Feliz Cumpleanos: My amazing Aunt Gina, Todd F., Uncle Donald, Mykel, and McCall!!
Super excited for Danielle! Super upped for Chad and Anna!!
Wasn't conference just the best thing ever!
From actual SPANISH speakers, to Elder Holland lightning up, to ELDER HAMULA, such a cool man! To HOW WE NEED TO SUSTAIN OUR PROPHET. Holy cow, coolest conference
ever. I loved it! -- I was looking for a close up of Teri.... But I did see her! SO FUN!
I hope you all were edified and more than that, I hope you
were called to repentance on how you can all do better. I know I was!
So, first of all, it's starting to get cold again, we got the tights
back on, and put on the pea coats, and now we are wearing sweaters and
socks. It's crazy because I feel like it just got warm, and also it's
so weird because it brings flash backs of when I was being trained
down in Midway. It feels so long ago, and yet so close, mission time
is so warped, anyways, yep it's cold!-- the people tell us that this
winter is supposed to be even worse than last winter, and last winter
was literally colder than Alaska and Siberia, so it'll be great!
We have had a great week! It was interesting because it was a week of
lots of contacting on the streets!- The first part of this week was
really warm, then this weekend, that's when it started getting cold.
Martes- Most of our day was spent trying to find people. Before the
mission I didn't realize what a big part of finding was, but it's a
HUGE part, for us it's more than we teach. Finding the elect people
who want the gospel. Then that night we taught an English class and one
of our investigators came. It was great! His name is Gugenio. He came
by a referral and he's legit! He loved English class, and soon we are
going to start teaching him.
Then, we had a great lesson with Giovanni, Ailene, and Ivonne our
in-active family. And we watched the entire talk by Dieter F. Uchtdorf
from the women's conference because it was so good! About how we can't
choose the commandments we want to follow and about how blessings from
God are waiting to be poured upon us if only we lift the umbrella!
They loved the talk and sat through and listened intently the whole
time! I was very impressed. Giovanni still said no to coming to
church, but it's alright, he is getting closer!
Miercoles- We dropped by a family, a less active family, Nunez. and they are awesome, but just going through some hard things, and testimony problems, it's so sad because we teach these families and there is just a sad, dark spirit about their home, and you can tell because they don't have the gospel. It's really sad, BUT it has given me such a strong testimony about the very fact that being a member of this church, isn't just going to church on Sundays and going through the motions, it really is a LIFE STYLE. It is how you live everyday, If you are truly converted by it, you cannot separate from it, no importa trabajo, amigos..(work ,friends) nada.... it simply is who you are! We also ate nasty spaghetti's and fried meat with them. STRAIGHT after their home we went to go visit Wanda. She is so sweet, she is having some issues right now, and her "friend" cooked for us. He is crazy. But it was really nice, he also made it super clear that we must eat ALL the food. So we did, and we were so full, he also did not listen to our message, but we did get a nice sermon... thank you Pedro, loved the spiritual message. Anyway... then right after that we went straight to a lesson with one of our less-actives Rosalba. She's awesome and we have been teaching her son Emanuel (who we had taught once last week) well, last week he told us he never wanted to get baptized, BUT miracle, right when we came in he sits us down and he (he is 12 years old) he was like, Hermanas there was a Ghost in my room, so now I really want to get baptized so that it will go away..... well that was a first for me. miracle? He came to the WHOLE day of conference on Sunday and the young men totally fellow shipped him it was awesome. He is getting baptized on November 1st!~ GO Emanuel!
Anyways- after that we just had a lot of contacting on the streets it was a great!
After the Sunday morning session of conference we went to go contact for awhile because we had some time and we contacted this man, and we asked if we could give him a card and we were pumped because the whole session was on Prophets so we just were like, "We share a message on how GOD SPEAKS TO PROPHETS." annd then...... We got YELLED at, this guy went off and off and basically screamed at just saying, "WE HAVE 66 BOOKS IN THE BIBLE, WE NEED NO MORE BIBLE You crazy Mormons who think there is still a prophet.. blah blah blah.." The whole time we just smiled and in my head I was thinking, ummmm "2 Nefi 29.. and do you really think you can scream at me and try to convince me when I just heard 2 hours of pure testimony on how God still speaks TO PROPHETS?" In the end I really just felt so bad for this man, and I just said a prayer in my heart for him that one day God would give him the chance and one day soften his heart for our wonderful message. Pobrecito..(poor thing) At the end of it all, we ended up just smiling and saying thank you for believing in Jesus Christ.. he seemed to kind of like that :)
It was a great week! Conference was awesome! We eat a lot of food, and I seriously just love it here. Yes, it's hard, yes, sometimes you want to shake the gospel into some people, and yes, sometimes you just feel tired, but when it comes down to it, it just doesn't matter what you want-- What matters is what God wants you to become! That's my quest for this mission-- the person that God wants me to be.
Family, I love you all! This week I challenge you all and myself to read over the conference talks, it is SCRIPTURE! We were given SO much council, so many ways how to better ourselves! Find what you can work on, and work on it. From the words of Richard G Scott this weekend, "Do it."
Love you all
All of me loves all of you all!
Hermana Hammond
You know you are in Chicago when there is a CTR sticker with a ghost sticker behind it!
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