Back again.... and the weather just doesn't get any better than this. Spring on the east coast is something else. And just like the plants the people are starting to come alive again too. I just wanted to start out the letter by first thanking everyone who made my birthday experience in the mission a great experience! I really had a great birthday and thanks for all your love and packages. Thanks Dee and Leda for the package of goodies, Grandma hafen for the card and money. Mom and dad for the Gps and for the book and the sweet shirt. Jace and Bell for the no-bake cookies and for the sweet tooth fairy chocolates!!!! Thank you all so much for trying to make my b day a good day for me and i really appreciate it. It still hasn't hit me yet that i'm 20 years old but i'm sure that'll come with time.
What a sweet weekend we had to listen to the Prophet and the apostles. I get the chills still just thinking about the great messages we heard and to feel the love of our great prophet of God. I think President Uchdorf takes the cake when he talked about Our hands being his hands! And then Jeffrey R. Holland with the Tea and Crumpets comment "you shouldn't be serving tea anyways" haha that was a classic and then Robert D. Hales "don't live with the regret of what might have been" I could go on and on and on but those were just a few of my favorites. We got to listen to all of them in english except the priesthood session and the sunday morning were in spanish and i didn't understand them perfect but we had investigators there and there more important than me.
Elder came to conference and that was so sweet on sunday! He usually works but for some reason he didn't go to work and he was home and we said lets go were going to watch conference and he didnt' have pants only shorts and tried to play that excuse and i was like here you can have mine and started to loosten up the belt and then he agreed haha he brought a friend with him but he came sunday morning and i think that might have been two of my favorites with presidnet uchdorf and Thomas s. monson. He's getting closer and closer and getting him to church was a huge barrier but we got over that now and he's only smoking 1 or 2 cigaretts a day so that's good. He's a good guy but just is constantly surrounded by a really bad atmosphere and lives with six other guys that smoke and drink so it's hard to get him away from that but he's taken huge steps.
Jesus Vasquez who was on date who we haven't talked to for 2 weeks also came to conference. We called him on saturday and invited him to come over and he said he would and didn't show for the first 2 and so i didn't think much of him and then he called us on saturday night and said i'm coming to the one that starts at 8 i'll be there in 15 minutes and he came. I know he feels it and wants to change but his wife is in the way and that's a tuff barrier to get over when it comes to that. So we are just going to try and ease back into it with him. We went past his house yesterday and said hi, they were out having a BBQ just like the rest of Maryland but that was really exciting to about this week.
Also Melvin Carranza is getting closer and closer he didn't come to the church but watched it from his house. He couldn't understand who President Eyring and President Uchtdorf were. He was like so is there 3 prophets? ha so we had to do a little explaining to him but he watched it from home and liked it. We are so close with so many people and we are praying like crazy to get these people to have that experience that is going to put them over the top.
I went on an exchange with our zone leader Elder Faverro from Ogden and he's just an all-star. He's one of those kinds of elders that you just can't help but be happy around. But we were at Chick Fil-a and we were sitting there friday night and he was like Elder Hammer you know what is sad, Moses is coming down from Mt. Sinai tomorrow and not one person in here knows it. And it just hit me like man so many don't know the blessing that we all felt this weekend to hear a PROPHET OF GOD and to hear the apostles as well. We are a blessed people and more people here need to know about what we have. You can just feel the love from them and from God to know that these men are truly from him. Our Savior is real, I love how we focus on his resurrection and not his death because he lives and he's here with us. I know that if we take the advice and council from the Prophet and "look to the lighthouse of the Lord" that we wont have any adversity or trial that we can't overcome. The church is true people.....Enough Said
Well off to go wash the car and get a haircut. There is this barbershop full of Dominicans that we are gonna go try and practice the espanol and get a haircut haha. Who knows we might even get to the golf course to hit some balls, but thanks again for your love and support out here. Enjoy life, love every minute of it, it's too good! Con Amor
Elder Hammer
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