Holy cow Andrew is now a married man... And there will be two new babies when I get back. Maybe 3! ;) Well I love you guys and I´m sad I wasn't able to be there but that you were all able to be there to support "The Lurp."
Anyways let´s get back to me... This week there isn't a ton of things to report. I´m feeling a lot better and we were able to get back to work. We taught, contacted, and then Church this week was very interesting. Ha-ha so we´ll start off with that. In consejo this week, (I can´t remember what that´s called in English) President of the branch said that the man who stopped us during the musical number needed to talk. BADDDDD IDEA. He´s a very nice man but we should just never talk about doctrine with him. This is the same man who a few months ago said that the Bible is not true. So honestly yesterday wasn't full of too many surprises.
Really this week there wasn't too much to report so I´ll talk about our investigators.
Elvis: The King of Rock. He´s super cool. He´s a man from Honduras, has a ton of faith and reads at least like two chapters from the B.O.M. every day. However he isn't married, is living with this woman and has like three kids with her. He´s 50 something and she´s 30ish so she doesn't want to get married and he can´t go live somewhere else because he doesn't have a job. He has a date to get baptized the 10th of May but we´ll see, because there is a bunch he still needs to do and he wants to move to Switzerland.... We´ll see.
Javier: A younger guy. 30ish has a small family and his kids are the funniest I´ve ever met. He´s from the Dominican Republic and he´s very lazy. He doesn't care too much about the church but his wife does and we´re trying to meet with her more. She likes the Plan of Salvation a lot and wants to keep learning more. They´re pretty funny/gross. During that lesson of the Plan of Salvation I was bearing my testimony and looking at her and she straight up picked her nose, looked at it, then put the booger on the curtains right next to her. Gotta love South Americans. :) I´m excited for them.
Seish: A Japanese man, 30ish years old, vegan and wants to know our "secrets." Basically we go and answer all of his questions that he has about the church. He asks good things. Like, "Why do you personally think the B.O.M. is true? How has the church helped you in your life? and With a church that large how can it not be corrupt? (he´s not a fan of authority, he thinks that the world would be better without any sort of authority) Pretty much he´s a lot of fun to teach. Because he likes it when we answer his questions with the B.O.M. However we went over on Thursday and found a Pentecostal circle on his floor. The Devil´s Circle, which he likes to meditate on and which he says has "the power to create fear" He might get dropped pretty quick.
The tough thing about Segovia is that those are all of our even decent investigators. There aren't a ton of people ready to listen to our message out here. This area is a LOT different from Villalba. In Villalba if we didn't have at least 5 progressing investigators we weren't working as hard and we could, and here we don´t have any and we´re working our tails off. I keep thinking of what Dad and Andrew said where I need to work hard and work smart. So don´t worry once I get something amazing the work will really start to get going here! :)
We spend a lot of time in our piso because we have studies every morning, then Medio Día (where literally nobody is outside for three hours, we´re only in for two but everyone here sleeps for three) and then at night to plan. We have a bigger piso than the Villalba one and don´t worry I´ll take some pictures and send them home to you guys. We actually do basically all of our own cooking. There aren't many members and the one´s here are old and don´t have time or don´t want to feed us. So we make spaghetti, grilled cheese, and Elder Dyer´s mom sent him Hamburger Helper so we make that every now and then. I´m actually eating a lot healthier here than I was in Villalba. I buy a bunch of fruit to snack on and try not buying a bunch of snack food. So hopefully I´ll drop a few kilos in my time here! :)
Yes, I called Jake, he´s doing well a little further north, I don´t really see him, but I´ve heard from a bunch of people that he´s a really good missionary so that´s always good. It´s weird cause whenever I talk to him I want to call him Jake not Elder Dunn. Weird. But yeah so its, Elder Dyer and I and two Hermanas here. Hermana Aagard (22, has a few months left, studies at USU and is great wife material for Michael) and Hermana Adair (6´1´´ cool, from Vegas, 19). They do a really good job animating the ward and getting them excited for things. Elders just don´t do that stuff as well as Hermanas. Oh well.
Okay, time for my feelings. I´m physically doing well, however our numbers up here are a lot lower than they were in Villalba and I´m stressing a little about that. But my comp´s let me know that here we just don´t have as high of numbers as in the other areas but we can still be successful. So I just need to be patient, obedient, and diligent! I´m emotionally great. I´m actually happy that I didn't get my package cause now I get it on Wednesday and it´ll feel like my birthday was spread out!
Thanks for everything, I hope I answered your questions, Andrew and Kenz congrats and I love you all!
Love,
Elder Hawks
Semana Santa
Segovia´s a lot prettier than Villalba
My companion
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