After Christmas

Hey Mom! It was truly wonderful to hear from you too. It was really hard to hang up though. One hour of talking seemed like like 10 minutes! Now I can see why they make us call only twice a year. I felt really weird right after I hanged up. I kind of felt like I wasn't a missionary for a minute and I was like "oh I have to snap back into my missionary mode now." It was so great talking to you all thought!

 I still weren't able to locate the package yet. We were actually just at the Rudderforth's house helping Josh move and I forgot to ask him about the package. Josh is moving out to Missouri next to his kids. That's where his x-wife is with his kids. This is both Josh's and Jessica's second divorce. And Josh has three kids with his first wife. One of the thing that caused the divorce was the kids. Josh really loves his kids and he is way too far away from them and misses them way to much. He only got to see them twice a year. So that just kind of caused him to be depressed. 

Today right before we left, he asked me if I could give him a blessing and it was the best blessing I have ever given. Both him and I were just tearing up as I gave him the blessing. I am so grateful for the priesthood that has been restored back to the earth.

Thank you for everything and I hope you will have a wonderful week! 

Love elder Haws 

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Blessings come as we are obedient

Hi mom! Thanks for your letters. Sounds like you all doing great. That is awesome how the kids are paying full tithing. The lord does really bless us in so many ways if we trust in him and pay our full tithing. A couple week ago as we were teaching this one family in the ward the mom started crying as she shared her experience. She used to be really poor and her grandfather told her to keep paying her tithing. She said she took her grandfathers advice and kept paying her tithing when she didn't even had a food for her kids. As she kept paying she saw a lot of blessings that comes from paying tithing. 

That is cool how Everett got a new dog. How big is the dog? Pretty much every one has a dog here. That is awesome how you guys went and got Christmas tree. I all ways enjoyed that tradition. Did you guys went somewhere different this year or the same place we went last year?  The the weather is really nice here. At nights and mornings it get cold but it is really nice during a day. This past week it's been in low 50s. It supposed to get even warmer this week by Thursday. It is going to be in low 60s. That is almost like a Addiss Ababa weather. 

Everything is going well for me and I'm just so happy to be out here. Thank you so much for you love and support. Thanks for your letter too, I love hearing about how the things going back at home. . 

I hope you will have a great week 

Love Elder Haws