Monday, August 28, 2017

BEST DAY EVER!

Hunter arrived in Las Vegas at about 3:50 in the afternoon of Wenesday, August 23rd!  The whole family was there to greet him along with a few of our favorite people!  It was the best hug ever!








 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 

 


Preparing for Hunter's Homecoming!




A few Facebook finds

Found a couple of cute pics on facebook of Elder Hodson saying goodbye to Elder Meeves! 


Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Week 101

See ya in 2


...Days.

I was really tempted to send just that home, but i think my mother would get a little upset over that hahah.
 
These best 2 years are coming to an end, and as I look back im honestly really happy, and im excited for the future, im sure ill be like everyone 40 years later still remembering it.  They were an amazing two years, and I could not have asked for a better mission nor a better end to it!  We baptized our dad and son here, and they were super excited, and were excited for them!
 
Love you all and see you soon!
Elder Hodson for the last time.
 

 

Monday, August 21, 2017

Week 100

Something bout 1 week


This week was better, we finally are getting things set so our investigator Marco can get baptized.  His son turned 8 and to animate his dad we set it up so they could both get baptized on the same day!  Pretty exciting!

Oh and we went and climbed a big old mountain today! So ill send those pictures!
Love you all, see you in a week, im sure my mom will post somewhere when my homecoming is, but i still have one more monday!

Elder Hodson
 



 

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Week 99

Dos


Well friends two weeks left... time to get sentimental...

Just kidding not yet, or never.  This week was another hard week.  I dont know what it is about this area but every time we have something good happen something bad happens at the same time.  One of our families that was like super set for baptism ending up accepting a job to work on sundays, but the same day we found a family of 6!  Then sunday when we were waiting for one of our other investigators he got in a fight with his family, didnt go, but another family that we werent waiting for showed up.  Still nothings certain on when were going to baptize, but if all else fails my comp is gonna have tons of people next change.

Oh and this week on the ranch, our neighbors killed their two giant pigs for their daughters quinceañera. So there was screaming for like 2 hours from the other animals.  And of course being great neighbors they invited us to eat my least favorite foods, one called mole (what always makes me sick) and chincharrones (fried pig skins).
 
Love you all!
Elder Hodson
 

 

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Week 98

3


This week was good!  We ending up finding 2 really cool new families this week.  One is from a little pueblo close by its a mom and her two sons.  Her two sons are really adhd, but theyre really funny.  The family had gone to church once before and never wanted to go again because it was another ward, but she came to our ward finally and she loved it, and her kids loved it too!  Shes great, hopefully in these next 2 week should be getting baptized.

The other family hasnt progressed yet, but thats because they had to go out of the city, but they have great potential.  Really exciting. 

These last few weeks should be great!
 
Love you all!
Elder Hodson
 


 

Friday, July 28, 2017

Week 97

Im Not dead yet.


This week was a fun one for sure!  We worked our butts off, and i feel like the harder we worked the less success we had.  Its been the first week of summer break here, so everybody we talk to just gives us the excuse of "oh were going out of town this weekend" so thats kind of stopped the progress a little bit, but we just keep pushing on.

Today for the 8th pday in a row we played vball.  Its gotten funny, because only us and the zone leaders show up to play, then we fill the rest in with members here.  The members here are actually really fun, and were planning on setting up a little tournament here with the stake.

We have been working with a guy named marco who about a little over a year ago got baptized, but never got confirmed.  Hes got a little weird situation, but his ex wife (never actually married) is a really cool recent convert, but he has some problems still:  but this last week we werent able to teach him, but he ended up in church on sunday dressed all nice, and actually paid attention.  It really shows that the lord actually works with us, and we thought he was a lost cause, but he pulled through!
 
Love you all!
Elder Hodson

Saturday, July 22, 2017

Week 96

5 semanas


Well this week was great, nothing too interesting happened, we were just working trying to find new investigators.  Fun week though!

My minds kind of blank right now though on stories this week cause ​we played volleyball for like 4 hours in the morning so ill just send some pics!
 
Love you all!
Elder Hodosn
 



 
 
 

Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Week 95

One More Change!


Just real quick week went slow got sick again haha, but im better now!

We got changes as well!  My companion is going to Papantla and im staying here with Elder Arrieta, Hes from chihuahua, really good kid.  Hes hilarious.  We get along really well. 
 
Love you all!
Elder Hodson
 
 

Monday, July 3, 2017

Week 94

Gold


Helloooo!

This week was another solid week!  We had another 2 baptisms.  Hermelinda and her son Axel.  We started teaching them a few weeks back, and they were just pure gold, really fun to teach them, and they had an awesome baptism.  The boilers in the church are broken so another cold baptism, but the holy ghost always pulls through to keep them warm.
 
Other than that we have a new president!  Still havent met him, but this thursday we have conference with him, so thats exciting.  
 
Love you all!
Elder Hodson
 


 
 
 

Week 93

Bendiciones!


This week was another great week!  Lots of miracles and we have a great week coming up.

This sunday we were a little nervous because one of the people we had baptized had problems with getting sunday off for her job, so we just left it up to the lord.  We werent sure how but she was able to get out of work on sunday and she showed up with her husband!  They even brought their dad along to and he was happy to be there!  Its great to see families brought in closer.  

We also have 2 baptisms for this saturday! So Ill send pictures next week, weve been extremely blessed this change!
 
Love you all!
Elder Hodson
 
No pictures because i forgot my camera!

Monday, June 19, 2017

Week 92

Happpy Fathers Day to the Best Dad!


First things first just want to wish a big happy fathers day to my dad!  Hes honestly the craziest but coolest guy youll ever meet and he is always in the service of the lord and is a huge influence for me in my life!  Love you pops! Derricks the man.

This week was great!  We ended up having 5 baptisms! After having to reteach everything and get them married and interviews and lots of stress, theyre all baptized and happy!  Pretty awesome!  We have another 3 baptisms coming up in the next few weeks from the news weve found in these weeks.  Lots of work and lots of fun!

Love you all! 
Elder Hodson