This Week's Letters

Elder Hackleman,

This is Grandma Polly. I am having a great time in Nebraska with all the family but I sure miss you. I haven't heard anything but wonderful things about you while you have been on your mission. I am proud of you. I am glad I get to be with your mom on her birthday. I look up at your pictures all day every day and think about how much I miss you, but I am thankful for what you are doing and the success you are having and I am proud of you. Tomorrow is your mom's birthday.

I've enjoyed getting to watch the boys play football except for how cold it was outside. I love you and I'm proud of you and I think about you a lot.

Love Grandma Polly

Jaren,

This is Nathan. So the Heat lost 100-101 against the Nets. I guess it's the first time since January that they have lost a game. Kind of bummed. Church basketball is coming up soon. I'll be Lebroning it up out there. Since football season is over we had a pizza party and they handed out certificates to everybody who stayed with the team throughout the whole season. So mine is hanging up in the living room by one of your missionary pictures.

I am getting my patriarchal blessing next Sunday after stake conference. I'm looking forward to it. I was sustained as 2nd counselor in the teachers quorum. President is Adam Jorgenson and 1st counselor is Bruyn Decker, and Jacob Banks as secretary.

School is going great. I am learning a lot. The girls are after me (so pretty much nothing's changed). :)

I went to Kael's baptism on Saturday and drove home from the Jenson Auto shop. Perfect A+. Just saying. K Bye.

Nathan

Jaren,

This is Grant. Hey bro what's up? Gma Polly is here. So we are like having so much fun. We like went to 6 flags. Gma rode the scariest ride ever. Man you should have seen her face. She was like ahhhhhhh. Good job on the test I gave you. Yesterday we watched the movie "Ender's Game." It was so awesome. Apparently a writer for the movie teaches at Southern Virginia University, you know that college you went to, if you can even remember. It was like 70 years ago. I still have my stereo. It is in best shape ever. It looks like we just bought it yesterday. If you had to choose between a nerf gun and Beats headphones, which one would you choose?

Football ended like 2 weeks ago. And so I am bummed. We only lost one game and that one game made me so mad, the refs felt like they weren't even there. We smeared the Monarchs when we played them. Uncle Jeff got to see that game.

I am waiting for next quarter because dodge ball starts up so I am pretty excited to start that.

So apparently it's Seth's turn to email and I seriously can't think of anything else to tell you. In fact I just thought of a question, what is it like, now being in Peru forever and such, going to the bathroom and are you used to it now?

So Love you!

Did I tell you I love you?

Grant

Elder Hackleman,

From Mom

I don't know if you can tell, but Grant is telling a fish tale when he says we went to 6 flags. For some reason he thought that would be funny. He's so silly.

So, as you might have heard your dad had a panic attack the other day and thought something bad was happening to you. Sorry for sending such weird messages to your mission family. Tim just had to make sure you were ok.

We sure love you!

Amy

Sheesh! Yeah it sent me on a panic attack as well! Haha but don´t you worry. I am doing grate! (Cept I really cant spell anymore.) Haha

Grandma! Hey grams!!! I hope you are having a blast with the fam! I sure do miss you and all the time we spent together at your house and Joel´s! Please give my mommy a big huge hug for me. It´s pretty cool that your favorite daughter and my favorite mom are the same person! What a coincidence! Haha I sure do love you and just know that your grandson is working hard on his mission. He has an awesome missionary example in his grandpa that he wants to try to live up to. Love you!

Hey nay! I am so excited slash bummed that you are getting your patriarchal blessing. I still remember every moment of the day that I got my patriarchal blessing and as a missionary, you read it ALOT. It´s ok buddy. Don´t worry about Lebron. Even the best basketball player of all time needs to lose a few to show the world that he´s still humble. I´m so proud of you for sticking it out in football. I know it is tough, but I promise you Nathan, you will make memories in those games that you will remember the rest of your life, and that makes it way worth the yucky practices. I love you big guy.

