tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70922967955288931032024-03-13T11:36:27.313-07:00Sister Hawkes' Mission BlogSean, Stacey and McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035422376060354273noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092296795528893103.post-5157889552809523742021-04-21T19:58:00.003-07:002021-04-21T19:58:47.754-07:00<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PjA0sQd8aLE/YIDmXLdfpyI/AAAAAAABdQg/rlvwdNXX9UcIhgfGG1qo3_vg9UKVsybRgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="708" data-original-width="1284" height="270" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PjA0sQd8aLE/YIDmXLdfpyI/AAAAAAABdQg/rlvwdNXX9UcIhgfGG1qo3_vg9UKVsybRgCLcBGAsYHQ/w491-h270/image.png" width="491" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Sean, Stacey and McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035422376060354273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092296795528893103.post-4395247854770504612014-08-11T19:15:00.001-07:002014-08-11T20:12:19.390-07:00Au Revoir!!!<p dir="ltr">Hey fam fam! Sorry it's so late..... We just had an awesome last lesson for me at the church. E wasn't baptized. He needed a stronger testimony so he will be baptized the 23rd!!! It's okay,  I am really happy that he is doing his best. We took a ferry all together to Les Saints again for my last p day. It was like a dream!</p>
<p dir="ltr">I miss you all and can't believe that I am going to see you all so soon. SUREAL!</p>
<p dir="ltr">Requests: Could some one give me a back rub?? My back hurts real bad. HAHA</p>
<p dir="ltr">C'est tout. Merci.<br>
A bientot!!!!<br>
Seour Hawkes</p>
Sean, Stacey and McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035422376060354273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092296795528893103.post-11274300691937591782014-08-04T14:05:00.001-07:002014-08-04T14:05:03.686-07:00One Last Baptism!!!<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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A little french for your day today!!! I love you all so much and I am soo excited to be seeing you soon! </div>
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I'm not going to lie, I am very tired from all of the biking! but i can do it!!! We just shrank our area and are out of the big city and into a smaller area called Abymes. It's great there and we have been seeing lots of miracles. We have been praying and fasting to have a baptism before we leave and.... we are!!! The elders have been teaching the man named "E" for about 10 months. He has been taught everything twice and had been coming to church for quite some time. He was progressing towards baptism so the elders tried to see if we could help him. We committed him to be baptized this week and he was praying about it all of Fast S<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_863039239" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">unday</span></span>. AH! The spirit was so strong. Probably one of the best and most heartfelt fasts that we have had on the mission. We had a little lesson with him after sacrament meeting and he said that he felt that the spirit was telling him that it was the right choice!!! Wow!!! We have been working so hard and praying so much for this goal and even though it was in a way that we didn't expect. What an amazing testimony that the Lord has a plan of his children and all that He wants of us do do is to do our best and He will guide to what He wants.<br /></div>
I love you all so much and I can't believe that I will be home in about a week. So crazy. Tell Rachel congrats and that I am thinking of her. I love you all so much again. I know that this church is true and that this is the Lord's work!!!! </div>
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This week was great. I am just dying to be so positive and love every second. I went to Martinique and St. Marten to train the sisters there. It was a really great experience. I hate flying though and was pretty sick. Sister Stable had a baptism this last Saturday in Martinique!!! It was her first one there after about…. a long time. She had been teaching the lady who knew it was true. We went there to teach her and decided before to give her the date of this last Saturday as her baptismal date. She was really scared but we sang I am a Child of God, she prayed silently, then looked up and said, "Yes". I had tears running down my cheeks because the spirit was so strong!!!! I am so happy for Sister Stable. She has worked so hard and it was wonderful for her to see the fruits of her labors.</div>
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I love you all so much. We are working on building up our pool of investigators. We are teaching this cool guy Named G. He is a member referral and came to church yesterday. He is working on praying to get his answer!!!!!</div>
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Sean, Stacey and McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035422376060354273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092296795528893103.post-877334792558204452014-07-21T13:29:00.000-07:002014-07-21T13:29:02.012-07:00Our investigator "M" and her family! <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hello Everyone! My new companion is Sister Gill, in the white shirt and brown skirt. She speaks great French, which is very helpful when teaching. She is like an angel sent to me for the end of my mission. We are very similar and get along great. </span><br />
