Week 33

Hey Family!!
I have met with the Surgeon Dr. Mazer for my own appointment. All of the findings, diagnosis' are being reviewed and approved by Salt Lake and the mission president before I can actually get the surgery done. Dr. Mazer actually scheduled me for a couple weeks out...but I cannot commit until everyone approves.
I have been doing alright.... I really feel I need this surgery too! I am actually excited! I also got tons of Mexican ladies that will be willing to help lol

I, Cody Brian Hays, solemnly swear that I will follow all Pre-op and post- op procedures.... or I will face the Infernal Wrath of Mamma Hays :) I will buy all that stuff! Don't worry about me momma I will be fine! 

 I thank you all so much for your support with wanting me to feel better and have this surgery that will help me give 150%! 

Well this week was pretty good, we added 8 people!!!  We went and taught this family and added them they are super sweet and then we went and finally found an apartment complex with Mexicans!!! It is on the far side of our area and it took 5 months to find them lol 

So 2 miracles... we found this lady Gloria and she is super prepared, she is reading in the book of Mormon and we invited her to be baptized and she accepted! The bittersweet thing is that she just moved back to mexico yesterday :( but we are going to send the referral to Mexico! 

We had a pretty cool experience on Sunday night. It was kinda windy out and a little chilly so I went t wear a jacket. I was about to wear my new Columbia one that I wear all the time and for some reason i decided to wear a thicker jacket the I found in one of the missionary apartments that a missionary left a long time ago. So we went out. We knocked on doors and no one was home. Then Elder Larsen suggested that we knock to see if a lady was home, but she kinda lived far and we were on foot. I was like, nah we can just call her. Then as i went to dial the number, I had the thought of "nah, what the heck, let's go see if she is home". So we went walking then as we went under the underpass we saw this homeless man sitting there writing in a journal. We passed by and said hi and he very genuinely said hi back, we tried the door and she told us to come back later. As we went back elder Larsen said "hey he looks familiar" so we decided to talk to him. It was the greatest decision ever. We talked to him for about an hour about how he was studying English so he could work on his speech ability since he has a hard time pronouncing words. He was like the nicest Black guy ever ( I have a soft spot for black people lol). we gave him a book of Mormon and he was sooooo happy and oferred to give us a book that he had. The book was one that he had saved up for and was like $40 and very well bounded and looked amazing. He was just so grateful for this book. We started talking a litle bit more. I then had a distinct impression to give him my jacket. So I did. He honestly about died. He was soo grateful. I truly saw the light of Christ beaming from within him. I knew then that I was being the Lord's hands and that is exactly what he wanted me to do. I also knew that I knew him in the preexistence and I promised him that I would look out for him when we would come down. That was me fulfilling that promise.

Love Elder Hays