Hello Family,
Sorry I didn't email yesterday we didn't have a chance to do it. So we are doing it today...obviously.
My week has been pretty good. On Sunday,
one of the wards had an amazing musical number. The guy sang the
version of O Holy Night that we hear every Christmas Eve from Robert
Breault (I think that's his name). He did an amazing job, but at the part
when he is supposed to go up to the really high note he just stayed at
the same one. It was sad, but he had an amazing voice. It reminded me of Christmas Eve.
Glad you were able to go to the Messiah fireside. That would have
been way fun. This will be the first year in 4 years that I
haven't performed the hallelujah chorus. Kinda depressing, but oh well.
How do the madrigals sound this year chad? Sorry I won't be able to do
the alumni numbers with you this year, I am going to miss out for sure.
There is a gospel essentials class that we go to with our less
actives and our investigators. Recently we started teaching the
Hunter family who is less active in the ward. It's amazing to see how
they have grown in faith since we started teaching them. They have been
to church the past couple weeks and the dad has started reading on his
own. He never reads the things that we leave him, but he is reading and
we talk about what he reads in our lessons. Because of him, his kids are
getting excited about the gospel as well. The daughter has some sort of
minor mental disability so reading and praying are hard for her. The
dad said that he was going to work with her on learning how to pray and
practice with her. I hope that next lesson she will be able to say the
opening or closing prayer. Funny story that happened. Hopefully I didn't
tell you this already. We were saying the closing prayer and the family
was fighting about who was going to say it and the little boy wanted
to, but the dad said that it was his turn. So we started to pray and we sat
there for a little while in silence and the next thing we here is the
little boy saying: "Do you remember how to start?" It was the funniest
thing ever! We laughed for like 5 minutes.
Last night I also had a way good experience with our investigator
named Dolly. We weren't able to find a member to go with us to that
lesson so we couldn't go in to teach her. (we aren't allowed to go
inside unless there is another guy home) We did go and say hi to her at
least though and SHE had us say a prayer for her and asked us to thank
heavenly father for everything she has and her kids and asked us to pray
for her to have strength to do well in her job interview today.
I was the one she asked to say that prayer and I did my best. When I
said amen, she looked at me with tears running down her face and thanked
me and us for all we do for her. It was amazing! Also, the previous
visit to this one we gave her a blessing that her tooth would stop
hurting and I did my first sealing. That was scary to say the least. I
probably failed at it, but I will get better...hopefully. She said she
was feeling better within the next day or so though so I must have done
something right.
Um, This last week was my first zone conference. That was pretty
fun. It was an 8 hour meeting. President Morby gave us a Book of Mormon
for Christmas. I have 4 copies now. woohoo. President Morby also did a
lot of instruction on repentance and why, how, and what we are supposed
to teach about it, because really that's what we are asking people to do.
Repent and be baptized. We can all repent though for the things we do
wrong. That's what the atonement is for and that's what we are sharing
with people during this Christmas season for a thought.
I gotta go now, but check out www.mormon.org/christmas.
The church is pushing it hard.
Love you lots
Elder Udy
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