Thursday, January 22, 2015

Me in my new sector
This week was an interesting week I guess I'll just go right away to the part that is interesting, the stories:

1. Last week (for of you who read my letter) we found two new people who are interested in the church, Macarena and her mother, Ilda. They are looking for something to 'fill' them spiritually.  They want to start a new life and just find hope and happiness. Luckily for them that is everything which we share. How it is that we can do each of those things? 

This week they passed through some trials. The mother of Ilda died about a year ago and her brothers and sisters are fighting over who gets the house, this week the brother of ilda came to stay in the house for the birthday of their deceased mother. With him in the house they could not receive us (they tell us it would have caused endless problems with the brother) so this week we only had phone contact and contact at the door. But they are so excited that it didn't matter that we didn't teach them.  Sunday Macarena was at church with their neighbor (a super active member of the church who reminds me a lot of mom in both her physical appearance and her personality) she stayed the entire time and loved it. She is committed to a family home evening tomorrow, and another one in the church on Friday as well as the relief society activity on Thursday. 

My companion and I did a special fast for them on Friday because we had not been able to contact them and Saturday afternoon we saw them in the street and talked to them for a good ten minutes, they expressed their love for the church and their intentions to keep coming. 

2. We are teaching a young man named Eric, he is in the navy and his wife is a less active member of the church, He came to church this past week and loved it. This week we did a service project with him on Saturday. He was constructing a metal fence, so we helped him to cut the iron bars to the correct length and to help him construct the fence, it was super fun, except when burning hot sparks were flying into my face from the iron cutting that we were doing.  That was not so fun.

3. We are teaching a less active woman whose is living with her boy friend who is not a member. This week we went and did a service project for them. Their yard has not been cut in probably a year, but we took care of that.  We cleaned up their backyard and made the place habitable. It was a fun time and was appreciated a ton. Yesterday the Sister was at church and is committed to come to the ward family home evening on Friday with her boy friend. 

I love each and everyone of you. If there is one thing that I would ask from each of you it would be, Help the missionaries. Support them. Work with them. Please.

Elder Hutchins

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