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We have an investigator named M (and her children) that we are teaching. Her companion is a less active and we have a really spiritual experience the other week. We knelt down and she prayed and felt after wards that she knew the church was true and that she need to get baptized. I bore my testimony and the spirit was really strong. I cried. We also committed them to prepare to get married. But unfortunately I don't think that will be possible because of her companion. So we are praying that they will have the courage to split off. I love her so much and I hope she gets baptized before I leave.</div>
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I'm really excited to come home but also really sad. I love this work so much. I love Guadeloupe and I don't know whether to cry or smile all of the time. Cry because I don't want to leave and laugh because I'm so excited to see all of you. I love you so much and I hope that you have an amazing week!! See you in.... 3 1/2 weeks???</div>
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Sean, Stacey and McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035422376060354273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092296795528893103.post-28227501428712899342014-07-20T18:59:00.002-07:002014-07-20T18:59:47.019-07:00Sister Gill!Je vous aime aussi!!!!<br />
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I looked on my BYU page again and I saw that I got into that French class. YAY!!! I'm super stoked.<br />
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This week was really great. We got the news that sister Riley will have to be moved to an area with a car. Not sure when or where yet. We will see. As for now we just keep on foot and talk a lot of buses. </div>
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We had a lesson with the less active boy that we found. He is into a lot of bad things now but we had a good lesson with him and invited him to church. He just laughed and said no. But there was going to be a baptismal service an hour later and he said he would come to that. So we walked with him there and the spirit was really strong. We invited him to church the next day and he said that he wouldn't come. but, He did! Well for the last hour. It was quite the surprise though and after we had a little lesson in the chapel with him and two members. They were perfect for him and such good examples of what he could be. We gave him a new Book Of Mormon and he said he would read but he is still closed to the whole "church" idea. But I know that deep down he feels that this is best. Otherwise why would he have come? </div>
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I have been thinking a lot lately about charity and how I can truly incorporate that. I love how it says in the bible dictionary that repentance gives you a fresh view of the world and of god. It's true. We see Him differently after because we understand Him better and what he wants for us. I have been trying to really flush out all of the selfishness and negativity from myself. It coming.... slowly. This will definitely help me be a better missionary so that I only think of the happiness of others. Funny how thinking of others make us happier. Christ was the perfect example of this. Only thought of others. Everything He did was for someone else. NOTHING for Himself. There really isn't excuses for us to be selfish even tough we make lots. It's simply do better, Be more like Christ and He will be there to help every step of the way and because of Him and the sacrament that we take each week He will cleanse us as we stumble and fall and try again, and again and again. He really is there. He really does care. God lives!!! All we need is faith in Him. If we really believed with a perfect undoubting faith and were obedient to what He asked our lives would be filled with indescribable joy and love. That's what I will work on. To have real faith in Christ. I love him!</div>
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Sean, Stacey and McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035422376060354273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092296795528893103.post-25532661380392101392014-06-24T13:02:00.002-07:002014-06-26T21:50:30.250-07:00O's Mom!<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Hello! I hope you are all doing well. this week was wonderful. We have had tons of miracles. Sister Riley has arthritis in her knees so we can't be on bikes anymore and have been doing a lot of walking. Our area is really hard on foot. So changes should be being made soon. Car? But in spite of the long hours in the hot Gwada sun, we have had LOTS of miracles this week! We have been teaching O's mom and she wants to get baptized so we set a date for her for the 19th of July. Y</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">esterday we taught her to keep the Sabbath day holy and the word of wisdom (these are things she needs to start on now if she will be ready.) So she said she would live both of the laws! YES! ETERNAL FAMILIES BEING CREATED!!!!</span></span><br />
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Sean, Stacey and McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035422376060354273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092296795528893103.post-67110623529956487432014-06-18T21:45:00.005-07:002014-06-24T12:52:03.615-07:00Polynesian Day<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hello everyone! This week was a lot of fun and work. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><br />
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This week I went to St. Maarten and Martinique. The sisters there are doing wonderfully and it was great to work with them and help them find ways to improve and move the work along. </div>
