Hey Family,
Haha I was completely caught off guard. At first I read it and
chuckled to myself and thought haha nice try. But then I kept reading
and realize you were being completely serious. Haha I freaked out. I
cant believe this haha. But Im happy for you guys. I was talking to
Elder Boren the other day about how you were going to be in Utah this
month. (Thinking about that, from what it sounds like its all play and
no work for this month of April haha). I told him that you were the
ones missing out haha because Im here with an awesome missionary doing
the Lords work. Not much more I could ask for. But all of this
definitely proves the truth we all thought that Rachel is the most
spoiled haha. But thats the way it works. Like I said Life is going
great here. President Prieto once told about how when one of his
daughters was on the mission their family traveled a lot. Then she
came home and they stopped traveling so much ahah. It was because he
says that as you serve as a missionary, the blessings go to your
family. When you get home, the Lord starts blessing you hah.
Elder Boren is my favorite comp. Elder Ramos and Elder Ilustre are
super close behind. Elder Boren and I are working as hard as we can,
the hardest I ever have. And we are working efectively. We both have a
good vision of the work. He is always happy and we are always joking
but working hard. The Lord truely loves me and I am blessed to be with
him right now. We are always fighting to serve each other. We race to
iron each others shirts or make each others beds and its just great. I
love Elder Boren a ton. He gets home in December and we are going to
be buds for sure after the mission.
The work this week progressed a lot. We found lots of families to
start teaching this week and are stoked. We are working with Daniel to
try and help him stop drinking and smoking and get him baptized at the
end of this month. We are also working with a guy named Luiz Fernando
and he just needs to stop drinking.
The zone is doing alright. We know that everyone including us needs to
be doing more. We are trying to pass a bigger vision of the work to
our zone. We want to focus on helping everyone have a bigger group of
investigators. We are going to do 2 divisions per week with the elders
in the zone.
Interesting side note. For breakfast we have been drinking avacado
smoothies Oh SO GOOD! Just put avacado, milk, and sugar (maybe a
little ice, also good with banana). It is delicious. Never would have
thought of that before. Lots of things like that that I am learning.
Also my dinner 99 % of the time is cookies and ramen noodles. I love
it haha. Probably not too healthy but Im getting along well.
I love this work and know that It is true. The Lord requires much of
us but is willing to give us all that he has. Pretty good trade if you
think about it. Heavenly Father loves us and wants what is best. I am
thankful for living prophets and apostles and the teachings that come
through them by revelation. I love you all and am happy to hear that
everyone is happy and healthy. Have a great week!
Elder Hawkley
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