't like calling you again, it feels like we called you a million  times this week.” He replied, "Elders, I would prefer it that way."

Not much going on other than that. It can't decide if it's spring or winter but I wish it would make up its mind cause I was expecting loads and loads of snow but we have got little compared to the average, so I'm told.
Love to all,
Elder Hedgecock