feb. 8

Hello everyone!
Well i'm alive i made it through the storm haha man you guys should have seen the people here in Maryland! They were calling this storm the snow apocalypse and it was just hilarious haha Walmart was cleared, snow shovels sold out it was so hilarious to see the pre storm preperations ha i think they might have thought it was the end of the world...but we made it. We got abotu 36 inches and for MD that's alot and they don't have the plows like they do in utah so ya full fledged panic mode. We spent the last 3 days just out walking in it and shoveling!!!! haha you'd be suprised what four misssionaries can do walking around and clearing cars, houses, driveways it was pretty fun! We got to talk to alot of great people and strangers just inviting us in there house for hot chocolate and even a dinner. It's been a fun weekend for us to be here.
We had Luis confirmed this week in his home and it was such an amazing experience. Ha because of the snow we had church canceled and we couldn't wait longer than a week but we really had such a cool experience there with our ward mission leader and us elders confirming him to be a member! It was such a great day and i was so happy that i got to be able to do that for him! I dunno we don't know if we are being transfered because we haven't been told yet about all that because of the storm and stuff so we wont know until tonight but as for right now i am so grateful that i have been able to be in glen burnie. The experiences here have been so amazing and i wouldn't trade them for the world. Seeing Luis yesterday after the confirmation say "finally" haha really made me realize what this gospel is all about.
We started teachign this young guy Junior and his wife evanya and his brother abraham a couple weeks ago. Junior and ABRAHAM are just straight up thugs haha i think thats why we talked to them just cause they just looked like cool people to talk to haha Lets just say if i wasnt' a crazy missionary i would have never talked to these guys but they really are such great guys. We watched the restoration video with them and left them Books of Mormon and went back there yesterday to see if they had read and to teach them the plan of salvation. We go in there yesterday and ask them if they read and they just started going off on what they had learned play by play 3nephi 11 and it was absolutely amazing! They had truly read and taken that step it was so amazing. Then we started in on the plan of salvation and it was like everything we said they were saying oh ya that's why this happens, oh ya thats why they were tempted so we could be here and just everything was clicking. Then we started to talk to them about the Atonement and we read 2 nephi 9 21-23 and verse 23 says repent and be baptized and when i was reading it my heart was just pounding because the spirit was just so strong and we got done reading and Elder WAITE just went right in and committed them to be baptized and they said well we've been batpized when we were babies how does that all work? So we addressed their concerns and really just went right back into committing them and March 13th! It was one of the most powerful lessons that i have had on my mission. I will never forget that overpowering feelign of the spirit that i felt to share that message with them! We seriously just are so blessed there is nothign better than this work and the Lord is with us. The lord blesses us so much and he's right beside us to lift us up when we are down. He'll do all the lifting if we'll let him! I gained such a testimony of that thus far on the mish.
Well who knows where i might be next week ha west virginia or still in the dirty! but i know the lord loves us and i just thank you all for your love and letters! your the best have a great week !
del sucio
Elder Hammer