Well I´m very grateful that you´re all doing well and that you had a good thanksgiving! Haha our Thanksgiving was... any other day and we enjoyed it for what it was worth and nothing else. Nothing too crazy or anything like that.
This past week has been pretty good. Last Tuesday I went to Lanzarote to do intercambios with the missionaries there and I was with Elder Peterson. He´s from Sandy, played soccer for Brighton and so let´s just say that we hit it off super well. We spent probablly all of Medio Día (our two hour lunch break) talking about people we know, what they´re doing and how absolutely awesome the mission is. He´s a really good kid and will be a super gooooooood missionary. There´s a lot of potential there and I´m excited to see what he does.
So after those two days I came back to Fuerteventura with gnarly stomach pain and crazy weather. It´s been on and off raining for the past two weeks and according to locals this only happens like every five years or less so we´re really enjoying the water. However with this weather the wind here is strong enough that it killed like two people on some of the other islands.... I don´t know how wind killed people but... it found a way. So we lost an afternoon due to the weather. We worked inside and made a bunch of calls and set up appointments for later.
Which it was good that we stayed inside because like I said I had pretty bad stomach pains. I couldn´t sleep, eat (without making a quick trip to the bathroom), or rest without pain shooting through my stomach. So we bought some medicine and made some magic potion that a member suggested and two days later I felt better and today I´m 100%! It was actually though a really good experience for me though. Mind over body kind of thing. My stomach hurt but all the time so we dicided to keep working through the pain and it payed off. We´ve found some other potential investigators that we´re excited to work with.
Speaking of investigators Victoria´s progressing like a champ. (I think I said that last week...) and she´s now has a baptismal date for the 17th of January. She´s excited and says that she wants us to keep coming over so that she´ll be prepared and she wants us to teach some of her friends so that they can get baptized with her too.... :o Haha she´s crazy but awesome. Her daughters are progressing as well. The fourteen year old you can tell that she knows it´s true even though she doesn´t show it too much and the eight year old is off in her own world, but when we ask her she says she wants to sooooo we´ll see.
Other than that everything else is good. My toe doesn´t hurt anymore, it looks weird but it doesn´t hurt. Hermana Jackson told me to put hydrogene peroxide on it then a little bit of neosporin then wrap it up tight with two band aids, and I´ve been doing that and it doesn´t hurt anymore but it still looks.... bad to say the least. It´s not messing with my feelings so that´s good.
Feelings. I´m doing really well. I absolutely love the mission and the thought of transfers came up today and I was really sad just thinking about leaving the island... We have transfers next week so next monday they´ll have happened and thinking about that has gotten me stressed that I might be going. So we´ve been working as if I am and going as hard and possible so that I don´t have any regrets when I leave this area. It´s amazing how much love you develope for a place and people in just a few months.
I love you all and just telling you that the church is still true, just because somebody says something mean or makes a mistake that doesn´t mean that the whole church is wrong. Love the gospel, love our Heavenly Father and love others!
Love,
Elder Hawks
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