So this week has been pretty normal, nothing too exciting has happened. It has been pretty hot here though, I can't wait for the 2 weeks that it cools down haha. So we had a Zone training meeting on Tuesday and there were some changes made in the mission. President Cooper has loosened up on a few things. We used to only be able to listen to Mormon tabernacle choir, but now we are going back to the handbook and can listen to any music that is uplifting and directs our thoughts to the savior. I was pretty excited about that, I am starting to get tired of Mormon tabernacle choir. Also, now we can do service for members without there being a missionary opportunity there. I am not sure why that was a rule, but we are going back to the handbook for service. Member dinners haven't changed yet, but I think they will soon. President Cooper wanted to get some more advice on that one.
We went on an exchange with one of our zone leaders on Tuesday as well. He just came to our area so we were a tripanionship for the day. It went really well actually. He was able to help us and give us some good advice and tips on how to improve our work. We met this guy named Mario while we were parking lot contacting and it was almost time to go home. He was so happy to see us and just kept going on and on about how much he loves Jesus. He was even kissing the picture of Christ on the pamphlet we gave him haha. He said that we were an answer to his prayer because he has been looking for something more that he feels he is not getting from his church. We shared the restoration and set up a time to meet him. It was awesome! We have also started teaching a part member family named the Gleason's. They are super cool. The wife is a member and so are the kids, it's just the husband that isn't. He really likes us and we have a good relationship with him. We taught him the restoration this week and we committed him to read and pray about the Book of Mormon. We will see where it goes, his wife really wants him to become a member so they can go to the temple.
We did some service for this guy named Don this week. He is neighbors with one of the members and they are good friends. Don needed some yard work done and so the member called us and put Don on the phone. Don is about 80 years old now and can't do much, so we were happy to help him out. We cleaned off his pool enclosure, tried his bushes, cleaned out his rain gutters and cleaned off his fans outside. It was a lot of work to do, we split it up into two days. In total it took us about 4 hours. He is such a nice guy though, classic old man. He always had lemonade on hand for us and had enough to make 3 more gallons. He made us some soup for lunch both of the days too, he is great. We tried to teach him, but he wasn't too open. He has faith in Christ but doesn't belong to any church. He says praise the Lord just about every other sentence too haha, he's awesome.
Other than that we have just been knocking doors and doing a lot of street contacting. We have a few solid investigators, we are trying to get that number up, it seems like it is a little bit harder in this area, maybe because there is no ghetto. I am doing good though, this is the best time of my life! There is no doubt in my mind that this church is true. I love being a missionary! I hope that all of you have a great week, love you all!
Love Elder Hudson
Pictures of our sushi lunch celebrating my 10 month mark and my companions 7 month mark
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