WEEK 13- Mission Tour and Horses

Okay first off. J AND H BOTH CAME TO CHURCH!!!! Holy cow

holy cow. I can't tell you how excited sister Adair and I were when

they walked in Oh my goodness that is huge for them!! They are

incredible and are really developing the desire to come to Christ. I

can just testify that PRAYER WORKS and FAITH IS NEEDED. God loves His

children and wants us all to be learning and loving and becoming.

 And coming to church is SO important in that

conversion process. Gosh, I am SO grateful for parents who showed, by

example, how important going to church is. It really is a place of

worship, remembrance and a place to get answers.

This week we had mission tour and elder Martino of the seventy came

and spoke to us...we had to get up at 4:30 IN THE MORNING in order to

get to the stake center, meet up with the rest of the zone and drive

to Helena....we had a mission choir that we had to practice for at

7:23 in the morning! It was awesome though and the Spirit was so

strong!  fun fact for family, a few weeks ago elder McGrath, one of

the assistants called and asked if I could accompany one of the elders

singing in mission tour! So he gave me the elders number and I called

him. He told me he wanted to do a medley so he gave me 3 hymns and

told me what parts he wanted where...so I had a few weeks to put

together a medley...then we had 10 minutes before the tour started to

run in the other room and run through it twice and then we performed

in front of a 70!! Haha scary!!! But shout out to Coralie Harless for

being an amazing piano teacher and teaching me how to put medleys

together and pretend like I know what I'm doing... but we learned so

much!

I just want to testify about the power of prayer and receiving

answers. We had an appointment this week with the C family and

also one with Penny. They

both had similar experiences, they were saying that they prayed for an

answer or for strength but they weren't getting it. They said they're

still just sitting, waiting for their answer. I was thinking to myself

"gosh I feel like I do that"...then it kinda hit me that that's our

problem! Everyone says the Lord gives us our answers when we're

ready...so we wait till we're ready right? But what are we waiting

for?? Why am I not doing everything I can to prepare myself and making

myself ready to receive the Lords answers?! We talked a LOT about

preparing ourselves for answers and committed both of them to pick

just ONE thing...one thing to work on this week and change in order to

be actively working to get an answer from the Lord rather than just

waiting. I committed myself to do that too so I've been reading talks

and scriptures and really studying even more about prayer. And just

the little miracles we've seen and little answers we've gotten have

been so apparent. I KNOW that it's by continually progressing and

doing our best to WORK and bring ourselves closer to the Lord that we

are more prepared to receive answers from the Lord. Gosh I love

missions. I love the Lord and I love His work!!

Pday today Brother Bailey let us play with his Horses.  He loves his horses and is very knowledgeable about them

It was a GREAT day.

 

It was cold the past few days!! Brother Bailey knows we're always cold

so he bought us a light weight jackets....he really does bless and

spoil the missionaries....mommy and daddy, he says to tell you guys he

takes good care of us for you so not to worry....he really does...we

owe this man a lot....

This week is going to be a busy week! B is getting baptized this

Saturday and so are Be and S. They are all so excited and we

are so excited for them! Holy cow. The love that both sister Adair and

I feel for them is incredible. And if we love them this much I can't

even imagine how much our Heavenly Father loves them.

 Sorry it's soscattered today

Missions really are truly the

hardest, yet best thing ever. President Wadsworth says that missions

aren't always the best 2 years of our lives, but they are the best 2

years FOR our lives. And it's so true! Some times are just crazy hard!

And you get people yelling at you and trying to curse you with satanic

words and slamming doors in your face, and other times, the Spirit is

so strong and you just see the Spirit testifying to people of the

truth of the gospel. Nothing better.

I love you all so much!!

W/<3

Sister Hodgson