jan. 4

Hey everyone,
Jordo here from the dirty, ha the cold dirty i might add. It's been windy this last week and wow the wind here makes things a little more interesting.But man what a sweet week we have had this past week i can't believe how much fun it's been to be training and to have this new experience. Ha just a funny note to add in there when i'm talking about the cold, the other night we were out walking and my new comp. Elder WAITE was just freezing haha and he yells out "Elder Hammer it's so cold i can't even form sentences" man this kid is the Best! He makes me laugh so much and we really are having a great time.
So ya here i go i guess ha Elder Waite is my new companion and he is from Bountiful Utah. He was at the mtc at the same time as me and he was going to rehab for his hip the same time i was goign to the doctor for my whole throat thing and we rode in the van together and talked to each other so weird! He got called to Vera cruz mexico in last march and a week before he was supposed to go into the mtc he broke his neck skiing and dislocated his hip. He's lucky to be alive. so that put him off till july when we were together but he had a ton of problems with his hip and the doctor wouldn't release him to go to mexico. So he went home for 6 months got released and got re called to baltimore a week beofre he came out. He really is the coolest kid and i've had the most fun with him than any of my other two companions. His spanish is way good and he's just a blast to be around. There is another new elder in our apartment named elder foltz haha he's a riot he's going home in 3 onths but is so hard working and he constantly keeps us laughing. We really are having so much fun out here and having a good time. New years eve we had to be in by 8 and it just kinda felt like any other day haha except the next day the whole latino population was "recovering" haha new years day was not the most profitable proselyting day ahah but it was fun and were having a good time together.
This past week has been such a learning experience for me, i don't even know where to begin ha i really was so nervous to get my new comp and to know that i'm gonan be training but i just am doing my best and relying on the lord. Man it's been so great for my spanish and it's really testing my spanish and my spanish is a lot better than i thought it was haha my comp says that he cant believe how much i understand but i don't really realize it hah but ya just relying on the lord is all i can do out here especially in this situation but my comp wants to work and that's the best he's been home and he hated it and he almost thought about giving up on the mission but he came out and he's killing it!
We had a lesson with Luis this past week and we went over there and asked him about how his prayer went about the plan of salvation. He had a dream! it was so crazy to hear this dream but basically he saw his whole family and even his brother that died and his daughter that died and he was trying to save them from this big wave of water or something and they got swept away and so did luis, but while he was under the water he said that he saw a light and he reached out to grab it and when he did he was ok. Man when i heard that man i felt like joseph and the technicolor dreamcoat sitting there trying to interpret his dream and appply it to the gospel and how he got his answer and the light is the gospel it was amazing. He said he never has dreams but when he asked god about the church he had this dream and he even said that he thought that was his answer. We put him on date to be baptized jan 30th but he's gotta get sundays off so he can come to church, but we told him to ask his boss and that his boss would if he had the faith and prayed for help so were going back tonight to see what happened. We also read Lehi's dream with him and tried to liken it to him and how the Book of Mormon seriously relates to everything that we do in our lives it was so sweet!
We got a new referall from a guy in a different branch for this lady named yaneth guardado. We went over there last night and talked to her forever about the church. She is catholic and doesn't believe in the saints and confession and all this and she was like im not willing to change but i want to listen to you guys. Before you know it we were talkign about tithing and the temples and how no one is paid in the church and tithing goes to making these temples and buildings and futhering the work. It was amazing we walked in there and she had her doubts and the spirit just came in there and started working on her. She couldn't beleive that we don't get paid and that we are paying to be here. I really got her when i showed her the family picutre and told her about my golfing and scholarship and everything back at home and i was like do you seriously think i would give two years of my life adn leave all of that for something that didn't mean everything to me? Ha we got her! We are going back to teach her this next week and i'm so excited the lord really is preparing people to be ready to receive the gospel here and me and elder waite are finding them. It's the best!
Well guys that's about it i hope all is well and you all know how much i love you! Everyone keep up the good work and happy new years. I hope 2010 is great for all of you! Have a wonderful week everyone. Les amo mucho
del sucio (from the dirty)
Elder hammer