Monday, December 16th, 2013.
Dear Family of People With the Last Name
Hardy,
So nice to hear from you this week! Just
so you know, I'm feeling suppeerrr sick right now, so if my email is a little
bit lame, that's my excuse ;) I puked all night last night, because of some
nasty pizza I ate. Hahah pizza is dangerous, especially shrimp and salmon.
Bluuuuggghhh.
Yes I do have to puke, but I'm holding
out. So blah, just a little gross.
Holy, I loved loved loved hearing about
everything that you all did this week! Doing the 12 days of Christmas for those
elders, I can't even imagine just how happy that probably makes them. Little
things like that as missionaries means the world! So nice work, and really good
ideas, you sure are spoiling them!
About Grandma, it is really impressive
to live as long as she did! 97! Always a little sad to have a loved one
pass on, but such a blessing to know that we will see her again. I will keep
Grandpa in my prayers, that he will be comforted until it is his time to follow
her.
Well this week has been incredible, as
always. I really dont think I will have have a week on my mission where there
isn't something fun to tell about, as long as I am doing what I am suppposed to
do! One fun thing is that we had zone conference! Really great lesson about the
role of the Book of Mormon, and powerful practices teaching it! I got to teach
my "son" Elder Wilson, the one I took out in Barcelona a few months
ago! Great guy. Then we had a Christmas devotional, where I have an incredible
witness from the spirit of Jesus Christ. Hard to explain in words, but I was
the last one to read from the Christmas program, where it talks about who Jesus
Christ is. Out of the blue, I just got hit by the spirit, and started crying as
I was reading about Jesus. The room was just silent, and the spirit was so
strong. There isn't really a way to describe how it felt. Then we watched the
baptism slideshow which was fun to see all the pictures! Maybe it's on the
mission facebook site?
A couple of other fun stories for you
all! One night on the train, for some reason on the train compartment we were
on, it was just us two and like 15 girls our age...super random. So we gathered
all the courage we could, and went up to talk to all of them and invite them to
English class! It went great, they all loved it, and even started talking to us
about religion! I think one of them might have even stole my missionary
tag...because it was gone when i got off
of the train.... :(
One more crazy contacting story...that
same night, we were walking along the road next to a Muslim man. Normally I
dont contact them, but this time I did. Turns out the he is the Islamic leader
of this whole city...almost half of the city is Muslim here....so imagine that,
huge huge contact that I made! We made a great impressioin on him, and even
gave him a card!
Well that was some of my week. I am so
excited to open the gifts you sent, I really am enjoying the Christmas cookies
and caramels, people are begging me to bring some of my mom's homemade caramels
to them, so I may just share a few ;)
Love you all so much, I hope that this
week is wonderful for you all!
Love, Elder Hardy
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