Deseret Land & Live Stock - August 23, 2009

Family & Friends,

We are now finished with our 2009 Trekking season at DLL. We are going to South Dakota with Dusty and his family on Wednesday August 26. Then we will come back here to DLL and get our 5th Wheel on the next Saturday. WE hope to be back in Delta By Sept. 1.

This has been a hard year but all is well. We are returning again next year so that means we will be missionaries for one more year. Our seminar for 2010 was held on Saturday and everything went well. I think the other couples here are just as glad the season is over as we are. The Lord has blessed us and we are happy to have served here for two years.

God Bless you all
Elder & Sister Hawk

2009 Deseret Land & Livestock

We have finished with our Treks for 2009. Sister Hawk and I will be here again with three new couples. It is work to get everyone up to speed, but we will do it again. Our Treks went very well this year. Sister Hawk and I had 9 Treks with 2775 youth and adults. Our totals will be around 9000 for the entire year of Treks.

I have taken many pictures that I want to share but I am having trouble sending them from my computer. I will send them later.

God Bless All
Elder & Sister Hawk

Deseret Land & Livestock - August 9, 2009

Dear Family & Friends,

We have finished another week and we had a great time with our assigned Trek. This week was the Kaysville Stake. Sister Hawk is feeling greatly improved. Her knee is doing very good. We have another Trek this week, Fort Union Stake from SLC. This group will only be here one night and two days. We are looking forward to going home and rest. This has been a hard summer. I have walked so much that I can go up hills and not even breathing hard. I think I am in good shape for and old man.

WE think we should be back in Delta the first of September. Going to Rapid City with Dusty Marilyn and the boys. We will leaveour trailer here till we get back, then head for Delta. We plan on a couple of weeks of rest. Hope this will find all well.

Elder & Sister Hawk

Week #6

Family & Friends,

We have completed another week at DLL. This week Sister Hawk and I had a very good group. WE had so much fun. Salt Lake Rose Park North was a fun group of people to spend the week with. I must say they were not really good walkers but you can't have everything. This group walked about 25 miles, I walked 10 miles with them. They all thought I was so amazing with my ability to walk fast and long. I get it from my mothers side of the family. I also take Trekking seriously. I was called here to help the Trekkers and if walking is what I need to do that's what I want to do.



Sister Hawk is recovering from her knee operation and is walking better. She still can't go long distances but if we return another year she can walk with the groups next year. I guess last week I may have sounded I little down and maybe I was a little, but things are what they are. I did have some time to snap a few pictures.



Hope This finds all well

Fox sitting near hole

Trekkers

Prairie Hens

Hot Afternoon

Sand Cranes

Week #5

We are working hard with our treks and the 2010 & 2011 schedules. Sister Hawk and I sleep very little. We have completed the next two years schedules and hopefully things will slow down a little bit. We had 3 treks here last week. Only around 600 people, easy week. Next week we will have four Treks with around 1000 people. I haven't even had time to take pictures lately.

The Pioneer Trekking groups that come here always have a wonderful time. We will be done in 5 more weeks and then we will put things away for the winter.

We are happy here but tired.
Lord Bless all who see this
Elder Hawk

Week #4

We have now finished 4 weeks of our ten weeks of Trekking. We had three Treks that started on Monday June 29 thru July 2. Everything went very well. It did rain but not until everyone was out the gate. Sister Hawk and I didn't have a Trek this week but please don't think we were setting around. We worked on the 2010 & 2011 schedules. We E/ Mailed and called around 60 stakes / Wards. Sometimes it gets where you forget who you talked to.

We have a Trek this coming week, with Kearns South Stake. It will be fun but work.

We went to Woodruff for the fourth and had a good time. Donna & Wayne came and myself and the kids rode on the Deseret Land & Livestock float. (I enclose Pictures) We all went to the Bar-B-Q in Woodruff and that was fun. Sister Hawk and I watched the Evanston fireworks. We had a good day.

A sheep band went thru here early last week and I snapped a couple of pictures. I also added one of the sunset. This is a wonderful place to serve a mission. We work hard everyday but the Lord Blesses us with health.

God Bless All
Elder & Sister Hawk

Elder Hawk

Braden, Sarah and Tyler

Week #3

Family & Friends,

We finished Trek week 3. We started the week by going to the open house at the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. Three of the Missiomary couples went. Elder & Sister Williams had there daughter come to see them here at the ranch so they didn't go with us.

We had three groups here this week plus we rented 30 Handcarts to several stakes. I changed wheels on two carts this week. One group brought two Handcarts back broken, so I will repair them this week. Sister Hawk and I had a group from Centerville Utah and they had a wonderful time even with the wind and rain on Thursday night. I enclosed some pictures of there shelters they they built using the Handcarts.

I believe we had a very good week. The Missionary couples always work 12 to 14 hours on the first day (Wednesday)then thing slow down to 10 hours, on Thursday and Friday with a 14 hours day on Saturday.

Our son Dustin and his family came up Saturday evening and brought dinner for us so that helps Sister Hawk and I. We had a couple of hour visit and then they went home we went to bed early.

Sister Hawk is still having problems with her knee but we think it will get better. She understands she can not walk with the treks this year. I have walked 33.5 miles with the treks so far. I walked 8 miles on Saturday. My right knee is a little sore today.

I enclosed pictures of the Missionary Couples at the temple and of the camps after the rain.

God Bless all
Elder & Sister Hawk