So thanks so much for all of your emails and love. It´s so good to hear about Stephen being ordained to the Melchesideck priesthood that´s so awesome. I´m glad to hear that the selling of the house is going through. It sounds like there´s going to be a lot more looking done in the next few weeks which will be kind of exciting. I hope that everything goes well and that we can find a new house quickly. Sorry for not writing until today. Yesterday we literally had no time at all so we had to wait until today in order to be able to do it.
This week was a good one for us. We finished the month of May with 18 baptisms in the zone and the fun part is that 7 out of 8 of the companionships had baptisms. It feels good to know that they were all able to have success. It´s been interesting to learn all of these lessons about how to deal with people and guide them in such a way that they all have the chance to succeed. I think the best lesson that I´ve learned is that in this work no matter how weak a missionary is, how disobedient, or how unwilling they are to work every single one has a reason for the way that they are and within each of them is an amazing potential. I think the hardest thing has been finding out how to help each and every one of the missionaries find the best way for them to have success in there respective areas. I love the mission and I know that all of the lessons that I learn within this short two year period are going to be important for the rest of my life.
Ok so this last week in church our ward mission leader(a 19 year old future missionary) decided to make cards for all of the members to use to write down references for us. We ended up leaving church with 7 new names of people to work with and through the course of the week went contacting each and every one. To be honest most of them were pretty worthless haha but the last one that we contacted with was awesome and made of gold. He´s a 21 year old boy who´s the husband of a member in the ward, he´s married (that´s the biggest miracle) and he wants to be baptized! We put the fecha with him for the 15th and now it´s looking like we´re going to have baptisms this weekend the 15th and we´re hoping for the 22nd as well but I´ll make sure to keep you all updated weekly on how things go.
This Saturday we have a baptism of a girl who´s been investigating the church for quite a while. She´s 30 years old single and has 3 kids one of which is 12 (that´s the culture here they just start early haha) Her name is Nedelka and she can´t wait to be baptised and have all of her sins washed away. I can´t wait for her baptism it´s going to be awesome. I´ll make sure to send you pictures.
Family I love you so much and am so thankful for how much love and support I feel from home. It´s great to get emails each and every week from all of the people that I love most and are most important to me thank you for everything:)
I love you so much!
Elder Andrew Hawks
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