A friend sent him their top ten events of the week. Here are Elder Hyde's Top Ten from this week:
Top Ten
10. Waking up
9. Walking
8. Biking
7. Shaving
6. Studies
5. Sitting
4. Talking to people
3. Eating
2. Sleeping
1. Preaching
Well, I have been here for 3 months and things have been alright lately, here is a summary of life.
We have seen a lot of people come and go and we have some people that have been around for a long time. But we have one guy named Joe, his whole family is members but he wasn't baptized because his parents were having some marriage issues and to spite the mom the dad said Joe couldn't be baptized. So he kinda took a hard left turn in his teenage years. He had to come live with his grandma because he decided he needed to change. So he has gone from doing everything you can think of, to now coming to church for 3 months straight. He will be baptized in the coming year-ish. He has some things that he needs to do before he is able to be baptized so we are just teaching and fellowshipping him for the time being, so that is pretty awesome. He has put some spirit back into this ward which has 4 people under the age of 40 that attend regularly. We have 8 people over 90 and 14 people over the age of 80, so yeah we have an old ward..... But we are trying to help this ward come back.
Yeah it is either the less-actives hates you or love you or just try to act as if you have the wrong person. One of the easiest I have seen was when we walked down the street and a lady flagged us down. Then we taught her and her son and they came to church 2 weeks in a row and then missed 2 weeks in a row. But it was because of travel, so I guess that is ok. But we will get them coming again this week. Yeah, it was pretty great. We just keep trying to help them come closer to Christ and Satan is like, “no don't go closer to Him” and we are all like Yes, Yes come closer to Him. So yeah, that is annoying when Satan gets all up in our business.
We have no idea what is going to happen this transfer since, we had some stuff go down in the mission lately. We had a zone leader emergency transferred and have had so far 4 elders sent home, sadly including one of my former companions, and there might be more, it just hasn't happened yet so we aren't sure. So I might be staying in my area or I might be going, so who really knows. I kinda feel like I might be the one heading on out but who knows. We find out the Saturday after the one coming up.
We also have a Seventy coming to the mission, Elder Carlson. It is on Thursday at The Granada Hills stake center. I can never get away, can I? Then we have one more week and then it is transfers and it is going to be an interesting one. Supposedly we are going to find out about iPads this month too, so this is a crazy month. Just like last year how we had 50 missionaries come in and Elder Miller and I opened an area and yeah, Septembers are a crazy month.
I have 10 months left, so it’s kinda soon, kinda not so long. I am an old man in the mission now, I'm 20 and I am over a year...... so yeah it is scary now. All of the missionaries that were here when I showed up are now leaving and it is like I don't know anyone anymore. The Sisters that came out with me only have 4 months left so ahhhhhhhh. Everyone has started to do the thing they did to Elder Mudrow, “How long you been out Elder, 14 months? Oh, so you are almost done?” No, stop saying that! I thought that would never happen to me, I would joke with him about it and now the exact same thing is now happening to me.....
I am just at the point where every day feels the same. They all mesh together and I sweat a lot. There are small differences, but nothing really major lately. So I enjoy watching the new missionaries have such drive and excitement. It is interesting and kinda sad to slowly watch that drive and excitement dim. They kinda see the real missionary life and realize that missionaries aren't some super people. That everything isn’t just smooth and there are no problems.
My bike is doing ok, it needs a tune up bad, but a real tune up not just me put some chain oil on and cleaning it off, so yeah, I am going to ask President if I can take it to a member in the Granada Hills ward who has been riding bikes for over 60 years now and fixes missionary bikes for free and I like free, free is good. Yep I have a new suit and I got new service shoes now I need to get some sport shoes, and my normal (normal is a relative term, I mean church shoes) are holding up ok, They are good old missionary shoes they are kinda tired but are still good.
I go fine, I'm a good old missionary, really tired but am still good. Life just keeps pulling along.
Love ya
Elder Hyde
Yeah it is either the less-actives hates you or love you or just try to act as if you have the wrong person. One of the easiest I have seen was when we walked down the street and a lady flagged us down. Then we taught her and her son and they came to church 2 weeks in a row and then missed 2 weeks in a row. But it was because of travel, so I guess that is ok. But we will get them coming again this week. Yeah, it was pretty great. We just keep trying to help them come closer to Christ and Satan is like, “no don't go closer to Him” and we are all like Yes, Yes come closer to Him. So yeah, that is annoying when Satan gets all up in our business.
We have no idea what is going to happen this transfer since, we had some stuff go down in the mission lately. We had a zone leader emergency transferred and have had so far 4 elders sent home, sadly including one of my former companions, and there might be more, it just hasn't happened yet so we aren't sure. So I might be staying in my area or I might be going, so who really knows. I kinda feel like I might be the one heading on out but who knows. We find out the Saturday after the one coming up.
We also have a Seventy coming to the mission, Elder Carlson. It is on Thursday at The Granada Hills stake center. I can never get away, can I? Then we have one more week and then it is transfers and it is going to be an interesting one. Supposedly we are going to find out about iPads this month too, so this is a crazy month. Just like last year how we had 50 missionaries come in and Elder Miller and I opened an area and yeah, Septembers are a crazy month.
I have 10 months left, so it’s kinda soon, kinda not so long. I am an old man in the mission now, I'm 20 and I am over a year...... so yeah it is scary now. All of the missionaries that were here when I showed up are now leaving and it is like I don't know anyone anymore. The Sisters that came out with me only have 4 months left so ahhhhhhhh. Everyone has started to do the thing they did to Elder Mudrow, “How long you been out Elder, 14 months? Oh, so you are almost done?” No, stop saying that! I thought that would never happen to me, I would joke with him about it and now the exact same thing is now happening to me.....
I am just at the point where every day feels the same. They all mesh together and I sweat a lot. There are small differences, but nothing really major lately. So I enjoy watching the new missionaries have such drive and excitement. It is interesting and kinda sad to slowly watch that drive and excitement dim. They kinda see the real missionary life and realize that missionaries aren't some super people. That everything isn’t just smooth and there are no problems.
My bike is doing ok, it needs a tune up bad, but a real tune up not just me put some chain oil on and cleaning it off, so yeah, I am going to ask President if I can take it to a member in the Granada Hills ward who has been riding bikes for over 60 years now and fixes missionary bikes for free and I like free, free is good. Yep I have a new suit and I got new service shoes now I need to get some sport shoes, and my normal (normal is a relative term, I mean church shoes) are holding up ok, They are good old missionary shoes they are kinda tired but are still good.
I go fine, I'm a good old missionary, really tired but am still good. Life just keeps pulling along.
Love ya
Elder Hyde
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