This weeks Baptism

Mom is Deaf so I learned how to sign in Spanish so I could teach her.
Mom and son got Baptized

This Week From Peru

Wikahuain Ruins, Huaraz, Peru
Wilkahuain National Monument –
Is a small Wari ruin located north of Huaraz.
It dates from AD 600 to 900.
It is an imitation of the temple Chavin done.
Wilkahuain means ‘grandson’s house.’
The rooms were originally filled with bundles of mummies.

This week photos

The tall gringo on the other end of this picture is my zone leader and he is BEST FRIENDS with Josh Woodbury! They are from the same little town in Texas and Josh´s mom was his seminary teacher! How nuts is that!

March 24, 2014 Missionary Letters

On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 10:16 PM Mom wrote: Elder Hackleman, So, I don't know if you heard, but Coach Fitz left Southern Virginia to coach in Maryland at Frostburg State. They are in the same division. The new coach used to be a quality assurance coach for Urban Meyer at Ohio State. Just a little FYI.

Coach Huss

Coach Fitz












Seth is getting closer to putting in his papers. It's coming up close now. We are looking forward to Grant being inducted into the NJHS Monday evening.

We got Lance Christian's wedding announcement in the mail this week. 

Mckenzi Christensen and Lance Christian Are Getting Married

April 12, 2014 In The Salt Lake Temple

Did the deaf couple get baptized? How are things going for you? I can't believe you passed the half way mark.

Hump Day

So basketball is in full swing. Weber State made it to the dance. They lost in the first round but so did BYU, Nebraska, Duke, and a lot of other hopefuls. Creighton actually did pretty well, but lost today, so really there is no one left to root for.

The boys watched the movie "Space Jam" today.

They laughed a lot and it made Seth homesick for you:) I sure love you!

Love, Mom

What a bummer!!! I had hopes for Creighton this year! Haha I LOVE SPACE JAM! I haven´t seen it in year! Nope our deaf family hasn´t gotten baptized but they are still progressing like crazy. It is awesome. We just have to teach them pretty slow to make sure they get it. They have already given up coffee and alcohol though! Wow I can´t believe Fitz left! Craziness! I know! Can you believe how fast time is flying! I sure love you mom!

Elder Hackleman

This Weeks Pictures from Honcupampa, Peru

Elder Hackleman at Honcupampa, Peru

I found pride rock.....just sayin

Letters This Week

On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Amy wrote:

Elder Hackleman,

How are you today? What is new? We had a great Sunday. Tim and Becky blessed their baby today and your dad stood in the circle. That little guy is soooo cute!

This week has been a good one. I started a new blog two weeks ago. It is just random things, like recipes, diy projects, quotes, and anything else that might catch my eye. I am running ads on it. The idea is to someday make enough money to cover Seth’s mission costsJ In two weeks I have gotten over 1,000 views. Not too shabby.

It has been freezing cold here for the past couple of days. I am done going outside until spring ha ha.

I got a message from a friend of mine this morning. She was an exchange student who went to my high school. She lives in Sweden. I guess she met Tanner at church this morning. Pretty awesome!

Grant has been playing dodge-ball after school on Wed and Fridays. He sure loves it. Nathan told me today that he might go out for golf. We will see how it goes.

We are hoping to teach a missionary lesson here tomorrow. Our family has been helping the missionaries with a 15 year old investigator who never will commit to baptism. Seth and Nathan have helped teach him since October.

Well, I sure love you and can't wait until tomorrow when I get to hear from you:)

Love

Mom

Hey mom! I sure miss the cold. I can´t complain because Huaraz is like perfect weather, but getting a snowball in the face can believe it or not, be missed at some point in a person´s life if they haven´t had the experience in a while. That sounds like a fun blog! If you make a little more, you can at least get to where you can pay for date night or something. Haha Speaking of Tanner. He sent me an email today. Apparently a missionary in his mission got hit by a car the other day and passed away. It doesn´t look to me like Tanner knew him to well, but he did know the missionary´s companion who is pretty shaken up as one can imagine. How sad....

That is awesome that grant is playing dodgeball haha. I hope he knows his big bro was champion in intramurals at SVU! Nathan better go out for golf!!!!! Has seth started his mission papers yet? I have been doing the math and if all goes well, he could receive his mission call around the time I call home for mother´s day! Keep that in mind =) I love you mom!

Elder Hackleman

You can´t tell in the picture but I am in front of the church and it is flooding with rain. I stepped out into the road and water went up above my ankles Crazy! 

This is grafitti of a Huarazino or Cholo

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Tim wrote:

Dear Elder,

We had a great week. It has been super cold here. It was 0 degrees when we left church yesterday! brrrrrrrrrrrr. But Thursday it's supposed to get up to 50! Your mom and I went to a UNO hockey game on Friday. I got tickets from work. It was a blast!!! Sam (our Mormon CEO) sat behind us with his wife and daughter. I should have introduced your mom, but I didn't :( Kicking myself for that one. Anyway, I have attached a photo!

UNO Hockey Game

How was your week? How have the lessons been going? I forgot to ask you if you are the "senior" companion. You have to let us know when you get put into leadership roles as well! Like District leader or Zone leader.

