It is the Best I Have Felt EVER......

　Hi there,
Well, i think that im ruined. These past few nights while
i was sleeping, i got extremely cold. It was so incredible that i had
to put a blanket on! Usually i just have my sheet seperating my legs
from touching skin because that is really annoying, but this week it
got down to a chilling 70 degrees at least in the night and i was just
all shivers. Alaska just may turn me into an ice cube. The week in all
was pretty good, it hasnt really changed. We see random miracles
happen but then we try and act on them and turn them into something
even more miracley but it just all falls to shambles. In the mission
there is a ton more of disappointment than there is accomplishment, at
least here where i am. After a long few months of no real success to
our eyes though something happens and it is the best i have felt EVER!
It totally erases all of the bad and hard stuff and i just think about
how amazing it was after the hard parts. Plus i get an extra gain of
experience and learn lots of things too, its pretty much God´s way of
just being a Boss, working with every person specifically so that we
all learn and grow and accomplish more than one thing at once. It
seems that every other week we have new investigators and they are way
cool everytime. Sometimes we have to be content with planting seeds,
although the field is white and already to harvest, someone has to
re-plant seeds where others have harvested. That´s definately not
doctrine haha but i like to think of something like that to keep a
smile on my face in the upsetting times.
I love you mamma! Elder Hayden Summers
Good work dad, that sounds like a super busy day packed full of
spiritual stuff and other things that catch you up on your sleep. I
am really privileged here because i am learning myself on how to run
and manage a ward or branch. It is a lot more complicated and has many
intricate details that are sometimes overwhelming but its definitely a
great experience and i get to learn a lot. Sometimes i say that i
learned alot and such but honestly i couldn't put a solid finger on
what exactly i learn haha. Its more of an ´in the moment´ sort of
thing where i know how to deal with situations less roughly or even
gaining patience or being more humble. I honestly came to the mission
field off of the MTC very prideful. Now that i look back i was really
prideful in my life and i am trying to fix that by humbling myself.
This country has definitely opened my eyes to what exists in the world
and that many of the things i worried about back home, or even here,
dont have any real significance in the giant picture. Sometimes when i
either get corrected or told that i am wrong, or when someone schools
me in sports i try to just say, ´okay, ive been humbled´ haha. Whether
it be the truth or just something that prevents me from getting mad i
try to use it and it works as something for me. My week turned out
good and it just boils down to trying to have fun and push forward and
perservere until the end in the midst of not the most wishable of
situations :)
Love, Elder Hayden Summers
ps. i wish i couldve seen you fly through the air, haha, classic