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Hey family,
Wow what an amazing weekend this has been and what an amazing week this has been as well. I am so grateful for the opportunity to have the apostles and prophets speak wow that was absolutley amazing! Thank you all for your letters this week! I can't tell you enough how much they mean to me. Thanks mitzie, t bone and grandma hafen. Happy birthday today grandma hafen and linda and grandpa on sat and lindsey tomorrow wow my best wishes to all of you! Thank you thank you.
Well the good news is that i am staying in glen burnie with elder caballero! We got called last night and they let us know. We are one of the only missions that has an actual transfer meeting. and they call this time Transfermania! because they just call you and say your leaving or staying and that's it. and then you find out when you get to transfer meeting. They do that so all the gossip and stuff throughout the mission doesn't happen and stuff and so the next few days you can still work! But wow what a blessing it has been to have elder caballero and i am so happy i get another transfer with him! I wasn't exactly ready to get out and start going through this area all by myself haha but i know the lord knows that i needed at least one more with him. But pres belliston was telling us that the prophet instructed him that the average should be 6 months in an area so i think i'm gonna be in the DIRTY for a while ha we call it glen dirty.
What an amazing conference it was this weekend! Ican't believe the things that we were taught and how different conference is watching it from a church than up in pine valley haha i couldn't help but think of you all up in pine valley watching conference together but thats alright cause it'll all be there when i get back!I would have to say that this conference was one of my favorites i think it's just because my mind is a little different on this kind of stuff and i realize what a blessing it is to have conference and to listen to these great men. I can't even say enough about them all. But i think the two things that i picked out the most was LOVE and Personal Revelation and the spirit. It is so amazing that of all those things that love something so basic is what was portrayed. I know that love is all we can do. If people don't know we love them then why would they join this church so thats somethign i need to work on the most. But wow Jeffrey R. Holland wow is all i can say. He should be the prophet haha I couldn't wait to here from here and yes i had some tears as he talked about joseph and hyrum and going to the book of mormon in their final hours together. That was so deep and i loved that. And then i loved the priesthood session with henry b eyring and being prepared, this last week we gave a blessing to this man from ft smallwood branch the other ward we are over and it just made me really realize what was important and to always be prepared but i loved it. I could go on and on talking about conference but there is other stuff i want to talk about but wow we are so blessed i can't say that enough.
Well this week was a really tuff week for us, we didn't have a lot of lessons and we were doing a lot of knocking! We are started to see some investigators that are fallign off and just wont answer there doors, there will be some that will see us through the window and still now answer, crazy stuff ha but that's alright we just keep pushign on i guess right? But when appointments feell through this week is when we were able to have the most success! We went to an appointment one mornign the lady said she could only do it then during our study time so we went and she stiffed us, so we went over to these guys near by and started talkign with them. One of them's name was saul and he talked to us for about an hour! It was such a cool conversation. He has epilepsy and he just told us his whole story how he became a catholic and what jesus christ has been in his life, and then the fun part happened. We started to teach him. And he asked that question that you always love to hear "well then why are there so many churches out there, which one is true then" that's when you as dad would say "put the foot on the throttle" haha and then we just went on to say this is our message to the world that there is a true church and because of the apostacy there are so many that just ahve parts of the truth but not the whole truth. Man he could just see it in his eyes. I am so excited about him and we are gonna go back this week and teach him.
And then another cool experience we were walking and we saw this lady and her son about 15 years old and there daughter and we gave them a pass along card and didn't think much of it. two days later we were knocking and we knocked at there house. It was so cool we sat there and talked to them for an hour on there doorstep and they are just so poor and have nothing they have lived here for 6 months in america from mexico they don't know any english but they are just making it and the gospel is what they need! The Lord really jsut places people in our paths and i can't believe it that more and more we work the more he helps us out. There really is nothign better than work that's for sure! nothing is better!
As we start this new transfer i am so excited. This whole time i have been kinda walking in the shadow of elder caballero and i want to walk side by side with him this transfer. I want to speak more spanish do more teaching and just get immersed in it. I have 6 weeks experience and the only way to progress is to get more into it. I am so excited for this time and this new transfer.
I am so happy right now where we are at and the work we have ahead of us man i just am pumped for the road ahead. I love you all so much. Thank you all so much for your love and support i love you tons! Have the best week and know that elder hammer is doing great i love you all thanks for the letters from everyone and my pen pals. i love you!
Con mucho amor,
Elder hammer