¡Feliz cinco de mayo!

We had transfers, and I will be staying here and hmna Wixom will be my new companion! She is the one in all the pictures with dark hair. She is awesome. Life is good! Irving and Maria are baptized and everything that Satan has thrown at us has been overcome through Christ and His love.

Did you know that Wheaton college (which is about 5 min from our apartment) is one of the leading publishers of anti-Mormon material in the whole country? We've got lots of work to do here, good thing this mission is also full of the most awesome obedient missionaries ever! I love being here.

This has been a great week, lots of new member lessons with Irving and Maria. They are both set on getting Andres (Irvings cousin that lives with him) baptized. I'm not sure how interested he actually is, but he's sat in on a few lessons so we'll see how that goes. Also the other Andres (the one with a baptismal date of June3) came to church this week! He is still doing great. Sorry I teach a lot of Andreses. We confuse them all too. :)

We went to a stake Cinco de Mayo party and it was actually super cool. And two of our investigators, Azael and Rafael came! So that was awesome. And it was great to see Aurora people again.

We had a super intense lesson with Ricardo this week. We taught him at a McDonalds and he was completely under the influence. It pretty much turned into us giving him a spiritual reality check and committing him
to change his life. He has so much good desire, and so much potential. These are moments in my mission where I realize how much these people really mean to me. If I didn't care about this person, my companion
and I wouldn't have spent a 30 min car ride ranting about how frustrating he is and how much good he could do. We wouldn't have met with him in McDonalds and spent an hour just to get him to commit to one day alcohol free. We wouldn't see him as the missionary, young men's leader, or bishopric member he could be. Being a representative of Jesus Christ gives us the opportunity to feel a little bit of that Christlike love for other people. It's worth every difficult, frustrating, exhausting minute.

Well, the church is true and missionary work is the best! Talk to y'all next week!

Con mucho amor,
Hermana Hokanson

P.s. We didn't have any pictures for this week so we took some selfies for you.