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This last Saturday we had a Guadeloupe-wide activity that our senior couple put together. It was a Polynesian day. It was soooo cool! We had about 300 people there. It was outside right next to the beach. Very authentic and we had a ton of people form Tahiti there to help out and cook and dance and play the Tahitian ukulele. There was dancing, music, games and a huge ground oven filled with lots of yummy food. (pictures coming) It was a great experience and a lot of fun to help out with. We had some great investigators come and it was wonderful to get them really integrated into the branches. </div>
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I love you all and hope you have a great week. I have to go; we are having a bbq. </div>
Sean, Stacey and McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035422376060354273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092296795528893103.post-44531736766570715942014-06-11T19:53:00.000-07:002014-06-11T19:54:02.292-07:00Eternal Families<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Hey everyone! Hope you have all had a great week. It was so special to see O baptized. Before I was a little nervous but as he went into the water the spirit just completely filled the room. His mom was there (she is not a member) and she started crying. He is so awesome is going to serve a mission in a few years.</span></span><br />
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Trinidad was so cool. It was fun to see the other sister training leaders and get advice and exchange stories with them. It was so great to be taught by President and Sister Mehr. I sang a song and I think it went pretty well. :) </div>
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Sean, Stacey and McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035422376060354273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092296795528893103.post-4919073534012028672014-06-02T16:38:00.001-07:002014-06-02T20:03:41.535-07:00 Ready for Baptism!<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Hey y'all. This week has been GREAT! Contrary to popular belief, O will be baptized THIS Saturday, the 7th. not the Saturday </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that has passed. He is READY and excited!!! Yay!</span><br />
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Something really cool that my zone leader said to me is that as we are searching for revelation its sort of like a horse with a bit in its mouth. if we are really off course, the Lord's with give us a big jerk with the spirit. But when we are on course He isn't going to pull tightly on the reigns. It will just be little encouragements here and there, the most important thing is that we keep just moving forward. Maybe we are looking for big spiritual confirmations for the decisions that we must make but God won't always (and most of the time won't) give us that if it is not needed. All we must do is keep pressing forward and do the best with the knowledge we are giving and keep searching for MORE knowledge. That's important. </div>
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Anyway.... Yes. Great week!!!!! T<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1825844498" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">omorrow</span></span> morning I will leaving my apartment at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1825844499" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">4:30 am</span></span> to get on a plan to go to Trinidad for a zone leader/sister lead trainer conference. SUPER EXCITED!!! I just can't wait. Sister Riley will be with a temp. for three days. She is 17 and she and her family are strong members in the church. But she doesn't speak English!!</div>
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I love you all so much! Thanks for all of the letters. Even though I'm almost home I need them now more than ever! I have a goal to keep really focused until the day I leave and not think about home!! So keep cheering me on and keep praying for our work here! It's needed until the last minute!! </div>
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<br />Sean, Stacey and McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035422376060354273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092296795528893103.post-79951600825034360762014-05-26T18:46:00.001-07:002014-05-26T19:00:17.285-07:00Happy Memorial Day!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Okay, so this week was good! </span><br />
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It has been a while since I have helped someone get baptized. I'm not sure why that is because I feel like I am a better missionary then I have ever been. But about a month ago we didn't have any good investigators and I felt like Heavenly Father was just waiting, then the next week we set 4 baptismal dates. I feel that way now. We have great investigators and baptisms are coming.<br />
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I feel like I finally understand my purpose as a missionary and all of the little rules and things make so much more sense now. It like with the small things of the gospel. We hear then all of our lives. "If you love me keep my commandments" "read your scriptures every day" "faith produces miracles" you hear them and you "understand" them but until you either really live the principle exactly or have an experience where you really are shown what it means you don't have a testimony of it.<br />
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I feel like now I am gaining so many testimonies of every aspect of missionary work. Maybe it took me a bit longer than most missionaries but I am happy that i have gained them and that Heavenly Father is blessing me with the Spirit to teach me these things. For example I truly now understand that my purpose is to bring souls unto Christ by preaching repentance by the Spirit. I love it and with this knowledge and testimony I am excited and ready to bring people unto my Savior. I love the gospel!<br />
