The Adventures of My Life

First off, start sending email at this new email address: michaelhardy@myldsmail.net

Well, I’ve almost been in Carolina for 2 weeks now…crazy how fast time flies! This last week, we had a little rain and it seems to be cooling off to the 60’s. I’ve heard it actually gets a little chilly here in the winters and we’ve already been assigned to wearing our suit coats full time unless it gets over 75. The one bad thing about being here are the mesquitos, I have tons of mesquito bites, some of the areas are like little swamps. I’m sure it’s a lot worse in the summer though.

This last week, we taught 20 lessons and worked really hard. The downer though was none of our investigators made it to church…that is probably one of the toughest things to see your investigators break their commitments. It is hard with the hispanics because they work every day of the week just to make a living, they really can’t afford to make a sacrfice like that. I just wish they would make a law that you couldn’t work on sunday, then we would be able to baptize millions. We have one investigator, a 16-year old who has a baptismal date, but she hardly isn’t reading and she has only been in church 1 time in the 2 months she’s been investigating. I don’t know if she really wants to get baptized or if she is just trying to be a nice to 2 college aged guys. It’s crazy, Hispanics are so nice, they’ll say yes to anything you say, but they really don’t mean it. It gets frustrating sometimes….

Well, yesterday I had my first real day of spanish church, I came home with a headache because I had never inhaled so much spanish in my life! They have a little branch of about 15 member families, so it’s not bad…they filled up the entire testimony meeting and they have dedicated teachers for all of the classes, so I won’t get the priviledge very often to teach a lesson with a 5 minute warning. I bet I’ll have to give a talk in the next few weeks..hehe, but I’ll be alright.

We had some crazy days this week, when all of our appointments fall through and it looks like it’s not going to be a productive day, then all of a sudden some opportunity comes up and it makes everything better. On Wednesday, we were on exchanges and both of our appointments AND our backup plan fell through and we didn’t have anything to do. But the exchange just mentioned he had hispanic neighbors who he and his wife have been trying to talk to, so we decided to go over there and we taught them the 1st lesson, it was pretty cool. Then the next day, it was raining pretty constant in the morning and we only talked to one dude the whole time we were tracking and then we went to another trailor park and no one was home except for kids. So, in that same trailor park, we went and visited a recent convert and a women and her daughter she had told us about before came walking up to the trailor and we got to teach them in her house! For anyone who hasn’t done missionary work, teaching investigators in a members house is like the best you get…like gold. Entonces, the Lord always provides work for us to do if we work hard, It’s amazing.

Well, I don’t know what else to write, so I’m going to end my message here: !Que tengan un buen dia!

Con Amor,
Elder Hardy