Hey everyone!
This week is going to be a little shorter haha sorry sometimes I type novels. But it has been a good week! I couldn't believe how fast it flew by. My companion and I made personal and companionship goals to just try to be really focused and exactly obedient with the use of our time and everything. I feel like we were really blessed and saw the Lord's hand in the work in response to our efforts. We were able to hit almost all of our goals and even exceed a couple!
We continued working with Mike and he is progressing so well! He loved coming to church last week and the next time we went to visit him he had cut his hair and shaved! Not only is his physical appearance changing but I can really see the light of Christ coming out in him too. It's so awesome! Like I've always hear stories about missionaries teaching people like this but it really does happen! Ha and the neatest part is now we're also teaching his 14 year old brother and he has committed to be baptized with Mike on May 10th! We are taught as missionaries to be early, often and bold with our invitations to people to be baptized. I always thought it sounded like the craziest thing to ask someone in the first lesson to be baptized but I've really been trying to trust the Lord and be more early often and bold and I'm seeing the miracles it brings! Last night we were finally able to visit with the family I had emailed about a couple weeks ago who are living in a tiny trailer with their friend Daryl. And we had a great lesson with them and I invited them to be baptized and they accepted! So including Mike and his brother we now have 4 people on date to be baptized!! Miracles are real and prayers are answered! Thank you for your support and prayers, I promise that they are being felt and answered by the Lord and that through our faith He is leading us to those who are prepared to accept the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Another super awesome thing that happened was we had 6 investigators come to church yesterday!! Seriously I think that's a new record or something! We invite and pretty much beg people to come to church every Sunday and it is really hard to get them there. Last week, Mike was the first person we have had come and then this week we had all 6 of our main investigators there! It was like the happiest day haha. The number one indicator leading to baptism is sacrament attendance. So you can imagine how exciting it is that we had awesome investigators come! I'm really excited to follow up with them this week and see how they liked it.
Okay and now I'll tell a funny thing that happened this week. I haven't changed and I still do really dumb stuff all the time like this... It's like 8:30 at night and we go knock on the door of a lady who said we could come back another time. So she opens the door and already doesn't come off as receptive as she was the first time and just after I shake her hand I feel something on the back of my leg. Natrually I thought it was a bug and freaked out and kicked my leg backwards like a horse haha and turns out it wasn't a bug.. it was a leaf from the plant that was in a nice pot that now due to my awesome coordinated backwards kick, is now upside down off the porch!! IT WAS SO EMBARRASSING! I totally kicked her big pot right off the porch and it landed up side down completely! I froze! Ha and luckily Sister Smith is awesome and jumped down and started picking it up because all I could do was look at the lady's annoyed face and overly apologize. Needless to say she was at least still nice to us after that but not interested in hearing anything else haha.
I hope you all have a wonderful week. I love you so much and am praying for each of you! Thank you for all of your thoughts and prayers and emails. I hope it works okay for me to write in response. I made a cute binder so I can print all the emails out and keep them with me during the week and then I'll reply this afternoon when we have writing time. Also, mail is awesome and if you do send any letters or packages just put my full name. People have had their mail tampered with so they said maybe we shouldn't put Sister or Elder on the mail anymore.
My address is
110 Oak Park Dr. Ste. B
Irmo, South Carolina
29063
I love y'all so much!!!!
Sister Hendrix
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