What's up guys!!!!!!
Well another week and i'm back. This past week was a pretty crazy roller coaster ride up and down up and down but a lot of good lessons learned for sure. Thanks for the letters and the packages mom and dad. They loved the scriptures so much and are so excited to finally have scriputres like the rest of the other members,THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I loved the pictures of the 1 year celebration, it's nice to get some pictures of the family once in a while and i loved the pictures of my niece haha she's so cute. Jess thanks for sending me alex's email and also thanks for sending me those pics this past week i love the picture of her sitting on the bed with the controller, she's adorable!
Well we had our big training meeting throughtout our mission that was awesome for 3 days this past week! It was quite the circus because a lot of people in our zone don't have cars so i was driving a 12 passenger ford econoline van full of missionaries through the city haha it was one of those experieces that you just don't forget about haha. Needless to say we made it and all went well for the 3 days as far as safety goes! I thnk i may have a career in being a bus driver! haha
This past week Laura Sandoval had her baby and it was awesome to be there at the hospital with them and also with Elder and Juana there. She had a boy and it was about time i thought for sure she was going to explode but it was fun to be there, they feel like family now it's awesome. Marlon taught priesthood and did so good. He volunteered to teach the class after 1 month of being baptized. He's going to be the branch president so quick! haha
Elder told us at the hospital that he wasn't going to be able to come to church on sunday becuase he needed to look for work because there struggling financially. It hit us hard becaus he was supposed to get the priesthood but we taught him about commandments and the blessings that come when we keep the commandments and he told us that he would see. Then we found out that Juana sipped some coffee and so we were like man we got to get them to church. Sunday morning rolled around and walked in Elder in a white shirt and tie with Juana!!!! He got the priesthood! And the sacrament talks were on the law of tithing. He was filling out a slip before he could even get done witht eh meetings. It was such a testimony builder to me of the faith that people put in the lord and when they trust in him. He blesses them so much. Juana understood why she needed to take the sacrament and that she had repented but still felt bad but she came to take the sacrament and said she wouldn't do it again! I have so much love for them especially just their willingness to change and do whatever it takes! It was a such a gratifying sunday.
Rafael couldn't come to church and wasn't able to meet with us this week and he was supposed to be baptized this upcoming sunday but that doesn't look to likely like it's going to happen. It's been a really humbling week as well. Rafael has been up and down and we felt really good that he was ready to do this. And satan throws the work excuse at him and he fell for it, which is a pretty valid thing, considering the circumstances of these great people, so we are excited for the upcoming week to see what we can do with him.
While we were in our leadership meeting we got a text message from kelly that siad, "elders something happened and i need to step away for a while, i don't want to talk about it, sorry" Yep it hit me like a ton of bricks. We talked to her boyfriend and i guess he said that she said that she wasn't doing it for herself and that she was just doing it for him. It was pretty hard to hear that because i know that she felt the spirit and that she knows that this is true. It's been a pretty humbling week to see both Rafael and now Kelly kind of fall. I have really been trying to just be patient and realize that it's on the lords will and on his timeline, but it's just been humbling to see how close someone can become and totally go the other direction. I feel like we gave it everything we had and that we gave her the best that we could give but something came up. So we've been praying like crazy that something will just tell her to call us so we can help her. It's been a learning opportunity for me to see things going so amazingly and now we are struggling to find new people and the people that we had fell ( not rafael, just kelly) We are hopiong fo rthe best for Kelly.
But i dont' want to end on a sour note though! Even though this past week has been a huge roller coaster ride in all aspects, We have been so blessed and we have seen so many blessings. Elder got the preisthood, jose and william passed the sacrament, marlon blessed and taught a lesson and people are progressing and we have to realize that and focus on the good. One of the best things i've learned is that on my mission ( and even in life) things come our way that aren't expected and that hurt us pretty bad, but we have the choice to be happy and to look at the good or be negative and it's just easier to just be happy so that's what we are doing! I love the gospel and i love the tests that we go through in our lives and they are just to make us stronger and to see what we are made of, but we can get through it and it's all because of our savior and the gospel. I love you all and thanks for your love and support!!! Have a great week
MUCH LOVE
Elder Hammer
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