December 10, 2012

Hey Hey Mom!!
 I can't believe it's been a year! Time really does like to go whether your ready or not! It reminds me of this talk I re-read in this last conference. Do we set out to do something with the end in mind or do we enjoy every minuet of the journey. My time here in the mission has been quick and I can't tell you where the time has all gone but I know that, I have enjoyed many parts of my mission and I am looking forward to many other enjoyable parts to come. This week when we were knocking doors I told my companion that I don't speak English unless I need to. So we went knocking and we knocked this door and a girl about 18, I think, came to the door and she was I think from the Middle East but she spoke English so my companion started talking to her.  He told her I don't speak English so she felt kinda bad and told me I'm sorry I can't speak Spanish. I told her in Spanish No se precupe, and then she smiled all big and said wow you have a beautiful accent!!hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!  I did everything I could to not burst out laughing! Oh it killed me!! So that was some fun humor for the week. Now we got this referral of this family who moved from Oak Cliff to my area and so we went by and talked to them the man is a member but his wife is not but very open to what we believe.  Last night we went back by and had one of the most powerful lessons I think I've had on the mission!! It was so cool and it's so cool to teach people who are open to hear and learn not only from us but from the spirit! I can't wait until she is baptized and I get to come back and watch them get sealed for time and All Eternity! So that has been a miracle for us this week! Well mom I have to get going but I can't wait to call y'all here in a couple of weeks! Anyway hope you have a great week and hope the FHE is going good. As well give my props to Carl that is way cool!!! And Luke as well let him know I miss him!! I love yall!

Love Elder Henze

 

December 3, 2012

Hey mom!!

Go Carl!! That is way cool!  I'm so proud of him! He's going to do great this year I can feel it! Oh and don't worry mom I'm staying here in Irving for another transfer. Transfers are tomorrow but transfer calls were on Saturday so I'm still here. By the time I leave here I will have had at least 6months! It's the longest I've stayed in one place! I must be missing someone or something so God needs me here for a little while longer. That is something I have learned this week; that God is behind this.  It's not anything or anyone else.  I am in Texas because that's where God wants me. I have much left to learn here in this huge state and many people to get to know. I have been faced with another great learning experience this week with my Spanish and I would just like to know when I'll finally get it right!!!!!hahahaha!  But I pray I'm where God wants me to be with that! I think he wants me to get myself in a different gear because a member the other day challenged me with his words. He said your Spanish is a little worse than your companions, and I of course took offense to that and said well brother he should have better Spanish than me he's been out way longer than me,ha ha!! Well lets just say that has reved my engine and I'm doing more than I was. I have forgiven this brother he gave us a ride to church in his 1966 Ford Mustang! Oh man that thing is sweet! I really want an old car like that to drive around and take out some dates when I get home. ha!  But that still is far in the future. I have much much much more to do before that time comes! By the way this is random but what is the recipe For EGG NOG?? It's so stinking expensive!!! Oh and could you send me a family pic for my wallet so I can show people when they ask about my awesome family?;) Well mom I best get going but I love ya a ton and I always look forward to reading your letters and please keep me in your prayers so I can get this Spanish stuff down. I love y'all so much!! Take care mom, love ya!

Love Elder Henze

Hey dad sorry last week I forgot to change the font, I hope you were able to read it all okay. As for the EMS training that is really cool that anyone even remembered I was with you last year.ha! It just tells you how cool of a Dad I have!ha! Speaking of an awesome dad.  Today after we did insanity together my comp and the ZL's (they have started to come over and do insanity with us now;)haha but after we worked out today we went and hit up Denny's for breakfast and we talked about our dads and how they used to discipline us hahahaha!!! Of course I have to say I had the best stories and man I didn't think I'd be so greatful for all the briused knees and blistered hands, until now;)haha!  I'm glad you disciplined us in the way you did and if anyone says contrary you can just say you were following the Bible. Cuz it says he who holds back his hand from punishing his child when needed doesn't love his child. It's something along those lines but man am I'm glad to see how much my dad loves me!! Thank you dad I can't thank you enough!! Well paps I got to get going but thanks for all the great words and for all you do. I can't wait to pay you back for what you've given me. I love ya Dad!

Love Elder Henze

November 26, 2012

Hey Hey MOM!!

OH WOW!! Talk about some good smoked turkey!! So this week was good we actually did really good!  It was one of our best weeks here in the area this transfer so that is really cool! Thanksgiving was a little bit of a drag on the work, nobody really wanted to hear anything. So that's fine, we just ate and helped out our members.  We helped one family in the ward put up their Christmas tree, that was fun! And a pain with all the lights, ijole!  It was a good time to spend with them. Oh and the next day that family's daughter got her mission call to California!! It was way cool to watch her open it! It was major de javooo (don't know how to spell that word.haha) . It was really cool. I'm so glad ya'll had a goood time in Boise. I wont lie, on Thanksgiving I was thinking about ya'll a lot and what I would be doing if I was at home with ya'll. Being away really helps ya see the things you really miss. Now trust me I miss watching some movies but if I had to choose just the things that mattered to me there wouldn't be anything besides my family and the time I can spend with them! I love you mom and family!!

