4/19

Super cool week, Elder Hawkins came to Tuesday morning and he came with me to the North Pole area! He's a farmin cowboy from Weizer, Idaho. He has only been out on a mission for 5 months and I've been out 3, so we are just out here trying to figure out how to do this missionary work. He's already like a best friend which has been a blast. His favorite thing to do missionary work wise is go door to door! He just makes all interactions with people so Christ centered and natural that it opens the door for some amazing conversations with tons of people. One example would be a guy named Mike, Elder Hawkins just seemed to be able to connect right away and really so did I. The three of us talked for about an hour and a half. Mike had a life full of stories about how what you do know will come back for good or for bad. And well we bonded pretty well and he looked at my tie and told me that he had something for me. He went inside and came back out with a gold tie clip and a Sterling silver money holder. I really tried to refuse but he was so insistent, I just couldn't believe that he would do something so kind for nothing in return and for knowing me for such a short period of time. 

Our Heavenly Father has some beautiful and precious gifts for us, here on earth and especially in heaven. I can not do enough to repay Him. But I sure will try. As my Faith has increased in Him I have seen his hand in all that I see, do, hear, say, just in every aspect of life. I know that as we increase our faith by praying, reading the Scriptures, and love and serve the people around us we will be blessed with gifts Heavenly Father already has prepared for us, they are ready to be given if we but have Faith. In a world so chaotic, I do not believe in coincidences, to me it all points to divine intervention by a loving Father. 

Elder Hubbard