Email 4/21/14

Dear Family,

This week has been a wild one! Whew! Blessing and miracles are
definitely results of the trials of your faith, and I have this past
week to prove it. Not more needs to be said about it. We just have
seen so many miracles The Lord has truly blessed, especially on this
Easter weekend.

This last week we had a focus on getting members to lessons and along
with everything else that we have been trying to do to find people to
teach. We were doing good as a zone at teaching, but when we were
following up with everyone, they said that their finding hasn't been
as productive. Elder Aragon and I saw the same problem in our area, we
were able to teach many people, but weren't able to find new
investigators to teach. Everyone in the zone seemed to be discouraged.
(As a side note--our mission has been putting a huge emphasis on
finding these past few months, so when we weren't able to find,
everyone's hopes just got shattered.) All the missionaries were doing
their part to go out and find, but everyone got the same response,
"Thanks for the message, but I am not interested," or "I'm an
atheist." We were all a little worried.

When Saturday rolled around we got a text from one of our District
Leaders saying that he had an idea. He told us that anyone that found
more new investigators than him, he would wash their car and buy them
lunch. I don't think it was the challenge, but much more the
enthusiasm that he extended it with that caught everyone's attention.
From that moment until last night, we were able to witness miracle
after miracle!! How grateful I am that the are people who are so
willing to help and so willing to do whatever is asked of them to help
inspire others. The enthusiasm was all that we needed to go and be
happy while we talked to as many people as possible.

Thank you all for the prayers and the help that you have sent up here
to the great NW. There are many people that need it, and I am grateful
that you have sacrificed your time to send some up here. I love you
all!!

Love,
Elder Hamblin

> On Apr 21, 2014, at 6:47 AM, Mindy Hamblin <mindyjohamblin@gmail.com> wrote:it