may 24th

Hello, hello

 

Wow all i can say is wow! This past week was without a doubt the greatest week of my entire mission! I can't believe all the blessings that we got the last few weeks and i really didn't think it could be any better, but with the Lord i guess nothing is impossible and we had another miracle happen this week in our area!

 

Well first and foremost...Kelly Brinegar. This past week we taught her twice and yet again two great, great lessons. On tuesday we taught her the gospel of Jesus Christ and that lesson is just screaming baptism and we hadn't set a date with her. The morning before Elder woolley and i were in companionship study and hadn't picked out a date and so we picked one out on june 13th and decided that we should pray about it. Right as we got down on our knees i felt June 6th and didn't feel good about the 13th so after we prayed i just waited for a bit and elder woolley wasn't saying anything and then he was like write down in your planner the date you are thinking, so we did. We threw each other our planners and there he had june 6th written down as well. It's unbelievable how those prayers get answered sometimes. But we went to the lesson and just were very prepared for her questions and taught her the repentance process and really had a very spiritual lesson. And then Elder Woolley invited her to be baptized and she said yes if she found out that it is right. She's reading and praying and she will get an answer soon. Then we taught her on thursday for the last time with her boyfriend Blair because he moved back to Texas. We taught her the Word of Wisdom and she has a little problem with social drinking. It's the way she was raised and she expressed some concern, but we were able to teach her the blessings and at the end she said i just don't know what i'm going to tell my friends and my mom but then she said "but it's time to grow up". And she committed to live it. It's so amazing her progression. She came to church on sunday by herself to a singles ward and that just shows me so much faith. She gets freaked out easily but there she was in church on sunday and a member really wrapped her arms around her to be her friend and it's going great. I have never prayed for an investigator like i have for her and never have i prayed for such a miracle for her answer to be manifested but i know it will happen!!

 

This past week we were teaching one of our investigators named Elder and his wife Juana. They are the coolest young couple and have 2 youngs kids in Guatamala and a little boy here. They had been taught before i got here but they are such great people and believe its true but have problems coming to church because of Work. But we were over there this past week teaching him and he told me about one of his friends that he works with moved from Utah about a year ago and he was telling his friend about us coming to his house and teaching him the truth. Then his friend told Elder to give us his number to come and visit him. This doesn't happen very often so i hopped right on it and called him and he told me that he had talked with missionaries before in salt lake and loved it there and wants to move back ha. So we set an appointment for saturday and we felt really good about that appointment, He just was a solid person and i could tell that over the phone. So we went to his house on saturday and him and his wife Laura and his 3 year old son Christopher were all there. It was great. We got to talking and they lived in west valley and were really close to baptism and then he lost his job and had to leave quick out to maryland. Here this family is who were so close and had lost contact with the church for a year and through one of our other investigators he found us again. We taught him the restoration and he said "i know this is the true church of god, and I want to feel like Joseph Smith felt that day" I just wanted to jump up and down because i was so happy! These people were just plopped down in front of us and they want to be baptized!!!!!!! The wife is so on board and Christopher there son is the cutest kid ever. Me and elder woolley were switching off teaching and while he would teach i would play with Christopher and while i taught he would play with him. We got a family to bring them to church yesterday and i got to sit with them for the first part of Sacramemnt meeting. They loved it and want to come next week and we have an appointment with them on Saturday. Can you believe it? like seriously here we just get 2 golden investigators and they have been so prepared to recieve us. They've been to temple square, seen the testaments and the joseph smith movie and for a whole year had no idea how to get back to that. And through our investigator we got his number! It truly is a miracle, we are being so blessed i cna't even explain my gratitude right now we just find one after another. It's amazing!

 

Yesterday at church we had 11 investigators there!!!! i have gone months and months without that many ha and yesterday we had 10 in the spanish branch and Kelly in the singles ward. Elvis and Laura came and Elder came for his first time with a recent convert and then the Aviles Family as well with their sister in law who has come the past 2 weeks and came to the temple. It was a circus yesterday, i started in the spanish branch sitting with elvis and laura and chris because elder woolley plays the organ, then i left after sacrament to go to gospel principles with kelly, then i went to the first part of sacramemnt meeting with kelly and to get andrew confirmed and then i went back to priesthood with elder. It was the greatest sunday on my mission without a doubt!!!! All of them loved it and are all planning on coming back. I can't even believe it sometimes when i think about how blessed we have been. In my last area i felt like i worked and worked and worked and didn't see too much and i know now that it is after the trial of our faith that we get those blessings. We now have 11 poeple who are solid, NO FLAKES who should be getting baptized in the next 2 months. I have never loved anything in my life like i do now. This beats last year in Hawaii and California when i was playing my best golf ever ANYDAY! This is the best and i love it!

 

I hope you all have a wonderful week and know how much i love each of you and how grateful i am for all of you in my life. This is the truth and this is the only way to have happiness and i know that now! Have a great week everyone! Happy Birthday Bro!!!! Hope you have a great birthday man on the big 26!!!!!

 

Con Amor

Elder Hammer