July 25, 2016 (Bitter Sweet Week)

Hey everyone!! 
This week has been full of surprises, both good and bad. It has been kind of bitter sweet. Practically all of the lessons that we had set up with people for this week fell through, it was pretty ridiculous. My companion and I were getting discouraged at about the 4th day of this happening. We had our plans open most of the days this week so we decided to go and visit some less actives in between tracting. We have a lot in the area so we were trying to decide who we should go see. We prayed and felt prompted to go and see a couple of families, one of them being the Quintana family. When we arrived at their home they were so excited to see us. They had just been baptized 2 years prior in Kentucky and moved down here a year ago. When they got here they didn't know where the church was so as a result they stopped coming to church. We had a really good visit with them and really sparked something inside of them as we talked about the gospel. They have a 9 year old daughter that wants to be baptized with the rest of the family, we are now working with her to get here baptized. It was one of the biggest miracles of the week!! I know that we were prompted by the Holy Ghost to go there. 

      We have had a hard time keeping any investigators for more than 2 or 3 lessons. We have had to drop quite a bit of our investigators this week simply because they are not progressing. It has been hard, but we have found some really great people from visiting the less actives. We are going to visit less actives a lot more from now on. There are surprisingly a lot of families in the ward that don't have home teachers. The High Priest group leader gave us a list of these names so we will be using that. We had to drop the family I told you all about last week, they didn't want to meet anymore sadly. I know our efforts were not wasted though, they will always remember committing to be baptized, most people do. 

      Other than that not a whole lot has happened this week. I am still doing good and always looking for ways to improve. My companion and I are still getting along great, even through hard weeks like this one. Being on a mission is hard, but it is all so worth it, it can be pretty fun too if you make it that way. Anyways I hope that you all have a really great week this week, thank you all again for your prayers and support!! I love you all!

Love Elder Hudson

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