So there goes week one of the transfer. Time´s not cool out here. Way to fast.
My new companion is a cute blonde elder from Utah! He´s from Pleasant Grove and went to American Fork High School. He plays the trombone, piano and he´s the oldest out of four siblings. Haha the branch was super worried that the new elder wasn´t going to be able to play the piano and that they´d have to find someone to play for them. However nothing to worry about because I´d say about half the missionaries out here know how to play the piano. He´s a good elder and I´m excited to work with him. There´s a good and exciting feeling in the air and that´s exactly what we need.
However saying that we had a decently slow week this week. He was serving in the north of Spain right before coming here so the way he works is a lot different than the way we work here. Let me explain. Up north there are mainly only old catholic spaniards or young super athiest people. So there aren´t a lot of lessons up there and the work is just different. Because here there are a bunch of latinos, everybody and their dog wants to talk our ears off and nobody wants to commit to anything. Haha soooo. The work kinda struggles. We´re working and luckily he is from the north though so we can try new things and really try to kick this branch into shape. The attendence has dropped and there is work to be done. There are lots of little things that they aren´t doing which if we started doing them then there would be more people in church and we´d have more baptisms! So we need to start from the bottom and work our way up and out.
We´ve found a few investigators that the missionaries were teaching a few months ago and we´re going to try with them and give them an opportunity to listen to the restored gospel! There´s been a decent amount of success with that. We´ve found these people and hopefully they´ll be a little more receptive to the gospel this time around. With new investigators we´ve really been trying to get the branch to give us references so that the work can progress and progress quickly. People have friends who can and will accept the gospel with the right missionaries and I feel (of course I do ;) like right now is the time to take the chance and make the change. To grow. There´s no better time to plant a seed than today.
Sorry my letter´s a little scattered. We asked for the opportunity to serve physically a few weeks ago and last week we received quite a few of them. We helped a member move houses, some random guy was moving a bed in the street and we helped him then went to his house and finished helping him with the rest of the move. What we need to do is just be the best missionaries we can be and trust the Lord to make up for all of our errores and pitfalls. These past few months have been really slow but if we just focus on the basics I know that we´ll be able to see the fruits of our labor.
Thanks for all of the prayers and all of the support. It´s funny how as a missionary there are moments when you feel the extra boost, that extra prayer that just pushed you a little more. Thank you all so much for that and I want you to know that I do feel the support. So thanks to that support and the start of a new transfer I feel good. My feelings are good. Nothing too depressing or bad to report. Just that with some time the branch here will grow.
Thanks for all of the love.
Love,
Élder Hawks
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