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Hello family!
Wow what an amazing week this has truly been i don't even know where to start but it's so great to hear from all of you you guys are seriously the best. I can open letters right when i get them so keep writing me ha they make my days. Mom i know you talked about that bike situation but ya for sure buy that bike it sounds like it's great and i'm totally fine with that thanks so much for doing that for me! Well this week has been a great week i have learned so much and the espanol is coming along. Elder Bowden and i are teaching pmg lesson 1 like crazy and were really starting to get the hang of things here. We go around bearing our testimonies to random people during the day and it is so fun. The gym finally opened! but we still can't play team games we have to play shooting games like pig horse and speed but it's still fun and we play volleyball too. Jace you know how me and arch wooped you that one day. Well pretty much i just tear it up out there and thinkin of you. Bump set spike! thanks to everyone for the letters and the packages! rodgers fam thanks so much for the cinnamon rolls, mom thanks so much for the fourth of july package we totally decked our room out i'll send you pictures and the fans were the best! Thanks so much for sending me the G'S mom your so on top of things and the camera chip as well! wow i am just spoiled that all i have to say! The mail shop has been closed for the last three days cause of the holiday so it's still like coming so if i don't answer questions i'm sorry. sounds like you guys had a blast in denver! i hope your not beltless nick cause i know pops is bringing his a game with you! This week Gerald lund the author of the work and the glory was our speaker at the devotional. Nick i was thinking of you and that those were the only books you had ever read haha. He talked to us about finding people while we are out on our missions! it really made me just want to get out there and get right to work but i have a lot to do here before i get out there! OK everyone hold on to your seats cause i have some huge news! Me and elder bowden got called to be zone leaders yesterday! We have a district thats leaving in a week and one that leaves in two and one that leaves in like four and my companion and i were called after a week and a half ha i know it's so crazy i couldn't believe it when our branch president told us that yesterday. He told us that from the night he met us that he knew we would be the next ones! I couldn't believe but i'm excited for the calling. I have been praying a lot lately and just wanting to feel comfort and know my purpose and all that good stuff and as he called us i knew that there is reason for me being here. I literally have just been saying everynight to the lord that i'm putting my faith in him and letting him doing the rest and i get this calling. It was such a great sunday. It was fast sunday yesterday and i was nervous cause i'm not a good faster and i get light headed and all ha you all remember when i passed out passing the sacrament ya that was fast sunday. But i just wanted yesterday to be more of a testimony builder and i totally felt the spirit yesterday more than i ever have. We had mission conference after we got called and the whole meeting the spirit was just radiating. There was a musical number in humility i think it was the song at my farewell. But i just cried the whole time cause the spirit was so strong and i know exactly why i am here! After mission conference we had sacrament meeting. ALL SPANISH! its amazing though how much i could understand though. I bore my testimony in SPANGLISH ha but i just cried you know how big of a boob i am and i just know that yesterday was exactly what i needed! I have so much more to do now because of my calling but i know that the lord will help me out. I have been praying lately like i have never done before. I absolutely know that this mission is exactly where i need to be and what i need in my life. The other day in my prayer i was asking to have more faith because me and my companion are focusing on a christlike attribute each week from pmg and two second after i asked in prayer to build my faith we were walking to breakfast and an old man stopped me and said "i just want you to know that you are doing the lord's work and what you are doing is true" I was stunned. It literally was an answer to my prayers. I can't believe how much i have learned about myself and the gospel this past week it literally is amazing to me how wonderful this experience really is. Today we got to go to the temple! it was so amazing the provo temple is so different compared to st george but it was all the same stuff and i felt like something was missing in my days and the temple was it. Ha mom i can't not go to the temple in a week its just such a habit we built up! I love it though. we go every monday at 7 am so we have to wake up at 5 30 to get up there and get ready. But my experience there today was really cool and i just know that our heavenly father watches out for us when we need him most. We had a 4th of july devotional thing that was about the early reformers and kinda just lead into the restoration that was really fun. They let us watch the fireworks past curfew! ha it was really funny cause there was only like one little aly way that you could see them from so imagine 2 thousand missionaries as the fireworks were going off in like a 50 yard square ha it was a little crazy. It really is so amazing to me how many kids are here. when we sing at firesides its absolutely amazing how many and how loud that place can be! I am starting to be pretty good friends with zome other guys from different zones at gym time. One of them is connor atkin he played basketball at pv but he really is such a great kid. Everyone is friends with everyone here and i love it. I just wanna say thanks to all of you who write me. I literally just light up when i get letters from all of you and it is the best! I love you all so much please pray for me and this new calling1 i'm gonna need all the help i can get. i love you all so much! Until next week adios,
Elder Hammer