This Week From Peru

To Elder Hackleman From Seth

Football is starting up this week. We have practice Monday and Tuesday normal time. School starts for me on Wed so then we will have practice after school. I was contacted by Northwest Missouri State asking for a link to my game film. 

I'll keep you updated with all my football stuff, it is finally starting to really get going.

Love you. Keep working hard in Peru.

Seth

To Seth from Elder Hackleman,

Hey broski! Yes please keep me updated on everything. Send me game film if you can. It´s ok for me to watch it. My mission president is an Alabama boy. He feels my pain. Haha Good luck buddy. Your senior year. I can´t believe it. Study your guts out. The better your grades are now, the more fun you will have in college. 

4 things to focus on

Your Priesthood responsibilities

Seminary 

School work 

Football 

In that order. Notice I didn´t mention girls. I know exactly where your at right now and my advice is that I know girls are fun and going on dates is awesome. And that´s fine, but for real. They will be there after your mission. I wish someone would have really explained that to me. Take it from your not so big bro who knows. I love you buddy. I pray for you guys every day. Until Next week!!!

Elder Hackleman  (The first of many)

To Elder Hackleman, from mom,

We had a great week with Jeremy and his family. We went to the zoo, and all the local church history sites. Little Zerik is so much fun to be around. I love to listen to him talk. His little mind is always racing. Samee told me they were driving past the hospital where he had his appendix taken out and he asked her, what did they do with my appendix? She told him they threw it away. The next time they drove past the hospital he said, "There is the hospital that through my appendix away like it was nothing." So funny.

Zerik Beck

We went to Seth and Nathan's football meeting with the coaches last night. We are sure looking forward to the up and coming season. 

Tomorrow the kids start school. It feels like the summer has buzzed past so fast. We sure have had a good one though.

I sure love you!

Love Mom

To Elder Hackleman From Grant

Hey bro.  Jeremy got home Saturday. I had a bunch of fun with them. We did a lot of stuff, like we went to the zoo and the pool. Some days we just stayed home and chelaxed. 

When they were leaving, right before they left we went to the movie with them. Me, Ryker and Zerik watched Despicable Me 2. The rest watched Red 2. I thought the movie was a little short for some reason, but maybe not, I'm not sure. After the movie, we walked over to Culvers while everyone else was still watching their movie, but we accidentally went the wrong way so we had to go all the way around and come back to it. Zerik was wearing crocks and there wasn't really a sidewalk and it hurt his feet, so me and Ryker had to take turns carrying him. 

One day Zerik asked his mom, "how many more sleeps do we have?" What he really wanted to know was how many more nights until we go home. At the family reunion he went to Uncle Jared and asked him, "Hey uncle, I want some steak." So obviously we had to make stake for him:)

Seth would every once in a while give Jaiten a leg workout. Seth wanted to play football with Jaiten. Ryker didn't want to, but Jaiten said he hardly could lift his arms because Seth gave him an arm workout, so he had a hard time catching the ball.  So that's about it.

Love you.

Grantieprimaximus

To Elder Hackleman From Nathan,

Hey bro, hope you are having a good time in Peru. I fasted for you Sunday, just that you wouldn't get eaten by any wild dogs. Grant fasted for you too. But, probably not for the same reason. Keep it real.

Nathan

To the Family,

Hey guys! I wrote a pretty long letter to dad so you guys can read it and see how I´m doing but in short. I´m doing great! Spanish is awesome and my investigators are sweet. Sounds like Zerick is turning into quite a jokester. I talked to Jaiten a couple times about football when I was living in Idaho. I hope Seth helped him want to play some more. That would be awesome for him. Grant. I heard Despicable Me 2 

is hilarious. It’s called Mi Villano Favorito Dos in spanish. In english it means My Favorite Villain 2. They change the meanings of the titles of movies in spanish alot. I don´t know why they don´t just translate it directly. haha Love you buddy! Study hard and good luck in School!

Nathan, I am so excited to hear how your first year of high school football goes. I have one piece of advice, a quote that I am taking from one of the coolest card games/tv shows of my generation. ¨Gotta catch em all!¨.....Pokemon! 

Haha I can´t wait to hear what you think of seminary too. Seminary is awesome. Learn as much as you can because everything taught in seminary, you will use on your mission. Love you bro! Love you all!!!!!!

Elder Hackleman

Hey Dad! 

That’s good you guys had fun with jeremy and samee. I can´t believe school is starting up for the chillins again! Summer feels like it flew by! We have transfers tomorrow. My companion, Elder Acero, and I are going to stay together in the same area though. I am very grateful for that because he is an awesome comp and I have tons of work to do still in this area. And my ward all knows me and I have a huge birthday party coming up that they are doing I guess. 

