Bryce and Elder Flores (on his left) at Zone Conference
Monday, May 27, 2013
May 27, 2013
Hola Familia ! Como están?
Hows everything out in Europe? :) i hope you guys are having
fun out there and taking tons of pictures. I cant wait ot check em all
out.
Things here are going good, still pretty cold out here but
its been a nise change of things. Sweater and scarf weather out here and let me
tell you Elder Hawkey reps a v neck sweater like you cant believe ha ha Me and
my companion are doing good and have been working super hard out here together,
it has been a little tough getting used to all the changes for him but hes
doing good and we have really been seeing miracles out here.
Silvia our main investigator is progresing super well and
just loving it, she is seriosuly so prepared and one of the most amazing ladies
I have ever met, super smart and educated and she loves to speak english ha ha
I cant wait for you guys (espesially mom) to meet her. She is progresing really
well thoguh and we were really excited bescause this week her daughter came to
church with her and comited to be baptised on the same day as her mom :) this
girl is so shy and timid, but the ward really helped her out and she absolutly
loved it. They live alone, just them 2 so its going tom awesome to see them
take such an important step in their lives together :)
We have some othger good investigators but I have to tell
you guys about this kid Alejandro. So hes 17 and the nephew of a family
we were teaching. This kid is super crazy and alwsy told us how he didnt
believe in God or in anything.... That was a couplke months ago but a few weeks
ago we stoped by this family and they wernt there so we talked with him
alone. He expresed alot of troubles he had in his life and how he needs help,
we comited him to read the book of mormon and to pray to find out if God was
there for him.... He recieved his answer and ever sinse has been going to
church with us. as long as literally everything else the church has ( seminary
activities, mutual, literally evbeyting) Thhis kid is such a stud and just
yesterday after church he tolf us how he is going to get baptised so he can
recieve the priestgood and prepare himself to serve a mission :))) this kids
conversion story is incredible, a true miracle and a witness that literally
everyone can change. Were excited thoguh and he will be getting baptised in the
next couple of weeks :)
I feel like I am doing good, staying focused and just livin
the dream out here. Its seriously such an adventure out here and we have so
many crazy experienses out here. LIke I always say, its crazy how different it
is out here. LAst week of the month and im running low on money soi this week
Im livin on 50 pesos, wich converts to like 5 dollars. Thats the crazy thing
thoguh, like I bought a ton of food with that today and still have some left
over, gotta love how cheap styuff is in foreign countries. ha ha well i guess
only the food but itsw funny to me
This week should be a good one, This wendsday Elder cook of
the quarum of the 12 will be visiting us and our misosn so were super excited
for the devotional. I hope you guys have an awesome week to and you know your
in my thoguhts and prayers. LOve you guys !
Aloha,
Elder Hawkey
Monday, May 20, 2013
May 20, 2013
Hola Familia :) como están? que tal Europa ?
You guys have been in my thoguhts and prayers and i really
hope you guys are doing alright and enjoying it up out there.
Things here are going good, me and Elder Flores have been
working super hard and setting things up for this transfer. We have been
strugling a little bit to help him get acustomed to the msison life but weve
been working hard and all is well. This kid is super funny, he talks super fast
and with a thivk accent so like noone understands him here, im getting used to
it but alot of times i have to help investigastors and members understand what
hes saying. How ironic no? ha ha :) we have been working super hard thogu and
really enjoying our time together.
Hermana Silvis, a refrense from member and inverstigator is
progessing uper well. Seriolsly she is the most prepared person i have ever met
and its been such an amazingexperiense to work with her. She will be getting
baptised her on the 8th so were excited about that and all working together to
help her daughter as well to take this important step. SHes so cool thoguh, so
smart, so argentine, and super tiny. ha ha MOm its crazy how much she reminds
me of you, like in every way, her personality , her sense of humor. Its crazy.
Shes super educated thoguh and speaks super good english so she cant wait to
meet youwhen you come down here MOmma :) one person atleast that you can talk
to lol
Other than that just workin hard like always. Its cooling
down here like crazy and been kinda rainy. I forgot how cold it gets here. This
week i was literally wearing 6 layers on top and 4 on bootom. Thermal garmets,
long sleve shir, 2 sweaters and my big 2 m`pice caot i have :p Were excited
cause Elder Cook of the quarum of the 12 is coming to our msison next week do
its going to be a good one.
KNow you guys are in my thoguhts and prayers and kniow how
truely greatful i am for all the suport. you guys are the best.
Have an awsome week.
Elder HAwkey
Monday, May 13, 2013
May 13, 2013
Whats up family? Hows it?
It was way good to talk to you guys all yesyerday, serioslu
that was the best, you guys all seem like your doing so good. That makes me
super happy :) so misisonaries talking to their families get trunky and what
not but for me it was seriously the other way around, like that short call
really helped me focuss in on why im here and the little things i can do to better
myself as a missionary. I seriosly left the house with the adrenaline rush to
go work out here! To work and to baptise a full out here ! :) Thanks for the
call thoguh, realy helped me out. I felt dumb but i forgot the whole reasaon
for the call mom. HAPPY MOTHERSDAY ;))))) seriosly thanks for all you do for me
and the family, I know i speak for us all when i say you realy help keep the
family going and that you truely are the best MOm on the world.
