Tuesday, January 3, 2017

19th Week in Tampa

The Smith Family
That is Brother Chausse of the bishopric who baptized them.

It's been a steady 80 degrees here with 90-100% humidity. We've had a pretty crazy week. We had the miracle of the Smith families baptism. Elder Ellsworth got to come up to South Tampa for that. Another miracle this week was when we were bike contacting. We were talking to a man off of the Dale Mabry high way. While we were speaking with him we had a city bus pull up. It wasn't a bus stop so we weren't sure what was happening. Turns out the driver, who had an empty bus, just had some questions about the gospel he wanted answered. It was crazy. So Elder Christensen walked over to the bus as I continued speaking with the man. Also Saturday night we got to attend Night at Bethlehem. It was so good!!! It's basically a live nativity but they reenact it with live actors and they have an actual town and manger set up. We had lots of people come this year. Our stake and another stake puts it together and there's people from all over who come to see it. I met several people from Georgia and South Carolina who came down for it. Another crazy miracle I have to mention is we got a call and text from a woman Saturday night. She said she is looking for a church. I talked with her on Sunday to find out she's from Eugene and has attended several wards but is not yet a member. She actually attended the Corvallis 2nd Ward several times last October. I have yet to meet her so I will let you know if I recognize her. We can tell all these miracles (and these are small in comparison to what we see each day) are a result of the mission turning toward being consecrated. Also the members getting really involved is what's allowing all these miracles. Crazy how strong the spirit has been the past several weeks! Hope everything's going well. 

Elder Hale

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