Dos años en washington

04/11/2016

Elder haws will be giving two mission reports ... one will be this weekend the 17th in queen creek AZ. The other will be on April 24th in Taylor az. Small get togethers will be held after both. PLEASE SEE EVENT DETAILS!

04/11/2016

Final email {4.11.16}

Buenas Dias Amigos!

Pues esta semana fue excelente. Muy triste pero exceltente.

Pues primero ya encontramos una nueva investigadora, ella se llama Monica. Ella esta buscando para una iglesia y ella dijo "quiero emepesar en una iglesia pero no se cual" Pues tuvimios como cuatro lecciones con ella y fueron muy bonitos, el espirito estaba muy fuerte. Tambien ella tiene un fetcha de bautismal para el trenta de Abril! Esto muy animado porque voy a regresar si esta bautisado en esta fetcha.

Tambien muy ultima leccion que voy a ensenar aqui in Toppen*sh. Estaba con La Familia Cruz, Me amo esta familia. Hablabamos de la familia y como oracion y la estudia en las escrituras bendicinos.

En la reunion sacramental todas las personals estba orando. El Presidente de la rama pregunto a mi si puedo dar mi testimonio. Y you dije "no tengo muchos secretos pero esta fue uno que voy a regresar a mi casa" Despes toda las personas quien dio su testimonios mensino mi. Fue una relizacion que siempre hay personas quien estan mirando a nostros y ques podemos tener una gran influencia.

Pues hasta Manana!
El Elder Haws

EL FIN

04/05/2016

Tyson's final package sent to him from his momma.

Fwd: Here's Tyson's last package.
Elder Haws,
you have been called back to Arizona. TAKE 5 to remember the souls you have touched. You have been a LIFE SAVER to many. When you first went out you felt like you had BUTTERFINGERS. Your Sr. Companion KRACKLE d the whip and turned a JR MINT into a MILLION DOLLAR missionary! SKOR! The word of the Lord has touched as many lifes as the MILKY WAY has stars. You may have always been a RUNT but when it came to CRUNCH time you CERTainly didn't let that be a GOBSTOPPER! M&M'S (aka as mormon missionaries ) DOT the earth spreading the word of Jesus Christ. You are all ICE BREAKERS. And like an ECLIPSE you are in front to show how the gospel can change lifes. TWIX you and me I think your a real SWEETART and a BIT O HONEY. (so do Sis. Lewis and Sis. Call)
It's ok if you are a CRY BABY.
HUGS & KISSES, see ya real soon love ya mom
ZERO weeks left! !!! :)

04/05/2016

Email {4.4.16}

This past week was amazing!
General Conference was a spirtual over load and almost took me out. I love hearing the words of the prophet and the shortness of his talks made it all the more important. If you think about it. He had 5 minutes to speak to the world in before of the Savior and Heavenly Father. The things he said most have been extremely important. I love that man!!

We have been having so much fun here on Topp of the world. I gave my last district council training. All about the Atonement of Jesus Christ. I am so thankful for our Savior and the time i have to represent him.

Well I love you all! Go re listent to your favorite talk from General Conference!

It hasnt been 2 years!! You can never take me!!

04/04/2016

04/04/2016

Email: {3.27.16}
Easter!
This week has been amazing. Focused completly on the Savior of the World and His Atonement. We had Zone Conference. President and Sister Lewis talked about the Atonement, I learned so much especially about the great week of the history of the earth. Christs last week in Mortality. President lead a discussion about 3 parts of the Atonement. Resurrection, redemption and the enabling power(Grace or the strength we receive). I also had the opportunity to give my departing testimony it was an amazing day filed with the spirit. I also saw Elder Woodard. Jordan stop being a slacker and write him!

Easter is the most amazing time of the year especially to be a missionary!
Following Jesus Christ is the only thing that brings true happiness to the souls of men!! I love Mosiah 14:2-5. The most perfect man on earth gave all of us the most unselfish gift possible. He made all things possible "and with his strips we are healed". I love the Lord and the opportunity to serve along side of him!

03/21/2016

We also had fun with the holiday theme

03/21/2016

Email {3.21.16}

This week was great full of miracles, exchanges and challenges!!

First...
Elder Allsop and i were out tracting and we knocked on this door where a guy opened with a knife and big piece of metal that looked like a stake. He invited us right in but i was a little hesitant in going in. But we did and they were super awesome! They offered us dinner and gave us Tamales when we left. They also totally understood the restoration and excepted to be baptized!

