I still have a couple weeks to a year! (May 1st) but I do come home in a year from next week! lol Hahaha but I am still here! Well this has been the craziest week of my life lol! Seriously though!..... Well.... I am now currently serving in the Sweetwater Stake which is the next zone over from Logan Heights so I am about 10 mins from my old meetinghouse (elementary school). It is awesome! It is still completely new although I am close to Logan I am super far from my old area. What is funny is that all of the leadership in Logan Heights for the most part live in my area because they are attending out of their stake, which is hilarious! There are actually people that speak Spanish here! In my old area it was all just white people that didn't want to talk to us and gay guys that would hit on us hahaha. So I am super excited to be here. It is super ghetto! Just like I love it! I am on the outskirts of Logan so it is no where near as dangerous and ghetto, but it has a little of that influence :) We actually have a ward building! YAY! This is the first time that I have met in a chapel in about 7 months it is fantastic (Nacho Libre voice). We have some incredible investigators! We actually have 2 baptisms this Saturday and then several more lined up! My goal is to baptize 8 more before my birthday! :) (If it is with the will of the Lord, that is the crucial part).
I am also currently serving as a Zone Leader!!! It is crazy! There is SOOOOO much responsibility! There are sooooooo many meetings and phone calls. The Zone Leaders practically run the mission with the APs and President. So I am super excited to be able to serve and to love the 16 missionaries in our zone. It is such a responsibility and has been super stressful, and i have just collapsed at night walking through the door, BUT I LOVE IT!!!! My companion is Elder AJ Walker and he is from Salt Lake City. He is really awesome!
So about Brock's birthday! I am feel terrible!!!!! I did not forget... I just literally and honestly had no time to drop it off. It has been GO GO GO for this past week. I had it all ready to go and when i finally had an opportunity to put it in the mail it didnt fit in the outgoing mailbox at the apartment. So I had to wait until today to drop it off at the mission office so the post man can pick it up. so it is in the mail! I literally was torn apart Sunday because I could just picture Brock being upset that I wasn't able to get the card to him in time. I feel horrible! I feel great though to hear that he had such an awesome birthday! Thank for the pictures! Ashlyn looks like a mini me lol with all the faces she makes in the pictures! Brock looks sooo good though! he has lost weight!.
well here is what my week looked liked!
Tuesday: 04/01/14
So I found out i was getting transferred so i went and said bye to everyone and then packed my bags, I didn't get to bed until 12:30a :o It went well though.
Wednesday: 04/02/14
We had transfer meeting at 10;30. Then I had to run to the mission office to get stuff for the other elders in the zone and then we had to do a lot of other business stuff. Then we had appointments and were flying around like crazy people. Then we had our coordination meeting that night, then afterward we had to redraw out all the areas because we added a companionship of sisters and they needed an area to proselyte so we as a district had to redraw the boundaries to accommodate them. So we gave up half of our area.
Thursday: 04/03/14
We had Mission Leadership Council in which all the Zone Leaders of the mission met with President Clayton and we discussed how we can better the mission and we received some training and shared miracles. it was great! I was super nervous becasue this is a very important meeting, it was also of course my first time. then I finally had time to grocery shop lol! Then we went and taught Yazmin Contreras her family is AMAZING! I honestly felt like I had been with them for years, it was just so comfortable being with them and they are getting baptized this Saturday (her kids). Once she gets married which should be soon she will get baptized.
Friday: 04/04/14
We had district meeting. We had to plan for our 3 hour long Zone meeting that we had to teach Monday (04/07/14). we also visited a few people.
Saturday: 04/05/14
General Conference all day! It was great! I love the talk by Dalin H. Oaks given in the priesthood session. Along with Elders Holland and Rasband. They were great! I also got to eat a fried California burrito! YUM!!! :D
Sunday: 04/06/14
Well I also get to teach and attend church at the MCRD (Marine Corps Recruit Depot) on Sundays and Thursdays. it is SOOO COOL! I am on base and get to teach recruits at boot camp we have to go through security and everything. It is such a new world. So we get to teach the recruits and baptize them and that place is miracle central! So I will have more to talk about as the weeks come. Also they give you a military set of scriptures that only the military are allowed to use!
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Well I am doing great I love and miss you all! with how busy we have been I had only 30 mins to email I am always thinking about you!
I wish you all the best of luck with the Realtor and with the things going on in life!
Love Elder Hays
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