I'm speaking in Sacrament on Sunday. My topic is Lessons Learned from Captain Moroni! Should be fun. Lots of different ways you could go, but I think I'm going to focus on strategy and defenses.

I know your mom sent you a big letter so I'll keep mine short. Let us know what's been going on! You know how we love to hear about your work!

¡Ámele hijo!

Papá

Hey dad!!!! That looks like a blast! I can´t believe you didn´t introduce mom if you know him so well. That looks way cool though. Things are going great here. We have another baptism set for this week. Her name is Pilar. She has been progressing like wild fire until these last few days she started having some doubts. That always happens the week of a person´s baptism because Satan is very aware of what is going on. It will be fine though. Us missionaries are used to the fight against satan. I am senior companion yes. Really I´m not one to flaunt or even feel proud though if I ever get put in a leadership position. To be honest, I kind of hope I don´t. It’s a lot of worries and stress that are distracting from just being a missionary. But we´ll see. Haha Captain Moroni is a pretty awesome topic. When you are studying, read every single footnote and every reference there is, even if it seems off topic. You´ll be amazed what more you learn out of those verses. We are putting that into practice in our studies right now because that is what our mission president has been focusing on with us for a while. Love you dad!

Elder Hackleman

Facebook Photo

This was posted on facebook today.  I recognize the vests as the day the missionaries and LDS Church members cleaned the beach in Lima, Peru.  Elder Hackleman and his companion found a little cove to eat their lunch.

Letters This Week 2-24-2014

Elder Hackleman's Baptism This Week

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 11:32 PM,

Elder Hackleman,

How in the world are you? I hope you have a little more time today to give me some more information. I think I will go ahead and write my questions in numbers, then all you have to do is respond to each number. Last time we did it this way it was very effective:)

(Elder Hackleman responded in red)

1. Where do you eat your meals?  I eat breakfast and dinner in my room now. We only eat lunch in our pensionist´s house.

2. How often do you eat your meals?  whenever we have time...haha

3. Do you have someone who comes in and cleans?  No. Unfortunately we clean ourselves =(

4. Do you have someone who does your laundry?  Yes absolutely

5. How long has your companion been on a mission?  4 months recently

6. When are you going to send a picture of your companion?  I´ll send one today)

7. What is the ward like?  the ward is small. there are about 80 people that attend church but they usually show up five min before sacrament meeting ends.

8. Is the food similar to the food in Lima?  Yeah the food is pretty much the same

9. Do you ever go to Lima for zone conferences or anything?  Nope the president travels up here. He did this last week. It was awesome. He taught a three hour conference on the first 6 verses in first nephi!

10. Did you know that Tayson got married on Saturday?  No! I didn´t!

11. Did you know that Lebron James got his nose broken while driving to the basket in a game last week?  I guess even the best can break a nose once in a while =)

12. Did you know that he continued his drive and slam dunked the basket before falling to the ground in pain and with a nose bleed?  And that´s why he´s the best.

13. Did you know that your brother Nathan is now watching basketball on tv once in a while? I AM SO HAPPY!

14. Did you know that Nathan and Grant won their last basketball game on Saturday? YES!

15. Are you going to take some pictures for us? Oh wait, maybe I already said that one:) HAHA yes mother

16. Did you have your baptism on Wed? Yep! It was awesome! Her name is Ariana. Her sister who is 8 and named Celeste got baptized the same day. Ariana is the one on the left.

17. Did you know that Becky and Tim had a little boy they named Keatan? NO! That is so awesome! Ask them what happened to the name Jaren though.

18. Did you know I have been trying out some Peruvian recipes?  No way! What have you made?! Were they yummy?

Ok, that should about do it, unless you can think of anything else you would like to add:)

Wed, Seth has his doctors appointment to see how he is coming along. He is still in his sling and hasn't been back to work yet, but maybe after Wed.

I sure love you!

Love Mom

Dear Mom,

This other picture is my Cui that I had last week. It is sooo good. I hope that you guys have a great week! Oh yea! We got an old missionary couple in our stake here in Huaraz. They are going to do family history work. They both speak spanish really well. Thats because they served a mission in guatemala and served six years in a spanish ward in.....Mesquite Nevada! (I don´t know how to spell Mesquite) Haha

Cui

Love you!

Elder Hackleman

Missionary Letter From Peru

Huaraz

Elder Hackleman,

How are you doing today? I never did hear what happened on the day of your transfer. Did you take a bus to your new area? Were you traveling alone? How did you manage all of your stuff etc?

In your new place you are staying, what does it look like? Do you do your own cleaning and cooking? How big is the new ward? What does your companion look like? What is the crime rate like compared to Lima? How many missionaries are in Huarez? Is Lima West mission the only mission that has missionaries in Huarez? Do you have any investigators you are teaching? Is the food any different?

As you can see I am very curious about you. Hope you are getting adapted to the new area. Things are good around here. The boys have a winter break so they were out of school on Friday and again today. Seth is in Fort Collins getting spoiled. He fly's back tonight. He is still in a shoulder brace but the pain has gone down a lot and he is getting around really well now.

