dec 28

Hello fam and friends!
> Wow what a crazy week this has been but one that i will always remember ha Christmas on the mission is quite the experience and it really was a great day. We had a great day with the mckellar family and then we had dinner with our 1sr counselor in the Bishopric that night. Man it was great to call home and chat with you guys and it really was the best! Thank you all so much for your endless cards and gifts. I really appreciate them so much and everything you guys have done for me over the holiday season!
> Well this morning we got call outs about transfers and I'M STAYING IN GLEN BURNIE one more transfer.......ha to make things a little more interesting Elder Morales is leaving. So i get a call from President Belliston this morning and he says "Elder hammer i need you to train this transfer" i about dropped the phone! haha I'M TRAINING i can't believe it i really can't. I've only been out for 6 months and training now haha keep me in your prayers especially my sanity. No i really am so excited and so excited for this new challenge. Especially with Spanish because it is going to force me to be the one in Charge and i've had 2 natives for my first two comps so i guess that's a blessing in disguise right there! So yes i'm staying in glen burnie at least one more and i'm training haha i'll find out wednesday who it is and all that but i'm way excited.
> This past week we met a lady from Brazil and her name is lilian. I went up and talked to her because i thought she looked latin and so i just went up to her and started speaking spanish to her, ha she started laughing and was like i'm from Brazil in english and then she went off in spanish and was like but i know spanish. So we are now teaching a girl from Brazil in Spanish but she is reading the Book of Mormon in portugese to better understand and she knows a little bit of english ha that's a pretty crazy mixture of languages for sure. But we actually i'm excited for her and what we can maybe get going with her.
> We had such a sweet lesson this past week with Luis and Jorge and we are going back there tonight. But we taught them the Plan of Salvation and they both have lost brothers and Luis had a daughter that died so the Plan of Salvation really hit home with them. We are hopoing to put them on date tonight for baptism, but we really need to get them to church. The past little while we have been going to everyone of our investigators houses right before chruch to get them there and it hasn't been working ha these people are good at not being home i tell ya. But luis and jorge really are alone here. they are both 18 and living in america all by themselves so i hope that we can give them at least somethign to look forward to.
> Ruben and Manuel...man they are driving us bonkers ha ok so not really but they just have fallen off quite a bit and drank the whole christmas break and we had talked to them about the word of wisdom so we are going to have to go over there and lay the law down with them. I think that they are just stuck in their ways and we are going to find a way to get them out of theirs, but were just not quite sure yet what it is ha.
> Well guys sorry this is a short one but the computers at the library didn't let us on today and so we are borrowing someones computer but thanks for everything and everyone seriously i hope you all had a wonderful christmas and have a wonderful new year! THanks for all the letters and my pen pals adn just everything that you do for me. Hav ea wonderful week! Les amo
> Elder Hammer