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Sean, Stacey and McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035422376060354273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092296795528893103.post-7271153348176671102014-05-05T21:31:00.002-07:002014-05-05T21:33:58.846-07:00"Sister Trainer Leader."<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey family. Another week. Ordinary. Nothing new. NOT!!!! We were rock stars this week! We had 14 member lessons!! It was amazing!!! That is a new record for Guadeloupe. I feel like we have reached this awesome level of missionary work where most of the people we teach are member referrals or random people we randomly meet who just happen to be completely prepared for baptism. (not random, the Lord's hand) Yes. We worked SO hard and it was wonderful! We met this guy (another one of those random people) who is getting baptized in three weeks and was completely prepared. He is a single guy from Haiti that lived through the earthquake there and he is wonderful!! I'm so excited for him.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So my new calling is "Sister Trainer Leader." I'm pretty much just there to help the sisters. I'm assigned to go on trade offs with them. When there are not on my island, Sister Riley is just going to get a temporary companion here I and will go work with the companionship there for a day or two. Also, I get to be apart of all of the zone leader Skype meetings that happen once a month. AND, a big leadership training that will be happening in Trinidad. Pretty much just me getting to sit in a bunch of awesome meetings and helping the sisters here do awesome missionary work and stay emotionally stable. Haha (that's something that I have to work on so I don't know how I'm going to help other people with that.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I get to talk to y'all next week. Super stoked!!! I will Skype at ___ my time or ___ your time. I'll probably call just before to make sure that you are good to go with that. If that doesn't work, let me know and we can totally move the time around. Any questions for me?? WRITE THEM DOWN AND PREPARE TO ASK THEM WHILE WE SKYPE. So that its not...silent...HAHA. I will prepare some things to say as well.</span></div>
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Sean, Stacey and McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035422376060354273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092296795528893103.post-28166810828501658972014-04-22T17:07:00.001-07:002014-04-22T17:07:44.864-07:00Four more months!<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">T</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">he weeks go by so fast. I can</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">'</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">t believe that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> have less than four months left. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">T</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">hat</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">'</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">s</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> crazy!!!</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I had a dream last night that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> was at home and that we were all playing in the backyard together. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> woke up happy!!!</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> ha </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ha</span><span style="background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I did sang in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">S</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">acrament </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">M</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">eeting, but it was with the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">R</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">el</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ie</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">f</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">S</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ociety ch</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">oi</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">r</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">t was fun though.</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">But for zone conference one of my zone leaders and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> will be singing a duet. We will be singing "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">H</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">e </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">S</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ent </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">H</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; 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font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> but in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">F</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">rench</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">H</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">e has a really nice voice and sang in the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; 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Can</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">'</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">t wait to get home and sing!!!