Another week in Idaho Falls

Dear all,

This week was a very good week. We met with a less active lady with a wayward child. We sat outside cause we couldn't get a team teacher to come and the wayward daughter was actually the calmest I've ever seen her. We talked with her a bit, and she said she had been sober for some time. We told her of the addiction recovery support groups run by the church and she was extremely interested. We told her where to go and she went. Saturday, we got up early and got her to come with us to the Stake Garden to do some community service (she needed 22 service hours) after which we opened the scriptures and read with her. She told us a lot about her past. She had gone through a lot, and wanted a way out of her situation. I could see a desire to be free from her addictions and problems. Yet she just didn't know how to let go. It seems if she held on to both parts of herself much longer she will be torn apart; as the scriptures say "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."- Matthew 6:24 we hope she is able to start progressing becuase she feels she has hit rock bottom.

To brighten things up we had a softball game on Thursday (turned out to be a game of catch) with a investigator and a ward mission leader. Kinda embarrassing, considering we should have had 8 other people there at least. But thats not the part that it gets better. I got a free baseball glove! We visited a member of the branch presidency to talk about the work in the branch and told him about softball. Told him we would like to borrow some gloves if people have them. He had a glove for a left handed person he'd been trying to give away and so I Got a Baseball glove! MADE MY WEEK! Then again seeing others wanting to do better in life MAKES MY WEEK TOO! But considering I wanted to do some baseball/softball before I left on my mission and wanted to buy a mitt for some time, and got one for free...... yes God Does grant us according to our desires, even if it is not something at the top of our list he will still grant according to our desires. I have a baseball mitt to prove it!

Love,
Elder Hedgecock


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