September 30, 2013

Family :) how are you guys? how goes things out there in the states?.... Broken foot? ha ha que paso che? I really hope things are good for all you guys and that your remembering to do the thingd I have been talking about the last couple of week. you guys have been in my prayers and it was really good to hear form you guys, thanks for the emails.

Things out here in Juinn are going good, working hard as always and we were super blessed to have a really good week out here.We fouind some good investigators that have a ton of potential to progress.We found this kid Agostine this week thats super legot. HEs 17 and seriosuly such a stud, and the perfect age. He is super interested and we were excited because he was able to come to both church and a branch activty we had this weekend. He has a huge intrest to recieve help from God and we have been talking alot about ht importanse of doing our part so the Lord can do his. HEs got a fecha for the 20 and we hope to see him and anoth complete family take this big step in their Lives. Kepe him in you prayers , wev talked abou it with him and this kid is super intrested in serving a misison in a year :)other than that we have been working with another family alot , the Lujan family and they as well were able to come to church sunday so we were stoked on that. Its going to be aweosme for you guys to get to know these people when we come out here, cant wait.

Im hanging in there and staying focused to see miracles out here. Things with my comapion are going well , im his first real comapion here in Argentina, he waited in Mexico for his visa, so im training him as to our miison. HEs a good kid thoguh and has a ton of potential. We get along well and both are going good. IL try to send you guys some pictures of us next week. IM getting him ready thoguh to lead the area, and to be district leader out here. Presidents been talking to me alot lately and it loks like at the end of this transfer im headed out. Keep it on the down low thoguh with evryone if you guys could :) whos knows whats going to happen, well have to wait and wee i guess. I continue to make the best of every opportunity to serve our heavenly father and am absolutly loving the mission. Man time flies by thoguh out here, this week as well ill be completing 18 months out here :(  DOesnt matter thogugh the time, if it be a year,a day or an hour im doing all I can to serve a sacred misison and to help the children of our father in heaven undertsnad the importanse of acting upon their faith. Its about to be fourth quarter out here thoguh and i can asure that im gonna be going hard !

Were excited because after this were going to be going to the laguna with a family from the branch and then as well were going to be traveling alot this week. Tomomrw were headed to chilvicoy for a meeting as well as next monday were travling to buenos aires. Were just ilvin the dream out here :) Know you nguys are in my prayers and know how much you guys mean to me, seriously im so greatful for all you guys do for me. I hope you have an aweosme week.

Aloha,

Elder Hawkey

September 23, 2013

Family :) what is goin on!? How are you guys?

Thanks for all your support and emails this week, I enjoyed reading the updates. thanks :)

Thigs out here are going good, were hanging in ther and working hard as always. We have been seeing some chalanges out here being thrown our way but we stay excited and working hard to see miracles out here. For me its just another testimony builder of the truthfulness of this work. No other work or church would see these sort of chalanges if it werent true. I dont know if you guys can undertsnd right now but for me things are always better and learned form when were positive.  :) were doing good thoguh and I know we will see big thigns happen out here in Junin in the near and distand future. Were only a branch out here (todavia) but im complete convinced that one day this town will have a stake in it, im absolutly sure of that and it is such a great blessing to be part of such a mrvolouse and great work :)

I hope all is well and that you guys  know how much these thigs eman to me. We share the gospel with so many poeple but I know that really some of the most importand things i have to do is to help our family to progress and to seee the happiness that only our father in heaven can give. KNow i pray for you guys, each one of you individually every day and night and one of the bigest dreams and desires i have is to be able to enter the temple together again as a family. As a family requires the part of each and every one of us. I dont know where you each are at in terms of the church and your relationship with our father in heaven but i really hope things are well. That is my bigest hope and dream that you guys can undertsnad, truely understand and apply these simple things to see true growth progresion in our lives and live as a family. We each must pray every day , doesnt matter how busy it may be, we all have to find the time for our Lord and savior. Talk with him openly, confess to him your dificulties and ask for help to better them, He will answer I promise you that. We all must be wiilng to go to church, in times of old the day of rest was taken so seriously that those who didnt complete were often sentensed to death. Thankfully its not like that today but i can asure you that it is the cause of a spirital death and a duling of our senses. A numming and stoping of personal revelatiion and a drive and desire to complete with the comandments and covents that each and every one of us made and know that we have to complete.We all have to go to church every week, if its just one hour its beter than nothing. We have to make the Lord, our family, and our salvation a priority.

Two small and simple things but I know that like it says " through small and simploe things , great things are brought to pass" I know that to be true, Without a doubt in my mind i know that every single one of us, no matter how bad or dificult the situation c¡may be has the portunity and ability to change and to repent. Thats why this messgae we share is so important and so full of hope. That iin an almost imposible bombarding world of problems we all can recieve help and true happiness. Like i siad i dont know where each one of you and us stand on terms of these two principles but i invite us all to ponder on these things and them just do it :) i can asure you that as we complete these two simple things the Lord will bless and strengthen our family. and if we all do it (togetyher) we wil be able to be together forever :) I know that to be true. I know it will take each one of our part. BUt i know that it wil be worth it :) I love you guys and more than anything desire your salvation and treu happiness. I hope you can take these words to heart and hear  that like the scripture says " for the voise of the Lord or his cosen servants, it is the same. " I know this is an invitatio from the Lord, for eachg one of us to simploe talk to him, every day and to go and recieve his help in his house ( the church ) :)

I Love you guys! :)

Un abrazo!