Grant! I bet you didn´t think about the fact that I already knew that six flags doesn´t exist in Nebraska. Nice try silly head. =) I´m glad you had fun in football! And yes I did know the author of the Ender´s game works at SVU. If I ever actually felt like reading a book, I would have tried to find him....but I didn´t. Hahaha I would definitely choose beats headphones. But they are like 300 bucks. Haha And yes I have been here a while and am used to using the bathroom here. Thanks for asking. Love you buddy!

Hey mom! I sure do love you and hope you have a happy birthday. You may be surprised to read this but I actually both remembered your birthday and got you a birthday present. I just haven´t found the time to get to the post office to send it. I love you mommy! I hope you have a fantastic 25+a few years birthday!

Elder Hackleman

From Seth,

Jeffery! Wassup bro? You'r biggest brother is officially the saddest person on the planet right now. We had such a good team this year... and we lost in the first round of the playoffs. We were able to kick so much tail this season and then blew it right at the end. it's crazy to think i will never be able to play under the High School football Friday night lights. ever. again. I was so mad you can't even believe. Of course everybody was crying but i was to upset to haha. we should have made it AT LEAST to the final four. we would have lost against Millard West in the final four game but we definitely should have beat Creighton Prep and even more definitely should have beat Westside! it was a great season but as you know, its hard when its over. i don't know what to do with my life now with all this extra free time i will have now! mom and i took my senior pics yesterday. some of them look pretty good. You know those concrete cylinders by our house you took pics in? we went there and back behind them a little ways we found an old rusty piece of farm equipment that literally looks like an alien ship. not even kidding. it's pretty cool looking haha. I miss you Jare Bear! keep up the hard work and stay away from the drug cartels! i hear they get a little cranky sometimes. hey i haven't told you one of my jokes in a long time so i'll end with one just for old times sake!

Why don't orphans play baseball?????

They can't find home! hahaha love you buddy!

-Seth

Haha Oh Sethy. If someone else would have told me that joke, I would have thought, in one way or another, that joke went through my brother Seth´s head. I know how you feel about football. Well, no I don´t. I have never played on a good football team my entire life. Haha No but I do understand. I am so proud of how well you´ve done with football. Friday night lights are over but that doesn´t mean there won´t ever be saturday night lights for you buddy! =) I just have one piece of advice for you that I´ve learned while being out here. If you keep the promptings of the Spirit with you in all of your decisions, you will be a very successful man in your life. If you have football in your future, you know I will always back you up. But you are at a very critical time in your life now that no one understands more than me. Keep your mission in your blinders now and everything in your life will fall into place. It sure as clank wont be easy, but Heavenly Father definitely has a plan for you Seth. I love you buddy. Work hard in school and in seminary. Hit the weight room more than ever just to keep all your options open. =)

Your not so big brother,

Elder Hackleman

Dear Elder,

Well, it's your mom's birthday today!!! We had a great week. How was yours??? There was only one very sad time and that was when the Titan's lost their first playoff game to Creighton Prep 23-17. The Hackleman football season is officially over. However, Sidney made it to the playoffs and won their first game against Blair. Their next game is on Friday in Gretna which is about 15 miles from our house! I think we're all going to go watch and cheer on the Raiders.

Nathan is getting his Patriarchal Blessing next week. We are so excited for him!! We have a youth Temple Trip on Saturday. I'm really looking forward to that! I haven't had a chance to get to the temple for a few months now. Speaking of which, we have a new Temple Presidency. Remember Pres. Schoof who met with you at the Temple? He and his councilors have been released. We haven't met the new Presidency yet, but we will on Saturday!!

How was your week of appointments?? You told us about all the referrals you got with your way awesome activity. Did any of them pan out??

So did anything significant happen with you on Thursday around 11:00 am? I had a dream about you on Wednesday night. I was in the mission field with you and was with two other Elders. I was so upset because I couldn't find my little white book or my name tag!!! Anyway that wouldn't let us communicate. I was down there without your mom and I saw you at the back of a group of other Elders. You flashed me the sign language sign for I love you. Then I woke up. It didn't seem too significant until about 11:00 I started to panic about what it meant. It could have been the fact that I was just missing you is all.

