Start off the week with something I mentioned in the letter last
week, President, Sister Rahlf and their family will be visiting district
meeting. So not all the kids were able to make it but we were visited
by 2 of their sons and 3 daughter's-in-law. So the one that works at
Klim was there, the only thing is he doesn't work at Klim anymore. He
works with Under Armor now which is still pretty cool I guess. But
anyway, they came and talked to us for about 15 minutes and shared some
thoughts with us from their missions and life. The other son that was
there lives in Coeur d'Alene. I can't remember their names but they were
really cool and fun to talk/listen to. After the meeting we went and
ate at Din's, our favorite restaurant in Alicia, with a couple other
elders in the zone. After that we hopped on the bus and came back to
Echague.
Work this week was pretty good again being that we are still
working around sicknesses. On the bright side it had been getting
better. We were able to see quite a few people this week compared to
last week. One important one being the Quisisem family. They had been
doing pretty good and we have been getting close with them. We were
supposed to have dinner with them on Tuesday but it didn't end up
happening. While we were walking there the thought came into my head
that we hadn't texted them all day and we haven't heard anything from
them either. So we went there and it turned out they forgot which was
totally fine. We sat and visited for a little while and set an
appointment for the next day.
Wednesday we had a wedding to go to which was pretty cool. Bishop
married them in the chapel. We were mainly just going for the food so we
had a free dinner then turns out we missed it. They ate the food
earlier than expected. Good thing we still had the Quisisem family
though. Had a nice dinner with them but we did not share to them once
again. Tatay wasn't there and it seemed like they didn't want to listen
once again. We gotta work on that or just be straight up with them that
we are there to share.
We went on splits on Thursday with the Elders from Jones. I split
with Elder Reyes here in Echague and Elder Labrador went with Elder Kane
in Jones. I never knew Elder Reyes before this cycle but have enjoyed
getting to know him since we've been together. We have become pretty
good friends in the 4 weeks we have been together in the zone.We had a
good time together on splits and got to help him with their
companionship. They don't have huge problems by any means but he wanted
to go on splits for a little help. We were able to figure it all out by
the end of the splits. We ate dinner on Thursday at a member's birthday
party. Once again, spaghetti and pancit. At least this time I knew the
meaning why we were eating spaghetti. We woke up a little earlier Friday
morning to go play basketball for a little bit. That was super fun and
nice to get moving again. I was so sore when I woke up the next morning.
Shows how out of shape I was/am. But we had fun, came back to the
apartment, got ready, read, ate lunch, then took off for Jones. Elder
Kane was sick as well and didn't feel like traveling so we went all the
way to Jones to switch back companions. We got there and Elder Labrador
said he wasn't feeling good anymore so we went home and he rested.
Anyway, his sickness got worse and we ended up resting a few days. It
honestly sounds like he is coughing up a lung. He also has asthma so
that's not helping him to much. He was going to make it work on Saturday
since we are supposed to go with Bishop to work but Bishop ended up
cancelling so we ended up spending the day resting again. He slept a lot
which was good.
Sunday morning we woke up and he asked for a blessing. Gave him a
blessing then got ready for church. We had new family come to church! I
was so happy when I saw them come through the gates and I realized who
it was. Tatay is less active and Sister is our investigator. They were
all really happy to be there as well. We had a pretty good Sacrament
meeting then went into classes. Anyway, long story short, this family
that came to church will now be taught by the sisters. They are actually
in their area but right on the border and the sisters don't go there so
we ended up contacting and finding them. It ends up better for them
though because they like 8:30 church more so if the sisters teach them
they will go to church at 8:30 instead of with us at 10:30. One other
thing, there are a ton of members that are sick as well. We gave a
couple blessings yesterday at church but like everyone is sick!
Hopefully everyone will get better this week so it won't spread to more
and more people. There must be something going around since everyone is
getting it so hopefully it'll die off here soon. I guess that's pretty
much it for the week. Quite a few sick days but this morning things
seemed to start being back to normal. Hope you all have a great week
this week. Love you all!
Love Elder Haacke
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