Haha I´m excited. Birthdays are a big deal here I guess. Yeah I am going to buy a new watch today and maybe some other little things. My watch broke. I guess target watches aren’t meant to last two years. Haha Addressing the spanish, for real dad I can safely say that I am fluent. I don´t want to brag about it or anything because I know that I can give next to no credit to myself because the Lord has his hand in all of my work, but it is so cool. I am still learning tons about the language every day but my companion says I am killing it. The norm for missionaries to speak and understand spanish comfortably is at the 6 month mark of the mission. To speak fluently, usually they have a year in the mission and a year and a half is when they usually have perfect pronunciation without a gringo accent. Everyone I talk to says my pronunciation is perfect. I understand everything and people never have a hard time understanding me. I speak simply. I don´t have complex spanish down yet but conversations are a breeze. I definitely have been blessed beyond comprehension.

I sure do love you guys! Have a good week!

Elder Hackleman

I forgot to tell ya! I spoke in church for the first time yesterday. It was awesome. I was supposed to speak for 10 minutes, I ended up speaking for almost 20. OOPS! I guess I have the same problem with spanish as I do with english when it comes to giving talks haha. I spoke on missionary work. I said ¨Estoy muy agradecidos por la oportunidad a hablar con ustedes hoy sobre esto subjetivo. Es algo muy cerca de mi corazón.¨ It means, I am very grateful for the opportunity to speak with you all about this topic. It is something very close to my heart.....When I said that, I guestured to my heart and everyone laughed because they thought I was guesturing to my plaque. 

It literally is close to my heart. Haha I love my mission!!!!!!!!!!!! I love ya´ll!

Elder Hackleman

I had to catch a bird that was stuck inside someone´s house the other day. They only have a roof on half of their house. Even people that live in the giant city of Lima have pretty humble lifestyles sometimes. But yeah it was sweet! Haha

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This weeks letters to and from our missionary

Elder Hackleman,

How in the world are you?  We are so excited because Jeremy, Sammee and all the family is here visiting. We are going to the zoo today.  Little Jerik is so much fun.  We can't even keep up with all his funny sayings.  

 I was making puffed pancakes for breakfast this morning, after I put them in the oven I jumped into the shower.  In the mean time the pancakes burned and set off the fire alarms.  Now that's a great welcoming way to enjoy guests ha ha.

Our computer was running real slow and seemed to have a virus even though we have run the geek squad system on it over and over.  Jeremy spent about a half an hour cleaning it up and now it is running like a speed car.  Awesome!

I sure love you!

Love 

mom

Elder Hackleman, from Seth. Hey bro! I miss you so much! I hope your having the time of your life! Hey quick question, whatd you do with your ipod? i cant find it haha. football starts on monday (like actual practices) and then we play the monarchs on the 30th. we should be able to beat them this year! we have a good team from what i can tell right now! i'l keep you updated with our season. last week i benched 300! i'm still at 455 for squat sadly but i'm still the highest on the team! one kid got 430 so he's the second highest. hang clean is at 250 now, not the best but im getting better! we have a scrimage coming up so we are getting excited for that! i love you buddy! keep up the hard work!

From Nathan: BRO!!!!!!!! hows Peru? is it like... awesome? So im gonna be starting Z reciever probs and next year im gonna try for starrting varsity reciever so pretty much... I CANT WAIT, gotta go hard this season ;). so uhhhh... nice talkin to ya and have the time of your life!!!!! C ya lates bro!!

From Grant:  Yo Jar what's up dog?  Sure am missing you.  We are going to the zoo today.  The bishop asked us to finish the book of mormon this summer, but I am only in Enos, so I have a long way to go.  Remember that lady that always wore a bandana in her hair and we thought she was sort of crazy.  Well she died from a semi running over her.  So that's pretty crazy.

We are going to the temple for baptisms for the dead with Jaiten and them on Tuesday.  So that will be really cool going with my cousins to the temple.  It is Rykers first time so it will be a good experience for him.  

The one thing I want most when you come back is a dollar of the Peruvian money.

When I went to Hawaii the first thing I did was snorkel.  Then the next day I went paddle boarding, you know the stand up on a surfboard almost and paddle yourself.  That hurt a lot afterwards because it made me sore.  Then we changed to the condo and that felt like it was haunted because the stairs would creek and there were bugs everywhere, but we lived.  I got this really cool ball that Nathan was talking about, you might have seen it.  It's called wobabo ball.  Seth sells them at Bed Bath and Beyond.  So then we went surfing and I got up the first try but I didn't go very far.  So I was a natural.  That's what they called me.  What instructor did you have when you had the surfing lessons.  Because my instructor might have had you.  His name was Pa Ah.  It's short for something I just can't remember.  

We had really good puffed pancakes that mommy made for breakfast.  

So that's about all.  Hope to see you in 1 and 3/4 of years.

