Dec. 30, 2013
FELIZ CUMPLEANOS JARED MI HERMANO!
I hope your birthday was the best!
HURRAH! Feliz Cumpleanos!
Also to :Kristin, Brett, Danielle & michael!
Well it has been a great/crazy/fun/hard/everything in between WEEK!
Thank you for ALL of the packages and everything you sent me! I loved
everything! I have already given out tons of the candy to the cute Mexicans in
my ward. They love it:) So thank you, I really do have the best family ever! I
loved talking to you, and honestly I didn't love talking to you! jaja, sorry!
But it was wonderful to see all of your beautiful faces, but it was hard because
it made me miss all of you!
Miercoles (I'll start there) - Christmas dinner with La Familia Gamez, was
really nice, and kinda interesting, she made us mole, it was SO gross, I almost
threw up.. its like Chicken in this gross sauce stuff. yeah, gross, (I told
myself, while eating the mole)..well, Merry Christmas to me! Then we went
caroling to tons of less actives and actives and investigators. They LOVED it!
We went with the four sets of missionaries in our ward and oh my goodness the
people just died, all of them! I loved seeing there faces!
Jueves- We went to La Familia Granados, and it was SO fun! I love their
family! While we were eating (really good food today) Hno Granados and Hna
Granados told us the story of the birth of their two CUTE twin girls (the ones
you have a picture of) and my favorite part was, (I have to tell you this
because its hilarious) Hna Granados said the hardest part of giving birth is you
cant eat, (totally Mexican right) and so IN LABOR, her Hushband tried to sneak
in tacos for her to eat, but the doctors caught him trying to feed his wife
tacos, and then she went into labor, bajaja I DIED LAUGHING! So that was jueves!
Viernes- Well, this day was interesting. we had NOTHING to day, because
this week almost ALL people are out doing Holiday stuff and they didn't want us
over or to come in at ALL, so as a last resort, it ALWAYS comes to knocking. We
ended up knocking for 5 hours that day, from 2:40-7:40. Every 30 minutes I had
to tell myself OUT LOUD, that I was a champion. "I'm a champion, or, I am so
awesome." Because no one else was gonna say it... jaja.Well played A LOT of
Spanish walking games.. made up by Hermana Hammond. So after 4 hours of
tracting, (here is a good story) we were about to try this one house and it was
one you ALWAYS have to be careful because there was a face around the WHOLE
house, (meaning usually dog), and so we looked at the scene and there wasn't a
dog so we open the gate and walk like.... 35 ish steps, (a long way) and I see
it...... a huge dog just glaring at us, invisible and blending in with the
house, and it starts to stand up, and do this REALLY freaky pounce thing. And it
was a German Shepherd, SCARY BIG HUGE TEETH, so (me being stupid) spin on my
heels, and just start running bahaha, so naturally I hear it starting to chase
after us. yep, we were running from a really freaky dog, I thought my life was
over! then, me being really nice and awesome, let my companion go first, and out
the gate, and it is literally on my heels, when I get to the gate and slap it
shut. My heart was beating SO fast, it was the SCARIEST thing of my life! People
here in Chicago have dogs to bite people like MISSIONARIES!.. I was SOOO blessed
it didn't bite us! That was Viernes! SO SCARY!.. oh and then we had a really
good lesson with Angeles after! Haha
Sabado- So one of Hno Jones Less actives in her last ward invited us to go
through the temple with them. So we went to the temple:) It was really nice, the
only thing is, (because we have to get Presidents permission) he said temple
time=p day time. So after I write you, that's my p day! The temple really was
incredible though:)
Domingo- We HAD AN AWESOME lesson with Ricardo y Carmen, I need you MY
FAMILY RIGHT NOW TO MEET THEM! They need to be fellowshipped! I just think about
it ALL the time! And of course Church, is my favorite:)
Well, to finish up this letter, this week I have been fascinated with the
principle of God working through weak things so men can see His power. And one
day in personal study I was like I am going to read 5 minutes in the bible and I
turn and opened to the story, in Deuteronomy. Of army of Gideon, it is about this
army and they are going to fight and the Lord tells the leader and He wants a
smaller army, (and you need to read it as a family, dad knows where it is) and
finally as the last test, The Lord tells the leader of the army to take his army
and whoever drank their water a certain way would be Gods army, and the army
gets down to 300 people! That's it! Fighting against thousands of people, but
they were how many the Lord wanted! They were Gods army! But the coolest part is
that honestly out here, we are SO few. The members are SO few in Chicago, the
missionaries out the world well we are SO few! But the important thing is that we
are Gods army! And maybe we don't have the greatest numbers, but God can show
his power by working through us! IF we were a huge big army, then people would
just see us, that we have big numbers so of course we would win, but because we
are so few God can show his power by working through us! Anyway, don't know if
that makes sense! But there are a million other examples!
David and Goliath
Joseph Smith translating the Plates when he had HARDLY an education
Moses who wasn't a good spokeman, but yet one of the GREATEST
prophets!
Anyway, that is my shpill:) I love you my family, I gotta go get back to
work! But I love you and I miss you! Your the BEST support team EVER! I love
you!
Con MUCHO amor
Hermana Hammond
This is at the German Festival
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