Well we talked yesterday and you guys pretty much heard
everything thats going on , soooo I dont have much to write today lol so ill
just share a quick spiritual experiense.
About a month ago we go over to the familia Ponses house for
lunch. A super humble and amazing family. Were there sitting at the table and
she brings out a big tray of milanesa and a big sald for us all to eat. We say
the prayer like normal and have a nise lunch with this single mom and her 4
kids. As we finish lunch and are about to share a spiritual thoguh she starts
to cry. We didnt know what was wrongg so we waited and just as she I woke up
this morning and we literally had no food in the house and not one peso to feed
you guys lunch. She said she was super embarased and couldnt call and
cancel on us but she just knew that the Lord would provide a way for her to be
able to feed us that day. She then told us how 20 minutes before we got there a
family fromt he ward came by and gave them the food because, thery felt
like her and her kids would enjoy a nise lunch. Its something small but
something that realy impacted me, Like she relied on the Lord so much and the
Lord came throguh for her, came through for her to us. She then proceded to
tall us how much of a blessing and how much it means to have the msisionaries
in her home and how that one lunch every MOnth really keeps the family animated
to go to church and to keep on going, It was something that serilsuy
changed my life and on so many levels. Mom before the msison i didnt understand
why we did so much for the missionaries, why i had to always give them rides
and why they were always at our house. I understand now thoguh, and i know
without a doubt that it is becaus eof your servise to those missionaries that I
am being so blessed out here through these members. Keep it up thoguh, we
seriosuly need all the help we can out here, ha ha if you guys can, invite the
missionaries over for lunch one day and i know it will really help you guys out
there to keep on keepin on :)
Know taht I love you guys and know that you guys are the
best family ever. Seriosly more than a guy could ever ask for. YOu guys are
always in my thoguhts and prayers and seriously always with me.
Have an awesome week :)
Aloha,
Elder HAwkey
Monday, May 6, 2013
May 6, 2013
Hola Familia! Como estan? Hows it out there in the states?
sory for this past week, I literally had like 5 minutes at
the end to do personal email so i could only send the pictures, no worries
thoguh cause things are all good out here and we have seriosuly been Wrecking
out here in Ciudad Evita ! The best area in the world!!! Me and Elder Bajancito
have been working super hard thoguh and really seeing the friuts of our labors
with daily miracles. Thats something about the mission that is really hard to
put into words, like how much the Lord really does help and bless us to bring
to pass his sacred work.
Trainig has been an amazing experiense and I have seriously
learned so much. ELde Bajan h as progress so much throguhout our time together
and seriuslyt hese past few weeks like I forget that he is so new in the
misiosn. This kid is a full thoguh,en verdad, I cant wait for you guys to meet
him after the msison. Ya this past week we finshed up the transfer and his
training and are waiting on calls either today or tomorow to see whats going to
happen. I think im going thoguh, President has been giving me alot of hints do
im pretty sure Ill be going out this week. Who knows what will happen thoguh,
thats one thing, like you really never know. Ill keep you guys posted on what
happens though and everything. Ill let you guys know SUNDAY! caus eyour boy
elder HAwkey is gonna be callin home :) im super excited and I cant wait to
talk to you guys but more than anything to the best MOm in the entire world! I
hope my present makes it out there okay but if not the call i hope will make up
fot it. ( 5 this sunday, our time)
I feel good thoguh and it was a goow weeek out here for us.
The weather is changing dramasticly and its been super cold out here. IM
excited thoguh cause i got to take out my coat and sweter , let me tell you,
Elder HAwkey wears a v neck sweater like you cant believe ha ha Other that that
thoguh just living the crazy mission, argentine Life. Argentina is the best
though, seriosly so different but the poelpe here are so down to earth and so
sincere. It is going to be awesome to return somedasy with you guys to really
let you see everything im always talking about, espesially the poeple.
Alright welll ill kepe it short sinse well be talking soon
but I really want you guys to know how much I Love and appreciate you, you guys
are the best family ever. MOre than anything I want you to know that I truely
know, with all my heart that this is the Lords work, guided by him! The church
is the one and only true organization here upon the earth and the only way to
Live our life the way our father needs us to. I know that the book of Mormon is
ture, I know without a doubt that today, for his infinite Love for us
comnicated throguh a profet to us so we can know what he needs us to do. I hope
you guys too can find the strength to remember to put in practise the little
things to really help you in every aspect of your life. Read and pray every
day, I promise it wiwll help you so much, and take the time to go to church,
every sunday, to remember the Savior and all he did and still does for us... So
will you guys put thes things in practise and reach and pray every day as well
as got o church every sunday?.... I congradulate you if you already are but if
your not this is the comitment i wanted to leave you today, I Love you guys all
so much and i know that life is hard, i know that at times we get destracted,
but i know mre than anything that its by our efforts and sacrifices for the
little things that the Lord will bless us abnd our family.
Have an aweosme week!
Until Sunday :)
Aloha,
Elder HAwkey
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