</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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Sean, Stacey and McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035422376060354273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092296795528893103.post-81314347479994803212014-04-14T17:51:00.001-07:002014-04-14T17:51:40.714-07:00Dominoes and Deranged Felines<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week was good we worked really hard and had lots of success. I think the best part was when having such a hard time and working so hard for so long that we finally saw the fruits of our efforts. People just kept saying yes and yes and yes to baptismal dates. It was pretty cool to see. It was evidence of how much the Lord really is in this work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also we met a man named Cowboy that walks around all of the time (I'm 90% sure he is homeless) with a cowboy hat and outfit on. He always smiles and waves to us. One time we spoke to him and he told us that he calls himself Cowboy. I wonder if his mother named him that and he has just always played along with it or if he just decided he likes cowboys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Also I bought a dominoes set (they really like dominoes here) and we play it with all of the old </span><span style="color: #222222;">mammys</span><span style="color: #222222;"> in the branch to make them feel loved and have something fun to do. We played it with this one lady who can't come to church because of health, she is 92, but the priesthood takes the sacrament to her every week. It was a great time, and we played with her daughter who is not a member, and I think that that really opened her heart to us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is something that I have really learned on my mission. How important it is to have good strong relationships with people by getting to know them, asking good questions and just really listening before you teach them about the gospel. Teaching just comes that much more naturally and the Spirit is always there. </span></div>
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Sean, Stacey and McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035422376060354273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092296795528893103.post-1830947278553347572014-04-07T11:52:00.004-07:002014-04-08T17:39:39.130-07:00The Best Day I Have Ever Had on my Mission<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week has been really great. And from all of your letters I can tell that you have all had a great week as well. My cold is gone, just an annoying little cough left over "une petite toux".</span><br>
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Last Monday we went on a little jaunt to a place called Lla Port d'enfer" which translated means the "door to hell."It was really pretty. Haha. No, it was a really cool place next to the beach with cool rock formations and caverns every where. I felt like it was in the Harry Potter seen when Harry goes with Dumbledore to drink the potion to get the necklace and all of the creepy zombies attack. Okay, I might remember Harry Potter a bit too well.</div>
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Then we had an Family Home Evening with the part member family Annie and her husband. It was good and we talked about prophets and she says that she wants to be baptized.</div>
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We had a great lesson with an investigator who is the cousin of a member she had dropped us a couple of weeks ago but invited us back. The spirit was really there and the lesson was so amazing. She came to conference and she told her cousin that she could feel her faith growing and that she feels like she needs to do something with it. She has read all the way until Alma 50 in the Book of Mormon and never puts it down. Her problem is that she is just not married and lives with someone. But if she has faith she can do hard things!</div>
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Conference was amazing!! We had a couple investigators come and they loved it. Really uplifted and I'm just sad its over. </div>
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this week was... interesting. First my back stared hurting REALLY bad. So I called the mission doctor and he said that it was from being tall/always sitting down for lessons. I had to take a lot of ibuprofen and do all of my studies laying down. </div>
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We had a good week and went and taught a family with a young son and they are expecting another child. The dad is a member but less active and the mom is not. She wants to get baptized and had read the whole Book of Mormon!!! We had a great lesson with them and the dad cried when the member that the brought shared a scripture that really touched his heart. They are going to wait three months until the baby is born to get married and then she will get baptized. We are going there tonight for family home evening. I'm really excited about them!!!</div>
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Then, Thursday I was starting to get a sore throat. We went to the Branch President;s house for dinner. He and his wife have been members for about 8 years and have two little kids!! It was fun and we had dinner and they invited a friend and we taught him a lesson. There cat was inside and sister Riley turned to me with this look of horror on her face was like, their cat is dying!!! So, the Branch President gets up and starts kicking the cat out of the house. I was so shocked but we just kept teaching the lesson and everyone acted like nothing had happened. When we went out side the cat was laying on the ground twitching!! The President had given him some milk to drink and said that he had eaten some poison probably. No big deal... it was really sad. I asked him on Sunday if the cat was living and he said yes. So, that was really weird. Anyway, during this lesson I could tell I had a fever and it was taking everything I had to keep the lesson going.</div>
