Hello everybody! This week has been pretty normal. We have been doing
a ton of finding this week. We were also on bikes so we found a lot of
people on the streets. We got like 4 referrals this week also which
was pretty cool. They were at the top of our area though, we biked a
lot that day. After we contacted them and taught them we were knocking
doors in the apartment complex they lived in and when we came back to
our bikes we found that somebody had stolen our lights...that happens
a lot especially in that area. So that kinda sucked but what can you
do. Just let it go and forgive them.
My birthday was this week too! It was a typical day of missionary
work, but we went to a place called Texas cattle company for dinner.
They are supposed to give you a free steak on your birthday I guess.
So we went and told them it was my birthday and they asked for my ID
just to make sure and they paused as they looked at it and said I have
to be a Floridian to get the free steak! Man I was bummed! They did
give me a free appetizer though so at least I got that. I don't really
feel 20 haha. Life goes way too fast.
We haven't been able to meet with Laura this week because she has
been working late every day. Hopefully next week will be different. We
have been following up with a lot of our potential investigators and
new investigators this week. It's been a bit slow, but that happens
sometimes. Thank you all again for wishing me a happy birthday, it
means a lot to get emails from you all! I hope you all have a great
week!
~ Love, Elder Hudson
Monday, April 24, 2017
Monday, April 17, 2017
April 17th, (Blessings)
Hey everyone!
This week has been great! We have had some really cool things happen. We have been following up with a lot of people we met last week, most of them weren't home or didn't answer, but that's usually just how it goes. We have met some new people this week as well. One of them being a lady named Laura. She found us actually. She is in her 20's. She went to a Christian high school and studied other religions. She was assigned to write a paper on Mormonism. Ever since then she
has been super interested in what it's all about. It was different to her. So on her own she began to study our faith. She had been reading the Book of Mormon and even watching general conference and praying to know if these things were true. Well she got her answer. She asked her parents for their blessing to be baptized and they said yes. She then got in touch with a friend of hers who is Mormon and got things set up with us. This was all over a period of about 5 years. So we met with
her on Wednesday and had an awesome lesson. She is amazing! By far the most prepared person I have ever met. We set a date with her for May 6th. It was a huge miracle!! This week was transfer week and we had some changes within my district. We got a new district leader and we went on an exchange the second day he was here. He was actually my zone leader in the Brandon
zone. He is a super good missionary. We had a great exchange even though all of our lessons fell through. We still talked to a lot of people and had some great lessons. We are now on car share also with the Gibsonia Elders so this week we will be on bikes. Should be lots of fun! You always talk to a lot more people when you bike. I'm looking forward to this next transfer, some really good things are
happening. We are shooting for three baptisms in May. I think the ward is starting to get more missionary minded as well. Things are looking up!
Other than that we have just been doing a lot of finding this week. We had a good Easter Sunday. There were some really good talks given in sacrament. A member family had us over for dinner as well so that was nice. We went and visited a few less active families later that day and shared the Easter video with them. It went really well and we committed them to come to church next week. Lakeland is a great area with a lot of potential. It hasn't been viewed that way in the past by other missionaries. The Lord definitely blesses us for our faith and dedication. I'm so glad to be serving here at this time. This church is true, I know it. Miracles do happen today, I have seen it. If any of you reading this don't know that I encourage you to find out. I hope you all had a great Easter Sunday!! I love you all.