Then...
Elder Johnson and I were on exchanges in Toppen*sh. We had been tracting and trying by people all day when we decided to go try a lady. Well her next door neighbor was someone we had taught and he was ignoring us but we caught him walking in the door and were able to teach another potential. Well that's not the miracle. We were walking back to the car and had 30 mintutes before the pizza party so we decided to knock this small apartment place and found Lucia! She has been taught by missionaries years ago and attended church and everything but her friend moved to Mexico and the missionaries got transferred and lost contact. Well we invited her to the pizza party and SHE CAME!! It was such a miracle and she loved it. A member also saw her in Safeway and talked with her. Hopefully we can teach her tomorrow!!

03/14/2016

Email {3.14.16}

Hey peeps out there! Another week gone and im not sure what happened to it!
some one liners to some up the week....

"Best tamales i have ever had in my life!"
Our amazing investigator Maria made us some really bomb tamales. We also had to push their baptismal date back But they are still going to make it.

"blitzed our area with some elders from the Dalles"
The zone leader called us and told us there were some elders who had a doctors appointment in Yakima and that they needed a place to be for a night so they came to Toppen*sh with us! It was crazy.

"i interviewed 5 people for baptism"
The sunnyside Elders have an amazing family who is ready for bpatism so i got to spend 2 hours interviewing them. I was exhausted afterwards!

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The church has a new Easter initiative. called . It is an amazing video. Go to FollowHim.mormon.org
Love you all!!
Elder Haws

“Hallelujah” means “Praise ye the Lord.” This Easter, celebrate Jesus Christ and discover how to follow Him and find new life.

03/07/2016

{Email 3.7.16}

This week... well i almost bashed with a 7th day Adventist pastor. We were tracting and this old lady let us in while the pastor was teaching her so we sat down and she asked some questions and so did he. We were allowing him to finish is lecture and my companion who understands no Spanish asked if they had ever heard of the Book of Mormon. Then it started the pastor nicely started telling us it wasnt true and that the only thing we need is the bible. Then he asked a few questions that he didnt want the answer to just trying to get us to say something. But i drew the line when he told us we put the prophet before Christ. So i kindly told him he was wrong and that Christ was the head of our church just like he was with the original apostles and then boar testimony and offered a prayer. It was fun!

We also had one of the most spiritual weeks of my entire mission. We started out by giving a member a blessing i was so blessed to be able to do that and then we had a great lesson with Norma about allowing the gospel to change her life and we started helping her to do that. We spent 6 hours this week at their house cleaning trying to help them get things organized, cleaned up and changes made.

One of my favorite parts of the weeks was the meetings we were able to go to. We had trainer-trainee. Where Pres. Lewis made me cry. He told about Elder Buenrostros letter this last week. He told President that he was so grateful for me because i didnt treat him the way i probably would have if we were in high school but that all i cared about was him succeeding. It is amazing how much love you can develope for someone you know so little about and that you dont get along with 24/7. Im so thankful for my mission and how it has changed my life. Im still weak and make mistakes every day but i am so much of a better person than i have ever been.

Love you all
Elder Haws

03/01/2016

Email: {2.22.16} last week:/

Well sense your all to busy to email I guess I will just write you. Its like im dying in 7 weeks and you can just wait to talk to me then. haha!

Wow I cant believe it only 7 more weeks... I might cry. Im trying to convince president to extend me but he said we will leave it up to the Lord. So Im going to start praying for reasons to extend haha. Maybe...

Its transfer week and there are a lot of changes going down. Elder Buenrostro is off to Omak to serve with Elder Etter. (Elder Carter trained him). AND... IM HAVING A BOY!! ha well Im training again! It is going to be so awesome I cant wait training is by far my favorite assignment. President also asked me to be the district leader which I jumped on I only got to be the district leader for 1 transfer many moons ago. They are also taking us out of English and bringing in a new companionship. Its going to be awesome to just focus on the branch.

There is so much work to be done in this area and not enough time to do it!! My new companion is going to learn how to work hard even when he is tired because this place is ready to harvest and we don't have any tractors. Wow my jokes are bad. Im so excited though. Norma and her girls are still preparing and planning to get baptized this Saturday. We have a couple obstacles to over come but God is a God of miracles and if its his will, it will happen this weekend. Please keep praying for them. Norma, Angie and Marina Cruz.

Sooorry no pictures this week I will repent and do better.
love you all
Elder Haws