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The next day I was completely wiped out from the cold. So we spent two days without going out. It was terrible. I slept the whole time except for when the zone leaders came and took me to the doctor. He said it wasn't strep, just a bad cold and he gave me a bunch of french medicine. It worked though. </div>
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Sunday, I made myself go to church. We didn't think we would have any investigators their because we weren't able to work for two day but of course Heavenly Father has a sense of humor so there were three investigators there. Wonderful! I was really excited.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I am still pretty </span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc;">sick</span><span style="background-color: white;">. It hurts my lungs really bad to ride the bike so we have been trying to just not ride too far away. i love you all so much!!</span></div>
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Sean, Stacey and McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035422376060354273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092296795528893103.post-13627527419934647072014-03-24T12:07:00.000-07:002014-04-07T12:12:01.675-07:00Charity<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hey family.</span><br />
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This week was hard. Not going to lie. We had to drop almost all of our investigators and also others dropped themselves. Sad. So I decided to do some self analysis. I asked my leaders where they thought I could improve and did a lot of reflection and studies. I realized that I needed a lot more charity. So I have been trying to be a lot more charitable and loving to everyone especially our investigators. Its been helping a lot and even in just the past two days I have seen a difference in our work because of it. Just to honestly love everyone and care deeply about what they say and just think about how Christ loves them. It's hard but so worth it. It's cool how when you are willing to change and have the honest desire to be better how heavenly father really will help you.</div>
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Sister Riley and I will be together this next transfer and I am really excited about it. We have grown closer and have become best friends. pretty fun. Since this week has been so hard its been nice to always have someone to laugh with. </div>
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Sean, Stacey and McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035422376060354273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092296795528893103.post-15353937163215335682014-03-10T21:26:00.002-07:002014-03-10T21:26:38.284-07:00Faith<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.899999618530273px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi family!!! </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.899999618530273px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week has been amazing and has really strengthened my faith in the Lord. We had a 24 hour companionship fast <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1749765105" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Wednesday</span></span>. Then we just about killed our selves from not drinking water and riding bikes all day ( I am never doing a 24 hour fast when it does not fall on a <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1749765106" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> again... on bikes at least.) So we fasted because we just really needed some miracles in this area. So the day that we ended our fast we set a baptismal date with one of our investigators. AMAZING!! The lesson that we had was one of the most spiritual lessons I have ever had. And the best part is that he is from Dominica and so we just teach him in English. (What a blessing for sister Riley, and for me too) He is a referral from a recent convert, her brother actually. So that was amazing. </span></span><br />
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Sean, Stacey and McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035422376060354273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092296795528893103.post-84527494915038856192014-03-03T14:10:00.003-08:002014-03-03T14:13:41.781-08:00Everybody Move!Sorry about that ridiculous title. We were riding bikes this week in
some traffic and the cars wouldn't let us pass so we had to like
awkwardly pedal while at the same time walk on the side walk. Then I yelled out to be funny "EVERYBODY MOVE!!!" in best best lowest voice. My
companion has never seen the Princess Bride. I was laughing pretty hard
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So this morning I got up knelt down like usual and prayed. For some
reason this morning I decided to pray about school. It hardly ever on my
mind but this morning I asked Heavenly Father to help me to know what I should do about school and that I just didn't know what to do with my
life when I got home. I felt really comforted after the prayer and knew
that everything would be alright. When I checked my email 2 hours
later my prayer was answered and Heavenly Father told me what he wanted
me to do. I found out that will be going to BYU in the Fall. God answers sincere
prayers every time. I sure love him.Enough of the worldly talk.<br />
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This week has been wonderful!! We had two investigators at church. We are working really hard with the
members going to their houses talking to their non member family and
then, teaching their non member family. Wow. Miracles!!!! Heavenly Father has really prepared this area. We don't have anyone with baptismal
