I
finished 7 months of my mission this week, (these are some of the
places that people have said that I am from in the title of the email
haha.)
They just give me crap. There are lots of
people who understand that most of the people from the United States
aren’t racist but there are quite a few who think if you are white you
hate Mexicans. It is so crazy how fast the time is
passing. I cannot believe it. First I want to say how great it has been
here so far, and how much I have learned about myself and the church. I
know it is all true.
This week has been great.
We helped a family start to get
baptized. We baptized the kids and the rest of the family is the next
week! They are so awesome. We helped them this week build a new part of
their house. In the baptism picture they aren’t smiling,
but they are happy I promise.
We were super close to
the border this week. We took some pictures with a border sign and the
Rio Grande. The river is between Mexico and Texas.
Also we had a special meeting this week en Thursday
with all of the mission. President Russell M Neilson spoke. He couldn’t
come in person like planned because
of the inseguridad (insecurity) but there was a transmission. I
learned so much. He taught us about how we come from the children of
Abraham and that it is our responsabilidad (responsibility) to bring
people to the fold of God. If we keep this commandment
we have, we will be blessed in every single way of our life. We learned
that when we study the scriptures it ¨sharpens¨ our spiritual axes and
we can progress faster in this life. I love the church so much and love
the people here in Mexico.
There is a tradition to burn a tie when you finish 6 months haha. I forgot to send a picture of me burning a tie.
I bought it for like 50 cents. So there’s that too.
Sorry this email is all
over the place. The picture with all the kids on the stairs is a family
that are being taught by a missionary in my district. We went on
intercambios (exchanges) and they wanted to take
a picture. They are so awesome. One of the little girls you can’t
really see, but she is so smart and seriously so kind.
Love, Elder Hawley
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