How's awesome possum mama this week?? I'm doing great! It was
awesome to see you guys and talk to you in skype!! I almost cried once but left
the rest of that for you and Emily because I know you guys can cry enough for the 3
of us ;) hahaha. Not gonna lie, it was crazy to see all the Christmas trees and
lights and everything set up in the house. Here they have like no lights and
some people have trees.. A bit different eh? haha.
Lets see... New Years we
celebrated with 4 other elders from the district. Elder Perez, Elder Nuñez,
Elder Piedra, and Elder White!! It was way fun!! We made an asado and some Russian salad with some Coca Cola!! We just ate played games, watched fireworks
and then went to bed! It was way chill!! Kinda miss throwing fireworks... It's
kinda fun to do that but I guess some elders almost burned down a pench or
something, so this year we couldn't have them. It's all good thought because we had a good
week anyways!!
We were helping our investigators Antonio and Jenifer Benitez
build their house this week. I got sunburned pretty bad... hahha. I'll have to
send you that photo. I think it will bring back memories to the time we went to California and then I came back a lobster! haha. But we have almost everything
done to fill with concrete and then start laying bricks. Then we got the rest
of the house to build. We can only build a part of it now and the rest later.
But they are an awesome family. They told us this past week "thank you for
coming to our house, since you guys came here there has been a peace between us
and we feel a lot better. We talk a lot more now than we ever had in our time
together. Thank you so much" Jenifer said that and Antonio didn't really
say much but he prayed at the end and in his prayer said basically the same
thing!! It was Awesome!!! :) :) we were so happy to hear that from them!!
It
really is amazing to see the difference just a little bit of the gospel can do
in the lives of people. I think it is a lot harder for us as members of all of
our lives to see and feel this difference because we are used to it but when
someone who has never heard the true gospel in all of their life and then start
to listen to a bit of it, it changes them. And it is amazing to see this in the
lives of these two people Jenifer and Antonio.
I encourage you guys to look for
the blessings that the gospel has given you in your lives in the last 2 weeks.
or month. I know that you can find some because I have too.
I love you guys.
Have and amazing week and I hope everyone had a Feliz Navidad y Feliz Año
Nuevo!!!!
Con amor,
Elder Hakes
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| I finished reading the Book of Mormon in Spanish!!! |
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