Hola Familia!!!!!!!
Hello everyone! It's been such a great week in the mission!!! We have had so many great things happen and we are continuing to see the blessings of God being poured out upon us. Things for some reason just seem to be getting better and better and it's such a blessing! I'll just get started but thanks so much for the letters and love i really appreciate them and the 20$ aunt mitzie and letters from grandma and of course you mom thanks a bunch!!!!
So yesterday we had a baptism for a young guy named Andrew and it went really well. Andrew had been found about 2 months ago knocking late at night and they started teaching him and he really liked what they had to say and its all history from there. Andrew had a tuff life. He is a genius and is really socially akward and when the missionaries found him he had just gotten done from a breakdown where he just locked himself in his house and wouldn't go out or talk to anyone, it's a really sad story. He went to yale and is just a genius and he was just about that point of breaking when they found him that night. He's made huge steps and has changed his life completely and his a different person for sure! Yesterday his baptism went really well and his mother even came who is a catholic and wasn't interested. We showed the restoration video during the baptism and a young single who baptised andrew asked his mom if she had ever read the Book of Mormon and she said, " No....but i think im going to have to start now" It's amazing how the spirit works on people when they hear the truth about the gospel and now she is interested. God is a god of miracles and continues to put more and more people into our path!
So for the past few weeks we have been teaching a young girl named Kelly Brinegar. She's the girlfriend of the quarterback at Towson and he's a member she's not, basically she's a very very good looking girl and that was tuff at first but it's all good now ha. She is GOLDEN! I have never taught anyone that has grasped what we have taught her. She understood this past week the plan of salvation amazingly and every question was asked and we could answer them and she even said everything just makes sense. She asked us why mormons have "big books" (meaning the quad scriptures) at church so this weekend we bought her a quad and gave them to her ha, maybe as a little push to get baptized ha no but really i don't think i've ever enjoyed teaching someone like i have wiht kelly. She has been catholic and really wanted nothing to do with the mormon church, she just told Blair (her boyfriend) that she would be willing to listen to get to "KNOW WHO HE WAS BETTER" haha little did she know that the most sly missionaries were coming at her haha. Blair was talking to us at church yesterday and said that she was talking to him and commented that at first she had no desire and that now it's making sense and Blair told us that she's kind of scared ha because she knows it is true! Tomorrow we have a lesson with her and were going to put her on date for baptism!!!! It's unreal she even was at the baptism yesterday and i know she felt something there too!
This weekend we got to go to the temple with the AVILES family, a family of 9 who are ready to be baptized but are just waiting on some divorce papers back in El Salvador. It was the best to go down there with them to the temple and have all the little kids say i want to go in, why can't we go in ha. These kids are so funny and always going 100 miles an hour and have got the most off the wall question ever, but it's been the best. Families are so special and i've finally got to be apart of teaching a family that is big and to see all of them come into the gospel. Julio the dad was in the bathroom yesterday when andrew was changing and he told him congrats and said "This is the best decision of your life" ha coming from a guy who isn't even baptized. It's so amazing to see their conversion and it was a great temple trip. I even saw Sister Mary williams i think, the african american sister in our ward mom and dad? I got my first hug of the mission haha she saw me and ran over to me and i tried to give her a handshake and she slapped it away and gave me and a hug haha kind of wierd but it was fun to see her. she said to tell you all hello!
This week i got to go on exchanges with the inner city spanish elders!!!! It was so sweet! I was in downtown B-MORE wiht the crazies and it was so much fun haha. The city is so different, it's a whole other world down there, but it's fun to get those fun "Journal Entries" haha. It was my first taste of the city and it was a bunch of fun.
Well as you can tell, our area is rocking and it's the best. Being a zone leader is a lot of fun and i love working with all these missionaries, sometimes i don't feel like i'm the one that should be leading but the lord is for surely helping me in this call. I've never been so into the work as i am right now and it's a great feeling!!! There are so many miraculous blessings that i can't even explain in my emails that the lord blesses us with each and everyday! I love this call and i love this church! I love you all and hope you all have a great week!!!!! Thanks for everything!!! Adios
Elder Hammer
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