Small Miracles

This guy in our area has 2 Maserati's and a Mustang that is 1 of 10 made.  

Hey y'all!

This week has been great! 

I got transferred to Coppell and it is still a bike area. So that's fun, my new companion is Elder Frausto from LA. He has been out 5 months and seems to be pretty cool. We've had a good week of trying our best this week but are still working on finding more people. 

Dallas Daze

So the weather in Texas is really dumb and likes to change from bright sunny clear sky to down pouring crazy rainstorm in a matter of 10 minutes. So we were riding our bikes and it began to rain while we were in the library doing some companion study. So we waited for a break in the rain and rode home to get some rain jackets. I got my big huge goofy rain coat but big and goofy it may be? It is awesome for rain. It keeps half my legs dry as well as all of my upper body and has a hood. So it may be gigantic but it certainly more than gets the job done! Elder Frausto was not so lucky and was definitely absolutely soaked. But it was fun and felt like a missionary in their purest form riding a bike in the rain all day. 

This week I want to talk about what the best thing in life truly is and what steps come before and after getting there. There is a talk by a guy named George Durant called "A Number One Christian" and he is hilarious but through his awesome stories he tells he tells the message of what it means to be a number one Christian. He relates it as he goes on a scale from 1-10 of being a number on Christian to a scale of 1-10 of how clean you are. How number one is best and thereby you are perfectly clean when you're a number one Christian, but how number 2 is pretty darn good too and he jump between number 1 and 2 is pretty big but it's something we should strive to do. He talks simply about how there is nothing greater, nothing more profound or influential, nothing as meaningful as being able to tell someone including God at our time of judgement which we may as well pretend is every day, to look em in the eyes and say with the utmost confidence and no guilt, no memory of unrepented of sins, no guile or quiver in your voice, I am clean. 

I know I say it a lot and a lot of emails have been dedicated to it but I can't get over the reality of how truly amazing the fact we have a Savior is and even more so that guilt and shame can be removed. If you are able to listen to that talk I recommend it.

We had a pretty awesome experience this week that was a small miracle but a noticeable time we saw the hand of the Lord. We went to see a lady the bishop gave us to see and we knock and no answer, so we began to knock the 5 houses that touch the property (mission calls it Compass 5ing or knocking the 5 surrounding houses to any given house) and as we finish up the 5th, we were walking back to our bikes and we said, "let's go knock on that house next to the one we did across the street" so we did and no answer at all, we knocked again still no answer. So we walked back and were picking up our bikes when we saw the lady we initially came to visit pull up! We barely caught her, it was awesome. We had a good conversation about finding joy again, she was really struggling and was beginning to lose hope, she hasn't been to church in years and no longer reads or prays. And so we asked her about that and she told us that, we tried to help her see that of course life is a lot less meaningful without a reminder of why we are alive in the first place! A testimony to how when we stop doing the little things, our testimonies fade and our joy disappears. We committed her to read at least a verse a day and she said she could do that. So it was a great visit to lift someone that needed it, but we plan to continue working with her because she needs some love. 

But it was an awesome week! 

Love y'all! 

Elder Hiatt