April 23

I am doing perfectly fine with food and clothing and everything will last for the two months I have left.  I have my official leaving date is the 25th of June cuz the new mission president is coming in that week and as well new missionaries and its actually the sixth week of the change but its going to be the first so that the new mission president can come in and start off without worrying about changes and stuff like that.

I feel really mature, I dont know if i like it or not.  I'm super excited for Jake and his call to Texas,McAllen, its about the only city that 90% of Mexicans know of in the United States and when they ask me where I'm from they always ask from Texas, McAllen Houston Brownsville and then I got to spell it for them where Utah is.

  We got a visit from Elder Anderson of the 12, it was cool, we all got to shake his hand and he gave a nice talk, everyone here has been super excited about his arrival. and we had an investigator and converts that could attend the adult session that really liked it.

  I am so grateful to have gone on My Mission and not anyone elses,  I have felt so much like the "forerunner" in about every area I've gone, finding and baptizing and preparing areas that are bad and then I leave and other good miisonaries go in and the area explodes with success thats happened in Mante and Tantoyuca.  Actually  my two kids I trained in Tantoyuca are in my zone and they're doing great.  I love everything I've learned and experienced and I feel so much stronger and confident to take on the world when I get back home and have success.

  About 90% of missionaries from this mission have plans of going to BYU, and I'm getting convinced that I may want to to keep myself in the Holy Bubble, but as well I dont quite know if I have the grades to be accepted there cuz I was a burrote when I got out of high school hahaha

  Who knows, I honestly don't want to make a decision until I get home, and just finish my mission staying focused on it. 

take care "Ya`ll" love you

Elder Hobbs

Zone Training Mtg

April 16

We had a cool week , some funny experiences and that. Our mission had 152 baptisms last change, when I started we were baptising around 80ish so things are definitely going up. I'm loving the mission, this week we get to recieve Elder Anderson from the quorum of the 12 so were super excited for that and interviews, I hope everyone is doing fine and reading the Book of Mormon, I know that its true and is the way you can all work out your own challenges, time flies.
Elder Hobbs

April 9

Good afternoon familia Hobbs,
I have just had a wonderful time here in the mission, I love my area. We had another baptism, a 19 yr old named Max, his sister got baptized in December, so now it was his turn. They've had a really rough last 4 yrs in their lives and the Gospel has been such a blessing for them, Max was living wherever doing whatever before having a rough life and now started living with his sister a little while ago and was a little stubborn in accepting the Gospel for a while but finally accepted it and now the big hype is that he is going to be a missionary! We constantly are having great experience and seeing miracles, sometimes I feel like I could be Peter from the New Testament, I am learning alot about priesthood authority and the Holy ghost through personal experience, its miraculous I just can't help but think in the scriptures that say, "and these signs shall follow those that believe: in my name they shall cast out demonios, heal the sick........." theres lots, but thats all whats going on here. I just read the book our legacy, I've really loved it learning about the church history and events that have happened, I bought a church movie a while back called "The book of mormon, a rare posesion" and I loved it, it has great stories about the power of the book of mormon and it makes you reflect on how much you would go through for your own testimony.

We got changes, Elder Snow got changed to go up to Victoria to be a zone leader there and I got Elder Camarillo from Puebla, who I have already lived with before in the mission in Ciudad Mante, we were in the same ward together, we are super excited for these next few changes. Our zone did alright this change and its going to go up alot more.

I've been really consistent with exersising, I haven't drank cafenated beverages for over 3 months and I've gone more than a month with out and soda pop and I'm eating healthier and I've honestly felt a huge increase in recognizing the spirit and feeling it, and if you recognize it and act on it, you have more success, my testimony has been so strengthened in every commandment in the church, im contemplating never drinking pop again, but I havent made a for sure decision yet.
Read Alma 37 for family home evening and discuss the importance of doing small and simple things and the importance of following the spirit and the Book of Mormon. and share what most makes you happy
Elder Hobbs

April 2

Our baptism service was great, the hermana Carmen gave a really strong testimony of the gospel, she has three older sons that are older and married and they kinda bothered her abit about geting baptized so soon and when she gave her testimony, she let er ripp. She said she has been waiting quite some time to know the truth and has known lots of churches and when we showed up she thought we were just some other church but after the first time we visited her she was extremely interested and after a little while she knew that the church and the gospel are true, cuz she has felt it in her heart and knows it in her mind and apart from that she was praying real hard for a revelation or dream and she got it and recieved an answer that this is true and she testified that she doesnt have money to leave them an inheritance, but she has found something of greater worth she wants to leave them, the Gospel.
It really has been an awesome experience to hear her stories and everything.
I loved general conference I hope you all apply what you learned I tried sending pictures but I'm not that great with computers so I couldn't.
We're living well and working and no I did not see my family on the conference screen but yes I did see Melanie Wilcox once again, I thought I saw Mr.Hadley the principal as well.
Have a great week. say hi to my good friend Kylee Jeppsen
Elder Hobbs