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Monday April 23, 2012
WOW!!! All I can say is WOW soo many people getting
married!!! I can’t even believe it and just nuts!!! I wish them all the best in their adventures
and in the planning for the big days! It just seems like whenever I read your
emails everything is going on and soo much stuff is happening but it’s just
normal life and it seems like way to much excitement to handle now. I think every
time I come to cyber all these people are just looking at me watching this
gringo say like ¨NOOOO¨out of astonishment or just freaking out cause all this
sweet stuff is going on. But anyway it’s always great to get your letters and
it sounds like you are all really staying busy. I do the same thing every day
so I have lots to do but it doesn’t seem like anything different at all.
But anyway a lot has also happened to me these last few
days. So first off I’ll get the transfers’ out of the way. I am staying here with
Elder Richter! I’m way happy that I get to stay here he’s super cool and we get
along great and we’re now just working like little beasts! Actually all the
elders in my pension are staying and so it was not too much of a change haha
but there’s this one family in the ward that we are all super close with and so
we kind of played a little joke on them, and told them that a couple of us were
leaving. We had a big dinner and everything, said our goodbyes and took
pictures and right at the end we announced that we were all staying. It was
super funny to see all their faces. The mother of the whole family was in on
it. It was her and her 7 kids and then
their kids as well. We were gunna do the dinner whether we stayed or went but
it was super funny to see what happened. I do feel a little bit bad though but
they all took it well and we are able to keep visiting them for the next 6
weeks at least.
Also on Saturday we had a nice service project all day long
and we did a lot of work. First off we started out with cleaning a piece of
land where a family is going to build their house and so we got our machetes
out and went to work. Then after that was done we had to cut down some trees
and so I climbed up and just chopped it all up. We had to burn all the stuff we
cut down and then we moved on to building a bathroom for another family. We
started from scratch by digging a trench to lay the pipe and the deposit hole. It
ended up being like a little bit more than my height and we still have to go
over next week to finish the hole because it’s not deep enough. We laid pipe
and put new cement to the floor. We did a ton of work in the end. It was super
sweet though and a way cool experience I loved helping them!!
Then came another adventure. For the day we went to this
abandoned water tower that is way huge and made of all cement! We walked over
there and went exploring for a little while. We climbed up the winding staircase
that has no light so we brought flashlights and went all the way up. We climbed
up and out on to the roof and from there you can see almost all of Cordoba it
was an amazing view!! Like the coolest thing ever!! I loved it and then we went
down into where the water is supposed to be cause its empty and goofed around a
bit and took some sweet pics and there was also a dead dog down there with us!!
It was way fun and a cool adventure for all the family, hahah not really just
us four went.
Well that’s all the adventure that happened to me this last
week, we did a lot of things and a lot of work. It was a busy week!!! But a
good one. We had lots of spiritual moments and tonight we are doing a FHE with
a family to teach about the atonement and there’s gunna be like 30 people there.
We are going do something similar to the story of the parable of the push ups
so it should be a great experience!! I hope everything goes well and that’s
about all from me for now.
I’m so glad I’m here and that I have a chance to testify of
the truth of this gospel every single day. It’s a real blessing to have that opportunity.
I’m so grateful for the gospel in my life and I know when it’s lacking in my
life because I feel the difference. It’s so amazing that we are spiritually fed
every day. I hope the best for all of you and pray for you all. Have an amazing week and work hard
From the south
with all my heart
Love you guys
Elder Harker
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