Wednesday, November 16, 2016

14th Week in Tampa

This week has been amazing! Elder Christensen and I have been having a blast! He's from Twin Falls and is the oldest of four. He was already ready for his mission when he came out so it's been amazing! We've seen so many crazy miracles! For instance when we were shopping at Walmart today the cashier stopped us and asked for us to send him copies about our religion and to come by his house once the holiday season ends so we can answer his questions. The weather has been much nicer here too. It's been cloudy and the upper 70's during the day so I'm loving it. It is sad though because I feel like I need a sweater in this weather. Thing have been great though. I hope you all have a great week! 
Love Elder Hale

We did service up at our old stake center. The Tampa stake (Odessa and Tampa now)
Put together a thing called Night at Bethlehem. It sounds amazing. We put up shops and everything and I guess there is actors and live animals and everything.
The church owns a huge field so theres actual buildings and sheds we set up for it. 

Oh something cool I forgot to mention is Elder Christensen is partially deaf so he can do sign language. There's a less active that is deaf and we visited her because the ward hasn't been able to communicate with her for awhile. It's a long story why she stopped coming but the lesson went really well. I just kind of sat with her dog while Elder Christensen signed for her. It awesome!!


Wednesday, November 9, 2016

13 Weeks in Tampa

 Elder Hale's new companion, Elder Christensen. Elder Christensen is fresh from the MTC and will be trained by Elder Hale for the next 12 weeks. 
 Training and Transfers
 Some pictures from my last day with Elder Ellsworth. 
 He's in Seminole 1 transfer training right now it's crazy!
A busy day with training and transfers.

So this week has been jam packed with miracles. I met Elder Christensen this past Wednesday. He was already ready for his mission so he's been doing amazing! We noticed this week that we've been able to work with a lot of families which is amazing. Yesterday everyone we found was with their families and they were all interested it was crazy! I've loved getting to work here in South Tampa. Something amazing that happened was we had a Mission wide Zone Conference this last Saturday. We were all taught by Elder Klebingat. He was able to help us realize how we can better fulfill our purpose as servants of the Lord. He also helped us realize the extent of our divine potential. It was amazing! I hope you all have an amazing week! Love you all!
Love Elder Hale

Sunday, November 6, 2016

12 Weeks in Tampa

 I went on exchange up to Springhill with Elder Harper. It was a blast! We got to see so many miracles up there.
We got to go to Josh's baseball game. He's playing little league and played as pitcher and 2nd base. It was a blast! He's a member of the Wallace family whom we've been teaching.

We have a zone conference this week where the entire mission is gathering. The training is taking most of the day and is being done by Elder Jorg Klebingats. He has a talk in the October 2014 General Conference. It's amazing!

So this week was a blast! I got to go on exchange up to Springhill with Elder Harper. Springhill was basically a city of  houses and restaurants. It was a lot different then South Tampa. There were some amazing miracles we got to see though. This week we said goodbye to Elder Gardner one of the Zone leaders. He's headed home tomorrow. It's amazing to see the growth that can happen in just two years. We've been able to see a lot of miracles down here in South Tampa this week too. One huge one was the Smith family making it to church this last sunday. It was 7 of them in total and they loved the service. They stayed for all three hours too! The kids are getting very excited for baptism, it's great to see the Lord working in others lives. Some other miracles happened when I was on exchange with Elder Beazer from Tampa 1C. I decided to take him biking since he hasn't gotten to do so on his mission quite yet. We ended up running into several of our formers we hadn't been able to contact and set a baptismal date with one of our new investigators. It's crazy how many miracles are waiting for us. I've loved how the guidance of the spirit leads us to those miracles that are waiting for us. It's crazy I won't get to be serving with Elder Ellsworth this next transfer! He's headed down to Seminole 1 with a trainee and I'll be training a new missionary here in South Tampa. I hope you all have a great week!
Love Elder Hale