This week has been great! We have had some really cool things happen. We have been following up with a lot of people we met last week, most of them weren't home or didn't answer, but that's usually just how it goes. We have met some new people this week as well. One of them being a lady named Laura. She found us actually. She is in her 20's. She went to a Christian high school and studied other religions. She was assigned to write a paper on Mormonism. Ever since then she
has been super interested in what it's all about. It was different to her. So on her own she began to study our faith. She had been reading the Book of Mormon and even watching general conference and praying to know if these things were true. Well she got her answer. She asked her parents for their blessing to be baptized and they said yes. She then got in touch with a friend of hers who is Mormon and got things set up with us. This was all over a period of about 5 years. So we met with
her on Wednesday and had an awesome lesson. She is amazing! By far the most prepared person I have ever met. We set a date with her for May 6th. It was a huge miracle!! This week was transfer week and we had some changes within my district. We got a new district leader and we went on an exchange the second day he was here. He was actually my zone leader in the Brandon
zone. He is a super good missionary. We had a great exchange even though all of our lessons fell through. We still talked to a lot of people and had some great lessons. We are now on car share also with the Gibsonia Elders so this week we will be on bikes. Should be lots of fun! You always talk to a lot more people when you bike. I'm looking forward to this next transfer, some really good things are
happening. We are shooting for three baptisms in May. I think the ward is starting to get more missionary minded as well. Things are looking up!
Other than that we have just been doing a lot of finding this week. We had a good Easter Sunday. There were some really good talks given in sacrament. A member family had us over for dinner as well so that was nice. We went and visited a few less active families later that day and shared the Easter video with them. It went really well and we committed them to come to church next week. Lakeland is a great area with a lot of potential. It hasn't been viewed that way in the past by other missionaries. The Lord definitely blesses us for our faith and dedication. I'm so glad to be serving here at this time. This church is true, I know it. Miracles do happen today, I have seen it. If any of you reading this don't know that I encourage you to find out. I hope you all had a great Easter Sunday!! I love you all.
Monday, April 10, 2017
April 10, 2017
Hey everyone!
This week has been one of the best I've had in Lakeland. Rodney
and Wilma got baptized on Saturday! It was pretty stressful setting
everything up because we had a few things fall through the day before
so we were scrambling to get a program together. It all turned out
good though. It has been super cool to work with both of them and see
the changes they have made in their lives. They really have changed
and become different people. That is probably my favorite thing about
missionary work. Things like this strengthen my testimony a lot. I
have seen God's hand in these people's lives and give them the answers
to questions they have. I know he answers prayers and I know he loves
us.
Yesterday we had a pretty cool experience while we were
tracting. We were going around sharing the new Easter video and it was
getting pretty late. We always try to be out doing something in the
evening especially from 8-9. We call it "miracle hour." It was about
8:10 and we were knocking doors at an apartment complex. We knocked on
a door and met a Puerto Rican lady named Elsa. She was super excited
to see us! We talked with her for nearly 40 minutes. She said she was
praying this morning for God to give her some direction in life and
show her a better way. She said we were an answer to her prayer and I
fully believe that. The spirit was strong there as we talked to her.
We are meeting her and her family on Wednesday. I'm Looking forward to
it!
This week is also transfer week. Elder Pruszynski and I are
staying in Lakeland together! I'm super glad too because we get along
really well and have a lot of fun together. It's going to be another
good transfer. This is a 7 week transfer so it will be a little bit
longer, it will go till May 31st. We are going to be on car share
though, so we will be biking every other week. Not really looking
forward to that, but I'll do whatever we need to do. I'm so grateful
to be a missionary and to be having all these experiences. It has
changed me and helped me to become better. I hope all of you get to
have missionary experiences at least sometimes. An easy way to do it
right now is sharing the Easter video! If you haven't shared it on
social media or showed it to a friend you should do it this week. I
love you all and hope you have a great week!
This week has been one of the best I've had in Lakeland. Rodney
and Wilma got baptized on Saturday! It was pretty stressful setting
everything up because we had a few things fall through the day before
so we were scrambling to get a program together. It all turned out
good though. It has been super cool to work with both of them and see
the changes they have made in their lives. They really have changed
and become different people. That is probably my favorite thing about
missionary work. Things like this strengthen my testimony a lot. I
have seen God's hand in these people's lives and give them the answers
to questions they have. I know he answers prayers and I know he loves
us.
