Elder Noah Hoskins Hanson West Virginia Charleston Mission : Week 98 - June 20, 2018

Whattup y'all! It's your boi. Wow this past week and a half has been crazy! It's been busy (crazy busy), spiritually uplifting, reminder-filling, and a bit surreal. We were running like non-stop this week and it was awesome! We had the opportunity also to attend a mission conference with Elder Bennett of the Seventy. I was very spiritually fed that day. He talked a lot about how we, as missionaries, need to give our ALL to the Lord while we are full-time missionaries. It was a great reminder to me that this time is the only time that we will have to be fully dedicated full-time missionaries while we're young. The mission is basically like the MTC of life. There is no better time than now to give it our ALL and be fully committed to serving our Heavenly Father and His children. It was a great conference!

It was also awesome to see a lot of the missionaries I've come to know on my mission at the mission conference! It felt surreal because it was probably the last time I was gonna be able to see some of them on my mission. It's getting closer and closer...I really don't know how I feel about it haha.

And.....Happy Father's Day Dad! Thank you for your example and love to me and those around you. I look up to you more than you even know. You deserved to have the best day!

UPDATE ON INVESTIGATORS:

Robbie and Kaitlyn. Ok so now things are looking a lot better with them haha! We had an awesome lesson on the restoration again with them and Robbie told us that he had a dream the other night that he attended our church. He was all dressed up and everything in the dream. It sounds like a small thing to get hyped about but we were STOKED to hear that! He hasn't come to church and neither has Kaitlyn so we hope that they'll take that as a sign to come to church haha and experience blessings to them and their families! They're also having another baby boy! So that's exciting!

CHALLENGE OF THE WEEK:

My challenge to all of y'all this week is to attend the temple with a question in mind. Has there been something bothering you lately that you need an answer to? Or do you simply just need to feel SOME sort of peace in your life? Attend the temple. There you can hear the Lord so clearly. I cannot think of a better place to be to receive direct personal revelation. Man I miss the temple.

FUNNY MOMENT:

So on Sunday, we had Stake Conference and we had this member family drive us there. We walked into the member's home before we left and they were still getting ready. The mom didn't like the shoes the daughter was wearing and so she told her to take them off. The daughter refused because they took forever to get on in the first place. So the mom took the daughter by the foot and tried taking them off for her. She was struggling to get them off and she said to the daughter "Man. You ain't Cinderella I can tell you that!" Hahahaha Elder Craner and I were dying!

Anyways, I love all of you so much! Thank you all for your amazing examples. Continue being an example to others. You never know whose life you'll touch! Church is true :)

"Faith is a real power. Not just an expression of belief." - Boyd K. Packer

- Elder Noah Hanson