ELDER JORDAN HAGER

ELDER JORDAN HAGER
MTC- Provo Temple

Monday, January 28, 2013

January 14, 2013


Hey mother,

 

Hey family whats up? so this week was a great week we were able to get a full week of work in and saw some miracles. The other day i was talking with my comp and we decided to go work in an area that we havent worked in for about 3 months and the other morning before going out to work i was just reading the scriptures and a contact of a guy that i had in my first change here back in september that i contacted and called him and never answered then i never visited him again. I thought of him and dug back like three planners ago and found his number. We went and found him taught him and he accepted to be baptized. One thing i have learned on my mission fam is the courage of the invitation. I find that when the spirit isnt there much or they arent understanding a ton i just give them the invitation to be baptized in a bold and loving way. This lession with him didnt start off good at all cause he kept getting up and going to another room, but then we got into joseph smith and the spirit entered, as my comp started talking about the book of mormon i felt he was talking just a little to much and he started to lose focus for a sec then i just randomly jumped in and said,,, luis will you be baptized into the true church of jesus christ. He paused then said... yes i will. I asked him why, he said he grew up catholic and his parents baptized him when he was like 2 months old but that he would feel a whole lot better if it was his choice in the church that he feels is true... The spirit was there. Leaving the lession i just thanked my heavenly father for giving me the spirit to remember that guy like 5 months ago, so yeah that was the miracle for the week.. I have just been focusing lately on the miracles. Even the tough days... like every missionary has, there are miracles to be found. If it was a good contact, or feeling the spirit in a lession or whatever... there are miracles. And thats the best thing about the mission is that we can see miracles everyday. Gods hand is in this work. i have seen way to many things to never be able to deny that, its here. His spirit guides this work. Yesterday i taught the principles of the gospel class and it was on jesus christ. It was great they informed me that i was teaching 30 seconds before the class started and just handed me the book and said good luck. I went in there with a prayer in my heart and it went great. I started talking about jesus in gethsemani. I remembered the talk from elder holland a little while ago that talked about how jesus walked the path uterlly alone so we dont have to. He got into where there was a moment when even god had to turn his back to him for a moment, just so he could know what it was like to be uterlly alone. He walked that path so we dont have to. How awesome. Well family keep prayin for  us here we have people to baptize have a great week.

 
Love Elder Hager

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