Paige is adorable
Wow those pictures of Paige are just
adorable! I'm sure she did amazing!! Lizzie looks so cute too in her little
wings.
Well Lizzie is my last hope to have
another sensible musician in the family. Oh well, I tried (jokes). In reality
my singing ability has greatly improved on my mission because it's the only
instrument I really have out here. Maybe I'll go out for choir and band when I
get back to BYU. Good thing that's a million years away...
Speaking of singing this weekend was
Stake Conference and our ward did the music for the Saturday session. We did a
super awesome, but way too hard for the choir in question, rendition of "Au Grande Prophete"
(Praise to the Man). The tenors were great, but we were too loud because we
were the only section that knew the part. The song ended on an F above middle C
for the tenors so I decided to blow the top off of the Stake Center. Luckily I
was the only one who could really hit the note, so it sounded good I
think.
To respond to your question about
service, we are looking for community service opportunities, but mostly just
keeping our eyes peeled for unplanned opportunities. A good example of how it
works was last Wednesday we were doing pass-byes in the afternoon in Saint-Francois.
This normally isn't a good use of time, but we felt that it was the right thing
to do. No one was home at any pass-byes and no one on the street had been
interested, then we pulled up on a certain street to pass-bye a former. The
former had been dropped due to a complete lack of progression, and normally we
wouldn't have passed by him without calling in his case, but for some reason we
had gone to his street. We sat in the car for a bit without saying anything
when we got to the street. After a few minutes Elder S asked why we were
still sitting there. We had no idea. We got out of the car and saw a man raking
his leaves who hadn't been there when we pulled up. We grabbed our bags and
literally ran to ask if he needed help. He accepted and randomly had an extra
rake. I grabbed the rake and started raking with him while Elder S started bagging the leaves. It took about 25 minutes to finish and the whole
time we talked about his life, his family, his home in Haiti (all in French
I'll have you know). At the end we asked if he'd be interested in hearing our
message and he accepted gladly. We haven't managed to teach him quite yet, but
soon my friends, soon. It was such a huge testimony to me of the power of
service. I could have walked up to him and just contacted him and left. I would
have fulfilled my purpose technically, but we're here to serve man (lol) and
the spirit had led us to this man not to be like "Hey, Hey you! Join our
church!" He sent us literally in response to his prayers for help,
and used our service to open his heart to learn about the restored gospel.
That was a long story. I can't help
but tell it as excitingly as I can.
As for being in charge, it's going
good. I'm trying to figure out how to be nice to the Sisters without being TOO
nice and friendly like their last district leader. As for phone calls, they
still make my stomach drop, but It has been a long time since that feeling
stopped being enough of an obstacle to keep me from doing them.
I know that the gospel we live is the
true gospel of Jesus Christ. I know that he will come again to the earth, and
the joy we will feel at his coming will surpass all the emotions we can
experience in our mortal lives. I love you all so much! Never forget who we
are. We are God's converted disciples. We are all he has with regards to ground
troops. Its up to us to go get the dirty work done so the spirit can testify
and convert.
Love!
Elder Hardy
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