Date: Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:45 PM
"Dear Familia {you´re all family in my book}
This week has
been nothing but miracle after miracle. We haven`t been able to teach
this amazing hermana named Maritza for two weeks now. She literally just
disappeared. We would pass by and call her every day and still nothing.
Even hermana Carmen, an hermana in our ward who has helped us so much
with meeting with Maritza at her house and such, couldn´t find her. So
two weeks pass by and the nightly companionship prayer we have I just
asked Heavenly Father to put the people in our path who need the Gospel
in their lives.
The next day {Thursday} we went to a cita and it fell
and as we left I saw Maritza come out of a store buying bread. My jaw
about hit the floor. I was so excited. We started talking and she told
us that she has been in her house the entire time with her sick 6 year
old daughter. She was literally incapable of going outside because of
pain in her legs I think is what she said and she doesn't feel
comfortable leaving her daughter because she is super protective of her
little angel. She has down syndrome and is just a sweet, sweet spirit.
So we set up an appointment for yesterday. And yesterday as we were
passing near her house we got a call that we needed to go to Maritza´s
house and it was urgent. That her daughter needed a blessing al tiro. So
we went straight to the house and it turns out her little daughter has
not been able to make a solid bowel movement for 7 days and that she is
in a lot of pain. Elder Bosse had the same situation happen to his dad
so he said she needs to go to the hospital asap. But first we were going
to give a blessing. But just as we were about to she went to the
bathroom, and it wasn't solid. So they went down stairs and set her on
the toilet. She was finally able to make a solid bowel movement. They
came back upstairs and we gave her a blessing. I said a prayer in my
heart that she would be able to sit still and reverent during the
blessing because she´s pretty rowdy. And as I anointed her head she got
super still we gave her the blessing or rather Elder Bosse and she was
perfectly reverent. Afterward I played peek a boo with her hahaha she
was so smily and just stinking adorable. Anywho a lot of great things
happened this week but that was one of my favorites.
Oh ok so this week has been literally NOTHING but stress for
Elder Bosse , thankfully Heavenly Father blessed me with a family that
helped me grow that all too necessary virtue of patience :P But
seriously I am so thankful that I've been blessed with patience. But
yeah it has been super hard for him, and he´s been having a lot of
crappy companions. He´s been saying for a while maybe I don´t have the
faith to do ... about goals or random things over and over. So the
other day we were having weekly planning session and I am kind of a go
getter with the goals because personally I felt they were attainable, we
just had to stretch ourselves, push ourselves a little bit, which is
exactly what the goals are meant to do. And he said I don´t want to say
we can´t but I don´t know , maybe I don´t have the faith and I just
remembered that I needed to speak boldly of the testimony I have to lift
up others. So I said hold up , Elder two things. The more you say maybe
I don´t have enough faith to do this, maybe I don´t have enough faith
to do that, the more the maybe starts to disappear and you are just left
with I don´t have faith, I can´t do that. You can´t be saying that
Elder. I felt the Spirit prompt me so strongly to say that but right
after I was like maybe I said that a little too harsh. The next day we
had to finish the planning and at the end he said ok tell me something I
can do better because yesterday you knocked down all of my walls and
barriers, just beat me down go for the kill or something like that and I
was like great it was too harsh and I said I don´t like the sound of
that. So he said ok better yet, lift me up. It was the confirmation I
needed. I am so greatful for that experience. It helped me learn that I
need to speak up more, especially when the Spirit is telling me to do
something!
So we have been teaching a bunch of people, Dieciocho was
amazing, found tons of new people, and so many are progressing that we
may need to go on splits soon ! I am so excited ! Oh and today for p-day
me and Elder Bosse went exploring , found an amazing area and took
pics, they will be coming soon I promise ! Oh and I sent my first
letters today I AM SOOOO SORRY that took so long ! I am gonna write one
every week from now on so you know PROMISE !
I love you all so much, you are all an inspiration to me. Keep
doing work. Keep spreading the Gospel. There are people out there
waiting for you, and you don´t have to be on a mission to find them. I
love you guys and will talk to you next week ! I´ll keep you in my
prayers, cuz hey- they work.
-Elder Hawkins
or as the chileans say it henkin, hoskin, howkin
Love you
p.s RITZ"
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