Soccer & the Tree of Life

Friday, July 13, 2012, 3:42 PM

     "So my p-day is on Fridays and I actually sent out my first letters today, sorry it's just been super busy on my end. 

     

     Just so you all know I appreciate the dear elder letters that I keep getting from you guys :) they make my day ! Estoy muy agradecidos por mi familia y mis amigos ! Oh and could you send Louis and Jon my information and get their addresses, because I need to talk to them ! So every Tuesday we do service and what normally ends up happening is I do showers hahaha ironic huh mom, but the ground gets super wet so I glide everywhere in the bathroom. And this one personal bathroom there's a mirror and secretly I danced in there twice after I went to the bathroom haha. I'm a nerd I know. So Elder Nelson is from Idaho and we were just hanging out and talking about stuff and he's super into hip hop and he knew what popping was so that was cool. And Elder Wood and I have a mutual friend ! OH MY GOSH my good friend Kate Stromberg whom I had a crush on freshman year works here ! I see her now and then at dinner, she's awesome . Winston is up here now which is sweet and elder Fisher (Andrew) is still here because his visa hasn't processed yet. Make sure you tell Izzy that I play volleyball with Andrew all the time. Which reminds me Katie when I get back, we are sooooooooo playing it all the time I've gotten so stinking good ! Not to toot my horn too much but my sets are like yours now, aka perfect and I back set well now and yeah it's awesome I LOVE VOLLEYBALL ! But soccer has been so amazing too there's good competition amongst the elders and we play as a district now. Elder Glassett and Elder Jarvis play and were on clubs and such in Utah and Arizona and they both play center mid they work really well together. I have gotten sooooo much better at my passing game, make sure you tell bishop that I'm back hahaha cuz when we played I was off.

      

     So what else is there to talk about. I just got done cleaning the temple which was pretty cool . And it's been a really chill day :) My Spanish is coming along ! I am so thankful for that, but I know it's not me hahha. Oh my goodness gracious so we have this thing called TRC and it's every Friday the elders go in and teach members and yeah it's really fun and last week we were teaching this one couple who are getting married on my birthday- so cool- and we were teaching about the plan of salvation. And I just felt like talking about the importance of families in the eternal scheme of things and how important it is that families stay together, and stay together in the gospel . then I told them how my two older siblings are kind of inactive right now, and how it's hard at times because you want them to realize the happiness they're missing out on. And how it's gonna suck after this life if I can't be with them because,hello you people are my world and I love you all to death. So I wasn't sure how the lesson went. But we get review sheets back from the people we teach and the girl I taught said that her older siblings as well have gone inactive and that now she feels the importance of being an example to them. And it just made me feel like wow. I'm actually a difference in someone's life. It's like the tree of life, you know how when Lehi takes a bite he wants to share it with his family ? Well the joy isn't just in the eating of the fruit, or learning the will and word of God, it's in sharing it. I feel that joy so much when I am teaching, and when I feel I'm making a difference. I feel the spirit when I teach and it's the coolest thing. I definitely need a lot of work with my teaching skills and Spanish, but for now I'm just happy that I've been able to help a select few with what little capability I have. 

 

 

     So about my plaque , I gotta look good. Straight up hahahaha. So I will either send you a picture from out here cuz I just got a shnazzy new haircut or some really great thing. Oh and for a scripture the one that gave me a reason to go on a mission was 2 Nephi 2:8 but my favorite scripture is this really short AMAZING verse in Isaiah 49:16. I absolutely love it. So yeah just make sure I look good and PLEASE send the package soon I am sick with an upper respiratory tract infection (according to the doctors) and I need my netti pot hahaha and then I can send you all the pictures and all the fun I am having hahaha. K well I gotta go get dinner I love you family. You are ALL an example to me. I love you sooooooo much and Sally you are in this equation too and you too Jackay and Liz so love you gotta go BYE !

 

your favorite white boy elder,

Elder Hawkins"