Love you Grant

Dear Family,

HAHA! This letter is the best letter ever! It´s so good to hear from all of you! I have no idea where my ipod is seth sorry. haha Yes Nathan Peru is awesome. Z Reciever!!!! That´s what they were changing me to at SVU if I would have stayed! That´s awesome bro! Grantee. You kept up the streak of getting up on the first try surfing! All 4 of us are naturals! I hope you guys are having fun with Jeremy and Sammee and the family. It looks like Mom spells Zerick´s name about as well as Jeremy. It was something different in every one of the letters. Haha 

So I met with President Archibald for our interviews for the first time on friday. It was so awesome. The man is at one with the Spirit I know that for sure. He helped me out a ton on what things I can do to be a better missionary. 

I jinxed myself last week when I told dad all is well with health. I had the worst fever of my life and was bed ridden for like 2 and a half days. I´m on the mend now so its all good. 

I was asked to give a talk 2 weeks ago for what I thought was this week but it was actually for next week because this week is fast sunday. But I totally spaced that fast sunday is fast and testimony meeting so we got to church early and I went to sit up on the stand and sat there until about 2 minutes before the meeting started when I remembered what the clank day it was. It was pretty embarrassing because I could tell the bishopric was getting a good laugh out of it. Haha 

We had 5 investigators in sacrament meeting yesterday. They were are all new to us as missionaries too and we have appointments scheduled to meet and teach every one of them this week. I´m way excited about it because they´re all awesome. Love you guys!!!!! Grant, you may need to start helping mom with the swedish pancake action if you know what I´m sayin, I want to come home to a house, not a piece of rubble. haha Love you all!

Elder Hackleman

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Mormon Missionary Dies

Mormon missionary's brother shares miracle preceding his death, pays tribute to his life

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By Robert Burton

For the Deseret News

Published: Thursday, Aug. 1 2013 2:00 p.m. MDT

Updated: 3 hours ago

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I am proud of my three brothers serving as missionaries: one in the Netherlands, one on his way to Mexico and one wherever God may send him.

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Yet by the time my mom arrived in Dallas, Josh's progress had taken a turn for the worse. Due to swelling of his brain resulting from the concussion, Josh's lungs and heart began to fail. After all the doctor's efforts to resuscitate him, Josh passed away at 11:15 p.m. on Monday.

In the days that followed Josh's death, many friends and family arrived at our home to offer their condolences. In each visit, the comforters become the comforted as my dad shared the tender mercies he and my mom saw in Josh's passing.

"When the Lord showed us the miracle recovery of Josh's back, he let us and everyone that prayed for Josh know he heard our prayers. There's no doubt about that. But God knew it was Josh's time, so once he'd shown us, he called Josh home," my dad said.

For the third child in our family, Elder Denny Burton, who reported to the MTC on the same day as Josh and who now serves in the Belgium Netherlands Mission, the gospel of Jesus Christ gives the right perspective to his grief. "I've always known the gospel plan was true. So I realize this isn't a test of my faith, it's just a test of my patience."

Josh was the second oldest of nine children and was homeschooled through elementary, middle and high schools. Upon his return from missionary service, he planned on studying music and business.

Josh's two maxims were "life is music" and "live life to the fullest," and he worked hard to put these into practice. As a young teenager, Josh first discovered the magic of Fredric Chopin's "Fantasie Impromptu" and began filling his life with classical mentors like Beethoven, Grieg, Ravel and Rachmaninov.

From that point forward, Josh drank, ate and breathed classical music. As an accomplished pianist, he began composing for the piano, and in the summer of 2010, Josh packed Cardston's Carriage House Theatre for his first concert of his own compositions. Josh moved his audience from laughter to tears as he shared both the excitement and the depth of feeling he found in music. To the delight of his audience, he even did a back flip in his suit pants and dress shoes.

That same year, Josh produced and distributed his first CD, "Sketches," which he made available on YouTubeand iTunes. He then went door to door in Cardston and surrounding communities, selling his CDs to earn money for his mission.

In his compositions, Josh sought to express what mattered most to him, feelings he could only describe through music.

"If you listen, really listen," Josh promises in his CD's dedication, "I think you will hear something more than just notes on a piano, something deeper within the music. And my hope is that you will be better for having heard it."

In all of his endeavors, Josh's goal was to uplift others. On one occasion, a mother in Cardston saw a young man walk past her little girl in the yard. Several minutes later, the mother saw the young man return, hand her girl an ice cream cone and walk on. When she asked her daughter, "Who was that?" she replied, "Josh Burton."

During his lucid moments in the hospital, Josh's chief concern was for his investigators and fellow missionaries.

"He kept asking for his planner," Dr. Cameron said.

At his funeral on Monday, a table displayed many of Josh's personal articles. In the center were his missionary shoes, worn and cracked from so much walking, calling to mind President Kimball's declaration, "My life is like my shoes, to be worn out in service."

As Josh's older brother, I find it nearly impossible to paint the life of my best friend in so few words. Yet those who knew Josh will attest that his life was his message. He loved deeply, lived fully and served faithfully.

I am proud of my three brothers serving as missionaries: one in the Netherlands, one on his way to Mexico and one wherever God may send him.