First transfers...

Our week has had its fair share of ups and downs. We got dropped by a solid person we were teaching (that's mission lingo for they politely turned down our lessons after happily receiving and keeping commitments for a while) but then we had a miracle and an awesome new person set up lessons twice a week!! Then today we found out all five of us Elders are staying in the same group for the next six weeks (which is pretty uncommon). We all love each other so it'll be fun! Anyway that's my week in a nutshell. Oh one more thing-we were driving down the freeway on our way back to the apartment and we saw a missionary with his tag on driving a non- mission car with a girl in the passenger seat. Obviously we turned it into a car chase to figure out what-the-what was going on. We caught up and through the window found out he was just driving home, he got picked up from the airport and was going to be released. He had just finished his mission. It was a funny incident and it was intense while it lasted!

I'll talk to you all next week! Lots of love!!

Elder Henry

*Photos of Elder Henry in front of a beautifully painted wall, a home-grown cherry of which they were able to pick a bunch of, a park and a street sign.

Elder Henry and his siblings used to watch The Wizards of Waverly Place, so he thought it was fun to find this street sign.*

Cool story I forgot to tell last week

My zone conference was a couple weekends ago and it was on a Saturday, we had a sweet conference and a bunch of awesome lessons and learned a bunch! One thing that was really cool was after we had left we actually were driving to grab some good Ole Books of Mormon. We were on our way to the mission office and saw a car stopped at a light, but everyone was going around it so we naturally pulled over, in the rain, in our suits and pushed him off the side of the road. A young man by the name of Isaac was behind the wheel in tears because his car just stopped running at the intersection.

We were going to wait until Isaac's family came to get him but then his car started working. So we followed him home to make sure it didn't break down again. He got home just fine and the other Elders we live with were able to teach him a quick lesson and share some of our core doctrine. He had some very good questions that he wasn't able to get answered at his current church and the Elders were able to answer those and get his number. It was awesome and just goes to show that so long as you put in effort to find people the Lord will prepare them and put them in your path! Keep up those prayers and the Lord will answer them!!! Love you lots! Talk to you next week!!!

Love Elder Henry!!! 

*Elder Henry and the other Elders do service work for a man named Randy every week. He is retired from the Air Force and has some boxes of decommissioned uniforms that he let the Elders go through. That, coupled with Elder Henry's self-administered haircut, has him looking like he's in boot camp! haha

grey week this week

It has rained and been cold every single day this past week. Despite it being
June it isn't getting very warm which I'm okay with being from Arizona. 
(most recently) Elder Eich and I tried to do a diet this last week and it 
would've gone better- the only problem is that members are too nice! 
So we are giving up said diet due to the fact that these amazing people are 
giving us too much food! 
My experiences with people trying to convince me out of my belief system 
have died down this week, but my faith does continue to grow regardless, 
we even had more conversations with a couple people who think outside the 
box but it was civil. Any who I'll talk to you all next week, love you lots!

         Elder Henry

*attached are some photos of Spokane wildlife (rockchucks are everywhere!), 
rainbows and zone conference

Undeniable signs from our Heavenly Father are everywhere you turn regardless of where you look. The only problem I've found is that I don't look hard enough. Our area presidency reached out to us recently and invited us to find an attribute of Christ that we may be lacking (personally) more than others. I didn't think of one off the top of my head. Using the tools at my disposal I did an activity in Preach My Gospel and found my lowest average trait was faith. Looks like I'm going to be improving my faith until further notice. Not sure that's too much of a problem seeing as I am away from everything I know and love to serve a mission (seems pretty faithful). But boy was I wrong. As I read and study and pray more and more about faith I learn more as well. I have found that Heavenly Father puts things into place. For example, "anti" is a big part of the culture in Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington. This means a lot of people are ready and able to bash you with every detail of your religion that they think is wrong. Too bad I don't tend to back down when it comes to verbal and logical conversations. Just this week, I ran into 4 separate occasions where someone has tried to shoot down my beliefs through their personal experiences and doubts that the adversary planted in their heads. It has been an eye opening week as far as that goes. After each experience, I walked away feeling more certain and happy to live and share the true gospel. I testify that our Heavenly Father loves us no matter what, and so long as we believe in him, he will answer our prayers and aid in all things. 

You may not see it happening, but somewhere, somehow he is preparing ways for you and helping you grow. 

That's all from Elder Henry this week. Stay tuned for more and also some less exciting weeklies. 

Love you lots!! 

      Elder Henry

Attached are a few pics from the last week, including the adventures of Woody. (Elder Henry and his roommates have been moving a Woody figure around the apartment like Elf on the Shelf)

Our week has been very interesting to say the least. We have been downtown and gave blessings to homeless people who requested them. (Although we are not allowed to go downtown again until further notice because of the protests) We have been to a park where we were asked to teach a whole family that were over burdened with bad influences. We even tore out some old flooring in a summer camp building. But one of the highlights was definitely Sunday's lunch. We made some mac and cheese with sour cream instead of milk and caught the stove on fire. The last time something was made, a little piece of food fell down underneath the burner and caught fire while the water was boiling. (everything is ok!) 

Elder Eich and I have been calling people like crazy. Every once in a while we either catch a break or fight our way into a lesson and give a date for a follow up appointment. The work out here is great and the members are awesome! The field is white and ready to harvest and we, as missionaries, are enjoying the work and co

ntinuing to do so no matter what we face. Love you all, until next week!!