july 26th

Hola!!!!!

 

Well it's been the sweetest month of the mish so far and this weekend pretty much just put a nice little cap on that!! We have been blessed like crazy and our zone for the month ended up hitting 13 baptisms which is the most it's ever hit i'm pretty sure! I know that you all have been praying for me and the investigators that we have and i'm grateful to all of you for doing that, this has for sure not been just me and elder woolley doing this alone.

 

We had the sweetest wedding ever for elder and juana! Elder and juana called us saturday morning and told us that they had been robbed and the rings they bought were gone and didn't want to get married without them, well a few hours later and a whole bunch of drama the lady that lived with them stole them and gave them back and we were back on for the wedding haha just when you think that it might go well something always comes up haha. But all went well, Elder invited a bunch of his family up from washington dc to come and his uncle who is a DJ for the music. haha we had lights and disco balls and all this crazy hispanic music but it was so much funa nd most importantly Elder And Juana were so happy!

 

But the next day for the baptism was even better! We had four baptisms yesterday and things were crazy! haha it was a circus from the time we walked in at 8 30 till 4 o clock when we left but i wouldn't change that feeling for anything! There was a bunch of people there and not enough room in the relief society so we did it in the chapel. Me and elder woolley were on the front row in white with rosa and elder and juana and then elder caballero and their investigator too and it was pretty awesome. We sang i am a child of god for the opening hymn and i lost it and start crying just looking at these people that i was sitting next to and their lives changing. By far the most satisfying feeling in my life! So we got all ready to go in to do the baptizing and we look at the font and the water had been slowly draining!!!! it was about midway to my thigh so we turned the water back on and sang a song or two and waited haha it was classic and thank goodness we were baptising small latinos because i dont' think they would have been able to go down. But All went well with all 4 baptisms and i got to baptize elder it was so awesome! He siad in the bathroom that he felt so good and that's my fav. part of baptisms! listening to the people talk right after adn seeing them completely submerged is the best! Rosa also talked to us after and just said that she had the chills and her heart couldn't stop beating like crazy. I can't believe these people, and how muhc i love them and their families. It's been pretty humbling to be apart of this month!

 

It's been a great week and elder woolley is staying here so i'm way excited about that! We are going to have another great month! Thanks so much for all you guys do for me! I'm so grateful for it and more than anything this gospel. We have so much to be grateful for like unbelievably. But wow the mission is awesome and the church is true! Have an awesome week! MUCH LOVE

 

ELDER HAMMER