Wow this was a crazy month. I had weddings, I went to my first Mission activity and met all of the Elders and Sisters of our wonderful mission, and I went for the first time to the temple with Elder Hayward and Elder Haws. Overall, it was a long month but it was so rewarding!
So the weddings. The first one was of my brother Hunter and his new wife, Alexiss. I was able to take part of her endowment session and even be in the sealing room with them and it's cool how you can have fun in the temple by doing family names and being with other people while also giving people a chance to receive the gospel in the spirit world. I then went to celestial room and prayed there for comfort and the ability to become more humble throughout my mission and letting the Lord's Atonement guide me and the Spirit was so strong with me after those endowment sessions that I know them to be true.
I will touch on my experience with Elder Hayward and Elder Haws. Probably not just touch because it was incredible but I assume you know what I mean. The entire experience was amazing. Elder Haws is so kind and caring and selfless. He would tell Dayton everything that he was about to tell me and keep him in the loop of what was happening. As I was in that session, we sat in the back and they gave us a screen so it was easier for Dayton to watch but I had noticed that I was watching off the smaller, closer screen with the subtitles more than I was watching on the big screen. It is now weird for me to watch it without subtitles being shown!
The longer throughout the session, I started to care more and more for Dayton as I could feel his spirit soften my heart and pierce my soul. Elder Haws told me that sometimes Elder Hayward couldn't control his left hand and every time Elder Hayward couldn't do so, Elder Haws would gently grab his left hand and just hold it on Dayton's leg and to me that was just another Christ-like attribute that Elder Haws was showing to Elder Hayward. The ordinance workers at one point asked Elder Haws and Hayward if Dayton would like to be in the circle and when Dayton blinked, Elder Haws could not hold his excitement in because it was going to be Dayton's first time doing so and it was not only incredible for that but as soon as Dayton went into that circle, his hand stopped shaking and he had control of it for the entire duration of the circle and then as soon as they were done, his hand started to move again. It was just amazing incredible Dayton's spirit is. I want to come and go to more of those with both Elder Haws and Elder Hayward because they are already such amazing example of Christ to me. They carry the Spirit with them wherever they go and I want to be around them more for that Spirit that they hold. They have made me want to change and become not just a better missionary but be a better friend, a better person and just a better example of Christ.
Lastly, I think I am supposed to touch on my strengths and my weaknesses. I guess for my strengths, I have become better acquainted and loved by those at Save the Family. I am helping them with any task at this point and they are becoming more and more aware of me here. I feel like I am developing more traits of love as well as more ways to feel the Spirit, especially while listening to instrumental music and General Conference talks to and from my commute to work. I would say that my weaknesses could be having low self-esteem or low self-worth maybe, as well as trying to increase being humble and loving to everyone me, just being able to let the Spirit enter my heart better but I will try to make those my strengths by changing my perspectives in the upcoming times of my mission. I am excited to keep working with save the Family and continuing to go with both Elder Haws and Elder Hayward in the temple!
Thank you for all your paraders and support - I love you all!!
