Ok giddy up!
Well there goes another week with my Latino buddy, Elder Castro. He is literally the most relaxed missionary ever. So another week of getting to know each other, teaching together and working on improving together. We had a good and bad week. It started off really not well then it went to super awesome miracle and back down to not so great... Let's just say we've discovered how the Lord can always humble us a little bit more. 
So to start off we met this lady from Peru named Vicky. Golden. She was having eye problems so we gave her the eye drops I bought in the spring time and started to teach her. She loved everything, even read the chapter in the Book of Mormon we left her and everything. We met about three times one day after another. Then... We lost contact with her and she hangs up every time we try to call her. Oh well... Then thought the week the Jehova's Witness's have had a lot of meetings and I feel like every other person we contacted was a JW that wanted to Bible Bash... 3 Nephi 11:29. Then like every other old person we talked to was mad at us for telling them to have a good day... 
However on Saturdaythe Hermanas had a baptism, and everything got better. Their investigator asked me to baptize her because I was the first missionary she saw and I look just like her uncle that had passed away. It was a really cool service. You could really feel the Spirit and she gave a great testimony at the end of it all, and she's also planning on serving a mission next year! Yahoo! Also other miracle was that a member of the branch came up to us telling us that she had just received permission to baptize her twelve year old son. So we're going to have a baptism in two weeks!
We're staying excited and going to keep doing all we can to be exactly obedient and receive the promised blessings!
#4 Charity, the pure love of Christ.
Something that's really stuck out to me is the gratitude that people express when you do some simple act of service for them. Something as small as go to their house, sing a hymn and share a scripture. It leaves a lasting impression and it then leaves them wanting to do the same. This is the church of Christ and we need to love each other for pertaining and not pertaining to it. If we really have taken upon ourselves the name of Christ are we doing everything in our power to share this love with others? Is the way we talk, work, drive and text done in the most Christ-like manner possible. People are more important that rules. I am not perfect and I'm pretty darn sure nobody else is. (No matter how many times Michael might say otherwise) visiting and taking care of the poor is a commandment that has always been in effect.
I'm very grateful in these two years that I've been able to only think in others and not worry about myself. I know that the mission is inspired in such a way that we get lost in this selfless service and then find the Savior on the other side. I love that Man of men and I hope that everything we do can emulate His love and reflect His example.
Stay strong family. You only have to endure four more weeks without me... 
I'm looking forward to start really being appreciative for the things and people I have in my life! Thanks for all your prayers!
-Elder Hawks
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