Hello Family!

 

Great week this week! It has been a really busy, fun, FAST week! Holy COW it feels like Yesterday I was just on emailing home! Elder Jacobson and I have been really focusing on member present lessons because our mission president wants us to. We have been working really hard to get exchanges to come with us. We taught 4 mpls this week which is more than usual! But what really shocked us was usually we get about 5-8 other lessons a week. This week we got 12! I guess as we weren't so worried about turning every contact into a lesson, the lessons just came naturally as we just relaxed and went with the spirit! So that was pretty interesting! 

Our ward missionary in charge of the meal calendar has had an increased vision as far as our meals recently! This week we were able to eat with 2 LA/PM families! He is really do a great job creating opportunities for us!

Shelly wasn't able to come to church this week. We saw her on Saturday night at like 8:30 and she said she would come. But then got called into work Sunday morning. We are trying our best but that agency has really been a big factor in all this haha.

 

Grady had work also this week and Kenny was sick... so yeah kind of depressing Sunday! It was good to be able to focus on myself and recommitting to be more Christlike and repent. 

Me and Elder Jacobson have been working on unity more and more which is going well I feel like. There is some repenting I need to do with being more agreeable, but other than that it has been a great 1 1/2 transfers! Transfers are on Feb 4 just an FYI.. I really don't want to leave this area!! The only other ward I've ever lived in is our home ward! so I've like totally re-attached myself to this ward and I don't wanna leave!! haha but I will probably end up leaving. Such is missionary work I guess. It's just hard to picture being anywhere else!

 

We had a service opportunity for a part member family this week and I got to go on the roof and take down Christmas lights for an hour which was SO fun! I was happy to be doing "the fun stuff" on a roof again! haha

 

A little spiritual thought I had this week. I think I have been focused a little too much on " preaching" a mission rather than "serving" a mission and I have been working on serving others. It was cool cuz I heard shortly after I realized this someone say, the best way to serve God is to serve his Children.. That's so true cuz God's labor is to bless his children! That was deep to me.

 

Thank you so much for all your prayers and support! I have really felt like I have been relying on them a lot this week so thank you all.. seriously SO MUCH!!! 
HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!

 

Elder Tanner Judy

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1/19/15

 

 

To: judycoldsteel@hotmail.com

Awesome thanks dad!!

 

I had a pretty sweet experience with prayer this week.  I was talking to him (my companion) a little about homesickness and I was sympathizing with him saying I miss you sometimes and then he said "and being with you all the time just.. sucks".... and I was REALLY offended.. like can I tell you?? and I had just this huge grudge against him cuz it really depressed me..  Like I figured it was true anyways.. but then that stab in the back just HURT so I was depressed and angry at him for a while, but all the while I was trying to let it go! Trying to just shake it off. But it was hard!! I didn't say anything to him cuz I didn't wanna retort with anger and drag something out. But finally we went in for lunch and I went into our room and started praying.. and I said " Father please help me forgive him... I don't want to hold a grudge"  As soon as I said "I don't want to" I just felt this.. soul piercing weight lifting peace..... ah... it was beautiful. I really just had my testimony confirmed that the Savior loves me and wants me to become like him. A son of God and will stop at nothing to help me overcome my weaknesses as long as I stop at nothing to learn to rely on him.... it was cool. Pour yourself into him, and he will pour himself into you. The only thing he doesn't have is our desires. I need to actively give them to him and let him make of them what he will. Pretty cool.

 

Hows work? What's the update?

 

I love you too dad!!

 

Love Elder Tanner 

To: Tanner Judy

Just know that the Savior is the very best example for everything that happens to you.  Look to Him in everything that happens and I promise that He'll help you with it.  His example of patience, forgiveness, love and charity are there for us so that we can deal with people who say and do things that are hurtful.  I'm so glad that you turned to Him in prayer in the moment!! I know that expression of faith in Him allowed Him to come to you and heal you.   
Work is going well.  January is always kind of a down month because people have a new deductible to meet and are trying to recover from Christmas so they are less willing to have surgery if they can avoid it.  That's why many surgeons take vacation in January and February (aside from the fact that they want to go somewhere and warm up a bit during the winter).  I'm starting to go to Preston to help them out while their usual surgeon is out with some shoulder surgery.   I'll fire this off because I just saw that you're still sending stuff.  Love you!