...And a colorful district meeting

Aldste Haddon had quite the district meeting this week.... Here is how it went in his words...

 

"So last week was my First District meeting i was able to teach. It was probably the most nerve raking thing i have ever done. So In my District is the Assistants, President and Sister Newell, Lowry's (Former Stake President.) I had to teach about "Baptism." 

 

I first thought it would be cool to have a musical number or some sort of talent to bring the district get a little pump up going. My companion  plays a mean Recorder, and can beat box at the same time. So i thought i would be appropriate to have him do that and get the district all pumped up, So he played called to serve. It was probably the greatest thing my ears have ever heard.  Sister Newell thought it was quiet fun ha. 

 

But we kept going for it. I started to teach about the importance of Baptism and why we come here and try help people to the waters of baptism. We discussed the importance of it and it was going very well. Until I decided to through a little Haddon story in it. This is how it went. 

"So we had an experience in the Stockholm Ward where a man, who wrote himself out was trying to fight members and trying to break things in the building. I stopped him took him outside and he was just yelling terrible things about what he read on the Church. He read some"Unfavorable Material," started to scream at me saying "All you do is baptize people! Party, get a pat on the back from the president and you just move on." I thought about that a lot. Thinking..... Wow he is so right. We do that. (Their eyes opened up wider then i have ever seen.) I then said lets read about one of the Greatest missionaries in the Planet, I don't know if you've ever hear of him, his name is Ammon. (No one laughed.) I was reading about when he was just running around supper excited because of how many of his brothers he brought back to the lords fold. His brother Aron told him that he was boasting a little bit, But he was quick to say that its not boasting in myself, its boasting in my God. And he talks about how happy he was because they literally loose the bands of hell from 1,000's of his brothers.I then explained that is a pretty DANG good reason to be happy and to party, and get slaps on the back from the president." "

 

 

He is also moving to a new area this week to train, we don't know if he'll still be living in the mission office and working in a different area like his last transfer or if he'll be physically moving, but he'll be working with his good friend Elder Allsop so he's very excited. He gets to pick up the greenie and go to a new area...it's going to be crazy!

 

Thanks for emailing and supporting Aldste Haddon! We'll let ya know how greenie week goes!