HELLO FAMILY!!!!!!
Everything is going rather swell over
here! My companion just got here fresh off the plane from the MTC of Mexico.
His name is Elder Lumbreras. Is a little chubby but that's just moire to love!
haha. He's from Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. Born in Mexico City and recently moved
to Iguala. He is a very good missionary honestly! He surprised me a lot. He knows
very well why he is here and works hard to fulfill his purpose as a missionary.
I've learned a lot from him so far. It's good to see a new missionary, they
honestly have more faith than the normal missionary. They get here and know
everything is true and believe that everyone else is going to believe them. And
it honestly happens. I've enjoyed seeing it happen this week.
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| Elder Lumbreras and his smashed banana. |
We also had some
amazing experiences with prayer. We were working and it started raining rather
strongly. We prayed and asked the Lord to make it stop. We waited a few more
minutes my companion cleaned his backpack cause he smashed a banana that he had
inside haha. And after he finished cleaning the rain stopped and we kept
working. It was a cool experience that he reminded me the power of prayer and
that if we have the faith the Lord will give us. Also as a new missionary we
stay in the house an hour later than the normal missionary and we study and
practice. So we have a lot more to do and to learn. It was good to remind me of
the basics because those are the most important. And when we do the basics
right everything else becomes easy!
I know that theses things are true. I know
that the Lord loves each and everyone of us and because of that he will answer
our prayers. It wont always be in the time we want or the way we want, but he
will answer us. Also our president of the mission reminded us of the importance
of reading the Book of Mormon daily. So we have been focusing a little bit more
in studying that. It's been very fun. I've seen lots of scriptures that I need to
hear and what my investigators need. I love the Book of Mormon. READ IT DAILY!
I don't care how many years you have in the church or how many times you've read
it, I promise you will learn more every single time you read. We aren't perfect.
We are like the dishes. There's a plate that we get dirty. So we put it in the
sink. Sometimes we wash it immediately other times no. And if not, we just keep
getting more and more dishes. But every time we have to go back and clean them.
Our life are the dishes we have problems, doubts, anger, frustration, etc. But
when we wash our dishes with the Scriptures and the Atonement we can be clean
once again. I know this is true. The Lord wants us to get better so we have to
read the scriptures and understand his will. And only more with the world we
live in! Stay strong and do it.
Love,
Elder Hakes
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