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Stopping Crime In
Peñasco One Phone At A Time
Latest crazy news for Hermana Hauck--Our
cell phone was stolen last week. Well, technically we lost it. But then we
called it from the phone of the other hermanas and a man answered and told us
he found our phone and could meet us. We (Hnas Camacho, Barton, Luna and
myself) went happily to a gas station to meet the lad who rescued our phone.
When we arrived, the man was there waiting on his bike. He told us that he
wanted something in exchange for the phone, 100 pesos to be exact. We told him that we’re dirt-poor missionaries
but could promise him blessings. He wasn’t convinced. After pleading with him
for a while he told us to call him when we had the money and he took off
with our phone. The stubborn hermanas that we are, we took off after him and
began a high (bike) speed chase down one of the only paved streets in my area.
I felt like we were in a movie ha-ha. You should have seen us four with our
lame helmets and backpacks filled with Books of Mormon chasing this crusty old
man for our beaten up phone! When we caught him we still had to pay for our
phone, but at least we got it back!
The best part about this story is that
yesterday our phone broke and now we are waiting for a new one to arrive this
week…I prefer not to comment.
Other than that craziness, this week was
GREAT!!! Caty is doing really well and came to church again with us. We´re
working on talking to her “husband” about getting married to her. Lots of
people here are pretty nonchalant about marriage. They look at it as being just
a waste of time because they’ll be divorced in a few years anyways. We’re
really trying to help Caty and her husband realize that God´s view of marriage
is much grander than that.
We´ve also been visiting an inactive
family called the Gallardo family. Their son, Adres, is 10 and we’re helping
him prepare to be baptized. They have some time away from the church, but they
came with us this Sunday.
I received really great news from my old
companion, Hna Balboa. Tomas, our investigator, was baptized two weeks ago. I
almost cried seeing this picture because I haven’t seen a baptism for some time
in my mission. Hna Balboa and I spent a lot of time with this hermano and I’m
so grateful that I could play a part in his preparations to be baptized, even if
I didn’t get to be there when it happened.
Thank you all for your love and support.
I’m so grateful to have so many angels looking out for me and rooting me on
from both sides of the veil.
Con amor,
Hermana Hauck
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