Saturday not many kids showed up for the young men's basketball game. They played with 6 kids, which meant that Nathan and Grant got to play almost the entire game. We finally won our second game. Nathan made something like 23 points and Grant was the assist monster. They both had great games. Tim Law is the coach and he does such a great job.

Grant is going to an indoor water park today with Kelsey Hadley and her boys. Nathan and I are going to watch little Hannah. She is such a cutie.

Your blog continues to have a lot of followers. It has something like 7,000 hits on it. Crazy huh? Thank you for the pictures you sent last week, they were a hit:)


Well, I'm hoping you will be able to answer some of my questions today:)

I love you!

Mom

Hey momma! I´m doing great! Let´s see. I took a bus that left Lima at 10 o’clock at night and got to Huaraz something like 7:30 in the morning. Haha I came up with 6 or 7 other missionaries that got transferred here to Huaraz. We do our own cleaning but we still have a pensionista that cooks for us. The crime rate is a lot lower here. Its way more chill. There are 22 missionaries in my zone in Huaraz and no the whole zone just belongs to my mission. 

Cuy

We have some really cool investigators that we are teaching but not many so we have been contacting like crazy. We do have a baptism this Wednesday though! The food is the same. Today we are going to have Cuy for lunch!!!!!!!!!!! Guinea pig! I´m stoked. Haha That´s so awesome. I hope Nathan gains enough confidence to play in school next year! I´ve never even seen Hannah yet! And what´s the deal on Becky´s baby! Haha I will go check my blog out. I haven´t in a few weeks. Love you Mom!

Elder Hackleman



On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:51

This Week From Peru

Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 10:45:28 -0500
Subject: Re: Week of 2/2/14
From: Elder Hackleman
To: Dad

If heaven can be found on earth, it is found in Huaraz, Perú. It´s safe to say that this is the most touristy beautiful place in Perú and maybe all of south america short of machu Picchu. Funny story. I went to transfers and was talking to some of the elders that I knew and I told them, ¨If the church is really true and President Archibald really receives revelation, I am going to be sent to Huaraz.¨ Haha it was totally a joke of course but I had been dying in Lima for so many months because it has been so hot that for real, there is no way investigators can feel the Spirit to the same magnitude if I am filling buckets up of sweat in their house. Then they called my name and said I was going there! It was so awesome. Haha everyone that knows me that isn´t here hates me now though because it is by far the most coveted zone in the entire mission. They always start the transfer announcements with Huaraz and when they say ¨ok let’s get started! Everyone sucks in a deep breath and holds it in the hopes that they get sent here. Önce or twice a month we go to these awesome lakes in the mountains or ancient ruins or something on pday. Next monday we are going to a lake up in the mountains by a little city outside of Huaraz called Caraz. We need a translator for some of the lessons we teach because there is an indigenous people that lives here up in the mountains that speaks a language called Quichua. It is completely different than spanish. I want to try and learn it and come home trilingual. Haha anyways it is so wonderful to be here. Tell the brothers and Mom I love them and can´t wait to hear how it goes with seth and college and the sidney house and stuff.

To: Elder Hackleman
From: Mom

Seth officially signed with Peru state. He has a full ride scholarship for all 4 years. They do not care when he goes on his mission, he can still have the academic scholarship whenever he attends. He still hasn't made up his mind for sure about going to a semester this fall or straight on a mission. If he goes this fall they will redshirt him since he is not supposed to play for a year. They are sure being awesome. They love Seth. Two coaches from Peru State came to his school for signing day.

Seth Signs with Peru State, a college in Nebraska, to play Football

Nathan and Grant lost another basketball game on Saturday but they have both improved their skills so much. We had a snow day last week so we went to the church and played for hours and hours. I taught them some new stuff and they used in during the game. Grant has come a long way. I think people forget he is only a 7th grader because he is so big and his skills have come so far.
Your dad has been really busy with work. He has taken a lot of time off work to go on all the college visits, dr. appointments and surgery for Seth. He is working around the clock to try and get caught up, but he sure does love his job so it makes it worth while.
The Relief Society is going just fine. Keeping me out of trouble.

Did I mention I have been worried sick about you!!!
Oh, ya, a broken record. Sorry.

I can't wait to hear from you!!
Love
Mom

HEY MOM!!!!! No I am fine! Huaraz is literally a dream. I still can´t believe I am here. I just don´t have a lot of time to talk because we do so many cool things on p-day! Check out these pics! We went up into the Andes Mountains today. I am officially the first person on earth to yell ¨Nebraska!¨ in the middle of the Andes of Perú. Well I am pretty sure. Haha That is so awesome of Seth! I am so proud of him! Two Peruvian sons!!!!! Haha Love you mom!
We just live in like a little two room apartment. My companion is awesome. His name is Elder Guzman so I always think of good ole Roberto from soccer. Haha He is from Honduras.... PS Today I officially have 10 months in my mission! Crazy Right!

Elder Hackleman wanted to be the first person to Yell Nebraska as loud as he can in the Andes Mountains.

Last Days in Current Area, Elder Hackleman Gets Transferred