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| Four Months on the Mission! |
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| Our Zone |
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| Elder Dipko |
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| Cute Little Vicky |
Hey Fam-Bam!!
So Hna. Blackmore and I are
officially team BlackHauck to all the missionaries in Nogales. We’re definitely
okay with it because it makes us sound like a military or jiu hitsu duo. BTW my
zone leader, Elder Dipko, looks kind of like Brad...well, not a whole lot…he
has brown hair and freckles and lighter eyes…thats pretty much it. But I’ll
send a picture.
Today Hna Blackmore and I went to The
Linea, which is the border of the US. It’s just a big ugly fence. I felt so
weird being close to America! I stuck my arm through the fence so I could be
half in my native country for a second. Then we went shopping and a lot of the
venders thought we were tourists so they tried to charge stuff for way more
than it was worth, but when we started speaking to them in Spanish they stopped
yelling ¨TWO DOLLA!!¨ and ¨HI PRETTY WOMAN COME SEE MY STORE¨ in our
ears.
On Tuesday we had a meeting with the
branch council until 8:30pm and the journey home from the church is about an
hour but we have to be in our house before 9:00 in our mission so we took a
taxi home. This taxi driver was hitting on Hna Blackmore and I hard core,
asking us if we go to any of the clubs in Nogales, if he could show us around
the city, etc. and we were being pretty stern and frank with our ¨No...we’re missionaries,¨
but he wasn’t taking the hint. We resolved by teaching him the lesson of the
Restoration of the Gospel, which must have been a turn off to him because he
stopped inviting us places. Ha-ha!
We did divisions with members twice
this week so we got a ton of work in and made all of our goals for the week. :)
It was a little scary leading lessons without Hna Blackmore but I was totally
blessed with both the gifts of tongues and discernment! We had a lesson with
the less-active couple and the husband told me that church attendance isn´t that
important because prayer and scripture study are more important and God
knows what is in our hearts anyways. I felt a little stumped on what to say to
him. But then the Spirit whispered to me to just bare my testimony. Thoughts
and feelings just came to my mind! I bore testimony that I know that Jesus
Christ is the Head of this church and, as such, the programs and organizations
therein (i.e. Sunday church meetings) are inspired by Prophets that communicate
with Him. They didn’t really argue after that and agreed to let us come back
this week. Thank goodness for the Spirit!
After church yesterday Hna. Blackmore
and I were waiting for the bus when this older American couple got off another
bus and came to talk to us saying, ¨Finally some good Mormons!¨ They want to
move down here from California but they were absolutely terrified to be here
and didn’t know a lick of Spanish. They kept asking us questions about how to
travel safely and without being robbed and so forth. Poor folks. We gave them
our numbers in case they need more help but we haven’t received a call yet…I
hope that´s not because their phones were stolen. o__o
Our investigator, Gabriela, has been
doing pretty well and feels excited about changes she is making in her life in
order to get baptized. She has a daughter named Victoria that was sick the
other day but didn’t want to take medicine. I promised her a surprise if she
would mind her mom, which she did after that, so I brought her some of the Frozen
fruit snacks mom had sent in a package. She was one happy little camper. I’ll
add a picture.
We also have been teaching a brother
and sister, Luis and Alejandra, who are 11 and 14, respectively. Their Mom is
dating a member in our branch so they’re investigating and have a goal to be
baptized in November.
I hope you all have absolutely
fantabulous weeks!
Con amor,
Hermana Hauck
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