Aloha,

Elder HAwkey

Bryce doing service.

Bryce and his new companion, Elder Gallegos

September 16, 2013

Hey family :) whats going on? How was your guys week?

!¿Que cosa  Sobre la donador de Sangre no?! Es argentino,  y aun mejor de Buenos Aires? :)

What zone/part is he from?

Crazy how things work out no? thats realy cool though and i thank you guys for sharing that with me, it really makes me happy to hear that. One day for sure Im goign to have to meet him.

Things out here are going good, first things first, I got a new companion. His name is Elder Gallegos de Guanaguato Mexico . Its my first time in a long while not training so its a bit of a change but htis kid is a stud. Hes completing 6 months in the mission week but only has a little oover a month here in Argentina. HE had like half transfer the last one so this is his first real transfer out here in the best misison in the world. Hes super outgoing thoguh and super dilegent. This is going to be a big companionship, i can feel it. For reals, weree going to see big things out here in the coming months :)

Junin overall is doing good, the branch is strengthening and growing so were happy about that. Were working hard as always and expect a few baptisms here in the coming weeks :) It was cool this past week we had a big servise project for the world church servise day?.. what did you guys do out there?.... We went to a school and cleaned it all up inside and out, it was a good turn out and we had a good time. I guess Facundo showed the pictures? ha ha idk ILl send one out though here after the email.

IM doing good thoguh and am absolutly amazed to see how fast time is flying by out here. LIke its crazy to even think about it. And for that reason I giong to not think about it ha ha andif you guys could hold back on the coments and what not as well that would really help me out. I dont get unfocused like at all, it just makes me a little sad. So see that the most amazing experiense of my life at one wime will have to come to a close.... We have time though and until then I will be working hard, A full!  KNow that, Know that IM making you guys all proud and working witb everything i got out here.

To that same note I want you guys to know how much I love the misiosn and how much it really has changed me. A misison is something that the more i talk about and live it, the harder it is to put into words. seriosuly the most amazing experiense ever. Theres the ups and downs, if every aspec, mentally physically, emotionally, but to be able to wear the name of our Savior Jesus Christ is truly the best feelijng in the world. Somehting truely sacred that makes every single hard trime and dificulty worth it. To do what he would do if he were here, to truely help his children chnage their lives, and to but the smallest degree go through what he went through. ... It really is the best 2 years..... you have to provechar (  totake agvantage of) it thoguh and for that reaoson this next 6 months are literally going to be the best of my life  :)

Hope you guys are doing good as well, Hope you guys know that i love you so very much and that im making you guys proud out here. I hope you guys know how much I love to be a misionary, such an honor and privelage. I hope you gus recognize the importanse of completing with our part to our heavenly father. ( 2 Nephi 31:16) All he asks of us is to be willing to folow his comandments. And for our part comes the help and blessing that every one of us need so very much in such a chalanging world. I invite you to rememeber to always complete with the Lord first, over anyhting else, we can not afford to let him down. Remember to go to church , every Sunday and remember to pray daily I know that it will help us each out so very much and espesialy a s a family, were a team here, we all need to do our part thoguh.

I want you guys to know that I know the church is true. I know that our FAther and his son LIve and they really do guide this sacred work. I know that teh Book of MOrmon is true and I know that with all my hear that this is the one and only true church on the face of the earth. I know that he loves us so very much and only asks but a small sacrafice for all the blessings and miracles he will give us. I know that families can be togetehr forever and thats a goal I have , to be woth you guys forever. Salvation is personal but exalation is as a family :) I know these things to be true  and i share them in the name of Jesus Christ , amen.

Love you guys! hope you have a great week !

Aloha,

Elder HAWKEY 

Some Pictures from Bryce's Birthday

Bryce and his companion with Branch President and his wife.














                                    Bryce and his companion on his birthday

Baptismal service on Saturday.

September 9, 2013

The Birthday Slideshow..... So photos take forever to send here so thats what im sending today, better in picture than in words :) ha ha Iv had some great birthdays, ill be honest, like some way good ones with the family and everything but i have to be honest.. The best birthday weeknd of my life :))

heres how it went down the 6th 1) wake up with an amazing workout and me and my coamion head to the church to do weekly planning like normal, the whole morning he acts like nothing, we get to the church, the sisters threw a surprise b day breakfast , Hna morals es mexicana so they made us breakfast buritos :)

 ha ha the pictures are taking forever to load.... ha ha friday was great thoguh after breakfast we had a way good day uand then at night we had permisison to go to this way nice grill, way good argentine asado :) Saturday was even better where we did a big servise projest in the morning and then in the afternnon we had an amazing baptismal servise :) 

Soorry i cant write much, i dont have much time. hope you like the photos thoguh and hope you guys ahve an aweose week. KNow i love you guys and KNow that im diong good, working hard as always and staying focused. Know that i know the church is true and that I know this is the owrk of the LOrd :) know the mission is the best thing ever !!

