The Last one....

Aug 21 2017

                                                        The departing Aug 23, 2017  group  

Aug 14 2017

Get this out of the way, thanks for all the support and constant prayers and letters and everything. You all are amazing, and for all those who don't want to read my weekly email, 

my homecoming is on the 27th at 1:00pm, 1520 Fox Pointe Dr, Kaysville, UT 84037, for anyone who wants to come!:) love to see you all there, but this will probably be my last weekly email I have no idea what it will be like next week. Here's my home email for all those still out on missions you can add me next week: hunterhanks22@hotmail.com

 But this week unfortunately wasn't a very eventful week for us, every lesson we set up this week got flogged or cancelled but we still had some good things happen. Gave a talk on Sunday about having good friends, that was weird because it wasn't doctrinal based. Had our interviews with President Turvey, that was way good President Turvey is so inspired. Can't wait to have another one in a week with him! 

Haha I just laugh thinking about this but we actually found this Chinese girl on the university who told us that she believed in God because she watched a horror film and saw someone pray to be saved and they did, so now she believes. Never heard such a.... unique way of gaining a faith before but hey at least we get to teach her next week!!:) 

                   

This week the I...... family kids were away at camp and from what we heard they absolutely loved it! Had a great time and got along really well with the youth and so we are very excited to meet with them this next week and to see if we can't reschedule this amazing family for baptism for the beginning of September. So sad I won't be here for it but it's not about me it's about this amazing family coming unto Jesus Christ. 

This week we were able to also give a member a blessing, and what an amazing thing to be able to stand in for Heavenly Father and to give someone a Healing blessing. What a privilege it has been to been able to do that many times on my mission. 

                

Over these past few days I have been thinking a lot about my mission and what I have been blessed with, and I recently saw a prince of peace video that the church put out for Easter and in this video a man said this, "I have so much to be grateful for, that it would be disrespectful to God not to be happy." And this really hit me, I have been so blessed in my life to have this gospel and to be able to come share it with the people in England! My life truly has become happier and more meaningful because of my time here in England. I feel as though it has hardly been two years because of the amount of fun and laughter, sorrow and remorse, pain, and Love that I have felt here. I know that life will continue to have its ups and downs but through Jesus Christ we can ultimately be happy, why because he does everything for us. 

I love it 1 Nephi 17:30 

"And notwithstanding they being led, the Lord their God, their Redeemer, going before them, leading them by day and giving light unto them by night, and doing all things for them which were expedient for man to receive." 

Combined with the promise in 3 Nephi 28 

"and all this will I do because of the thing which ye have desired of me, for ye have desired that ye might bring the souls of men unto me, while the world shall stand.

And for this cause ye shall have fullness of joy; and ye shall sit down in the kingdom of my Father; yea, your joy shall be full, even as the Father hath given me fullness of joy; and ye shall be even as I am"

I love my mission, "the best mission in the Universe!!" I love this Gospel. I know that this is the true church once again on the earth, that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and my Redeemer, he Atoned for me so that I can be happy in this life and be with my Father in Heaven in the life to come. It was restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith and continues on through a modern day Prophet today. The Book of Mormon contains the fullness of the Gospel and teaches us what we must do to gain our own salvation. I will forever be in His debt for this missionary opportunity! 

Love you all and see you soon!

Elder Hanks ínéLÀÏ