Everyone here is doing well. We're all healthy. I am so grateful for that. The Lord has truly blessed us with so many blessings that we can't even count them all. Every week that passes, I can't believe that we made it through. But we do, and I know it's because He's watching over ALL of the Hackleman's.

Just some fun news: The Kansas City Chiefs and Alex Smith are the only undefeated team in the NFL. They are 9-0. Our Utes aren’t doing so well. They just can't get it together on Offense.

Anyway, off to bed. You're getting extra long emails today!! How's your health doing???

¡Ámele hijo!

Papá

Hey dad.

First of all, it is safe to say that you can mark your dream and all your feelings down as the most spiritual experience you and I have shared in our lives.

We just started teaching this kid named xxxxxxx. Our first lesson with him was on thursday at 11. He started by telling us about some serious home problems that he has been having. His parents are separated. His mom is a hard core jehova´s witness and has pretty much disowned him for his friends and interest in our church. His dad is with some other lady and is a drunk who beats just about everyone who crosses him. This kid pretty much bounces from home to home. His aunts, his friends, and others and sometimes he just sleeps in a park by our house. He is good friends with my pensionists daughter and pretty much considers my pensionist and her husband his parents. My companion could relate with what he was talking about alot more than I could because my companion´s mom walked out on his family while he was like 3 and he´s been living with his dad his entire life. He is one of 10 kids! So they had many times in their lives where food wasn´t there sometimes. So my companion was talking while I was praying for him to know what to say to help this guy. The whole time I was thinking, I have never experienced anything close to this in my entire life. We had some hard times sure, but I never went hungry and certainly never went without a bed. After thinking about that I just became overcome with love for you dad. I have always loved you and mom more than anything and I was thinking alot about her too. But for a few moments, all I could do was think of how grateful I was to have you as my dad. And that you got up bright and early every morning to go to work at a job that you really didn´t like to much for our family. And I never heard you complain about any of it. So anyway, I was thinking that I knew I would have to share something so I prayed very hard in my mind to know what to say. It reached a point in our conversation where I knew it was my turn. I bent down and opened up my book of mormon, still having no idea what I was going to share or say. I just opened the book and looked at the first verse that my eyes went to and read it silently in my head really fast. It was a verse in alma that talked about the challenges that you goes through are very difficult but don´t worry. You are young and the Lord is always with you. Seek the counsels of your elder bretheren. It was so amazing and the Spirit was felt so strong. I am so grateful that the Spirit made sure that my imperfections did not get in the way of the progress of this boy.

Anyway, if you aren´t crying by now, you lost your tear ducts in Nam. Haha but your dream was no coincidence Dad. I know I gave you that love sign in sign language in my heart in that lesson and in your dream for my gratitude that I have the best dad in the world. We both know I have the best mom in the world, that goes without saying. =) But You definitely need to know as well. I love you guys so much.




Your oldest and proud son

Elder Hackleman

Missionary Motto

Without Hard Work Nothing Grows But Weeds, Gordon B. Hinckley

Grant's New Suit

Grant got a New Suite.  Thank You Grandma Karen!  One Day He Will Be a Missionary Just Like His Big Brother Elder Hackleman

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This Week

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Tim Hackleman wrote:

Dear Elder Hackleman!

How was your week?? Did you have your baptisms that were scheduled??? You have been there so long that the Ward must truly seem like family now. That's so awesome. How are the newly baptized converts doing? Are they getting support from the Ward? I hope so. So have you seen anyone walking around in your Nebraska T-Shirt that was stolen?

We had a great week. Nathan had his interview last week to receive his Patriarchal Blessing. I just have to remind him to call the Patriarch to schedule his appointment! I'm so excited for him to get it. I think it will really help him to understand his potential and who he really is. Nathan was called as the Second Counselor in the Teachers Quorum Presidency. So now all of your brothers are in leadership positions in the Priesthood. I don't think a father can be any more proud of his four sons than this one is!!! Grant and the rest of the Deacons taught the lesson yesterday. It's amazing how much more attentive they are to each other! hahaha. Our Ward is growing. It seems like there are a couple new families every month.

