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Grandpa Howard would be so proud of my Milking SkillsI have picked up in Mexico!YES I AM A Professional AT MILKING COWS. My buddy taught me how and then let me try. At first I didn't get any milk out, but then after like the 3rd squeeze, it started coming like Santa on Christmas. |
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The more I did it, the faster I was. He was so impressed! He said it took him days to get it to come out as fast as me the first time he ever tried. Then my comp tried. Poor little guy couldn’t get a drop out. I felt bad because the guy laughed and said something like Look! The Huero (white skin) can do it better than the Mexican! haha. |
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Seriously, I don’t know why you and all your brothers and sisters complained about milking the family cow. It was fun! I could totally do that for about 5 mornings in a row without even getting tired of it! |
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On cue, mom sent me this meme to go along with my blog this week.
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Emails from 3-2-2015
Hey mommy! That is so awesome about that family! I got chills thinking about it! I hope they approach us in the street! It makes me so happy the missionary work you are able to do through that silly blog!!!! It is truly a tender mercy of the Lord. Speaking of which, I want to mention another MAJOR tender mercy. You asked if I get sick when we go up there in the other mountains? The area I am in is the highest area in our mission. We have 4 or 5 towns in our area. We are the only missionaries so we have to travel a ton. Most of the time just to eat lunch because there aren’t very members in the town that we live which is Huatusco. The closest town that we go to is called Coscomatopec. It is about 45 minutes by bus, and 45 minutes of nothing but switch-backs going up and down these mountains. When I first arrived, I was surprised I didn’t get sick. (Side Note: Elder Hackleman has suffered from severe motion sickness since he was born. Riding in a car, especially a bumpy ride, has caused him to have terrible migraine headaches. At one point he was being seen by a neurologist because of the severity of the problem.)
Every time we take the bus, I thank my Father in Heaven, because not ONCE have I gotten car sick. I know it isn´t a big deal, but to me it is a HUGE deal.
And about your answer for Joseph Smith, Thanks for that article! It was very interesting to read. I think last time I mentioned how I was talking with our Branch President? His name is President Luna. He is probably my favorite person I have met so far. He worked in the US for 7 years or so and was Bishop and on the High Council in various California Wards. He is so smart with deep doctrine stuff, (just like you), so we have had some awesome conversations.
We were talking about this revelation given to Joseph about how if he lived to be 85, he would see Christ. We think this scripture is very literal, but unrealistic. God obviously knew Joseph would not live that long. We think that when God said that, and I don´t think Joseph even realized this at the time, or maybe he was just to humble to say so, he was actually referring to the capacity of Joseph Smith. Think about everything Joseph was able to accomplish. EVERYTHING. Not just the restoration of the church, but the organization also! Relief Society, every leadership position, everything! I think that based on the capacity that Joseph had, with only 40 more years in his life, he could have built up the church to the 115 Temples, 160,000 members, hundreds of missions, and everything else that needs to be done and prepared before the coming of the Lord. Those numbers aren’t exact obviously. I can’t remember what they are, but you get the point. Based on everything Joseph was able to do in his 45 years of life, I think his potential was so great, that he could have prepared the world for Christ´s coming in only 40 more years. Now obviously that didn´t happen and God knew it wouldn’t, but it COULD have. Just a fun thought!
What day does Jaren get back??? What are his plans??? Are you guys just so excited??
So I know there was other stuff I wanted to tell you, but I forgot so I guess when I remember them tonight as I am laying in bed, I will write them down and tell you next week. Oh, can you send me Bishop Ford's email? He sent me the ward Christmas letter and I wanted to say thank you! How is in the bishopric now? Have you heard from Brother Brandvoldt? I love that guy! What else is new?
Ahhh!!!!!!!!! Good news! I remembered the most important part of the week! We woke up early to go do a service project for a guy who lives next to one of the members in the branch. He is a potential investigator so we went to help him out. I will send pictures of what we did.
Thanks for everything mom! Te amo mucho. Mejor madre del mundo!
Elder Hackleman
One more email from Elder Hackleman
For this service project, we went to this guys’ house. He has a bunch of cows!:) Don’t scream, but YES I AM A Professional AT MILKING COWS. He taught me how and then let me try. At first I didn’t get any milk out, but then after like the 3rd squeeze, it started coming like Santa on Christmas. The more I did it, the faster I was. He was so impressed! He said it took him days to get it to come out as fast as me the first time he ever tried. Then my comp tried. Poor little guy couldn’t get a drop out. I felt bad because the guy laughed and said something like Look! The Huero (white skin) can do it better than the Mexican! haha.
Seriously, I don’t know why you and all your brothers and sisters complained about milking the family cow. It was fun! I could totally do that for about 5 mornings in a row without even getting tired of it!
He gave us 3 liters of the milk as a gift. You know how much I just love white milk, so the first thing I did was bought some chocolate powder. haha it makes some awesome chocolate milk!!!! hahaha. Ok I think that is everything now... love you!
One more thing. So I have been reading in the scriptures a lot (obviously haha what else do missionary’s read? lol). I am just about to finish Alma. I am going slow because I am reading in Spanish and English and marking the clank out of them. Today, everyone got an email from President Cordova saying that he felt inspired from a recent reading of Alma 4 that we need to read the book of Mormon. Like the challenge of President Hinkley. No matter where we are, to start over, and to mark everything that talks about the Savior in blue and everything about his atonement in red. I had a goal to finish the Book of Mormon by my birthday, but it looks like that probably won’t happen now haha. I am just worried because I have already marked those scriptures using different colors... oh well I will figure it out haha.
Make sure to convince Jaren when he gets home to go to Peru State! haha
Love,
Elder Hackleman
P.S. my goodness mother! Cuidado con su dedo chikito!! Careful with that pinky finger! Sorry that happened, but I am interested to see what your new head board looks like! haha. What are you studying right now in Algebra? Those X´s and Y´s will get ya every time if you aren’t careful
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Amy wrote:
I love it. My milking cow son ha ha. Grandpa Howard would be so proud!
Jaren gets home on March 24th. It's coming up fast ha ha.
So I broke my pinkie finger. Seriously, what is my deal? I don't even know how I did it. I just woke up one morning with it broken. I think I might have hooked it on the "Pallet" head board I made. It's not too bad, but I feel pretty dumb. Time to make a new headboard ha ha.
I have been having nightmare about my silly Algebra class. Tim said I was calling out in the night and trying to get away from X's and Y's. Boy I will be glad when this semester is over ha. I am getting too old for this stuff.
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Amy wrote:
So, I have had a fun week. I posted a picture from your blog on a pictures around the world google account. I have since been private messaging with a lady about the picture. She told me the picture was taken in her home town and she loved that I posted it. (The picture is the Virgin Mary picture). She writes in very good English so I asked where she lives now. She is living in Arizona, but her mom and sister still live in Mexico. I asked her if they would like to hear a message about Christ from you. She said she had been talking to them about it, and they are thinking about it. I guess they have seen you around town and recognized you from there and the blog. Crazy isn't it?
Grandma Polly comes on Wed. She will stay for 3 weeks. She goes home the Sunday before Jaren gets home.
Collin's sister got home on Friday. Collin flew in for a few days. We didn't see him while he was here. He texted Nathan and asked him to come by and see him yesterday, but Nathan didn't see the message until it was too late. Nathan was pretty bummed about it.
I sure love you!
Love Mom
