March 1, 2010

Dear Family,
Well what a crazy week. We had some amazing experiences. Élder Miranda is a really good Élder and has been helping a lot. We´re teaching a lot more because when we have members with us we can divide 2 and 2 and teach more lessons. We´ve been doing that a lot this week it has been way fun. We had some sweet experiences last night too. I was with Élder Miranda and we didn´t really have any set appointments. We were walking by the house of a member and she wasn´t at church so we were just going to see what happened. There are 2 houses in the gate where she lives and her dad answered the door. He told us that the daughter of the member was in the hospital. We left the house and called the member. We told her that were going to go today and talked about prayer a little bit. After that we had a pretty funny experience but I know that it was a spiritual prompting. We said a quick prayer and I thought "I need to go to the bathroom let´s go knock on the door again." The member´s brother let us in this time and we went to the members house (not the houe of the brother and father) and the member´s son was there. He was really sad. We had talked to him before about the gospel but he wasn´t really interested. This time he was really open and we taught him about prayer and the experience of Joseph Smith in D&C 121. It was a really spiritual experience. At the end he told us that he was up in his room sad and thinking I hope the Elders come by and right after that we showed up. It was a really amazing experience. We´re going to start teachin him now.
I learned 2 things from this experience. 1, the Lord ca put promptings in your head through any way that he wants. We may think that we´re just thinking normally but it really is a spiritual prompting. 2, there is always a reason why we have trials. Hermana Amparo (she´the mom of the girl in the hospital) has been having a really hard time because her daughter has cancer and her kids aren´t members and don´t want to listen to us. She´s also a single mom trying to take care of her kids. It´s been really hard on her. Right now, because her daughter is sick her son will start listening to us. I believe that he will become a great missionary some day. These were just a bunch of thoughts I had after this experience. What I learned is that we always need to follow the Spirit. If we feel like we need to do something and that something is good. It is from God. Well I hope all is going good for everyone. I love you all.


Love,
Élder Hakes