2012 Jan 23 Letter from Elder David Hays

Hey mom
     I don't know what else to say. I am in love with missionary work. I could do it all day. I do do it all day. We had a mission tour this week and Elder Cook from the 70 came. It was so good. He tried to work us to understand the white handbook and how we need to follow it more perfectly. I was as always called to repentance. He talked to me afterwards and told me to read Numbers 13-14. He said that I was like Caleb and the missionaries were going to be like the 10 who brought the bad report. I needed to be the one who brings a good report. Which of course is hard to hear that I need to rise in front of a zone that will as I know disregard the corrections saying that they are too hard. They aren't possible, he was telling me that I need to bring a good report that I needed to show that we are going to follow up on this and do it that it is not impossible -- which meant that I had to live it.

 

One of the things that we were corrected about was going to visit sisters alone without another adult. Which it nearly impossible here since the only people that are home during the day are women. We won't be able to see the husbands home for a while maybe not till 9 o'clock. Most of our investigators right now are single women or women whose husbands are not home till late at night. What do we do. I mean, what. Well we decided regardless we are going to follow it. I felt nervous seems how our first lesson that very next day was to a single sister. Yay! I had no idea what we were going to do. So we went out and said that we need to keep the rule no matter what even if it meant our entire day falling apart due to no one we were allowed to visit. I felt strongly that the lord would provide. We went to this sister having no idea how we were going to visit her. As we went I felt nervous. We knocked on her door, "Karibu" she said, we asked if her husband was home she said no, we asked if she had any male neighbors she repeated no, we told her that we needed a man to be there and that we were going to go find a member and come back shortly with him. Now this is like saying to someone in the country that we are going to go get a member from off the streets and be right back there is no way that it is going to happen that way. I mean what is the chance that you find a member just floating around not where he normally is and he being a male and free and in the near vicinity. But regardless of logic we were going to hope.

 

We began to walk aimlessly for the first member that we could see, as we rounded the street we came to another investigators house (all women) but miraculously there he was Brother Robert the EQP just sitting and chatting, he said that he had a free thirty minutes and would be glad to join us. WOW, miracle, we went back member in hand and that was that. We haven't had a problem since. We are going to be as obedient as possible. I love it. Obedience brings blessings. Exact obedience brings miracles.

Well mom I am proud to say I love being a missionary. There is nowhere on earth I would rather be. I love it out here.