The Final Countdown-Last E-Mail

I cannot express myself, my feelings, this is it, the last email.
 We had our baptism on Saturday and directly after we had a ward activity for fathers day
and I won the musical chairs competion, winning  the 20 or more that
participated, I got a great reward as well, I was chosen to say the
prayer to bless the food. hahaha.  My bishop is going to let me talk
on Sunday.

 Saturday is going to be last interviews and session in the temple
with President and Hna Call and then I'lll go to church on Sunday then
go back to the mission home to have a dinner, fireside and testimony
meeting with the 13 of us and then we´ll go to bed and I'm leaving at
7 am to come home Monday morning.

 I know that the Book of Mormon is true without a shadow of a doubt
and that these two years have been the best use of my time that I've
ever done in my life and that if we read and pray diligently the Holy
Ghost will work in us to bear testimony of the divinity and power of
the book but most importantly of the importance of the Atonement,
letting us know that there is a way to leave our sins and perfect
ourselves in Christ to be saved in the last day.  This is the Lords
Work and it will go on until He says ITS DONE
I love you all, my compassion is for all
 VIVA MEXICO
Elder Hobbs

June 11, 2012

helo helo helo helo helo
 Yep, two weeks more and ill be on a plane, possibly vomitting and on
my way home to the United States of America, to good ole West Weber
where old George still is King.
 We had a baptism with P, a 54 year old man who has been
recieving us for about 2 months.  we had some pretty cool experiences
with him, he told us about a month ago , we showed up late one night
at his house and told us it was late, but dont worry, soy uno de
ustedes, pertenezco con usteds.  It was a neat experience with him and
his baptizm, he asked that the bishop baptize him and that made the
bishop excited as well.  P is really humble and thinks twice
before he opens his mouth, hes had a habit for a few years to read the
bible every morning at 6 am before he goes to work, so when we
introduced the book of mormon, he never had any problem completing the
reading assignments that we left him, and in the church one week they
gave him the gospel principal manual and george albert smith manual so
he started reading a little bit of everything and loves it all.
  in the shoots for this weekend we have F, hes about the
same age, he use to be very arrogant, he reminds me alot of the crowd
that you see with the weber county farmers, cowboys and everyone.  he
works for the state regulation of insects in the farmers fields in the
state of tamulipaus.  he was working one day in a small town called
Aldama and the branch president of Aldama has his ranch and they came
accross each other and started talking and the branch president told
him hes a member of the church and long story short he taught him how
to pray, testified that the gospel would help fransisco and his family
and after a "2 to 3 hour hard talk" in the words of francisco, he
accepted to listen to the missionaries so he talked with his neighbor
, a sister in the ward to send the missionaries on over, and that he
wanted a Book of Mormon.  this all happened about a month ago and now
he´ll be baptized father day weekend.  funny side note, his wife tried
getting him goieng (molesto) with accepting the gospel, and asked him,
so if your going to get baptized, whats going to be your new name?and
he replied with a smile and in broken up english "Frank Smith"  thats
awesome that your helping Erri know more about the Gospel, it will
bless his life and his families so much.
I love you all, I´ll write you one more time, i think and its coming
to an end super fast, I almost cant believe it.
Elder Hobbs

June 4

Hello family,

 This week we did more divisions, time sure is going by fast and each week seems like a day so I know its going to come fast, were already in june, not even a month away, I gave my last testimony in fast and testimony meeting in Mexico.

We have a few baptisms planned for these next two weeks and as well in the zone we have the fechas planned to accomplish all the goals so we're super excited.  We're going to go to the temple this week Elder Camarillo and I, it seems like weve been together so long and worked with each other so much, we just might get sealed while we are there ahahahahahahah just kidding!

So it sounds like fun for the gang at home all the playing that your doing I'll be up there in no time.

I'm thinking about leaving clothes, bedsheets and things like that that I can buy in the US and try to take home some cool stuff, if I find time.

I love you all, keep reading and working in your callings in all diligence.

Elder Hobbs

May 28

I am worried that my companion discovered this week that on my drivers lisence from Utah says that my eyes are brown, and there not so I dont know what thats all about, I've had it for more than two years now and I've never noticed that, but they let me in about wherever I want so im going to make it home, even if I have to swim el Gran Rio.

Well I dont know what to write to you all anymore, I think ive said about all I can......

We did divisions this week, were actually doing them about everyweek, we came up with a game plan to keep the elders on their toes to complete their goals this change.  We did divisons on the 18th and the elder and I found a guy who was a lucha libre wrestler for 57 years, he started when he was 13 and now he is an old man, in his house he has a bunch of memorials of pictures and and things it was one of the funniest experiences I've had, I could not have come to Mexico without knowing Nacho Libres trainer hahaha his stage name was "Relampago Gutierrez, el orgullo de Tampico" and he was filmed in a few movies with a famous mexican lucha libre wrestler named "el Santo"  it was so neat to know him, and come to find out the next day was a holiday that not many people know about, not even in mexico, National Lucha Libre Day ahahaha.

Elder Fernandez made me a grandpa in the mision, he recieved a new misionary from Morgan utah

love you all bye

April 30th

We find ourselves here once again after 22 months of being gone.  on a computer, in mexico, but there  is airconditioning in this internet room, so its all good, I can write tranquilamente my carta semanal to my familia.

I imagine that youve recieved the news, that im going home the 25th, on a Monday because the Church and its leaders have decided that its prudent cuz the new Mission President is coming in the same week and lots of new missionaries and so it would be extremely busy to try to get everything taken care of and sent home at the same time.  I gave the secretary of the misison the email of jojomama so if you havent recieved the emails from him about whats going on, let me know. or get ahold of him.

I find myself in a particuliar situation,  I have 22months, Im going home in a few, and Pres. Call as well and the big hype going on is that we got to work hard and go out with a bang and leave this misison alot better.  I just feel that I have to finish even stronger than I have been, I set goals to finish the book of mormon, D&C, perla de gran precio and the new testament before the end I'm on track reading enough and where im going in those books and to memorize 2 scriptures everyweek and 1 hymn.  We started up a 60 day consecration in the zone to "consecrate" us more to the work and to help us accomplish our goals.  I just wonder why I haven't set so many goals in the past.... I gues you learn as you go, thats life.

We all have a calling as we enter in the church, every member missionary and we will all be accountable in the end for what we have done and not done with this calling.  There are sins of comission, sins of omission and sins of "no mission".  Lets not be Sunday goers and engañarnos a nosotros mismos, sino vivir la palabra y el compromiso que hemos aceptado al bautizarnos.  Que les vaya bien y que magnifiquen sus llamamientos de ser misioneros.

Elder Hobbs

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

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