So I talked to Grandpa Rog on Friday and he and Gma are going to Massachusetts next weekend and he wanted to give the Missionaries his two tickets to the CSU game. It was funny. But he called the Missionaries (they told him they couldn't take them) but somehow the Mission President got involved and he and his wife went over to visit Gma and Gpa! CRAZY!!! They stayed for about a half hour. Apparently there is a Senior Couple serving there that really wanted to go to the game so they got the tickets. Again, CRAZY!!!

It's fun having Grandma Polly here. Seth did awesome in his last game against Westside. We were ahead by 13 points going into the 4th quarter. The Titan's had totally dominated them the whole game. We had two or three costly mistakes and they ended up beating us 42-27! So frustrating!!! Anyway, they are still in the playoffs and play Creighton Prep on Friday. The team all wanted to do mohawks for their first trip to State. So I attached photos of what I did to Seth's hair. He loves it. The great thing is that we can just shave it all off and he'll look completely normal. Also, Grant went out to visit Grandma Karen and Gpa Rog last weekend. Grandma bought Grant a new suit, so I attached a photo of him.

Oh well, better get back to work. I love you son. Be careful and keep working hard!

¡Ámele hijo!

Papá

Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:08:44 -0500
Subject: Re: Week of 10/27/13
From: jeffrey.hackleman@myldsmail.net

Ah Seth has sick hair! Haha I am still waiting for you to come clean and admit that you do not have Nathans touchdown on video. Either way your in trouble dad. Either you do have it and you are way late sending it to me or you don't and you should be ashamed....Hehe

We had two baptisms this week. xxxx xxxxxx and.........BBBBBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRR(Drum roll) xxxx xxxx!!!! I was so excited when he asked me to baptize him. I can’t even believe how awesome he looked when he came out of the water. I could see a new glow in his eyes that has not dimmed since his baptism. I am so happy. We also got a couple awesome pictures with the primary who loves the missionaries so that was awesome. Overall, an amazing week.

Try to get me some footage of the first Hackleman, Post season football player would ya. Thanks pops. Haha

On a more spiritual note, I am so excited for nathan to get his patriarchal blessing. I still remember everything that happened the day I got my blessing. He is an awesome young man. And I don’t know about you but grant sure looks like a missionary in that suit! Haha tell grandma polly hello for me and that I love her and that in all seriousness, I have felt the presence of grandpa howard in more instances than one while I have been out here on my mission. I know he is watching over me. I know that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ are completely and totally involved in this mission work. I am so excited to hear what seth decides to do about his mission.

Papá, Gracias por todo lo que has hecho para mi en mi vida y en las vidas de mis hermanos y mi mamá. Todos nosotros sabemos que tú nos amas. Tú eres un buen ejemplo po tú familia y mi esperanza es que, algun día, yo puedo ser un esposo y papá exactamente como tú. Te Amo Papá.

Elder Hackleman,

Good morning. How has your week been going? So how are you doing? We have been having a good week. Nathan officially finished football. He played a game on Tuesday and Wednesday. It was very cold. We bundled up mom the best we could and she still froze, but she was in good spirits and was glad to be able to see the games. Seth's game on Friday was a lot warmer. We are gearing up for Seth's post season game this coming Friday. They play Creighton Prep.

Ryan Shields is now on facebook with his mission. Kind of cool.

So you got us totally curious about what you are going to do that will shake up the entire mission? We need more info:)

How is the new camera working out?

I sure love you!

