Changes... Are next week so I´ll fill you all in next Monday if I get to stay in good ol Segovia or if I get to say goodbye! :\ Haha a little nervous but President Jackson and the Lord know what they´re doing!
This week has been HOT. The heat is really starting here in Segovia and Spain. Other than that this week has been a bummer, great, a little bit of everything. Average week on the mission. Roger, it seems like he´s doing well but from everything I´ve heard I´m scared of what could be happening. Martha his wife hasn't let the Hermanas in to teach her and the family won´t let us in either. It´s really just more sad than anything. I really don´t want to have been tricked or have had anything sneaky happen with them. We´re trying to help them, because they want to go back to Honduras, and we want to make sure that they know what to do so that they don´t repeat their problems over there as well. Ugh.... :)
We´re waiting for the pastor guy to call us. It´s kind of like a game. If we force it on him he won´t accept it but if we let him just think about it and give him time we´re pretty sure that his curiosity will get the better of him.
Speaking of other churches. One of the members here is from Ecuador. She´s a old little old lady who is pretty crazy. She almost snuck into the temple in Ecuador and she didn't understand why they didn't let her in... Anyways, she usually shares things that are super random. Like one time we were teaching about David and Goliath and she read the introduction to the first chapter of Abraham out loud, and didn't say anything after that. Just left it. So what I´m getting at is that she gave a talk yesterday about Abraham. She went up and just started reading from a pamphlet that I thought I recognized. Kept reading and after her talk she came down and sat down next to me. I asked her for the pamphlet and she gave it to me. It was definitely a Jehovah´s Witness pamphlet. That she just read during Sacrament meeting, and NOBODY said anything. Welcome to Segovia. So I took it and Soledad ripped it up after the meeting.
We need strong members here. This little branch needs a miracle.
We´re doing exchanges this week and guess where I´m going! Good ol Villalba. I´m going to hit my year mark in the same district... Haha weird. But I´m pretty excited to go and be with Elder Morgan. He´s an elder from Orem actually. He knows a bunch of Cline´s friends and all of the kids from there that I know too. He´s a sweet spirit that needs a little bit of a push and I´m excited to give that push. :)
The thing about the mission is that you find out what you´re good at and then you´re usually humbled and humbled again so that you forgot what you were even good at. However thanks to humiliation and effort my Spanish has improved significantly and I´ve actually been surprised at how many people compliment me and how I´ve been able to help people with it. Spanish is fascinating and I´m thinking about studying languages when I get back thanks to it.
However the humiliation is still a key factor in our growth. Maybe not humiliation but more recognizing what you can´t do and how you can fix that or change that. That is something that is probably my favorite part. We find our faults and we work on changing them and in essence ourselves. Sorry I´m preaching but it´s something that´s just become a habit. :)
I love you all and I´m very super grateful for all y´all. Os quiero. :)
Love,
Elder Hawks
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