This week has been pretty good! There have been a couple of crazy lightning storms and a ton of rain, nothing out of the usual. It was bike week this week too so when its raining and there is lightning we can't do much. We usually just take cover in the closest place we can find. Luckily this week we were in lessons when the rain started so we just got to have like an hour lesson haha. The lightning here is so crazy though, I love it! It makes things interesting and it looks cool. I got some good pictures. Anyways this week we met the coolest guy. It was on Monday actually when another Elder started talking to a guy in his car while they were stopped at a stop light and invited him to come to the church for a tour. He accepted and gave them his number. This was when they were on their way to zone development day at our building. We were supposed to meet him on Monday but he couldn't make it so we scheduled for Wednesday. Since he was in our area we are teaching him. He came to the church and we gave him a tour and then taught him about the restoration. He has a crazy story, he was in the military when 9/11 happened and has been through a lot. He has died 17 times and suffered the worst brain injury in medical history and lived. He is very humble and religious. To make it short we set a baptism date with him for October 29th! He said he is going to come to church next week and start reading the book of Mormon. It was a huge miracle!
Conference weekend was great! We got to do some service Saturday morning and helped a member put up a new fence. I always love doing service, its good to switch things up every now and then, tracting can get boring haha. I loved conference though, there were some great talks given. I loved the talk by Kazuhiko Yamashita about being ambitious for Christ. He told the story of the missionary with the prosthetic leg who had to be reassigned to another mission where he didn't have to bike. Maybe I liked it just because I am a missionary too but I really connected with that talk. Sometimes, speaking figuratively, as a missionary you can feel like you have a prosthetic leg that may be holding you back and you begin to question why you are there and if you are even doing any good. I know that there is a reason I am put in the mission and different areas I am. There is a purpose to fulfill and people here that I am meant to meet and touch. That goes for every missionary. The Lord knows best and has his hand in all things, I trust in that every day. There were many other good talks, but I liked that one a lot. President Monson is looking great too! I was very happy to see him and hear his words. He is very simple but strong. I am so grateful to have a living prophet today! I hope you all had a great conference as well. We were at a members house for all of the sessions. We were supposed to have investigators come to the church but they weren't able to make it. We had fun at the members house though, they have like 6 kids and do a lot of activities and have treats during conference. They do conference right! Anyways that's all for this week. It has been great and I really needed that boost from conference. I hope you all have a great week and never forget who you are as a child of God.
Love Elder Hudson
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