Hello everyone! How is life in Arizona/Colorado/Anywhere else these emails are read?
So, it's officially spring now! That's exciting! We've been having awesome weather lately, so me and the chums are going on daily jogs in the morning to get our systems moving. It's...difficult at times, but I think it'll pay off in the long run. (No pun intended, of course)
Our whole companionship is pretty much healthy now, which is a good sign. We have all been trying really hard to find some new people to teach. And honestly? It could be going better. We have a few potential people we're going to try, and the ward has got a list of names for us that we're going to go over tomorrow night.
In other news, Jordan officially got the priesthood yesterday! That's right, he is officially a Priest now! I'm excited to see him start using his priesthood in upcoming weeks, hopefully to help bless the Priesthood, since we are low on Priests in our ward.
Other than that, we have been trying to meet with Chelsea again, as well as Juan and Mary, and get them to come out to church. So, please keep our investigators in your prayers.
We had Elder Pino come and talk to us for Stake Conference, and it was really cool. He spoke in his native language, and Bishop Reyelts (who teaches English as a second language) translated for him. He gave us a really awesome message that I wish my sick brain had retained more information about.
In terms of a spiritual thought, I gave this story in Testimony meeting a few weeks ago, and those of you in the Lakeside or Spring Creek ward probably remember this. Basically, this story is about a turkey. And this turkey learned something pretty amazing for a turkey: he learned how to fly. So, he gathered his turkeys together in a meeting and teaches all of them how to fly. And the lead turkey is a great teacher and teaches every turkey how to fly, and all of them fly around for the first times in their lives.
About an hour of this passes, and the lead turkey ends the meeting. And all of the turkeys WALK home.
So, what's the point? The point is, sometimes we go to meetings and experience these great things, great concepts, and new ways to live life better. But then we walk home, and we don't apply those things to our lives. We have the potential of these turkeys, the potential to fly. It's really our choice whether or not we walk or we fly.
Thank you all so much for everyone's support! I will talk to you all next week!
-Elder Hanley
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