Como Esta a todos!!!!!
Ok this time i really can say that it feels like spring!! It was 57 yesterday! and today it's supposed to be the same, ha we've had 3 days of great weather here ha and i am feeling spring but i'm just gonna set myself up for a terrential snow storm tomorrow just to be safe! It's been a great week this past week and we have seen quite a few miracles come to pass. I can't believe it's already march i still can barely get into my mind that it's 2010 and were already to march. It sounds like everyone is doing great especially the new Jetette team captain! Congrats Bell you deserve it!
So this past week with Jesus Vasquez...He's doing really well and he's progressing. He struggles at picking up the concepts and really really struggles reading so that makes it even tougher but the guy is the best and lets us in, feeds us occasionally and just keeps showing his faith. He came to church yesterday and i don't usually get excited when investigators come to church on fast sunday because of some of the members sharing crazy stuff but man yesterday was just liek a beat down the members gave about how true the gospel is and the book of mormon, I think they knew that what they really needed to say and what to testify of it really was so sweet. The best part is, we don't even have to worry about people to fellowship him or any of our investigators the members just come up to him and say hi and greet by their first name it really is so amazing and so special to see how the love of these hispanic people is not hard to feel! And now they have some hook up with Trader Joes a grocery store and every sunday there is some type of load that gets dropped off at our church and its' huge ha the members dont' even have to grocery shop. I dunno what that is all about but they hook up the missionaries so that's very beneficiary, Jesus was loving that too!!!
We didn't get our goal of 20 lessons this week which really was tuff on us cause man that's what we need to get every week. Elder L tom perry promised a baptism every month every area per companionship if we do this so we missed it by 3 this week but were going to get back up to the 20's.
But on the other hand we did have some great success this past week with less actives!!! Hermano Mora came to church!!!! We had a lesson and dinner with him on tuesday and i just started up on him and started asking the questions so why aren't you coming to church and just was as bold as i could be. He started to complain to me and i stopped him and i said am i listening to a nina (spanish for little girl) haha i thought he was gonna punch me in the face but he laughed it off and i just said come hermano mora suck it up your better than this and he got serious and said alright i'm gonna come. He came, and he bore his testimony and i could just feel his the spirit so strong with that testimony and i wanted to share mine so bad but tons of members wanted to share there's so i didn't but it was a miracle. We have been learning a lot on how to work with less actives and how so mnay times we get the excuses and how were not bold wiht them and ha well i dont' really have that problem maybe i'm a little too bold but hey it worked! He payed his tithing as well! He was complaining about the economy and he is always scrapping for money and i asked well are you paying your tithing? and he just stopped in his tracks. and he kind of got down on himself and said i'm gonna pay my tithing and i watched him on sunday pay his tithing to the 1st counselor. Ha i feel like he's an investigator almost and it just makes me so happy to see him changing ha i think his life really likes us she's feeding us the next 4 monday's!!! I think she likes this change that's going on with her husband so she's just going to keep feeding us. We are seeing miracles with the less actives it gets better.......
So there is this family named the Merchan and they live in Reisterstown and it's way north liek ahalf hour but we were up there and so we stopped by and brother merchan gave us the cold shoulder, they are way less active for almost 2 years so i didn't think much of it. The very next day a lady from the ward sis. rodriguez calls us and says i really want to go visit sister merchan (they both are from columbia-the country) and i just think we should go up there. So we called sister merchan and she had us over there with sis. Rodriguez. Sister Rodriguez is the bomb diggity she's do anything for anyone and especially the missionaries! So we went up there and visited her and her husband again. It couldn't have gone any better. They used to attend in Baltimore like 3 years ago but then they moved to where they are now and haven't been to our branch yet. So all day i was thinking of how we can invite them to come and all that...didn't even have to Sister Rodriguez did all the inviting and they came yesterday!!!! Brother and Sister merchan there 12 year old son and 3 year old daughter. When we were there we started talking about food and sister merchan invited us over with la familia rodriguez para cenar con ellos it really was amazing last night we had the best dinner with them after they came to church and it's just sweet to see the people that are changing in the branch, investigators, less active members and even active members, there really is a very cool spirit in the branch right now and we are loving it!!!!
One last experience and i'm out. So last week on p day we were going out fr the night and we were in an area that was filled with latinos and we had an appointment but it fell through and we were walking out the door and a couple hispanic walked in the door and kind of ignored us and i was a little down about the appointment being dropped so i just walked by, and something said talk to him, and i kind of ignored it and then something really said TALK TO HIM! So i turned around and i started to talk to the kid he's about 23 and his name is ELDER haha but as we started to teach him on the stairs in his apartment building i knew that he was hurting and he just opened up to us about how he is struggling and isn't happy and is smoking and drinking and wants to quit it so bad. as i sat there that night and thought about what would have happened if i wouldn't have said hello and started teaching i was so happy that the spirit directs us especially those who are sick and weary in this world. There is so much junk we here about and so much pain and earthquakes and tsunami's and it is sad to see the people here scared and how grateful i am for what we have in our life!!! for the peace the gospel brings and for the peace we are startgin to bring to Elder! This work is so true and i know the lord loves us so much and wants us to be happy in this life, especially today in the world we live in. I love this work and the work that is yet to come. Thanks for all your support and love out here and i hope you all have a great week! Con AMOR
Elder Hammer
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