I know that i always start off my letters with it's been another great week in our area but it seems to be what comes to my mind because we just keep getting blessed and blessed more and more it's incredible, so yes It's been such a great week in our area! We are getting so blessed i can't say that enough, everyday me and Elder Woolley are just amazed at what has been given to us and the many things that are going on in our area! Thanks for the letters this past week mom and dad and bell. Grandma hafen thanks for the card and letter with the money i really appreciate it!!!
Yesterday at church we had 9 investigators there, 1 away from double digits two weeks in a row. I was hoping that we could do it two weeks but it didn't work out but all who came are so solid, the aviles family, marlon and laura and Kelly. We had a really good fathers day and the talks that were given in the singles ward were really good. I was thinking about you a lot pops, i hope you had a good one!
Man the singles ward got on my nerves this past week though. Yesterday we had a munch and mingle and there was so me ward members who just freaked Kelly out, talking about tank tops and bikinis and just freaked her right out so she didnt' have to swell of a time yesterday. She's going to go visit her boyfriend in Texas for 2 weeks so that should be a great environmnet for her to see the difference in living with a LDS family. The singles ward is great but all the people go to Johns Hopkins and they are so brilliant when it comes to books, but they can barely tie there own shoes or let alone carry out a conversation with the opposite sex haha but there great i love them but ya it was a rough day for Kelly especially being father's day and he dad dying it was rough, but we had a great lesson with her on tuesday and she's doing great though, still just waiting on that answer.
We went to the temple with Marlon and Laura on Saturday and that was such an amazing experience! They had been to the temple before but they really wanted to go the the one in DC because they had been to the one in Salt Lake. I was so excited to go with them and they had seen the Joseph Smith Movie before so we watched the Testaments with them. That was the first time i have seen the testaments on my mission and it was so powerful, After the movie was over and the lights came back on Laura and Marlon were just in tears and just sobbing away. It was so wonderful to see the spirit working on them. The temple is the greatest place on earth! I'm so happy that they got to go there and i'm so happy that the spirit there just fills people with so much happiness and love. They also got there marriage licence this week so they are good to go on the 3rd of July, who would have thought me Jordan being a wedding planner on the mission haha but i'm loving it though! We are way excited about them.
Last night we went to Elder and Juana's because they didn't come to church because Juana worked but we really had to lay it down on them about getting married, and as usual we had to wait and eat the food she gave us haha EVERYTIME without fail she feeds us but we started talking and teaching and Elder just out of nowhere looks at Juana and says " Juana, i've already decided we are getting married" haha and that was the end of that. They are going to get there licence as soon as they can and now we just have to work with them on getting sundays off for Juana because that could be a big problem because she always has saturdays off because she works for the Jewish people and Sundays she works so that is where we are to with her and Elder. It's so great to see them though they want to be baptized and married and the spirit just is working on people in so many ways.
The aviles family of 9 still haven't got there divorce papers done yet but the two oldest sons this past week said to me and elder woolley that they want to be baptized without there family on the 18th of july so we are going to have a baptism for them! They approached us about it and want to do it for themselves and there pareants are really happy that they took the initiative for themselves to want to be baptized. Once again we are just being so so so blessed here with the greatest people in the world!
All is well in Maryland and we are so happy here. We have some great thigns going on and we just need to keeep working harder and harder. I love you all and thanks so much for your support!
Much Love
Elder Hammer
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