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6/11

 Okay, so first off my hand is great actually, it is healing really really fast. So I caught the dodge ball wrong and it bent my pinkie side-ways at the second knuckle. It turns out not to be broken!! That was a big relief. The tendon is just badly hurt and the joints are as well.  But I can get some movement in it and I don’t have to have it braced! But it is still swollen. But it is all good; trials make us stronger.

This past week was hard, Monday thru Wed. I was in doctors’ offices allot. So it really messed up our work. So the week was really slow because of it. Thursday I was biking down a hill and so I did not have pressure on my feet and when we started going up the hill my foot came off and hit the tire and that threw it back really hard into my peddle... it tore a big chunk of skin off my Achilles and it hurt pretty dang bad, but like I said it is all good; trials make us stronger.

6/18

This past week was awesome; I have a sweet experience that I think you will like. So Friday was temple conference, where the entire mission goes to the temple all day and has trainings from the temple president and pr. Taylor. Well Elder H and I are having hard times finding new investigators right now and so we both went to the temple with questions. One of mine was where can we find new investigators. Well I was looking at the map in my head while I was in the temple and my mind went straight to a road. Iowa St. So side note, we have a list of every Spanish person that owns a property in Norman. So when we got home I looked at the list and there were  two houses on that street, so I was sweet. So we went and tried the first one and I knew who it was we had talked to that guy before, he is a drunk and meth addict. So I was like come on I know this was a prompting. So we went to the next house. A young mother opened and we started giving her the 'heavenly gift." This is what we do for tracting. Pr. Taylor started it. What we do is knock a door and when they open we say "Hi! We are Representatives of Jesus Christ and we would love to come in for 2 mins and say a prayer for you and your children, for specific needs." And that is all we do and ask if we can come back and teach them. So we started the Heavenly gift with this young mother and she loved it but she said my husband is not home, right when she said that he drove up on a lawnmower and he did not want us to but she said too bad they are coming in for two mins. So we go inside and her kids come out and we prayed for them and the dad loved it asked us to come back and it was awesome. So after this I knew that Heavenly Father told me to go there for them. It was awesome!!!

My hand is getting better

Love you and miss you

6/25

So this past week was pretty good, hot and slow at some times, but it was good.

SO I got some news. I got a phone call Saturday. It was from Pr. Taylor. He starts the phone call with Elder Hanes how are you? I said I am just dandy. He laughed and then asked me if I will be the District Leader for the OU Norman District. So I said I will. Transfers are on the 4th of July. So I will become the DL then. I am pretty excited but am a little nervous.

Love and miss you! Elder Hanes