hey Dad, it has been a crazy but good week. for the first
half of the week, we had heard several days ahead of time when we would move, so we did
the usual stuff and saw all the 'gators from Noblesville, all while having
meetings with the Indy mission APs and their office elders. It was fun. guess
what? Elder Hemuli, who graduated with me, the one who'll be playing Stanford football, is an Indy AP, so we got a pic together. that was super cool. we showed them around the area book, talked about the ward
and had our ward mission leader involved in those meetings, so the change
should go smoothly for them. sad thing is, they are getting rid of the barn we lived in, and won't be
staying in it.
we moved here to Marion on Thursday and i don't even know where to begin to
describe the area hahaha. it's the country, but it looks like inner
city. it was once a booming industry town, that was left to who couldn't move
out when the industry went south. the people here are friendly though, and have the
famous Hoosier "gift of gab." They can talk your ear off hahahaha.
we are on bikes
full time, but luckily we live close to the church in a small house, a single
floor up the street from the church. we don't know too many of the 'gators yet. it was kinda hard to have only one full day on Saturday, and that was Christmas Eve, so we did not get to talk to a whole lot of people. stay tuned
to the next emails for info on the teaching pool i guess. i guess a lot of the ward is less active, so we will need to be helping a lot of those, as well as finding as many 'gators as we can get hold of.
thanks
for the advice on goals, i will definitely need a plan for the next few months
of my mission, and for home after. i am not looking forward to the adjustment
hahaha. goals help us to achieve what the Lord would have us achieve, and it
allows Him to fully reach out and help us get there.
that is a crazy
storm! i am glad you had a white Christmas, but that is too bad you did not get
to make it to church, i am sorry. my meeting wasn't a whole lot better
though hahaha. that is good you got to help out the neighbors with their snow,
that is a very worthwhile thing to do. i loved doing that when i was home. it sounds like you will get a good rest of your holiday break,
hopefully it is very enjoyable for you.
so this bowl game between Utah and Indiana should be fun to
hear about haha! that is so cool, Hoosiers against my home town team. the Hoosiers are good, too hahaha. should be a good game, but Utah will crush them hahaha!
that is a
very interesting thought about Mary and Joseph, thanks for sharing that. as i
read the chapters in the Bible surrounding Christ's birth, it hit me that when Christ
was in the temple teaching the old guys, when he was just a boy, and how in D&C 93:13 it talks about how he received grace for grace, to his fullness, or his
glory and knowledge--he must have had some exponential growth and had to have
really understood his purpose at an early age to be able to do that! that is so
amazing. as children of our Heavenly Father we struggle to understand the
purpose of life and how we get there, and gaining that knowledge of the plan
and everything else, but Christ made it all possible. even though we struggle
and we are not perfect, we can always turn to Him and he can help us learn and
grow from our experiences to become better.
i am so thankful to be able to
declare the glad tidings of his birth around the Christmas holiday, thank you
for teaching me what is right and being patient with me. i love you Dad, have a
great day! and week, happy New Year's too i guess hahaha! talk to you later!
-Elder Sedlacek
hi Mom! it has been a
crazy week. i wrote about all that happened in Dad's email. i wish i knew more
about the area, but that will come in time. in Noblesville we did get to say
goodbye the day before we left, and see a few of the members who had helped us a lot, so that was nice.
the move was crazy cause they kept pushing
the time back. we moved at 5:00pm on Thursday and made it up here about 7:00, so that
was a fun day. then we headed off early Friday to the Christmas conference. that
was really good. they divided the mission in half and had games during the
first part, then the Gilberts catered a lunch for us, and then we had a good devotional as we
studied the nativity. that was really good. it was another good Christmas on
the mission, and sadly my last. i so wish i had another!
after we got done Skyping yesterday,
we headed up with the ward mission leader from Noblesville to his family who lives
in our ward here. we had a good lunch complete with fresh venison! yeah!!!!!!! then
we came home and elder Nelson skyped with his family at the church, and then we came back to the
house and did our puzzles and stuff. it was fun.
that is crazy that you got so
much snow, i can't even imagine that much snow here. that must have been
fun to go to grandma and grandpa Ds, grandma makes good bread hahaha. i don't
have any huge miracles to share, but just that we got here to Marion safely in the move, and having a
bit of divine help with my diabetes hahaha! Marion is a fun place, that is for
sure. it is actually the poorest area i have been in since inner-city Cincinnati, so that is a big
change. the poorer areas always test me a bit, they make me kind of anxious,
but not because it scares me or anything, it's just taxing, it's hard for me to
describe why.
my fave thing this week was the funny people in this ward. all the typical Hoosier things going on, with the accent and all haha. i love it!
that sounds
like a good tradition you have started with the Mary and Joseph dinner. i look forward to it. that is
such an interesting thought you talked about. Mary and Joseph truly had to have
been humble. they were totally willing to follow the commands of Heavenly Father
and to do what they could to raise Jesus in the dignity that his life and the gift
he gave to us so deserves.
i know that Christ lives and that He did make
everything possible, and He did it for all of us. i think about how much i lack, and what i have done, and what i could do better, and the reassuring knowledge of Christ and how He can help me become better always gives me peace and joy. because of Him i can become a better person. thank you for raising me on the
gospel sod, i am so lucky to be your son. {I asked him if he was trying to make me cry?! ;)} thanks Mom for all you do! that's it
for the week! haha
well, i got to go now, thanks Mom for all you do! i love you
all so much! have a happy New Year's Day! not sure what we will do on that day yet.
have a great week and i will talk to you later!
-Elder Sedlacek
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