Love you Guys :)

Elder HAwkey

Enjoy the potos :) know i Love you guys.... have an awesome week :) 

sorry i didnt write much but thats how it goes sometimes :p doing amazing though, transfers this week so well see what happens.  

Always remember the Lord and all he does for each one of us , take the time to recognize his hand in your life :) we wont have to thik long to see how much he protects each and every one of us :)

Elder HAwkey

September 2, 2013

Family!

 whats going on? How are you guys? the reunion? Seems like everyones doing amaizng out there which makes me super happy.

Thanks for the signs and the pictures you guys sent out my way, you guys are the best, ha ha me and my compaion were loking through them and it was way good "to see" you guys. Dad loking good as ever and with all the respect and Love in the world, Monica is huge :) ha ha makes me happy thoguh, i cant wait to come back and meet the little guy, I bought a little Argentine soccer jersey the other day for her kid as well as for my future son :) Thanks thoguh guys, it really meant alot to me out here.

Junin.... Things out here are giong amazing and like always were just living the dream out here. we wprked super hard this week and were super blessed to see alot of  our investigators make it to church. Were excited because this weeknd we have a baptismal servise, all planned up for the 6th of September ;)) Its gonna be legit, Edward, one of the most incredible men i have ever met in my life is going to enter the waters of baptoism along with MAriana The nicest most prpared lady I have ever mat in my life ( nicest- of course excluding you Mom) Shes amazing thoguh. ha ha she was a street conatct LIterally 2 weeks ago today and form there shes been to literally every church activity and meeting as well has read almost a third of the bok of mormon which in spanish is like 200 pages , shes so legit. :) were excited for the servise thoguh, its gonna be a good one. right after I got permsision form President to go out to dinner with the PIsoli fmaily ( our branch president)  Its gonna be weird withogut you guys but i know its going to be a great birthday :) for sure the best of these 21, with baptisms a guy couldnt ask for anything more than that :) Well take a lot of pictures thoguh and well send them out your way.

Iv got alot to do on the computer today so im gonna keep it short. IM writing letters thoguh that are coming out your way this week so lok forward to that :) ha ha 2 quick stories before we i go ... 1) this week we go into a members house for literally 5 minutes to set up an apointment, we didnt hink anyhting of it so we just left the bikes outside, we come out and my comapions bike is gone. ILl be hinest we were kinda upset and bumbed out. so we go like 2 day walking a ton, our area is huge and se were walking super long distanses, heres where it gets good thoguh, we finsh off the night  days after the insident dead tired with a prayer, my comaion asks to please somhow help us recover the bike, literally right as we finsh the prayer we get a text and an investigator of ours Super CApo like busted out a neighborhood investigation and with miraculouse results recovered the bike!! :) ha ha it was amazing, the kid that stole it tried to take it apart and everything but the invrestigator got it all back for us.. So now were back to cruisen on bikes! Its amazing how much the Lord loks out for us and answers our prayers :)... 2) were walkikng down the strret one day and we feel a need to talk to this lady in the street, we ask here if she wants to come with us to a park like a block a way to have a chala, she agrees and off we go, so were in this parkhaving this charla and this guy comes up to us. Way sketchy argentine comes right up and sits there with us listening, we look at him and he presnts himself, long story short he was an undercover police officer doing an investigation in JUnin, the wierdest experise ever because he wanted to arest us and take us back to the station, We didnt have our documantation with us and as a foreigner he had all the power in the world to do it, We try to talk to him and explain things  but the situation is getting tesne, hes getting upset and then out of nowhere hes like, wait are you guys MOrmons? ha ha we answer yes, he politly apolagizes for the hasle and dropped everything. It was crazy, before he left he told us he had a cousin who was a member and that he has hight respect for the church, for that cause he let us go , it was amazing thoguh, right as he leaves we give him a book of Mormon and we get his adress, we have a v ist this week planned :) crazy! the gunny part of the story is , the whole time this guy is talkin and yelilng at us the lady we were teaching just sat there as happy as could be and as soon as he left we continued with her literally as nothing happened, ha ha it was like 20 minutes :) super funny experiense thoguh.

Overal were doing good thoguh :) happy as can be and working hard as ever. Know that I love you guys and know that you will be in my thoguhts and prayers this week. Know more than anyhtin I know that this really is the Lords work and he relly does lead and guide us. I knopw the church is true and I knpow that only when we give all our part the Lord can do his. I know he loves us and really does have intrest in every one of our lives. I know that obediense brings blessings but being exactly obedient bring miracles ! :) and like I said, thats what I live for, seeing MIracles out here evry day, not ofr me but for all the amazing poeple out here in Argentina and for out Lord and Savior ! 

Have an aweosme week! :)

Aloha,

Elder HAwkey