Be Nice To Angry People At Work!!!

Hey Family,

So I love my job even when it is really hard. My companion is really helping me out and I am really improving in all aspects as well as starting some others. We have had a lot of emotion this week. This last week we had an expectation of 6 or more people in the church...we got one. BUT HE IS AWESOME!!! We hope that he will get baptized this week. I think he had been using drugs for 15 years and he really wants a new start. We passed by to pick him up on Sunday but couldn't find him. We were a little disapointed and headed to church in a van full of invisible investigators. We looked into the chapel but didn't see anyone so we visited one of our investigators across the street from the church but he was leaving so we headed back to church empty handed. As I walked in the front doors I looked into the chapel as they were passing the bread....WAALLAAA....there he was sitting next to our Ward Mission Leader. He was dressed up, clean shaven, and looked ten times better than we did. Aparentely he had walked to church and was the first person there. He lives about 30 sandfilled blocks from the church!!! YEAH!

One of our investigators this week described to us how she is fighting someone inside her to be a good person. She described instances at work where she just couldn't hold it in and just let out anger. She is an amazing person with a huge desire to do good but I am sure that to many of her coworkers she could be labeled as that "angry person". The thing she really needs is help, concern, and the Savior. I thought about how easy it is to be mad or frustrated with an angry person when really they are the ones who need the most love.

One thing that has been a treasure for me in my mission is these three questions: What? Why? and How? What is usually really simple it could be the problem the person or the idea, why is the reason behind the problem, person, or idea, and how is the application, what we can do to help or maybe the actual action that the subject is doing.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, be nice to the grouch! They could be in the prayers of some missionary.

I love you all tons! but I need to go

Elder Hanson