Hermana Brittany Haven Hammond: 5th letter from Mexico Oct. 24, 2013

Oct. 24, 2013 1:04

Mi Familia,

Oh my goodness, I love you all soo mucho! Okay, there is a lot to say in sooo little time! Muchas gracias por your support, prayers and everything! You are all the best family in the world! I miss carving pumpkins eating chile, and doing all of that fun stuff!... here, well for Halloween we were thinking about switching our name tags.. ha ha JK, but that would be funny!

Well, I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS IS MY LAST P DAY IN THE CCM.. ah it almost makes me cry. I love it here so much. It is so funny because the safest I have ever felt, but I am definitely in the most dangerous city I have ever been in.. I don't want to scare anybody, but I hear multiple gun shots everyday, but I have NEVER felt safer! I LOVE IT!

Just barely I got back from the temple, oh my goodness I love the temple! Presidente Delaunty told us this story (our 1st counselor in our branch presidency), it happened 2 weeks ago, and to sum it up, one of the temple workers was going home from his shift in the temple, and there were some robbers out, right as he was getting into his car, the robbers came and tried to take his car, he threw the keys in the bushes of the temple, and then they shot him, right in the hip, and right there happened to be where his wallet was, and the bullet stopped right in front of his temple recommend, the bullet didn't go passed it! .. he was pretty bruised but he is okay and living! Wow. the church is true right??!! Anyways, I love the temple!

Spiritual Experiences:

There are SOOOO many, but first is this week has been such a great week, but a hard week. Because literally in four dias I go to CHICAGO, and I have been kinda nervous because I don´t know the language as good as I would like to. We watched this talk by Brad Wilcox, (you should look it up).. its called His Grace is Sufficient, He spoke at women's conference. It's one of the best talks I have ever heard. Something he said that popped out to me, was "We must have the strength to do all He asks, be a source of strength", And I was kinda down, but I said a prayer because... well out here, that's the only thing I can do, and I grabbed my bible and turned to a page, and it was in Philippians 4:13 and its the simplest verse, but I have decided that it is going to be a theme for my mission, the scripture says, "I can do all things through Christ which strentheneth me." Powerful scripture right? Anyways that was pretty cool.

I wish I could say all of the amazing things I am learning here, I am sooo excited to teach! I cannot express it in words. I have learned so much about myself, and about my future family! (PS.. my children will be bilingual).. and the other thing is... I LOVE THE SCRIPTURES, I cannot tell you my excitement and LOVE for the Book of Mormon each day. Each day in class we share scriptures and everyday I have to share the ones I have, because I think they are just sooo freakin awesome! GHAHHHHH... this church is true.

Funny Experiences:

Okay, I truly know that my stress reliever is laughter. I laugh... everything is so funny here, except spiritual moments. Hna Hatch and I drink probably 2 gallons of water everyday, and go to the bathroom every half hour. Hna Pearson is hilarious, she makes us laugh so hard!!

Not so fun Experiences:

Well, my companion got really sick this week, both the throw up and a really bad cold, so every night I have been doing my Oil of Oregano and EmergenC, and Gargling with Salt.

Random:

It's TRUE I See Braden ... AKA Elder Harris EVERYDAY! I LOVE IT! I love him! It's sooo fun having a cousin here! He is the stuff!

My teacher came up to me, and was like.. Hna Hammond, when I see you, I think, dat right dere (in his accent) is the light of Christ, it runs in your veins Hermana."... It almost made me cry because earlier that day I had read in the scriptures D y C 50:24 about having light and oh my goodness, it was the nicest thing ever. Not only did he say that, but an older Lady who is called here, on assignment came up to me and said almost the same thing.

Family I have to go! But I love you! The MTC, is the best thing ever! It's literally like Hogwarts, only with spiritual stuff, yep, pretty much the coolest thing ever in the world. AHHH THE GOSPEL IS TRUE!

Con amor,

Hna Brittany Haven Hammond

This is also a quote from that AWESOME TALK on Grace, that has also been my theme

"Grace is not the finishing touch, but the finishers touch." When we are trying our best, He helps us every step of the way!