Aug 2nd

Bueno, Bueno!!!!

 

hey guys! We are back again after another quick week and it puts a whole new emphasis when i see WE because now im serving in a 3 man companionship with Elder Woolley and my trainer(first companion) Elder Caballero from St. George again. It's been a lot of fun to be back with him and the three of us are having a good time together. Just getting a little used to having 3 people doing everything haha knocking doors is quite the circus, but it's been fun and it'll only be for a few more weeks until elder woolley goes home. I'm glad to hear that you all had fun in AZ without me ha I don't think dad and nick are going to be able to play golf with me when i got back because they play so much now they might drowned themselves out! I'm doing good though, just so everyone knows my throat is fine it hasn't hurt now for 2 weeks, i don't feel sick anymore and all is well. Thanks for all the concern, mitzie thanks so much for the package and grandma hafen for the letter i really appreciate it!

 

Well this week is going to be a really big week! We have a brand new training thing that will last for 3-4 days where all zone leaders, district leaders, and trainers go kind of like zone conference but all we are working on is new training from the MTC and each zone leaders have their own section that they are training on so it should be pretty awesome. It's just what our mission needs and it's goign to help us out so much. So that'll be all day tues-thurs.

 

This past week we finally got back with Kelly. She was in Texas for the past month and so it was good to get back and teach her again. It was a really good lesson where i think she learned a lot. She finally came to terms that she's not going to get this big huge ANSWER. that she's been getting them all along. Her fear is for sure the family but we layed it all on the line and just told her that she was already living all the commandments but wasn't being fully blessed for living them because she hadn't been baptized. She was pretty shocked and it was pretty bold speaking but we laid it out as clear as could be and she knows now. She wants to be baptized it's just when is the question. She doesn't want people to think that she is just doing it for Blair her boyfriend but we still are working with her and she's great.

 

We moved Marlon and Laura into the same apt as elder and juana. It was a day full of moving on saturday we moved to different members. But our recent converts are doing awesome! We had the confimations yesterday of elder, juana, and rosa. Marlon blessed the sacrament. Jose and William recieved the preisthood and will be passing next week. And elder got interviewed to get the priesthood yesterday. It was awesome to see so many things take place with all of them. Last night we were over at their house and elder said "Elder's me and marlon were talking and we gotta fill the isles in the church on sunday" (when elder caballero was here a year ago, the branch had 20 people coming, yesterday was 90!) but elder continued he said, "There shouldn't be room in the parking lot nor on the streets nearby to get into the church" It was awesome to hear that from him and we got a new person that we are teaching who is a good friend of Marlon this past week at the move. They are so fun to be around. I really am so content with where we are and how much progress we've made in our branch when i first got here the branch was falling apart from people being offended and gossip and the missionaries did a fast for the branch, and Our heavenly father blessed us with 10 baptisms in less than 30 days. How's that for answers to prayers. It's been such a blessing and we got to just keep it going!

 

All is well though and i'm really happy i'm loving where i am at! and i'm loving being a missionary. I'm learning so much about myself and about trials and blessings. I can't even begin to explain how much i feel like i've grown but there's a lot more that i need to do. Thanks for everything and i hop eyou all have a good week!

 

MUCH LOVE

 

ELDER HAMMER