January 16, 2012

Hey family,

Thanks for the package and the pictures! Everyone looks great! And
yes, Rachel looks super old hahaha, but very pretty. I´m taking a
machete to BYU with me hahaha.

Thanks for the email info and the advice from Pres Bean. The feet are
actually doing a lot better. But I´ll take the advice.

We are excited to have the apostles and leaders with us on Saturday.
Elder Mesquita and I are praying and thinking of questions we can ask
if given the chance.

The division with the Zone Leaders didnt end up happening. Oh well,
probably in the next couple of weeks.

I sent some pictures to you and Pehrson in case it didnt work. Hope
you like them.

The work is going. We struggled to find people again this week haha.
Lots of patience. But it will eventually work out. We are planning and
working hard and trying to do our best. Our family went to church
again. We are going to baptize the daughter this sunday and we are
going to try and mark the wedding this week. But they are doing great.

We had a ward activity. It was a cake contest. For the prize, we got a
big box and wrapped it and left it in the hall in the church. Elder
Mesquita told everybody that it was something from Portugal. Everyone
got excited. The big box had lots of smaller boxes and the prize was
some candy from Portugal. There were teams and every team had to have
a non member. It was a good turn out. The members had a lot of fun.
Elder Mesquita and I did a skit of the day of missionaries. Everything
went wrong and then in the end we received a referral haha. There were
a couple non members, but none of them wanted us to visit them haha.
But it was good.

Well my time is out. But I want you all to know that I love you so
much. That I am doing well and learning and growing. Im not perfect
but not none of us are. Have a great week and I´ll try and write
better and send pictures again next week! Have a great week!

Elder Hawkley

PS Dad, do you have any Plans for Recent Converts in the ward? Like a
"Convert Action List" or something? If you please send it to me. Love
you