Something About Growing Up In Idaho...

hey there blog,
                        way awesome week. me and my new comp get along very well and we both know how to work. something about growing up in idaho has taught us both how to just do what needs to be done, its fantastic. and living in alaska (the biggest best state) has taught me that there is never a situation to bad to get out of and nothing is impossible. i dont really have a lot to say this week except life is just great isnt it? i mean we are priveledged enough to be brought into this world in the last times. with this oportunity i believe that i have a responsibility to live up to. obvioulsy i knew before i came here that life was going to be super rough, but i also knew that i was strong enough to get over any difficulty. i try to just remember that anything that comes my way i have the strength and the will to get past it. ill keep working hard, the Book of Mormon is the greatest, love you all, elder hayden summers

In Life You Got to Have Fun

dear blog people,

                          i got a comp now his name is elder whittle from oakley idaho. he is cool and we talk about hunting, fishing, and football. along with teaching the gospel of course :) in life you got to have fun, thats definately a fact. if im not having fun while im doing things than im not doing it right. and if your having fun the time races by. so i guess if i wanted to have a slow and drawn out boring life where i loathed every second of it i would choose to not have this wonderful thing called ´fun´. thats just not the case incredibely. i feel like there is always something that could be looked at as enjoyable and entertaining in just the everyday boring things of life. its been said a billion times to always think about the positive and keep going. its been said so many times because its true haha. the good and fun times of life are the ones that you remember the most. yeah i remember when i left a burlap sack on the lawn and my dad ran it over with the lawn mower and i spent the next 2 hours picking up the miniscule particles of its remnants, that sucked, but i somehow remember better how fun it was to play football with my dad in the back yard. i learned from the sucky and remembered the fun that grew my love for my family. when we have fun with others we grow closer to them and really we are all brothers and sisters, someday we are going to all be as one, why not start now :) keep up the good work in the states, im tryin my best down here. love elder hayden summers

Life is Good Right?

 

                     

blogg update,

                     so i ended up getting some talks from our old mission president, they are kind of like motivational speeches that he used to get pumped up and do what he had to do. there is this pole vaulter named bob richards and i have a few of his talks. he always talks about how just thinking positive can change a persons life. i agree 100 percent. i was thinking a few weeks ago about why i do or did the things that i did i life before the mission. i was surprised when i found out that i did most of what i did do in order to avoid a consequence, and not to obtain the prize at the end. i started naming a bunch of moments in my life when i had to make a decision, and yup i found that im all about avoiding the negative and not really about obtaining the positive. but i have a question, which is better, to try and avoid the bad or to embrace the good. they could be close to the same thing but i think there is more to the story than what there seems. ive started trying to do things thinking about the positive instead of what ´could´ happen if i didnt do something. honestly ive seen that life is alot more fun when it is concentrated on the good things and the possibilities instead of the bad and the possible hard times. i am still trying this out and its great. i should get a new comp this wednesday but i still have no idea who itll be. life is good right? :) love elder hayden summers

My Mission is the Greatest

oh yeah,
             so lets start off by saying that my mission is the greatest! oh man our investigator got baptized last saturday. he is the coolest, and his whole family arent members. we were waiting to start the baptism until his family arrived, we waited half an hour and the all showed up together. all of his family was there to watch it and it was just so insanely spiritual. babies crying and everything it turned out being great. so then my comp ended his mission after that. so now i am without a companion for a few days. so i am working with random members and random elders so that i am never alone. it feels really wierd to, but this is a great oportunity for me to show what i got and to show that i have what it takes to be successfull in this great work. i talked about this a bit with my last comp, about trials through fire. sometimes you just have to do things head on. if your in the ocean and a big storm raises up out of nowhere you have a choice, keep going, or turn back. i remember many times with my dad when he would think about going into the storm or just going home. we had put so much time into just getting out onto the water that going back would be a waste of time, money, and effort. very few times my dad has turned us back to go home. usually he looks at us, smiles, and says here we go. in life sometimes things happen where we have a choice to either back down, or take it on with our chins up. the ones who take on the challenges face first are the ones who are successfull in this life and secure their spot up above. nothing is to hard for us to overcome. trials have been put in our life specifically for us, so that God can try our patience and our faith. have a great week! love elder hayden summers

Little Tid Bit

hey there,
                well another little tid bit of what i have learned this week. its all about how we as people need to be given the same rules over and over again. i mean i think about it and 2000 years ago Christ was teaching his gospel, before that it was taught, and now we are teaching it today as well. our mission president gave us a lecture on studying all the doctrine over and over again. as members we have heard and read many times the rules and restrictions that we have in order for us to live safe and happy lives. but for me i always rolled my eyes when someone would start talking about the stuff i thought that i knew. yeah i was aware of the rules and such, but after time the natural man takes over and numbs those rules that we know. before i knew it i was making exceptions and justifying things i knew was wrong. then BOOM. someone gives a talk or says something about those rules again and i get reminded that i know what im doing is wrong and that i need to go back to following them exactly. in the moment of being chastized it is easy to say that i will change. then a few hours after my mind isnt so willing. that is a part of life, and the ones who can fight that fight and win are the ones who will have eternal glory. i got a lot of work to do hah. love you all, have a sweet week, love elder hayden summers