Thursday, July 6, 2017

Elder May - June Email



What a crazy few weeks for our Elder Bryson May!  We couldn’t be prouder or more humbled by the endless sacrifice and devotion he shows to all his missionaries that love and depend on him.  I have learned more about our Savior’s love through watching Elders and Sisters serve in the Youth Service Mission.  If you don’t know much about it, I encourage you to learn especially if you have children that will one day want to be a part of it.  The program is simply amazing.  I am honored to be a parent to one of the missionaries serving.  Brian attended the zone conference this month and said “It was one of the most spiritual meetings he’d ever been in…”.  Grateful for inspired leaders and grateful for a son that follows his heart, even when it is difficult.  Love him and so proud of him!  Enjoy!!

Wow this month has been quite the roller coaster. Earlier this year, my companion Elder Ferrell, had asked me to help him by being his caregiver over the summer so that he could continue his mission while his family was gone in Flagstaff. He didn't want to miss out on anything in his mission so he asked me to help him out. After a lot of prayer and discussion with my family and his, I had accepted to help him and it was truly wonderful. I lived at his house for about three weeks and was hanging out with him all day from when I helped him out of bed in the morning to helping him get ready for bed at night. It was truly such a miracle for me because even though there were times for both of us, that we were worried of being too much of a burden on the other person, I just want to say how much I have loved getting to know and be able to live and help Elder Ferrell. He is such an amazing person and he taught me so many things. He taught me how to be more grateful for what I have as well as being selfless and loving to everyone unconditionally. He taught me to have perseverance and to keep trying for the things that I want. I am so grateful for my mission because the more time goes on, I learn how much Heavenly Father actually knows me. He knows that my mission is always to serve and help others. 

I will admit that it has been tough for the last few weeks. My friends have been coming home from their missions and I have family with amazing news coming in and it's just tough for me to think about.  My airport homecoming was not what I had thought it would be when I left because I had only been out 3 weeks.   It's tough for me to go to certain family events and feel like I am supposed to be there. I love my time at home and I know I am supposed to be home but it still has the certain times when I feel like I shouldn't be somewhere or I don't belong somewhere which is difficult to go through. I know that Satan has been working really hard on me recently so it must mean that something awesome is about to happen to me.

Other than that though, I have absolutely loved my service mission. I love providing outreach to people and I have friends asking me questions about service missions and I love teaching people about my service mission. I have been able to be trusted more and more at Save the Family as they are giving me bigger and better projects to work on as well as entrusting me to work more and more with our client base and it is so much fun. I get a completely different perspective on life and I get to be a shining light to people and help them through whatever problems they have. The difficult part about working here is that I will never really see the progress or change that I make in people's lives but I know that I need to keep doing it. Not everyone is always ready for the gospel but everyone is always ready for service and that's why I love my mission.  I love how Heavenly Father made my life for me. He knows my struggles and my fears and right when I came home from my mission, I had a pilot program in just my state at the time with a service mission ready for me. 

I absolutely love Elder Ferrell and Elder Sanders. They are like brothers to me. I call them when I need help and they do the same thing back. They love people unconditionally and show the exact example of Christ's life to other people. I love my companions. Elder Ferrell and I find it to be insane on how we met each other. We live on opposite sides of the state and never heard about each other. I come home and start my service mission a few months after he starts his. I got put into his district after Elder Pugmire told me how he needed me at Save the Family. We met when there was a zone endowment trip and Elder Ferrell, Elder Bryson and I were the three people that were late. I helped get him dressed throughout the session. After the session, everyone left for dinner and Elder Ferrell and Elder Zollinger asked if I needed a ride which is when I learned how awesome his cars were and how awesome his power chair is and how cool of a person he was. Since then I have become his district leader, he has come with me on a few times that I take Dayton to the temple, and now we have become into a trio with Elder Sanders and we have bonded as the three of us and I couldn't be happier. 

I love Heavenly Father's plan for me and I love being the passenger as he shows me His almighty power in what he has in store for me. I love Save the Family, I love my missionaries, both my companions and my district, I love my family and my friends and I love my Heavenly Father and my brother Jesus Christ, who died for me that I may receive joy and be with my family and friends in eternal happiness as long as I do what is right and I help others. I am so excited to keep going.
District Activity - Human Foosball

District Activity - Human Foosball


My love to all of you –
Elder Bryson May