August 27, 2012

Dear mom!!

  This week has been a good but emotionally tough. I keep seeing my friends face in my head and the memories I have of us playing football on the playground as little kids not being able to wait to grow up and play football together. And to think that it feels like yesterday we were kids on the playground playing football and now he's gone. This has shifted me into a whole other gear beyond where I have been before, my testimony of the infinate atonement and the absolute love that our Father in Heaven has for each one of us that he so freely shows through his perfect plan. On Agosto 25-2012 for the burial of my friend I bought the previous day a new tie that I could wear for that day, and that I will wear when I go and visit his grave in less than a year and a half. On the 25th, I wore my suit and that tie in honor of my friend. I'm so grateful for the knowledge I have, and have received from the Holy Ghost. Please give Nana my best as well.  I guess I must have to gain an even stronger testimony of the plan of salvation so it can lift people higher. well mom i need to get going but i love you soooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!

Love Elder Henze

 P.S. tell Carl congrats and that i love him and Luke as well

  P.S.S let dad know i love him.

          (Comments are concerning the death of his schoolmate, Tyler Watts)

          Jacob on the day of Tyler's funeral & the tie he wore that day

August 20, 2012

Hey mom it's good to hear from you!

 I'm really excited that football has started again!  I found out the other day that NFL pre season has started I was so excited!ha!  I'm glad that the family is doing good for the most part.  Let grandpa know that my prayers are with him.

My area is pretty good.  There are a lot of people here and we just need to find the ones who are receptive.  I think we might have just found some the other day, we found a family of 3, so that is really exciting!  I love you so much mom!!  Can you let the boys know how much I love them and also dad. Well my companion is an interesting fellow but a good guy.  I'm learning a lot about patience and it's coming along good. Well mom I have to get going. I love you so much and can't say it enough.

 

Love Elder Henze

 

P.S. Please give the Watts my best. I don't know what to say.  I remember the last time I saw him was right before my mission, and it was only for a second.... please let them know that they are in my prayers.

August 13, 2012

Hey mom!!! It's so great to hear from you and hear that things are going good at home dispite things with grandpa.  Mom I can't tell you how proud of Carl I am.  That had to be a way hard decision and I'm really disappointed that none of the teammates stood up for him!!  It reminds me of Thomas S. Monson and his talk "Dare to Stand Alone" and the quote that I love from that and Carl was a perfect example of, Thomas S. Monson said

 " Dare to be a Mormon,

 Dare to stand alone,

 Dare to have a purpose Firm,

 Dare to make it Known!!!"

I can't tell you how grateful I am to have him as my brother and parents that taught us the way that God wants us to live our lives. Give him props for me!!

 Well mom I think going back to school will be great! I'm excited to hear how that goes!  Sage is finally going on a mission and Trevor and JD, and holy there is a lot of them! This will be way cool!! I can't remember, where is Ben Knight going again?  How is Alex Tracy doing? I hope they're doing good. 

 So in my new area I also have a new companion who is nothing like me.  He has a hard time keeping up with me on the bike it's kinda funny.  He says his bike is possessed (he's ripped the crotch out of 3 pairs of pants!!hahahaha) I think it's just him. He never learned how to ride a bike before.  He has just learned on the mission and sometimes he scares me out in traffic! We get honked at all the time and get yelled at and people are just great! ha ha!!  I have had 3 flat tires in the course on my stay here and it's only the end of week 2!!ha ha!! And yes a bike kit would be way nice. But to be honest I love it!  I love riding and working hard. The first little while in this area was way difficult to get up in the mornings but then I told myself I have to really show God that I'm about his work and I'm going to work to accomplish it.  It's said that "I looked for joy and didn't find it, then I went to work and found work is joy" . So this last week I have been doing even better than I have on my mission I am waking up at 6 instead of 6:30 so I can work on Spanish and also get my workout in. It's been good.  I feel so much better and I have so much more time to get stuff done.  Ever since I've been in this area I have cooked pancakes every morning with maybe some eggs and if I'm feeling up to it and if I have time I even throw some bacon on! It's been gooooooood!!!:)  Well mom this week has been a good one for the most part.  I have a very interesting companion but not only that he is also fluent he is native so it's been a little difficult when he points out all the errors I make in my Spanish especially in front of investigators!   So, I have been learning even more patience, but I love the kid.  I feel I have been able to help him out a lot but I'm not sure, we'll see.  This area is great we are getting it going so it's coming!  Well mom I best get going I hope everything is going good with you and the family. Also, how is your health mom?  I worry about that a lot.  I hope all is well.  Mom I love you sooo much and I look forward to hearing from you next week!! 

