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Monday, September 9, 2013

September 4, 2013

So things are better. Our phone is constantly going off. It is like missionaries cannot survive without us Zone Leaders telling us what to do every five seconds. I'm kinda just a do it myself guy so having to tell people what they can and can do all the time is kinda lame. 
 
Being in a YSA ward is weird though. Everybody there just wants to get married and it is really weird being a missionary in that environment. We do have a lot of potential coming up though in the ward. We have two investigators with a date for this month and a third investigator who is close to setting a date. Also we are getting three new investigators today from a referral from other missionaries. This is definitely the busiest time of my mission. I am not doing any more missionary work at all but handling the logistics of the zone along with missionary work is crazy. We give so many people rides everywhere and have to go to the office a ton to pick stuff up and get mail and whatnot. I am happy though and definitely will finish out my mission going 150%. I do miss the Euclid ward right now though. The ward I am serving in is the Placentia 4th Young Single Adult Ward.

I still keep in touch with Tyler also. He was my baptism in Yorba Linda 5th ward. He just started his senior year and is planning on a mission after highschool. I am taking lots of pictures mom don't worry. Us as missionaries aren't allowed to go on facebook yet in this mission. It will probably be allowed a month or two after I leave. I think I am going to be really behind on the whole social media thing when I get home. In the YSA ward we have to text people to get a hold of them because they wont answer a phone call ever which is super weird.
I will be better with money also. I am not going to be buying anything really this month because I am going home. I am in survival mode now. I needed the address because I was sending packages home and I got to the UPS store and I couldn't remember it. It has been like two years so give me a break.
So you guys are going to be getting two packages in the mail today tomorrow or Friday. They are kinda big and have a lot of junk in it. I just want you to know that a lot of that junk was given to me by members or I found by the dumpster or garage sales. A lot of it I did buy though but it was over a year ago that I bought it all. You know that thing when I get depressed I start to buy stuff, well when the period of time when I was depressed I bought lots of board games. I really regret it and I have learned to master that weakness on my mission. But I have a lot of junk because of it. So you guys are welcome to play any of those that you want. A ton of them are really fun and I can't wait to play them with you when I get home. As you can probably guess I was really popular on P-day.......we played a lot of board games. But I worked hard on my mission. Don't think I just did that all day also. Thanks for understanding, and I'm sorry.
I can not believe that the girls are so old now though. Jaylen is a Junior? That is just weird. I was suppose to be the only one in High School. How do you think the girls will be when they go to the same school? Will the be friends or enemies? Ha ha.
I hope you guys are ready for when I get home because our house is going to turn into the missionary hub. Every single lesson the Elders teach will be in our home and we will fellowship them all. I'm going to be inviting everybody I know also. Nothing bugs me more than members who feel that it is the missionaries job to find people to teach. That is no more the case. The members have the responsibility to find people for the missionaries to teach now.
I love you guys so much and thank you for everything that you do. Thank you for letting me go and stay out on a mission. The scarifies you have made financially and emotionally are more than I could ever ask for. I feel like I have learned and grown so much since I cam out. I have a real sense, like real actual, and tangible sense of Heavenly Father and his relationship with me. I have learned so much about the gospel and the church and I feel my faith has grown so much. I still have so much to learn as well about everything. I love you guys so much.
Connor

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