Elder Hackleman, Peru Lima West Mission

Monday, July 21, 2014

Oldest City In South American- Caral

Mom, this will either make you super happy, or super upset....haha but last monday, I may have lived one of your life long dreams.....wanna know what it is?

This is the oldest city found in south america. Older than machu Picchu, all of the ruins in mexico. All of it. It is supposedly the second oldest city found on earth. it is called Caral. It is about 45 min from my house. Ruins older than the Incans......Who could they be????:) Wink Wink.

Elder Hackleman Visits Ancient Ruins in Caral

Elder Hackleman

According to Wikipedia, Caral was inhabited between roughly 2600 BCE and 2000 BCE,[1] enclosing an area of more than 60 hectares.[2] Caral was described by its excavators as the oldest urban center in the Americas, a claim that was later challenged as other ancient sites were found nearby. Accommodating more than 3,000 inhabitants, it is the best studied and one of the largest Norte Chico sites known.
Archaeological findings

Main Pyramid

The main pyramid (Spanish: Pirámide Mayor) covers an area nearly the size of four football fields and is 60 feet (18 m) tall. Caral is the largest recorded site in the Andean region with dates older than 2000 BCE and appears to be the model for the urban design adopted by Andean civilizations that rose and fell over the span of four millennia. It is believed that Caral may answer questions about the origins of Andean civilizations and the development of the first cities.

Among the artifacts found at Caral are a knotted textile piece that the excavators have labeled a quipu. They argue that the artifact is evidence that the quipu record keeping system, a method involving knots tied in rope that was brought to perfection by the Inca, was older than any archaeologist had previously guessed. Evidence has emerged that the quipu may also have recorded logographic information in the same way writing does. Gary Urton has suggested that the quipus used a binary system which could record phonological or logographic data.
Lack of Warfare

No trace of warfare has been found at Caral: no battlements, no weapons, no mutilated bodies. Shady's findings suggest it was a gentle society, built on commerce and pleasure. In one of the pyramids, they uncovered 32 flutes made of condor and pelican bones and 37 cornetts of deer and llama bones. One find revealed the remains of a baby, wrapped and buried with a necklace made of stone beads.

Letters July 21, 2014

Newest Arrival
Kristen's Cute Little Guy

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Amy wrote:

Elder Hackleman,

So this week has been very hot. It is supposed to be 99 degrees today, but it's the humidity that kills us. Whew, then to make matters worse, our air-conditioning unit took a turn for the worse. We had it repaired with a hotwire system until we figure out what we are going to do. We are to the point where we can't live without it.

Seth is going through the temple on Tuesday. We found out on Saturday and ever since then, it seems like there has been nothing but contention at our house. Yesterday was a particularly down day. Satan really likes to try to put a wrench in our lives any time there is something good coming around.

I am hopeful that today will be a better day

Seth met with the stake president yesterday and he has a temple recommend in hand.

Nathan is working still at the fields. Starting today he will only be working 3 days a week, but it's still nice to have somewhere for him to go.

How are you doing? What is going on with you? I don't really know much about the area you are in now. I don't know what it looks like, what the ward is like, what the teaching situations are like and so on. I need more details and pictures:)

I sure love you!

Your dad got set apart at the new young mens president yesterday. He will do a great job.

Saturday night Nathan's "friend" Kate, had a surprise birthday party that we helped with. It was pretty fun. She is an only child and her family got baptized about six years ago. They are a real nice family.

Grant has become quite the biker. He rides his bike to Shadow Lake shopping center almost every day to meet a friend of his from the ward. Then they either ride to our house or his and hang out together. It's a great way to stay in shape and out of trouble:)

Saturday we got some free mulch from a family in the ward so we updated out flower beds. They are looking a lot better now. Then we went out to the baseball fields and watched the Blue Angels, then as I said before we went to a birthday party, so it was an eventful day.

Kristen had her baby. They are both doing just fine. It was a boy and they named him Wiley.

