March 27th, 2017 (Miracle Week)

Hey everyone!!

      This week has been great! We have been able to get a lot done
and meet some cool people. Yesterday was full of miracles. First off
we had 4 investigators at church, two of which just walked in to check
it out and we are now meeting up with them this week! Rodney and Wilma
are still on track for baptism and things are looking really good with
them. Rodney quit smoking for good this week! We were teaching him
this week and were talking about quitting smoking. He had one
cigarette left and he was trying to give it away. I told him I would
take it and rip it up for him, but he wanted to do it himself. So he
ripped up his last cigarette and hasn't smoked since. He really loves
the Lord and the gospel. He's great. Anyways also on Sunday we were
tracting a neighborhood with some really big houses and were actually
able to get return appointments with two people. The last house was
the best though. We knocked on the door and a lady came to the window
and said, "Mormons?" We said yes and she opened the door. Well when
she opened the door 5 golden retrievers came out, lucky for us they
were friendly. Her and her husband were super nice! Their names are
Bob and Kim Cleghorn. They let us in and invited us to have dinner
with them, so of course we didn't deny that. They were pretty curious
as to what we were all about. We answered a lot of their questions and
are goin by this week to drop off a Book of Mormon! Super cool.
      Other than that we have just been visiting members and working
with less actives. Oh, we did get to do some service this week at a
food bank sorting food that will go to schools in the area. It's
always good to do service. We also stopped by a rodeo we saw going on
while we were tracting cause why not?! We did talk to a few people
there, mainly because hey were staring at us wondering what we were
doing there haha. It's been a good week! I love missionary work, the
Lord is in it and I can definitely see that. Great things are
happening here. Oh! Don't forget to watch conference next week!! I'm
super excited for it. I hope y'all have a great week!!

~ Love, Elder Hudson

March 20th, 2017

Hey everyone!!

      This week has been a good week. Nothing overly exciting
happened, but some good things are happening in the area. We have been
visiting a lot of less actives this week and have been able to get
return appointments with a lot of them which is good. Many of them are
young families. We are really struggling to get the youth back into
the ward because there is nobody their age here. We are doing what we
can though. We taught Wilma some more this week and reset her date for
April 8th! She has been super involved in the ward, she fits in
perfectly because she is like 75. She is liking church and has been
reading a lot from the Book of Mormon. I'm excited for her! We are
teaching a guy named Rodney who had a date set for this week but that
won't be happening. We found out that he smokes which he didn't tell
us about when we taught the word of wisdom. We are working with him on
that though. He's a good guy. Other than that not a whole lot has
happened. Those are our most solid people we are teaching.
      Today we went to Circle B park again and saw a bunch of gators!
We saw the 14 foot one that everybody keeps talking about. It was
huge! I'll send some photos. Elder Pruszynski and I are still getting
along really well and hope to be serving together next transfer too. I
don't really know what else to say...sorry for the short email! I hope
you all have an amazing week and that you remember who you are.


~ Love, Elder Hudson

March 13, 2017 (New Beginnings)

Hey everyone! This week has been a pretty great one. I don't have a
ton of time to write this week so it will be a short email. My new
companion Elder Pruszynski isa great guy. He works hard and we are
getting along great. We might still go to Dade city next transfer, but
it's not decided yet. Things are going good in the area. Not much has
changed last week. We have been visiting a lot of the less actives in
the ward. It's been pretty productive and it's keeping us busy. I hit
my 16 month mark a couple of days ago too. It's so weird that I have
been out that long. It sure doesn't feel like it. I'm loving it here
and I love doing the Lords work here in Florida. I wouldn't trade it
for anything. I hope you all have a great week!!

March 6, 2017 Transfers and Gators

Hey everybody!!

      This week has been full of exciting things. First off we are
having transfers this week! It's been a bit confusing, but Elder
Beauchamp is being transferred to my first area Hudson! He is really
excited to go there, he has heard a lot of good things about the area.
Then as far as me, originally President Cooper called me and told me I
was being transferred to Dade city and opening a new area there. Then
he called a little bit later and told me he changed his mind and said
that I will be staying for a bit. He is putting a senior couple in the
ward and we have a few people that we are teaching that are close to
baptism. He wants me to help the senior couple adjust and keep
teaching the investigators we have. I will be getting an Elder named
Elder Pruzinski. I know him a little bit, he was in my last zone. He
has been out for about a year now. I'm looking forward to it!
      So I know last week I said we were going to Circle B park to see
the gators, but we didn't go last week, we went today! We saw a ton of
gators too! I got a bunch of pictures I'll be sending. It was pretty
fun. Anyways we had some weird experiences this week. We went to stop
by one of our investigators that has a date for baptism and her family
that lives with her was in the driveway doing ecstasy. She was super
high, I won't go into the details but she was being very inappropriate
and asking us questions. Needless to say we left as soon as possible.
She lives right in the middle of the hood so that was no surprise. The
funny thing is that there were cops right across the street. People
are weird in the hood haha.
      We had a really good lesson with an investigator named Charlie
this week. This was our first real lesson with her and she is very
humble. Her husband is not doing good health wise and she is doing her
best to stay strong. We taught her the restoration and she definitely
felt the spirit. We also had 2 of our investigators with baptism dates
come to church on Sunday. It was great! We have some good things going
on here. I'm so glad to have had this transfer with Elder Beauchamp.
He is a great companion. Transfers are always stressful, but I like
change. I'll keep you all updated on how things go!! I love you all
and hope you make the most of this week.

~ Elder Hudson