Yesterday we had a pretty cool experience while we were
tracting. We were going around sharing the new Easter video and it was
getting pretty late. We always try to be out doing something in the
evening especially from 8-9. We call it "miracle hour." It was about
8:10 and we were knocking doors at an apartment complex. We knocked on
a door and met a Puerto Rican lady named Elsa. She was super excited
to see us! We talked with her for nearly 40 minutes. She said she was
praying this morning for God to give her some direction in life and
show her a better way. She said we were an answer to her prayer and I
fully believe that. The spirit was strong there as we talked to her.
We are meeting her and her family on Wednesday. I'm Looking forward to
it!
This week is also transfer week. Elder Pruszynski and I are
staying in Lakeland together! I'm super glad too because we get along
really well and have a lot of fun together. It's going to be another
good transfer. This is a 7 week transfer so it will be a little bit
longer, it will go till May 31st. We are going to be on car share
though, so we will be biking every other week. Not really looking
forward to that, but I'll do whatever we need to do. I'm so grateful
to be a missionary and to be having all these experiences. It has
changed me and helped me to become better. I hope all of you get to
have missionary experiences at least sometimes. An easy way to do it
right now is sharing the Easter video! If you haven't shared it on
social media or showed it to a friend you should do it this week. I
love you all and hope you have a great week!
 |
| The black guy is Rodney, Wilma is the lady and the other guy in white is a member who baptized her. |
Monday, April 3, 2017
April 3rd, 2017
Hey everyone! It's been a great week this week. Wilma and Rodney are
set for their baptisms next week. They are both all in and excited!
It's great. We have been trying hard this week also to find more
people to teach. We have found about 6 or so new people to add to our
teaching pool. We will see where they go. Conference was super good
this weekend!! I always love hearing from the Prophet. I really liked
Elder Rasbands talk when he talked about acting on the first thought
that comes to your mind because most of the time that is the spirit
prompting you. It helped me because sometimes I doubt if those
thoughts are from the spirit and I may have passed up some great
opportunities. I'm going to try harder with that. I hope you all were
able to watch conference as well. We ended up watching it at the
church and it was only us there. We didn't have any members invite us
over. It was alright. We did go to the Highlands area which is right
below ours for the priesthood session though. They had a get together
before and had food.
We had a zone activity day and zone conference last week. In
zone conference we talked a lot about repentance and goals. President
is starting to tighten down on some things. It was good though. It
lasted pretty much the whole day. Other than that not a whole lot has
happened this week. We went to drop off a Book of Mormon to that lady
Kim I talked about last week and she said we could follow up in two
weeks. We will see how it goes. I'm excited for another week!
Transfers are coming up soon so I'm trying to make the most out of
this one. You never know what's going to happen. Anyways I hope you
all have a great week!
set for their baptisms next week. They are both all in and excited!
It's great. We have been trying hard this week also to find more
people to teach. We have found about 6 or so new people to add to our
teaching pool. We will see where they go. Conference was super good
this weekend!! I always love hearing from the Prophet. I really liked
Elder Rasbands talk when he talked about acting on the first thought
that comes to your mind because most of the time that is the spirit
prompting you. It helped me because sometimes I doubt if those
thoughts are from the spirit and I may have passed up some great
opportunities. I'm going to try harder with that. I hope you all were
able to watch conference as well. We ended up watching it at the
church and it was only us there. We didn't have any members invite us
over. It was alright. We did go to the Highlands area which is right
below ours for the priesthood session though. They had a get together
before and had food.
We had a zone activity day and zone conference last week. In
zone conference we talked a lot about repentance and goals. President
is starting to tighten down on some things. It was good though. It
lasted pretty much the whole day. Other than that not a whole lot has
happened this week. We went to drop off a Book of Mormon to that lady
Kim I talked about last week and she said we could follow up in two
weeks. We will see how it goes. I'm excited for another week!
Transfers are coming up soon so I'm trying to make the most out of
this one. You never know what's going to happen. Anyways I hope you
all have a great week!
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