Hermana Brittany Haven Hammond: 4th letter from Mexico Oct. 17, 2013

Thursday Oct. 17, 2013 7:55 a.m.

Incredible week!

Well, my family can I first just say THANK YOU and I HAVE THE BEST FAMILY EVER?!! Seriously, I do, thank you for the package, Braden gave it to me, I loved EVERYTHING! I shared all of the candy with my district, and they are so jealous of my awesome family, and I loved all of the cards and notes from everyone, Ty Ty, and Kaylee, and Camee, and Cort, Sarah Denny, Teri (and the cute scarf I wore yesterday!!), and McKay, ah thank you all so much! And of course from my incredible family! AHhhh, I cant get over how much that all meant to me! Thank you! Wow, there is so much to say!

Spiritual Experiences

There are incredible experiences EVERYDAY here, every hour, first is, this Sunday. On each Sunday we never know if we are going to be giving a talk that day, and so everyone in the Branch had to prepare a talk, and this Sunday, 5 people in our district spoke... including me, and it wouldn't be hard, but your entire talk has to be all in Spanish because well, the whole sacrament meeting is in Spanish.

Hna Hatch spoke, Hna Pearson, Elder Martin, Elder Jones, Elder Welker and me, and they are all in my district. They are all awesome, and all of our talks were so amazing because I just think about where we all started, and now, we are all giving talks in sacrament meeting. but its not over, this Sunday happened to be the Sunday that President Pratt, (the president of the CCM).. and all of his counselors came to our meeting, yep... scary much?.. but awesome! We all felt the spirit, and after they all came up to me and they were like, Hna Hammond, su español es excelente! ... wow, almost cried. so cool. Oh, my talk was on temples and family history, and Brooke, I TALKED ABOUT YOU IN MY TALK how your my ejemplo of doing this obra grande!!

I am soo excited to go to Chicago to share with families that their families can be together FOREVER, and that they can be clean through their incredible loving Savior, and that the Book of Mormon is true! This is the greatest message that could ever be taught, ever! Ah, I am soo excited!

Another spiritual experience, is... this week, I became sick, I don't know where I got it from, whether it was from food, or a virus. But, it was the worst pain I have ever felt in my entire life. So, on the 14th at 9:10 at night I asked to go home, and I was on the verge of tears, and my companion and I got locked out of our house, so for 20 min while class was still going my sweet companion sang to me sitting on the incredibly dirty floor at the door step of our casa, then finally someone in our casa let us in at 9:40, and 5 minutes later my whole district (whom I love) came to my door and asked me if I wanted a blessing. On the verge of throwing up I of course said yes, we grabbed a chair and did it right outside.

Elder Martin did the first part, and Elder Jones gave me the blessing, with all 5 Elders in my district standing in a circle around me. He blessed me to sleep well, and that my Heavenly Father loves me, and He is grateful that I am serving his mission, to his children. There a special spirit when getting blessed by the Lords appointed servants, the missionaries. I hurried and shook their hands after the blessing, and while choking up (both tears and vomit) I said, "I have the best district ever." and ran inside to throw up, that night I slept the best I have ever slept here in the CCM, and woke up threw up once more, and was better, literally all better. The Priesthood power is real, and I can testify of it. Ah, so many cool things happened this week!

Funny Experiences

Well, I biff it everyday. Like trip everyday, and I also ran into a pole and yep, its great. Also everything is funny, I laugh so much here! (when not studying the gospel)... also we laugh all the time at this incredibly perfect place. Let me describe it, here there is perfect weather, and its perfectly beautiful. We go to the tienda and with our money that is literally given to us we go buy candy and Magnum bars, there is a gym and running around is perfect. Here no one steals and all of the workers are so nice and friendly.

Next, we go to get our food, that is sooo good, and already made for us. Then we go and teach investigators that listen to us and are always progressing. With a huge fence lining the area we are totally protected, its literally paradise! Learning Spanish, and learning about the gospel!... If all of my family were here, I'd say lets live here forever! Its perfect!

( oh and our awesome maestro gives us authentic Churros and they are THE BEST!)... the least is to say, this place is perfect.... and I am really excited to go to Chicago! Ha ha, I love it here. I wish you could all see this perfect beautiful place.

Also some cool stuff, is.... Elder Cooper in my district taught us how to play Rugby! (except we can't touch each other, so he teaches us girls how to play.. ha ha so fun) he plays and its soooo much fun! He also works Hna Hatch and I out, like we almost throw up everyday, its awesome! Also once or twice a week, all of us Hermanas go and play tennis, (there is every kind of court, field, every thing here) and its sooo fun!

I love being a missionary! It really the best thing ever! Ah I love it sooo much! Thanks for being the best family ever! I cannot wait to get into the field! Even though my Spanish is terrible, and learning Imperfect, Preterit, Infinitives is all super hard, the spirit here is the best ever. When I get down, which happens, I sing... I AM DEFYING GRAVITY! Mama I think of you. (maybe I should sing church songs, but you can only sing so many church songs all day).. so I sing wicked, and tell myself I am defying gravity!!!

This was an entry, straight from my journal a couple days ago when it was a rather hard day of Spanish learning but these words ended up being in my journal and I thought I would share them with you, "I am here because I have a powerful message to share. The most important, best, precious message to share. No message is greater, no word is greater than the one I am giving now, and the best part is... is we all can share it."

I love you my family! I love you all so much!.. I love you SOOO MUCH!

Con Amor,

Hna Brittany Hammond