I can't believe that Kylie's mom had a heart attack that is crazy! Please send her my best and call kylie and tell her I miss her and her mom is in my prayers!! And grandpa is doing better that is great news and pappa sounds like he's been staying busy which is good. OH, LEXIE MALMROSE IS GOING TO GET MARRIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is awesome! if that's her choice I know she took it to the Lord first, so she must be doing what the Lord wants. She's awesome. She would have made an awesome missionary too.!! As for FHE keep it up that is great to hear ya'll are doing good with that. Well mom I've got to get going but I love ya tons and I hope you all are blessed with what God has in store for ya'll.

Love Elder Henze

PS what order do I do the Insanity DvD's in? I forgot but the order I have been doing it in I'll tell ya what it's working goood and my comp is dying hahahahahahaha;)gotta love it!

November 19, 2012

Hey hey Mom!!!

 How ya doing!! CONGRATZZZZZZZZ on getting your deer!! That is awesome! Good shooting ACE;)haha! Mom I love you so much you seem to have just the right things to say every time I get an Email from you!! This week has been a huge week of blessings and it would take me all day to write them out, but that's why I keep my journal up to date every day so you can read it when I get home.  I have finished one and almost finished my second. I might have to translate some of them for you but that shouldn't be to hard. So Josh Hedges and Michael got their calls to Russia and Ukraine! Well talk about an awesome mission call!! That is going to be amazing. They're going to learn a lot!! I won't lie I am a little jealous that they got to go out of the country but God sends us where he wants us. 

Oh so switch gears really quick, for Thanksgiving we are going to eat with 2 families. At one we will have smoked turkey and some other good food then the second dinner I'm not sure what we are going to eat but I know it will be good because the lady and the man are professional cooks;) I'm Excited!!! It should be a lot of fun and I'll have to send some pictures.

 Well mom I have to get going but I love you so much and I hope you're doing goood and hanging in there. Oh and how is FHE going with the family?  Mom I hope you have a great week and make sure to let the family know I miss and love them.

 I love this month I get to reflect on all the things I have in my life that bring me joy and that I'm thankful for! I love how its called Accion de gracias in Spanish.  Translated it means action of thanks. So instead of just saying I'm thankful for this and this, show it in action this Thanksgiving.  I have learned from all I have been doing and experiencing in my mission that the things I love and am most grateful for are the things I have had to work the hardest for. There is a quote that I have that Coach Wooden said and I don't know it word for word but it goes something like this, "great things take work they don't come easy, and they shouldn't, because if they did it would cheepen the value of that thing". I have really loved this quote!  For me it really fits in with Spanish. Boy, have I struggled and fought to get it down, but every time I think about it and how far I have come, how much more precious that language is to me and how much I just want to share that with whoever I come in contact with because it means something to me. I love you so much mom.  I love the family so much!  I am so grateful for you and dad and for all of my brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, cousins, Grandma and Grandpa, Nana and Papa and especially my neices and nephews!! Thank you all!!! I love you soo much! May God bless ya'll this day of accion de gracias!!

Ama Elder Henze

Hey paps, Thanks for what you were able to send me it's always a pleasure to get an Email from ya! So thank you so much for the package I forgot to tell mom I got it and I love it. I am very excited to use the dvds and that new supplement looks pretty interesting.  I can't wait to see how it works! Well dad, so mom got her deer huh!! That is way exciting news!! I'm getting some jerky for Christmas right!?haha! Anyway I'm glad mom was able to fill out her tag and all went well with that.

 So really quick, this guy was putting a new door on his house, so I asked him if I could help him. He said no of course (a young man in a shirt and tie can't put a door on or somthing I don't know! )haha!  Anyway I asked what happened and he told us the house was broken into. Then he told me it happens to the best of us,  I told him that's what I hear. Then he told me it won't happen anymore, I just got a new security system, and my companion didn't really hear him, and he asked so are you going to get a security system?   The guy said yep just bought it the other day. Then my companion asked what kind?  The man said a 12 gage pump action shot gun!!hahahaha!!! I about died laughing!!  What made me laugh even more was we left and about 5 min later his daughter and her boyfriend pull up with the mom in the car. The mom gets out and says he's a great guy, he's a great guy honey your going to like him.  All I could think of is, he better like him because I know he now has a 12g pump action shot gun to look out for!!hahaha!!! It was a good laugh!  Grateful for all you do for me and I hope you and the family have a great Thanksgiving and be sure to tell mom to take pictures so I can see everybody.ha Love ya!

Love Elder Henze

 

 

November 12, 2012

Hey Mom!!