dates yet but I know that we have some people who will get their
answers soon.<br />
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In Goyave (my old area) P is going to be baptized the
first week of April. M (the Hindu priest) this weekend and David
(another one of my investigators there will be baptized the end of April.) I'm so excited for these wonderful people and all of the progress
that they are making. It's sad not the be there but I sure love it here.<br />
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There is a newly converted family here that we went to teach this
week. I was able to teach the mom (who is SO sassy, sometimes she throws
eggs at elders heads) she has be on and off about wanting to go to the
temple. So we taught about the sacrament and just simply the atonement
of Christ and how he doesn't respect us to be perfect he just expects us
to try our hardest and he will make up the rest. The next day the
elders called me and said that she had called them and said that she had
decided to go to the temple this summer because of the lesson that I taught. She said "She didn't teach about the temple, just the sacrament,
and now I'm want to be a better person, I will stop using bad language
and being unkind and everything, and I want to go to the temple because
of the things Sister Hawkes shared with me." The elders said they had
no idea what I did but after the months of them teaching her and her
saying no to the temple all of the sudden she has decided to go. WOW! I was having a
really hard day that day wondering if I was making a difference in
anyone's life. Answer to prayers.<br />
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HAPPY
BIRTHDAY STEPHANIE!!!!!!!<br />
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Rachel! Congrats on the engagement!!! Can I have her email please?<br />
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Okay, I love you all so much. </div>
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My week has been great. Working on not
being too stressed and I really feel that I am growing and learning how
to do that better. My companion is Sister Riley. She is from St. George and just graduated from high school. She is just starting to get to know the basics of French. I am always there to
give her a word or a phrase when she needs it and I give lots of encouragement. We just have started with the basics and then memorized
things like a prayer or contacting someones house.<br />
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My language is pretty good now. I can have wonderful conversations with people. I don't think I will ever be completely fluent in French before I leave but I will only have spoken it for 15 months. Maybe I will go live in France
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I think I will some home just before my birthday or right on my
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I live in a little apartment that's about a one minute bike ride from the
church, so that's nice. We are the only missionaries in our area but in
our branch there is another set of elders and the zone learders are
technically in our branch but they have a little group that go to. The
group comes to our branch every fourth Sunday of the month.<br />
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We buy groceries at really big pretty mall that has a grocery store
inside of it and the zone leaders usually give us a ride in their car
because they don't live far from us. If we had to, though, we could go get
our stuff with our bikes. The area is pretty scary. Our bikes got stolen. Haha, but luckily we found them because a member whose house we
were at saw who took them. It was a band of teenagers from the high
school. So they were really awesome and went to the police for us and
got the bikes back eventually. Miracles!! </div>
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Yesterday for preparation day we took a
boat to a little island called Les Saintes. It was only about a 15 minute
boat ride and the island was so cute a little and pretty. We ate fish
and ice cream and went to a cool old French fort. Then we had fun running
on the beach and dipping our toes in the water. There are now four
sister missionaries on the island so its really great. We are all best
friends so I feel like I have sisters again!! Soooo much fun!! Mom, I got you
a pretty necklace there. I hope I can come back here again some day
with my future family...and go swimming!!!!<br />
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This week was great. We are working really hard with the members
and have been starting to teach lots of members family and friends!! So
cool! We are also working really hard with the branch mission president
to find all of the less actives that we can. That will really help this
branch. Working hard and finding miracles. We had an investigator who is
amazing! He is the referral from a recent convert. It's her brother and
and he is actually from Dominica so we teach in English. He has just
really been searching for more in his life and our lessons have always
been so cool and spiritual!!! He was supposed to come to church <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_709600933" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Sunday</span></span>
but when we called to ask where he was he said he didn't have anything
nice to wear to church. Hmph. So we will work on finding him a nice
shirt this week. I think that we can set him a baptismal date this week. </div>
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]My companion's French is coming slowly. I just translate A LOT during
lessons so I'm always mentally exhausted. But it will come!!! I love it
here so much!!!! Love you!! </div>
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