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| Baptism of Alejandra and Luis |
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| Splits with Hermana Castro |
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| Thanksgiving Breakfast |
Hey All You Turkeys!!!!
It looks like Thanksgiving was great
for you all. I celebrated with a nice breakfast and making the video that I
sent you, my family, telling what I’m thankful for.
This week I was on exchanges with
Hermana Castro and we were contacting this older man. He was a little rude and
said “I’m Christian and I don´t have time for you.” So we handed him a pamphlet
of the Restoration. He scoffed at us and said, “I have the Bible! I don´t need
these things of the world.” To which, of course, we explained to him that the
message we are sharing is NOT a worldly message. This got us in a bit of a
Bible bash. He told us that we don´t understand James 1:5 correctly and Joseph
Smith just did it to make people think he read the Bible. We ended up just
shaking his hand and telling him to have a nice day because a conversation like
that would neither edify him nor us and it definitely didn´t invite the Spirit.
Every once in a while you just have moments like that with people that aren´t
very friendly.
Another time this week, Hna Blackmore
and I were walking through a street at night when a bunch of kids around 11 and
12 years old started following us yelling “Hey guera!” (pronounced “weda” and
means “Hey white girl”) and English swear words at us. One of them even started
poking my arms. To be honest, I wanted to slap him, but I settled for a
threatening glare. Sometimes it’s hard to be a missionary. But you learn lots
of patience!! And the majority of the people aren´t like that at all.
On Saturday we had the baptisms of
Alejandra and Luis! HOORAY!! The service was awesome and super spiritual for me
because I got to see the entire teaching and conversion process with these two
kids that I seriously love so much! Ha-ha, actually Alejandra had to be baptized
four times because she had a hard time trusting the Elder that was baptizing
her and wouldn´t bend quite enough to go all the way under the water. On the
last attempt, her elbow almost didn´t go under so the Elder just sort of pushed
her the rest of the way in one little plunge. Hna Blackmore and I sung
¨¨When I am Baptized¨¨... at least that´s what I think it´s called in English..
Then after we had cake (non-alcoholic this time).
Sunday was the primary program in our
branch. It was as adorably bad as most primary programs, but amplified because
we´re in Mexico (no offense Mexico). All the little girls had bows in their
hair and the boys had red ties.
Next week I will most likely be in
Nogales, but with a new companion. I´m going to miss Hna Blackmore and all of
our adventures, but I´m really excited for her as she starts this new part of
her life and I´m excited to learn new things from a new companion. There really
are absolutely amazing experiences that I have had in my time here and I know
there is more to come!
Con amor,
Hermana Hauck
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