Well back again and the weeks just keep getting faster and faster it's crazy i just hit 10 months i feel like i just got here and it only gets worse but i'm happy and we have had a pretty good week.Well the weather is rainy. Last night me and Elder Pauda were walking at about 7 30 and it had been cloudy all day but no rain but the darkest black clouds came over us and i looked at him and said we are done for about 5 minutes later we were soaked for head to toe haha it came down as hard as i've ever seen it in my life for about 3 straight hours, i thought we were going to be floating before we were going to wake up, lightning, thunder it was pretty sweet but no one lets you in when your soaked so that didn't make it too good, but oh well what can you do, we tried to make some fun out of it. We even tried hitchhiking but that didn't go over too well either haha. But it's been a good week and thanks for all the letters mom and dad and grandma hafen they were the best and thanks for the packages mom. i don't know who gets more excited to see packages me or elder pauda haha he's loving all this treatment, (just like every other one of my companions haha) Thank you so much mom!
Well this past monday we had a dinner scheduled with the Mora family and they had us over. When we got there brother mora had one of his friends there named Guillermo Caal from Guatamala, who used to listen to the missionaries but moved to texas for a year or so and now he is back and working with Brother Mora. So we got talking with him and he started to tell us more about talking with the missionaries and he was on date to be baptized!!! But his wife who lives in Guatamala said no that he couldn't get baptized and that he was going against her and would find some other lady in the church so it kind of turned into a bad situationa nd then he moved. Well when we were talkign with him he told us that he had asked his wife again about baptism before we had even talked with him and she said that she would give him an answer in two weeks. So there we are and he starts to tell us that he knows the Book of Mormon is true and Joseph Smith is a prophet of god and that he believes it's all true. So basically with him we are just waiting to see on his wife. He came to church yesterday and we are going over there to teach him with "la lamanita"haha brother mora. It was a much needed tender mercy from the lord but it's all on what his wife says i guess.
Last monday Karla called us and was just crying and wanted us to come over to her house on tuesday to talk with her, but she wouldn't tell us why she was crying. So here i am all day on monday and tuesday wondering what happened and hoping that she had the answer and wanted to get baptized ha but no it didn't work out quite that way. Basically her family is just coming down on her about this whole mormon stuff and they try to talk bad about the church and make fun of her and try to get her to drink and just all this crazy cruel stuff, but she just sat in front of us and cried telling us and she knows its true, it's just she has a loser boyfriend that needs to go ha sorry thats cruel to say but it's true, she leaves to church and then he tries to get back at her and says i'm leaving with my friends and just goes and drinks. It's a sad situation but i know it will all come around.
This past saturday in our branch we had a kids baptisms for two little girls in the branch and also a branch activity that was a picnic in a park where all the members come and play soccer and volleyball and food it is a big deal. So we invited Karla to see the baptism and then to just go to the picnic with us after. So we had the baptism and man there was like 50 people that came and we were just waiting on Karla and the two girls got baptized and i swear not more than two minutes after they got dunked she walks in the door and just had barely missed it! But she got to see the confirmation and then she came to the picnic which was just great! All the members were there playing soccer and of course not us haha it was tuff not to but it wasn't p day so we couldn't but it was great to talk to all the members and karla and brother more invited guillermo and two of his friends to come as well so we got to talk to everyone which is such a great missionary tool for hispanics- 1. Food 2. Soccer, i'm suprised we didn't have them all coming but no it really was great and i know that more than anything that karla loved it.Our branch has the greatest members who have such a godo time and have great testimonies but we just have seen that missionary work is just so distant for them so we hav ebeen trying really hard to get missionary work more in there minds. We've been inviting them to strengthen their faith and share there testimony with someone out side of the church just anythign to get their minds in the way of missionary work and were seeing a little bit of progress but we still have lots of work to do. But we'll get there.
This upcoming week is transfers and i think i'll be staying here but who knows what will happen? I would love to stay with ELDER pauda for one more transfer but that would be 3 and that doesn't happen to often. I don't think i've told too much about the pauda man but basically he's one of my favorite compaions. ALl i ask is for a comp who is obedient and wants to work and thats exactly what he is. at first he was wierd and i didn't understand him but he's opened up and basically he's just changed his life in a complet 180 degrees. I love the kid and he's hilarious and i hope we get one mroe together.
Well all is well and i'm happy and loving it. I hope all is well with you all. Jess good luck this week i hope all goes well and morgan is alright and healthy. Good luck too nick ahha your gonna need it. i lov eyou all so much. we're blessed so much. have a great week. much love
Elder Hammer
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