Mom

Hey momma! Ok I will start off by telling how I just single handedly rocked misión Perú Lima Oeste, ok with the help of my companion, the sister missionaries in my ward, the ward members, the bishop, The Spirit,

It was an activity that we did yesterday before church. It was a HUGE success. We and the sisters got as many young single adults and young men and women from the ward as would come and met up at the church building. The four of us missionaries made slips of paper with 3 questions on them. Do you believe in God? Did you know that God has a plan for all of his children? Would you like to know more about how families can live together forever? Then at the bottom, we put a spot where they can write names, addresses, and times where the missionaries can pass by to meet with them. The idea is that they all go to different areas in our ward and contact people on the street. They do not have to be worried about trying to teach something. They just ask the questions to get the people interested in hearing more and then give a brief but heartfelt testimony and ask for their information. It was a AWESOME! In my area, Elder Ramos and I got 26 references from this activity and the sisters area got something like 22. That means we had almost 50 references in our ward in the span of one hour! The Lord definitely has His hand in our work for Him.

So Grandma told me that her and Gramps tried to give their tickets to the CSU football game to some missionaries! Haha and they didnt accept of course bu it somehow ended up with a visit to there house from the mission president and his wife!! Haha they asked grandma and grandpa if they could give the tickets to the senior couple. how funny!

I sure do love you mamá! Cuando yo regreso a mí país y tú y yo estamos listo para mirar televisión juntos por un tiempo como hicimos antes mi misión, voy a enseñarte español para que tú sepas mas que palabras de un play de teatre. Haha

Te Amo Mamá!

Elder Hackleman

Last weeks letters

Elder Hackleman

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Tim Hackleman wrote:

Dear Elder Hackleman,

I know I start emails off the same way every single time, but we get so clankin' excited to hear about your week!!! Okay, I have to admit, even though I was so proud of you and your investigator, I had to laugh a little about you hitting his head on the step when you baptized him!!! Did you have any more scheduled for this week? Your companion looks like he's a great man.

I noticed that you cleaned out your bank account. I hope that was you and not someone else!! Did you find a camera or something? Let me know if you did make the with drawl in case I have to do something with the account. By the way, have you noticed anyone around the neighborhood wearing your Nebraska T-Shirt????

We are all doing well here. Everyone is healthy. How are you doing??? You never told us if the glasses are working for you. We assume that they are since we see you in them all the time. How's your health otherwise??

Nathan has his last game on Tuesday night. Seth's last regular season game is Friday. We play Westside. If we somehow beat them, we will be District champs. We are going to the playoffs anyway, so Seth is super excited about it. I'll try to get some new film of them both posted.

The Lord has blessed me so much! I have the best wife in the world and my four sons are far better men and young men than I can ever hope to be. We struggle a lot as a family, although outsiders would never know it. But I truly know that it is for our own good and that the Lord and Heavenly Father know what's best for us. Even though we rarely understand why. That's when faith comes in. We had a great Sunday School lesson on Faith, and Deacon's Quorum lesson on Patience today and it really helped me to understand how important it is to endure with patience and have faith in our Savior.

I love you son. I love that you have chosen to serve the Lord. Keep working hard and know that your family is always praying for you. Also know that there is no mortal person on the earth that loves you more than your mom, dad and brothers.

Ámele hijo,

Papá


Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:18:52 -0500
Subject: Re: Week of 10/20/13
From: jeffrey.hackleman@myldsmail.net

Hey dad!

Yeah I just happened to check my bank account the other day and saw that there was money in it so I took it out. Thank you! It was just right. I got a nice camera, almost identical to mine. You need to go read mom´s email to see what I learned in a meeting with President Archibald as a zone. We had that meeting, and then personal interviews after. He is awesome. He taught us tons of stuff in the zone meeting, one of the things I mentioned in mom´s email but that was just a little tangent that he used to help teach the importance of the topic. He taught us all about the Fall of Adam and Eve. As missionaries, we study that everyday so we couldn´t help but feel a little prideful when he opened up about what he was going to talk about. Well we were humbled very fast. He taught me TONS that I never realized about the fall that made so much sense. He talked about how well planned it was that adam had to partake of the fruit. The scriptures say that when the earth was created, ¨It was good.¨ In other words, the entire earth was perfect before God at the time of Adam, not just the garden of Eden. But still, they were restricted only to the boundaries of the garden. President gave the analogy that it was like a crib for a baby. Even though the entire bedroom of a baby is for the most part, childproof and safe, we still put children in their cribs. Also the scriptures say that the tree of knowledge of good and evil was placed in the middle of the garden, and that we can assume all passageways and walkways pass the tree. So imagine if you were a parent. You put your child in a beautiful, but small area, like a crib. Then, in the center of that crib, you put a big cookie or cake or something. What on earth do you think is going to happen! We know that God is all knowing and has a perfect knowledge of the past, present, and future. So with that, we have two options. Either God is not all knowing (which you don´t even have to be to know what would happen in this situation) or, He may have set the garden and the tree up in that manner on purpose!

