Dec.16, 2013
Hola Mi Querida Familia!
Esta Semana-Jaja! Those are all my words!!!
Estoy bromiando! (I am joking) jejeje
This week has been insane! It has been really really hard, but I have
learned SO much. First of all I am GLAD you got my package! That made my WHOLE
day! Well, how about we start off with my companion
Hermana Jones- She is a really hard worker, I am really grateful for that.
We work, and that's how I like it. She is 23 and from Utah. She is very..
interesting. To say the least.
My week
Lunes- After I wrote to you all we went back to (its called 26th street) to
a Mexican mall. And it was hilarious, there was just random random food, and
clothes and a lot of Catholic stuff. The coolest thing was in the middle of this
mall (it was like an indoor swap market) there was this station of tons of
birds, rats, snakes (what's with Mexicans and snakes? jaja) and of course
TARANTULAS, like 6 of them. It was awesome. I will send pictures. Then with
Hna Felt we went to La familia Tremillo, and they fed us some WICKED good
Mexican food. I love the food here, but then we shared a message and that was
good.
Martes- Well, this day, ah was horrible. On the morning of transfers we
were about to pack Hna Felts stuff out of the car, when accidentally I locked us
out of our house. Good thing I had the keys to the car, but literally EVERYTHING
was in the house, like phone, scriptures, bag, wallet, EVERYTHING, so we drove
to the other Hermanas apartment and it took forever, but LONG story short, we
just had to wait at the other Hermanas for 6 hours! It was the WORST thing ever.
We literally couldn't do anything except do studies FOREVER) and clean the other
hermanas apartment, I felt SO bad, for leaving the house keys in. (We were
taking out the garbage and I shut the door). Yeah, so because we were 7 hours
late for transfers, it was a great start of the day! jaja, not! It was the worst
thing ever. But then I got to meet Hna Jones! That night we had a leccion con
Hno Ortiz. He is an awesome man! Who NEEDS to go to church! But he fed us some
awesome food too. And that was martes.
Miercoles- We had district meeting and that was good, then we had a
leccion with Consuelo and she told us right out that we need to drop her. That
was hard, and then we had to knock and do lots of studies, and stuff. Then we
had ua leccion con Margarita! It was good, she is a sweet lady! I love going to
her house because she ALWAYS compliments us.. even though shes blind:) Ah, I
love these PEOPLE!
Jueves- We called this day... an adventure. We did weekly planning, which
always is fun. Then we did all of studies and knocked doors for an hour. Then
walking home we met this woman and we talked to her, then some man came up to us
and he was, well a little crazy (don't worry the whole time my hand was on the
pepper spray) then he lifted up his shirt to show us some scars he got. After 30
minutes of trying to get outta there we did:) YAY to prayer!
Viernes- We, had a day full of rejection. Every house, every person, was
so mean. But that meant BLESSINGS were coming right? jaja, Well at night
we had a leccion with Maria and Edgar! We are hoping and routing for them! They
just don't like to keep commitments, so it might have to be another drop:(
Sabado- This day, wow, we accidentally kept the lights on all night in the
car. So it definitely died, my fault again. and we knew we had a cita at 12, and
so at 10:30 we started walking because our Zone Leaders didn't answer the phone
to rescue us. So we just start trekking.... bahaha, this part makes me laugh out
loud. Because leave it up to me for directions, we just trek for 30 minutes in
the blizzard snow. And finally our Zone leaders call and say they are on their
way, and so we have to trek back. (this whole time I didn't know we were
trekking in the opposite way of the cita)... bahaha, well then we trekked back
and got the car started, and got stuck in the snow and so our poor Zone
leaders... yeah. Well to say the least we only were 5 minutes late to our cita!
jaja, we don't know how that happened! Angeles! SHE is a Sweet heart! She made
us Tinga... ITS SOOO GOOD. And (the person that shes living with).. is a member!
SO YAY she will get baptized! Then as a Zone we went CAROLING! for three hours
to less actives! It was SO fun!
Domingo- I was kinda feeling down, this day because well, it was kind of a
tough week. So then I read a talk "like a broken vessel." by Elder Holland, my
favorite quote from it was, "Though we feel as though we are a broken vessel
(which I kind of was feeling that way), as the Psalmist says, 'we must remember that
vessel is in the hands of the divine potter." This really strengthened me,
because this was a hard week, getting used to a new companion, getting lost,
stuck, and locked out. I just remembered that all of us feel at times a little
sad, but we are molded and shaped into what we need to become. Which I have
realized this life is simply time to learn how to be a God, or a Goddess, and so
humbling experiences are necessary for growth for ALL of us! That day 7 of our
investigators came to church:) and 1 less active. It was truly a miracle.
Ricardo Carmen and their family (including her sister and son) plus Angeles and
her son. Wow! It was a miracle:)
Well my family, I love you! I don't really know too much about Skype, yet
or anything. But I love you! Merry Christmas! It's coming soon! Feliz Navidad!
What a cooler time to share the gospel! I love you mucho mucho muchisimo! (the
lights here are awesome, everyone DECKS out for Christmas)
Con amor
Hna Hammond
The Mexican Mall with Hna Felt
These are all of the birds!! there were TONS of them! (and me
wearing the big mama!) (my coat)
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