Hi Mom,
I am enjoying my new CDs, thanks. The EFY one is different than the last one and so I am getting used to it, and the other one, I listened to only once so far, and that was while cleaning, so not very much got in. It sounded good; I just haven't sat and listened to it much. We don't have as much time for that here as I have in other places. We had the assistants call and congratulate us again on having a really good week. I don't know if they make rounds now or something or we are actually just doing really well. We only had 2 investigators (yeah only 2 that sounds so dumb. I remember when I was ecstatic if we had one or even just a less active) oh and we had 3 less actives at church. Well, 2 and a half, but one we had dropped because we couldn't get in contact with him after the first lesson. But then he came to church yesterday after not even seeing him for like 6 weeks. Yes, he is friends with one of our investigators and all but he came for the first time, so that is cool. Our ward is really trying to reach out and help in the work, which is a really big change since I got here. We are apparently going to have like Joe and then 2 or 3 of the young men and then the young men's councilor all at this next meeting with Angel. When I said we need to get more members to lessons, I was meaning more members to different lessons. Not like 10 to just one lesson, ha-ha. We got a ride from President Clink Yesterday, he is our Stake President, and he said he was grateful that we were hard working brethren.
We went hiking over on the Burbank ridge as a zone, we were south of the big white B for Burbank (which throws me of every so often, thinking somehow I am in Bountiful). It was a terrible hike because there was a fire maybe 5 years ago so the trail used to be almost completely shaded but now is barren and an oven.
Well here is kinda my week:
We gave a mini lesson at church to a member’s friend right after opening exercises. The teaching situation was weird, cause some how it worked out to be Sister Ogilvie and I teaching as a companionship. Elder Hui and Sister Hardy were talking to the member’s daughter that got back from BYU-I. I moved over to see what was happening with the nonmember. So yeah ..... it was weird. She was Seventh Day Adventist so her question was the same as others: why Sunday not Saturday. I gave a logical answer and a scriptural answer and told her to pray. Logical answer: because during the time of Christ, Saturday didn't even exist yet. Scriptural answer: Mark 2: 27, as well as that Christ said that he came to fulfill the law of Moses not break it, and so thus the Sabbath no longer would have been as the Jews had it.
As well as we had a hand off lesson with the Spanish elders they gave us a man named Lance who they found. He is interesting because he lives in a group home and it is a narcotics anonymous home as well, as for mental and physical disabilities, so we are still trying to completely make sure he is accountable.
We also had a great time at the Zone Conference. Elder Carlson’s wife, Sister Carlson, stood up and pretty much chastised us and said; all the rules apply to you. You can think that the rules don't apply to you, but they do. Then she gave some weird examples, like a guy in the Air Force who wanted to buzz his parents’ home and was told no. But apparently all he heard was blah blah blah and thought the rules didn't apply to him. So he went to buzz the house and made a pass. While turning around, his wing clipped a tall pine tree in the yard, and he crashed in front of his parents’ house. She gave some other examples. So we all thought, if that was the way she is then holy crap, what is the general authority going to be like?! So he got up and started and the gist of what he said was in a very nice manner: be obedient ... it's smart, ok, and then moved on. Ha-ha, so yeah, it was weird but pretty cool. He was a funny guy who didn't completely want to be a general authority. He said it was never a plan or on the radar or the top ten on the list, it just wasn't even on the list. So yeah, he was kinda cool.
Love
Elder Hyde
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