March 28, 2011

Dear Family,
This week went by really fast. We had a pretty successful week. We finally got people to go to church!!! We had a new couple that we found this week and the dad of the Peralta family at church :) The new family is way good. When we taught them the dad basically was saying that he`s been looking for the true church for a long time and that he`s willing to do what it takes to find it. He has all the desires in the world so we are just going to have to help him to do the little things to feel the Spirit. They´ve already gone to church so they´re progressing!!!
This week was my companion´s birthday. We ate a ton of food :) On Friday the mamita gave us a cake after we ate and we sang Happy Birthday, in English. It was kind of weird because they knew the words and sang it pretty well :) The funny part is that it wasn´t his actual birthday. His birthday was on Saturday. On Saturday we had our last appointment with the Branch President so they could give us pizza and another cake to eat :) After that appointment we went back home and our dueño (our renter), who lives right in front of us and are members, got taco stuff and had me cook it for my comps b-day as well :) It was pretty fun for both of us. But the birthday fun didn`t end on Saturday. When we went to visit some investigators on Sunday they had a cake ready for him. We ate cake and dinner with them too. We didn´t even know about it :) It was a fun weekend :)
Well, this week we have Zone Leader Council again. I can`t believe time is going by so fast!! Tomorrow we´ll be going to Quito again. Elder Estrada only has 6 weeks left now so he´s pretty trunky now. We´re still working but I´ve got to push a little bit sometimes. I´m pretty excited for this month though. General Conference is this week and we`re working hard in the zone now.
Well I love you all so much. Thanks for everything that you do.



Love,
Élder Hakes