Elder Hyde forgot to share important information



Elder Hyde's view during companion study

Elder Ehninger

Hello again my faithful and captivated audience,

I may or may not have forgotten to tell you all some important information in the past few weeks, I actually am not on a mission, I am actually on a deep space mission to search for life on .......... oh I have just been told that I am not allowed to disclose that information at this time. Well then let’s go back to the cover story.

OK, OK, I actually did forget to tell you important information, for the past four weeks we have had an investigator with a baptismal date, and we had her baptism on Saturday and was confirmed yesterday. So I thought I should mention that now that it has passed and so yeah it was a wonderful service and her story is pretty cool. The reason I kind of forgot to tell you about her is that she is so golden she has been a member in my mind for like 2 weeks now, she read the entire gospel principles book and the entire daughters of the relief society book too before she was baptized. Well so here is her story so missionaries knocked on her door like 20 years ago; she took some lessons and then stopped. She got married young to William Bowman, he was in the Air Force, and they have been married for 42 years. They had 2 sons and one of them by his own choice was baptized because of his friends and then served a mission in the Philippines, like 10 years ago-ish. Then she comes to find out that Bill is also a member but he left the church and didn't tell her so she didn't even know about that and now she is a member, because Bill felt that he wasn't doing his part as a husband so he called the missionaries to come teach her, and he has decided to come back to church, so she wants by the end of next year to be sealed in the temple so she is really special. So now she is a member and she is going to be amazing. I was chorister for the service and apparently if you don't continue to kind of like do that every once in a while you kind of forget how to do it, so I failed tremendously or gave a valiant effort as Bro Macdonald said. Then on Sunday we went to the bishop’s house for Sunday lunch and I said we did learn one thing from the baptism, well other than Heather took the name of Christ on her and all, but other than that we learned that I shouldn't be allowed to be the chorister for things anymore and he said that I had to keep doing it and so he said I had to be the chorister at the next baptism we have as well haha I said ok so I guess I better get practicing.

We had a lesson with a woman named Cindy on Wednesday. She had the sister missionaries knock on her door 20 years ago, and she says the missionaries always seem to turn up whenever she is having a hard time in her life, Coincidence? I think not! She is an interesting person as well because the missionaries before either me or my companion were in the area knocked on her door and taught her 2 lessons and then she never answered the door or replied to calls or texts and then 2 months later when Elder Ehninger and I are in the area we decided to go and knock on her door again and she was there! Apparently she had just been on a two month vacation because the kids were out of school and so we set up a next appointment but she said oh I can’t next week I am going on a trip just me and my husband. But we taught her on Wednesday, and she is Catholic but half of her family is actually LDS and so she has been to church and knows about us so it is really cool, but the really fun thing is that she has a testimony that the Book of Mormon is true and Joseph Smith is a prophet.................. or kinda saint ... she says that she has prayed to him and received that he is true and so she has added him to her saints and that all religions are good just parts of each so yeah ........ just a few things that we kinda need to work on but she came to church but she came after we had the confirmation and after the sacrament and left during the middle of the closing song but its ok she is a mom she has a lot to do.

We had another investigator who is in the middle of moving and other problems but Elder E. taught her a month ago when she was staying with a member in the ward and hasn't been back since but on Thursday she was back up here and so we went over and taught her again and it was great I gave good input and used good scriptures so I am getting better at teaching people ( I have the walking up and talking to anyone part down, now to work on the teaching the gospel part too I hear that is an important part or something like that) and so then she went back to her friends she is living with down in LA and then Sunday she just showed up for church we didn't invite her or anything it was of her own accord it’s a 50 min. drive for her so it is pretty awesome that she came up.

While we were knocking house this week, we knocked on this man’s door, and started talking with him and slowly by slowly it got weirder and weirder until it got to his theory that white man was created by a black weird and that we are evil because we have ambition and that is why the black man does not have ambition because they are not evil ....... now the super great thing is that this is being said by a 55 year old ...... WHITE guy hahahahahha its awesome, he said that there were only blacks until white man was created and see what ambition has done to the world, wars and corporations and so forth and yeah it was awesome ...... and apparently he had been knocked on before but we didn't go to find him we just ended up there so we think that there is a reason why he has been found twice but can’t figure out why because he doesn't want to change. He likes think that he and the white race are evil so yeah we will figure out what we need to do here soon maybe...

Well we are still teaching our wonder friend Adrian, we think we (by we I mean Elder E. I gave like one thing that's it) found a way to help him understand a lot of things but we shall see. Well there isn't a lot else to talk about my good campadres thus I bid thee adieu, so adios

Love

Elder Hyde



Bonus picture and letter from Bishop Hansen's wife Sister Melanie Smith Hansen from American Fork Utah.

Good Morning Brother and Sister Hyde,

We had the pleasure of feeding your son and his companion dinner yesterday.  I thought I would send a little picture and note along.  We really enjoy having your son serve in the Valencia 3rd Ward.  He is a great missionary who works hard and is a great example of the Savior.  Thanks for raising such a great son!  He is doing great work.  We loved having him over yesterday.

It is a small world in the church.  We discovered that you both attended AF High School.  So did I!  I think I was a year or two behind you.  I graduated in 1986.  I pulled out my yearbooks and found a picture of you Sister Hyde -- but I guess Brother Hyde was a senior before I was in High School.  Small world.  My maiden name was Smith.  

Hope all is well!  Have a great day!

Gary and Melanie Hansen