How incredibly awesome and simple is that to understand now! Haha I love it. Anyways, I hope you guys have an awesome week. Let me know how the boys do in football! Do you not have Nathan´s touchdown on video! I sure love seeing my boys on youtube!

Love you dad


Hello, Elder Hackleman,

I sure hope it has been a good week for you. We have been having fun since Grandma got here. Grant flew to Colorado on Friday and comes back on Monday. The boys had school off on those days. He is having fun shopping it up:)

Grandma Polly flew in and had a layover in Denver. We had her scheduled to be taken by wheelchair from one flight to the next so she wouldn't get lost. Only problem is, she jumped up and got off the plane before they could get to her. Then she got lost in the airport. Luckily a very nice lady helped her find her way and stayed with her for a couple of hours. We think it might have been an angel. She certainly was an angel to us.

When mom got to Omaha she left two bags on the plane. She couldn't even remember how many bags she had with her. She was so tired, and hungry and discombobulated. She flew in on a plane that docked in the same spot you left from, so as you know, there was only a few steps from the plane to get around the security checkpoint. They didn't wheel her in Omaha either, I guess she got off too fast again, but then she was lost in the Omaha airport. I started calling her over and over because I knew if she came off the plane she had to be close by. Luckily she didn't turn her phone off, probably through the entire flight, and so she heard the call. Anyway to make a long story short, I told her to turn around because I could see her through the glass, and I was waving like crazy and she finally made it out. We were able to ascertain her lost two bags that somehow made it to Omaha. The cleaning crew found them on the plane and brought them to us. When she got to me, she told me, losing your mind is for the birds. Oh I love her so much:)

Since she has been here we have been having fun. We played Monopoly tonight. Seth calls it Mono Polly. The best. It's a better game to play with her than Clue because it is easier to follow along with.

Grandma Polly is staying until the first of December. We will have a fun time together.

Well, I sure love you!

Love Mom

Holy clank. Oh Grandma =) I´m glad you guys found her. So will she be staying with you until you all go to Idaho for the Beck reunion or what? Thank you so much for the money! I bought a camera that is almost identical to my other one, I´m happy because I know how to use it already. Haha We had a good week this week. We have a lot of baptisms coming up. My companion and I have some things planned that could potentially rock this mission into the millennium. =)

We had interviews with President Archibald this week. I love talking with that guy. He is insanely smart and has a knowledge of the scriptures like Bruce R Mckonkie for real. But I like him too because he isn´t a huge ruler. He isn´t always harping on us about silly things. His goal on his mission and for us as his missionaries is 3 things. Baptize, reactivate, and baptize. If we´re doing that, He´s happy. He trusts us that as we do those things, we will do what´s right. He gave an example in our zone conference that we had with him that the mission handbook says very distinctly and strictly, ¨missionaries never swim on their missions.¨ Then he called on one of the sister´s in my zone who is notorious for being a abide by the rules to the letter type. He asked her, ¨now, we understand this rule. Let´s say you are walking by a lake that is in your area and you see a five year old boy out in the water yelling and splashing that he needs help because he doesn´t know how to swim, What do you do?¨ In my head, I´m thinking, I drop my stuff and jump in there without a second thought. The sister literally sat there and thought about it for like 20 seconds and then said, ¨I would try and find someone to go in and save him because it would be breaking a rule.¨ The mission president very kindly explained how stupid of an idea that would be. Haha I couldn´t even believe she had to think about it. He explained to us that the rules we have are serious and shouldn´t be taken lightly, but that they are there not to be followed to the letter because there are in fact situations where mission rules must be broken. We have our rules to be able to always have the Spirit with us. If we have the Spirit with us, we will know when the situation calls for a broken rule. Then he gave the analogy of Nephi when he was asked by the Spirit to kill Laban. Everything he had been taught his whole life said that killing is wrong. But that does not supersede God´s will and the promptings of the Spirit in a certain situation.

