July 19, 2010

Dear Family,
This week was pretty sweet. We worked way hard the first half of the week, but the last half we got a little bit sick. Just a cold so nothing to worry about :)

We were going to have a baptism this weekend but it didn´t happen. We showed up at his house about an hour before the baptism but he wasn´t there. We said ok we´ll wait. There were a ton of little kids playing soccer in the street while we waited for 45 minutes. He never showed up. One of the kids came up and told us that he was in his room and that he was hiding from us. We were a little bit frustrated to hear that that was what was happening. We knocked on his door again and we said if you want to talk with us again we´ll be in church tomorrow. He didn´t show up. We´re still going to pass by to see what happened and to see if we can help him.

The family Castellanos is doing really good. Germán (the dad) gave a talk yesterday in church. It was good but he was talking way bad about the Catholic Church. It was kind of funny for me and my companion, but it´s probably not a good thing that he said those things in front of everyone. They are progressing so much. They´re really excited that they can go to the temple. They´re getting prepared for it. They´re also going to go and do baptisms for the dead with the ward too!!! What an awesome family!!!!

This week we had transfers in the mission, but I´m still here in the same sector and I´m still with Élder Archundia. I´m way excited. I didn´t want to go. I can´t wait to see how we do this transfer as a zone. We have done so much better the last 2 months and this month is even better. Well I don´t know what else to say. I love you guys!!!!



Love,
Élder Hakes