It's great hearing from you. That's fantastic that the week went so well. I'm glad Lukes birthday went good!  I'm looking to be putting somthing in the mail for him it will be cool and will fit well for the weather that ya'll are having.  I found something for dad I just couldn't pass up.  I think it will really help to bring in the holidays! You'll have to take a picture of him with it when he gets it and show me.hahaha!!! So not much to say this week we have just been working really hard preparing the fields to be harvested and have some other elder enjoy the fruits of all this work;)haha! A win is a win in the Kingdom of Heaven.haha! Well mom sorry this is so short this week don't have tons to talk about but I love you and I hope you have a great week;)

Love Elder Henze

 PS I can't wait to get your package;)haha

November 5, 2012

Hey Mom!!

 Wow I can't believe the bishopric got changed it hasn't been that long I didn't think!! Well this week was good we had a cool experience. When Elder Jorgensen and I started out this transfer we were contacting in a laundry mat.  We talked to this lady who didn't seem like she wanted us there and then we turn around and there is the manger.  He kicked us out and ya ya it was a joke.  Just the other day we were knocking doors when we ran into her again and had the opportunity to teach her and her family. No unhallowed hand can stop the work of the Lord from progressing!! I really hope something comes of this family if not I just hope their faith in Jesus Christ increases. Well mom I can't wait to try that new supplement. I have been loving the bike! I will have to tell you that story here soon it's funny.( i think) So Luke is turning 11!! I will hopefully be sending him a package here soon I'll have to check my balance on my card to get him something but I hopefully will be sending him something in the mail in the following week if i do not get it out today. Well mom I love you so much and I'm sorry this letter is short but I hope all is going well and that y'all are being blessed. So it is time to go for today but until next time;)

Love Elder Henze

October 30, 2012

Hey mom how are you!!  It sounds like ya'll had quite the weekend!! That is awesome!! I love hearing that!! I'm bummed that football is over. I'll miss hearing about it. I guess you'll just have to send me updates on college now and the NFL if anything good is happening;) So my new companion is from Syracuse, Idaho and he is a hard worker which is really good!! He is 24 years old and he has about a half a year left so it is really surprising that President has put me as the senior companion. That must mean that I just get to help more and that is fine with me. We don't speak as much Spanish as I did with my last companion who I tell ya what, I miss him sooooooooooooooo much! For one he is my son in the mission and 2 beacause he has helped me out a lot with Spanish and with other things that you get faced with in the day to day life as a missionary. I miss him. But my new companion is good and we have been working hard. For the first little while we were on foot and so we walked a ton every day.  Well  by the end of this week we racked up 108 contacts so that beats my record in a week so I am happy about that. We have been doing our best to get this area going. The Bishop has started to put in motion the idea that Elder Vasquez and I suggested to him which was to get family history going in our ward to help the less actives and investigators. So they have been working hard to get that going for us and I'm very excited about it!! So a miracle for the week!  As we were walking at the begining of the week, we went to visit this apartment complex and do some tracting so we tracted for a while and we got some good contacts but nothing solid.  Then it was drawing near to the end of our night as we decided to walk home which was about a mile and a half. Well as we were walking Elder Jorgensen and I were just talking about Joseph Smith and ya know, small talk. Well I see this black guy that is on the sidewalk but walking the other direction.  As we passed him I had this deep impression to talk to him, but I figured no, it's late we have to get home, and so we kept walking and the thought came to me again "turn around and talk to that man, he needs you!!." So I quickly turned around and hollered to the man and said excuse me sir. He then turned around and came walking back to talk to me,  I was suprised he didn't just take off running because of the area we were in, but we came up to each other and I asked him what's wrong? Then I said "I had this impression from God that I need to stop and talk to you." "We are representatives of Jesus Christ." He then put his hands on his face and looked up at the sky, he tried to speak but didn't know what to say at first, so he pulled out his phone and showed me a picture of his daughters. He began to explain that he is a single father and is being watched over by childrens services and they are going to take his kids if he can't pay a $26 bill for the lights in his house. We talked a little more and he told me it needed to be a money order and I asked him where do they do money orders at this time of night and he told us.  I said come on lets go get that money order. We walked the extra 1/2 mile to get to the gas station that does money orders and with the money I recived for my birthday I got the money order and gave it to the man. He then gave me his number and address, so I can keep in contact with him. His name is David. I don't think I've ever used my birthday money in a better way. He can now keep his daughters, which is a family. We are supposed to help families be eternal and I feel that this is a step for that family. This was an amazing experience and one very dear to my heart. God will use us when we are in the right place at the right time doing the right things. We all have a testimony to share and it will always have a cause and affect on those around you. Think ye not before hand what ye shall say but treasure up in your minds continually the words of life, and it shall be given you in the very hour that portion that is metted unto every man.(not exact but pretty darn close) So this week has been a pretty good one and we are just doing our best to get the ball rolling here. Well  I love ya'll so much and I hope you have a great week and "SEE MIRACLES" ;) i love you mom take care and keep smiling;)

 

Love Elder Henze