Elder Connor Hudson's Mission Blog : February 1, 2016

February 1, 2016

Hey everyone!

So this week has been full of ups and downs. We had a memorial service for a guy in our ward on Wednesday. His name was Jose Centeno. They are recent converts, they were baptized about a year ago. He was a really cool guy though, he barely spoke English so you could hardly understand him when he was speaking to you ha-ha. I would just nod my head and say "yeah yeah uh huh" His wife is having a pretty hard time with it but she is staying strong. He was about 75 but he looked like he was 50. So that happened. Then on Thursday we went on an exchange with the clearwater elders. I stayed in my area (Hudson) and my companion went to clearwater. So I spent the day with Elder Murat. He is from Haiti. He is a fun guy and is a good teacher. So I got to be totally in charge for the whole day, which was awesome, and I got to drive the car for the first time on my mission! I miss driving my truck....but it was good to finally drive. The whole day it was pouring rain. We had a pretty good day planned, we had some tracting to do as well even though it was raining. A lot of people let us in when we were tracting though so I guess that works pretty well ha-ha. We tracted for about an hour and taught 7 lessons. We had a lot of success. We were drenched by the end of it though so we had to go back to the apartment and change. It was a really good day though.

So we had a baptism this Sunday before church! His name is Ricky, we have been with him every step of the way and he was so excited. Elder Nilsen baptized him and I guess the water was pretty cold. When he went under he like freaked out and started flailing his arms because the water was so cold hahaha. It was kinda funny, but he went all the way under so it worked. Then during sacrament meeting I was able to confirm him a member of the church and bestow upon him the Holy Ghost. It was a cool experience being my first time. I wasn't really nervous though, which was weird because I thought I would be. The spirit must have just comforted me and it went well. He was so happy it was great.

This morning we helped our ward mission leader out and were digging some trenches for his drain lines for his septic tank. We had to dig about three feet down to uncover one pipe and dig a trench for another pipe. While we were digging we hit something metal. Well we found out that it was a 50 gallon drum buried in the ground. So we decided to dig it up. It took us awhile, the hole was about 4 or 5 feet deep by the time we got it out. It had some oil in the bottom of it that had solidified and I guess that it is a felony to have that buried in the ground. We have no idea why it was there, but it was, we had a lot of fun with it though. It was mostly sand that we had to shovel out, which made it easy because it was soft. That took us about three hours this morning. We were hoping to find something cool in it like some buried treasure or something, but sadly there was nothing in it haha.

That is pretty much all for this week. Thank you all for your support and all that you do! I hope that you all have a great week.

Love Elder Hudson