Email 1/13/14

What the heck! No one ever told me about Tell! Man, the things that you miss on your mission! I hope that the family is doing good and that everything is working out. That is sad to see one such as him go. Please let the Udall family know that I will be praying for them and that even though they are Udall's, I still love them.

Well, sorry about my letter this past week. I bet you are thinking to yourself "What letter?" Exactly, we were just about to leave this morning and I grabbed my notebook and realized that my letter from last week never got sent off. I don't know what has been happening lately, but I can't remember a single thing. I could have sworn that I sent you all that letter, but it will come in the mail this week!

Thank you soooooo much for the GPS, it definitely makes life a whole lot easier to get from appointment to appointment in an efficient amount of time. I know that I have not been as grateful for everything that you all sacrifice for me, but I really do appreciate it all. I haven't been as diligent at writing or as good at sending pictures (but let's face it, I never really was anyway), or any of the small and simple things that show my gratitude, but you will never know the thankfulness and love for all of you that I have in my heart. I have never found it too easy to love people, and I think that is why God puts us in families and sends us on missions. The charity that we learn in these two foreordained factions leaves an enlarged place to expand in each human soul who desires to willingly participate in these units. I only hope that you all will never forget how much I really do love and appreciate everything you do, whether I show it or not;).

This week has been good. We may have offended one of our top investigators, so it looks like we are going to have to apply some of that charity that is needed here soon. He has been investigating the church for a while and were trying to make daily contact with him to see if that will help him progress. We asked him one day if we could come over and he said that he didn't feel like it. A little upset we told him that he knew that he had to meet with us. He had told us again and again how much better he felt after we came by, so we thought that it might work. Since then we haven't heard from him. Yesterday we were talking with the family who is fellowshipping him, and they said that he took what we were trying to say as being too pushy.  As I have been thinking about this, I have learned so much about the charity that Christ must have had when He told the Jews over and over who he was and that he was only there to help them, nothing else. He never forced His will on us, nor can we force our will on anything else. We are going to try and see this man tonight and I think a big bowl of crow soup on our part might be eaten, but in the end it will be worth it!

Love,

Elder Hamblin