Elder Cody Hafen's Areas

Elder Cody Hafen's Areas

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We will try to keep you updated with Elder Hafen through his letters and with pictures and slideshows. Most of his pictures and slideshows will be posted at the end of the blog. Thanks :)

Cody's Homecoming Invitation

Monday, May 14, 2012

May 7, 2012 - Family Email

Okay so I was dying yesterday,

President Koh and his family
There is this lady here in Sevilla that met her husband at BYU and they invited us over for dinner yesterday.  The husband is named President Koh because he is the first assistant to President Clegg in the mission.  They live here in Sevilla and they both speak English.  So haha we ask them at dinner how they came to know the church and their whole conversion story and the dad goes first he met the missionaries in Singapore.  So then it´s the moms turn and she starts laughing and she says DONNY OSMOND.  I start laughing so hard, so this lady is literally in love with him and went to BYU to try and meet him and got baptized.  Haha this lady has like 4 note books full of news paper clips glued them in of The Osmond's and has pictures and records of Donny through out the whole house, even the daughter loves him.  So of course I told them I have met him and my mother cleans his teeth from time to time and Dad has done work on his teeth.  So I have a really big favor.  This lady got baptized because of Donny Osmond and they are like the strongest members in Sevilla, can you get something signed of him and a note to Ana María from Dr Perry??  I think it is absolutely hilarious!!  I have attached pictures of her and her family.  The daughter is GORGEOUS but is kinda going in active, we are trying to help her out, maybe this little Donny experience could help her out.  So this is the coolest family in Sevilla they said when you all come out to get me we are going to eat over there in their house and they speak English!  They always invite people over so it will actually happen.  So you will have to show Dr Perry the pictures and see what you can do!  Thanks

Ana María and her Donny
Grace is to the left and Isabel to the right
Okay so this last week was great, but we didn´t really find any new people.  So first off Katerine is doing great she told us she has received her answer and wants to get baptized and she is reading a ton of the Book of Mormon.  Her little sister Rosa is kinda rebellious and says I don´t want to get baptized, but she loves church and I had a dream this last week that she told us she wants to get baptized!  So I am not worried or scared, if she doesn´t get baptized no big deal! They are doing great they both came to church with out their mother.  Why?  Because Lorena got a job and now works on Sundays throughout this whole month which kinda sucks so that is a bummer but she will get baptized in the future.  The girls like church and are starting to fit in with all the young women so that will be good.  Bridgette is doing well, she couldn´t come to church this last Sunday because she has to help take care of the baby and she told us that she had to study.  She still does´t understand the importance of the church.  We are trying to move along with her but it´s a little hard.  They loved the videos and are extremely grateful!  She will get baptized one day, hopefully soon.  We are almost done with teaching her all the lessons and after we are gonna be like, what else do you want to know?  There is an activity this Friday for the young women's and she has a friend that is a member and they are going to go to it together hopefully!  Isabel and Grace are UNREAL!  They read so much of the Book of Mormon and they are obsessed with it!  We assigned them a chapter every day this week because we can only teach them on Saturdays and Sundays.  They are getting baptized for sure!  We taught them this last Sunday with two members that are ladies around their age and it was a great lesson.  They intern or take in and remember (I forgot the word or verb I wanted to use I only remember it in Spanish: interar) everything we teach and what they read.  So they are little miracles I love them, they even wanted a picture with us so I got one with them too.  Grace is to the left and Isabel to the right.  They couldn´t come to church yesterday morning because they were in the hospital.  Grace got way sick, but they still came to the church in the afternoon to teach them.  So Julian is solid as well all we have left to teach him is tithing and he already knows what it is, so he is ready to get baptized too!  He came to church and the members love him and they want him to get baptized.  Paco is good, we are bringing a guy with us to teach him this Wednesday that will just tear him apart!  He needs it, spiritually speaking. 

Zone Leader Conference
Zone Leader Conference
So I will call you at 12 o clock your time I guess sorry that isn´t very specific I don´t know what time that is here in Spain so I guess be ready, sorry my companion made up the time and isn´t very thoughtful of others, he just told me at night time??  So I get to talk to you all for an hour and a half because Elder Lignells parents are divorced and he gets to talk longer.  It will be on the phone not Skype.  In the package hmmm how about ranch dressing mix?  and just more candy!  I love you mom you´re the best!!  I am about to get on a train Málaga for Zone Leader Conference again wooo!! Good food from Hermana Clegg.

Zone Leader Conference
Love,
Elder Cody

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