feb 1

Hey fam and friends!
It's good to be back writing you all and thanks to some computer malfunctions at the wonderful Glen Burnie Library this might be a little short. It's been such a great week this past week and we have been so blessed to see the miracle of someone else coming into the waters of baptism. We had Luis' baptism on saturday and saturday morning it started to snow! The last baptism we had with Loraine it snowed too, ha satan is working on all cylinders in the Dirty. But we had our baptism with Luis. It was a bunch of Elders at his baptism which was kind of a downer but with the snow the people in maryland go almost close to fatal if they see any skiff of snow haha Church was even canceled yesterday because of the snow, so we are going to have to confirm Luis next week in Church but what can ya do sometimes. Luis though was so amazing to watch at his baptism, he was so affraid of the water but Hermano Wilcox who baptised him was great and helped him out. We had a polynesian elder sing at his baptism and he sung i am a child of god in spanish with his guitar and man it gives me chills just thinking about it right now. We had such a great spirit in that little room to see his baptism and i just am so thankful that we got to be apart of it. Luis was having problems with his job and we told him that he could pray to always have sundays off, and he did and before his baptism he told us that one of his friends needs more hours and just came up to him out of nowhere and told him he would work his sunday mornings for him. The lord answers prayers people! There is no doubt in my mind that the lord is listening to each and everyone of our cries and our needs and he'll help us! We have seen it time and time again with Luis and i know we will continue to see it as we continue to go along.
Oh by the way aunt mitzie thanks so much for your card and the subway card! AND JON ROG CONGRATS TO YOU AND KYLIE! dont' waste anytime baby i like that haha i'm happy for you guys!
We have a goal in the mission to teach 20 lessons a week and i have yet to do it on my mission and we always are at 17 18 19 and this week elder waite and i cracked the 20 mark! It was so sweet last night we were out till 9 30 gettting that 20th lesson but we got it and it was so great!
We had a lesson this past week with Lilian and sefredis the lady who was baptised 15 years back and has forgot everything. Well we gave her a lesson on the holy ghost and how we can feel it in our life. And we went back and asked her about her baptism and she was tellign us all kind of crazy things liek she got the holy ghost before she was baptized and she wasn't taught anything that the elders just said she needed an interview and all this crazy, crazy stuff. and we were tellign her about that there needs to be a certain way of doing things in the churcha nd that just isn't right. and then she said "well i'd return to be baptised to be able to feel the holy ghost in my mind" Ha it was almost like the angels were singing the background music! It was so sweet, so we are starting all the way over with her and her husband and she also has a daughter that's 10 years old so we want to do them all together. But we have a lot of work ahead of us before we get there. We really are seeing some sweet miracles here and especially with us and the less acitves, when i got here they wouldn't even talk to us and now we are having weekly lessons and dinners with them, one of the families told me last time we were over there that i'm the first white boy ahha that has cared about them this much and it was good to hear that ahha we have great things going on and we are excited about them. Now if we can just get the snow to stop and spring to come around that would be nice.
Transfers are coming up and next week i'll know if i'll be staying in Glen Burnie or heading out to some new ghetto adventure haha It''s been so wonderful though being in Glen Burnie. To see these people grow and progress is the greatest gift you can ever recieve as a missionary and it really is the best! I love you all and am so grateful for all you do for me, i lvoe your letters and i just am grateful for them all. Thanks a bunch, have a wonderful week and i'll be back next monday. les amo mucho
Elder Hammer