Well that’s my fun, spiritual, learning experience for today! I sure love you all!

Elder Hackleman

P.S: For grant=CLANK and JEFFREY JAREN HACKLEMAN, JEFFREY JAREN HACKLEMAN. GRANT MCKAY HACKLEMAN GRANT MCKAY HACKLEMAN GRANT MCKAY HACKLEMAN

This Isn't Missionary Work, This Is Missionary Fun!

After the baptism this 24 year old started tearing up and told me how surprised he was because not only could he feel something when he went under the water, but he couldn´t believe how powerful it was and how good he felt after words. It was so awesome. I pray that he never forgets that feeling and builds off of it to help himself progress in the gospel.

This 17 year old has a brother in law who is a returned missionary who lives in this ward so he got to baptize him which is awesome!

We were trying to drain the font to clean it so we could refill it nice and clean but it wasn't draining right so I thought up the bright idea to try and plunge it......It didn´t work. We ended up bucketing all the water out. Haha

2 Baptisms In One Week!

Elder Hackleman,

How are you doing? How did the weekend go? I was thinking about your stolen backpack and came to the conclusion that it was probably stolen by the waiter. Do you think it might have been the waiter? Did you ask the owners if they had a "missing backpack" turned in? All and all, I'm sure it is lost and gone forever.  Too bad they got that great camera with all your pictures:(

Other than the missing backpack, how are things going?

We had a good time going to Wayne State college visit. It is a crazy thing trying to figure out what would be the best thing to do. Seth has a lot of big decisions to make in the next 6 months.

Grandma Karen was going to come and visit this weekend, but then ended up not coming after all. Roger has a big appointment on Tuesday to decide about chemo.  Hopefully we will know more of what the next few months are going to be like for him soon.

Grandma Polly is coming out for a long visit. She will be here for a month. We are looking forward to that.

Grant is done with football so little by little things will start to slow down as far as games go. Nathan just has two games left. I don't know what we will do when all of football season is over. It has been such a big part of our lives for so long.

Well, I sure love you!

Love mom


Hey Mamma!

This week was awesome! We had two baptisms. One´s name is xxxxxx. He is 17. His brother in law is a returned missionary who lives in this ward so he got to baptize him which is awesome. The other´s name is xxxxx. He’s 24 and has had a pretty hard core life with troubles of just about every form. But we have been meeting with him and we have seen his progression grow extremely fast. He wants to change everything in his life and turn to the Lord. What better way to start then to clean yourself of all your sins right!

I felt so bad because we thought there was enough water in the font but when we stepped in, the water came up to just below my knees. It was pretty late and we didn´t have time to wait to fill the font up some more, we were also already in the water which was freezing so we just went on with it. The first time, his leg popped up because he didn´t expect that I could put him down that low and bring him back up, So we did it again and the second time, I tried to make sure he went all the way down so I dunked him deeper and accidentally smacked his head on the step!! I felt so bad. He was totally fine though and said you could hear it but it really didn´t hit hard. Anyway, it was still an awesome experience because when we went to the bathroom to change, he started tearing up and told me how surprised he was because not only could he feel something when he went under the water (Spiritually speaking, not just his head haha) but that he couldn´t believe how powerful it was and how good he felt after words. It was so awesome. I pray that he never forgets that feeling and builds off of it to help himself progress in the gospel. I sure do love you all! Have fun with Grandma Polly!!!!

Elder Hackleman

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