Love Elder Henze

August 6, 2012

So this week started out pretty crazy!  I got towed to start it off so we got to our area late but that wasn't to bad.  The being towed was a pain but we got that all figured out so that is in the past time to move forward. This week in the space of 2 days I have had 2 flat tires! Yahoo!  By the way I'm on a bike! I love it it's working me hard.  I'm so happy to be here!  My comp is a little slow but that's okay he'll catch up.ha!  So i got to go back to Oak Cliff this Saturday for the 2 baptisms we had and they went great. This new area has a lot of great members and I am so excited to be working here and to be on a bike!! Well this week has been a finding week we have been out a lot knocking doors and contacting on the street. We have had some pretty spiritual experiences where we got followed by this guy who finally asked us a question to start bashing with us but with the spirit and scriptures we explained to him why we believe the way we do and shared with him the plan of salvation it was a really cool experience!  Not sure anything will come of it but I know my testimony grew from that experience!  That is about my week I'll write some more next week hopefully. ha!  We'll see.  Love ya'll and I hope ya'll have a great week!!!!

Love Elder Henze

July 30, 2012

Hey Hey Family!

So a lot has been happening this week. We have 2 baptisms set up for next week!  That's way exciting!!  Now here comes the transfer news.  I am being transferred again to a new area where I will be opening it up with another Elder and Oak Cliff south is no longer here.  Oak Cliff has been split in half and so now it's just east and west.  That is pretty crazy!  I'm way excited to be going to open a new area but I'm really going to miss this area.  I love it here in the Cliff!  I'll go where I need to go I guess.  Thank goodness I can come back to Oak Cliff for the baptism this next week.  I'm happy about that! Well there isn't much more on what happened this week except we had a ward fast and it was awesome to see the blessing come from it!!!!  Well family that is that for this week I have to get going because I have to get all packed and say all my goodbyes and what not. I love y'all so much I hope all is well with y'all!!

Love Elder Henze

July 23, 2012

Mom,

 WOW sounds like y'all have been having quite the week !! Sorry to hear its been tough.   For me this week has been pretty good y'all have been on my mind more than usual so now I know why. I hope Carl is doing good I'm very curious to find out what happened with the camp. I'm glad he had a good time at EFY though. So this week we started out strong then dropped in the middle then picked back up a little but other than that middle part it was great. I actually have a pretty funny dog story this week.  Actually I have two.  The first one, we knocked this door and they opened up.  Well a little chiwawa (sp) came out and barking like crazy and then it stopped.  I put my hand down to let it smell my hand to understand all is good.  Well the little thing had some balls because it bit me.  Man if the owner wasn't there and if it drew blood I would have killed the thing right then and there!!! Stupid dog! Then the other one, we passed by this referral and they had a back gate that was locked and their front gate was a deck and the gate to that was nailed shut so we decided to go over the little gate that was about mid thigh to me.  So as my comp goes over I start to as well, Elder Wilson says oh no!!  I'm half way over and 3 giant rottweilers with nails that haven't been cut in years are flying towards us and we jumped back over faster than Houdini got out of a unlocked safe!!!!!!!!!!!  Well when we were safe I had to get a picture of these dogs and where we were so I could look back someday and laugh even harder!!! Ha ha so no worries all is well!  Well mom I have to get going I hope your doing good and all, is well with Carl! Well mom take care and talk to y'all next week.

Kia kaha mom!! 

Love Elder Henze