Love,

Mom

Hey mom. I know it’s hard and Satan is working his hardest against you all but sometimes we have to just take the beating and keep moving forward. When the people of ammon (Converted lamanites) made the decision to put down their weapons of war, they decided that there is no way that they would fight again and had faith that if they were firm in being obedient, God would deliver them. They also had faith in something else. If they started to die at the hands of their enemies and realized that God wasn´t going to save them from death, they were STILL determined not to fight back. They knew that sometimes, when you know something is true but you don´t have all the answers and everything just seems pretty grim, we just need to put our head down and push ourselves with the assurity that God is watching us. NOTHING on this earth should have the power or influence in keeping seth from going to the temple tomorrow. It doesn´t matter what happens, tomorrow is his day and when you come out of the temple with him, he will be endowed with power. Satan´s temptations and influences will just roll off your shoulders easier.

In other news, I had a baptism of a family of 3 on saturday!!!

I sure love you mom! I will send you a separate email that has a bunch of pictures that you are rrrreeeaaaaallllllyyy going to like.

Elder Hackleman

It's a Small World

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Amy wrote:

I got this message today from Betsy Durfee. I thought you would get a kick out of it.

Amy, we just met up with one of Jaren's friends from college - Josh Woodbury from Texas. He just got off his mission and is coming to SUU. He said he went to southern virginia before his mission, and we told him we had a good friend who went there too. He almost fell off his stool when we told him it was Jaren. He said Jaren and another of his buddies are companions now - such a small world! We miss you all and hope all is going well!

Betsy Durfee

From Elder Hackleman,

That is crazy!!! Josh is going to SUU? How did he see betsy!! That is so awesome. Haha

Letters Week of July 14, 2014

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Nathan wrote:

HEY BRO YOU WILL NEVER GUESS WHAT JUST HAPPENED? Labron James is going home...back to the Calves. It's up to D Wade and Chris Bosh to take the heat to the finals again which is unlikely to happen now. Just figured you would want to know that. See ya bro.

Nathan

What the heck is he thinking???? WHY!!!!!

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Amy wrote:

Hey son, how are things? What's new with you?

We made it back from our vacation and it's a little hard to get back in the swing of things.

Nathan is back working for Tim at the fields, Seth and I have been shopping, shopping, shopping, getting all his mission stuff. It is a bit of deja vu. He is getting pretty close. How many pairs of dress shoes did you take? The list said to take two. How often do you use your suit? We have heard that a lot of missionaries don't actually ever wear the jacket.

Now that the mission rules have changed, missionaries are no longer required to where dark colored suits, since Seth is going to Mexico and it will be very hot, he chose a light grey suit.

Seth taught the lesson in Elders Quorum yesterday. He was called to be an instructor until he leaves for his mission. I guess he did a great job.

Your dad got called yesterday to be the new Young Men's President. We are going to be pretty busy around here, but it's good for us.

I wondered if I would be released and I guess the answer is no for now anyway.

We just had a new family move in down the road who are in the ward. The dad is a pilot in the air force. It turns out the wife was a roommate to Sara in college. Small world.

I love you!

Mom

Fun Pictures from This Week

T-Ball Game

Chick Fil A Had a promotion, if you dressed up like a cow, you get a free meal.

Hey mom! I can’t believe how close seth is getting!!!!!!! He will use both pairs for sure and I am a witness that its true what they say about Rockports, if you find them, buy them. They are still holding strong for me and they have witnessed a royal beating a time or two. Haha He needs his suit but he won´t wear it much. He will wear it to church on Sunday and every time he has a meeting with his mission president. Other than that, he won’t wear it. I can´t think of other shopping tips on what to buy so just ask me first and I will tell you if it is worth it or not. Dad told me he´s young men’s president. That is awesome. He was destined for that calling. Love you mommy! I hit 15 months this week if you didn´t notice! Time´s a flyin!

Elder Hackleman