march 22nd

Hola!!!!
Well first and foremost today was callouts and me and elder pauda are staying here for another transfer. Not a big suprise though...but i'm excited for another one with the pauda man!!! This past week has been so sweet!! the weather is about as a spring as it gets and it was to the point where last night i got out all my short sleeve shirts that have been hibernating in my suitcase for about 6 months to wash them today and get them ready....and i wake up and it's pouring rain haha but it's all good spring is here and i'm loving it! People are outside playing sports have barbecues all kinds of good opportunities for us to get out and meet new people and find those elects. Thanks for all the letters, grandma hafen thanks so much for the letters and stories of grandpa snow i loved those and the 20$ your the best thank you thank you! and the Cope family thanks so much for your package and your sweet letters! And of course Marsh for your packages and letters from the fam thanks a bunch!!!!!

Well this past week our mission had a really cool opportunity to have Greg Droughbay from the Mtc who is the director of proselyting for all the church. He was 1 of the 4 who were in charge of getting Preach My Gospel started. One day he just sat down and started writing the first lesson. Basically this guy knows his stuff and we had a big meeting with him all the district and zone leaders from the mission and got to be instructed by him for about 7-8 hours!!!! It was such a sweet opportunity to listen to him teach us and what we need to do better. Most of the time when these guys come everyone gets freaked out becasue they lay it down on obedience but he didn't have much to say about that and just got to the good stuff which was way sweet. I walked away from that meeting about as fired up as i have ever been. And then after he was done President Belliston got up and shared his thoughts and had most of us missionaries in tears as he sat and talked about what a mission has meant to him in his life. He was balling the whole time and i've never seen him like that and most of us were in tears as the spirit was for surely there. It was a really cool experience and we have a lot to impliment in the work but there were some great promised from Bro. DROUGHBAY that i know will help us further the work.

This past week was a heartbreaker with Jesus Vasquez who was supposed to get baptized april 3rd. He didnt' come to church yesterday and we were kind of trying to figure out why so we went over to his house last night to talk with him. Basically to put it short his wife hasn't listened to us when we are there and i never have really felt to welcome in his house by here and it's always bothered me and i've invited her to listen and she shuts us down. But we went over there last night and he told us that she just is getting more and more bothered by us coming over there and that she just doesn't want to learn and JEsus wants to but it's killing the marriage and so we just had to tell him that we are gonna let them be for a couple weeks and come back. As jesus was telling us this it really was tuff because we were so close with him and his wife just wasn't having it. So were just praying and praying that something will happen with him and his wife to where she softens her heart enough to let us in to her heart and so they both can progress together.

We did have a couple of cool experiences with a couple investigators, 1 named Karla who the missionaries were teaching before i got here and were really close to baptism and then she kind of disappeared and we didnt' know what happened and so we kind of put her out of it. Well she called us and wants to keep listening and she came to church this past sunday! We had one of the greatest members of the branch there with us and she's a gem and picked her up and ya we are really excited about her and her progression.

Also Melvin Carranza kind of fell off the planet and then he called us and was at church this past sunday and now we have a lesson with him tonight! I guess the lord gives some and he takes some and melvin and karla really have been some tender mercies from the lord this past week we really are working so hard trying to find the elects out there and we knwo they are there. Elder is doing good we had a lesson with him this past week and teaching him to pray when he has the desire to smoke and he is totally committed to stop smoking and he wants to start excercising more so that he gets feeling better.

Well it's been a pretty good week and now were off for another, thanks for all the love and support out here people i really appreciate it. Have a wonderful week!!!!!!!
CON AMOR
ELDER HAMMER