Dec. 8, 2014 "DO DINOSAURS NEED TO GET BAPTIZED??"

Dec. 8, 2014 "DO DINOSAURS NEED TO GET BAPTIZED??"

Dearest Hammond family, and who ever else reads these emails :)

First I just want to say that I am praying for Ryan! The Lord protects His missionaries!

Feliz Cumpleanos: Aspen & Ty Ty! OOOOOH I cannot believe that you are getting baptized!!! Soo Awesome!! 

It has been an incredible week, it just keeps getting better and better. I LOVE being a missionary at Christmas time.

 have one favoIr to ask all of you, as much as I would love Christmas presents, please don't send me any. Instead of my present could you all pitch in money and whatever you have and send presents to me for my investigator Rosa? She has four boys, ages 6, 8, 11, and 14, and she is a single mother. They don't have heat in their home, and they are so poor. Presents could include hats, gloves, toothbrushes, extra hand-me-down clothes, and maybe homemade sock/rice warmers. This is all I ask of you. This would be the greatest Christmas present you could all ever give me. Thank you :)

This week was a great week! I just want to share a few things that happened.

This week we have been sharing a video called He is the Gift, in Spanish its called, El es la Dadiva. Dadiva means a really really special gift. I love Spanish.

Anyways, the church is really putting a lot of effort into this video, and it really is so inspired because we are already seeing miracles from it! With members, less-actives, and investigators. I challenge you all to put this video on your face book page, and also to share and post it on 2 other peoples pages. Its a powerful video! Just this week on Friday we had a lesson with a less-active family. La familia Martinez.

       background on the familia Martinez, last week when we went to visit them they had a birthday party for their son and we had a cita with them, so we came and then the party started, and the whole family came in with the beers, and well, we knew we should probably hurry up and share our message. I was hurrying and trying to get the whole family together, whether they had a beer in hand or not, and I reached down to grab my bag and BAM..... I hit the beer and it spilt all over my hand and all over the floor. I was like, HERMANO!! PERDON.... (but really not perdon.. I didn't feel that bad) Mostly I felt bad because there was beer all over my hand. ANYWAYS.... this is the Martinez.

 We read in the book of Mormon, in 3 Nefi 1, and we read this story and ask Hermano and Hermana to act as if they were some of these Nefitas who were going to be killed if the sign didn't come. The hermano got so into it. He was like, "Hermana, a prophet told of these things, obviously they are going to come to pass, Hermana, this is crazy I would be like, YOU CRAZY'S WHO DON'T LISTEN TO THE PROPHET!!!".. haha he just went off, and we applied this story to them, how they weren't listening to a prophet that we have today. We were really bold in calling them to repentance. We even told them, "Hermanos, the reason we are being so firm with you, is because we love you, and we know that God loves you and He is WAITING to give you blessings, if you just would go to church.." and he answered us saying, "yeah Hermanas, you're being pretty bold..". If there is anything I have learned on my mission, it's that you can NEVER be too bold if you do it with love.

They didn't come to church this week, but they are well on their way back.

Next, we had an incredible lesson with ROSA!

But before I tell you what happened I will give you context.

The day before Hermana Izu and I had so many appointments we had to call President Woodbury to get permission if we could go on splits with people in our ward, so I would go with someone and Hermana Izu would go with someone. SO many miracles happened, we got 4 members present in 2 hours because we were at different places. (it was incredibly weird without my companion, but completely awesome because I went with Hermana Ortiz, and she is amazing) Hermana Izu went to Rosa with la familia Delgado. They visited Rosa and taught her the Word of Wisdom. Rosa has some really hard addiction that she is fighting, and so teaching this lesson was pretty crucial, and had to be done by the Spirit. The lesson went GREAT (I wasn't there, but so they told me everything...). She accepted EVERYTHING, and just said with full faith, it will take a little bit of time, but here we go! She is amazing.

The next day, Hermana Izu and I went over to go watch Finding Faith in Christ with her and her sons. THEY LOVED IT. They would pause the video and ask questions. Nicholas (her 6 year old) has the cutest questions! He asked us, "How did Jesus know he was Jesus? How do we build our faith in Christ? WE NEED TO BE BAPTIZED LIKE JESUS!"

 The best question.... "DO DINOSAURS NEED TO GET BAPTIZED?? BECAUSE THEY ARE MEAN AND THEY NEED TO GET BAPTIZED" ha ha Hermana Izu and I died of cuteness.

Also, one more miracle... GIOVANNI CAME TO CHURCH and his familia! They haven't been for more than at least 8 years. They had their baby blessed. THE WORK IS GOING FORWARD. and I love it.

Also one more miracle, on Saturday I was on exchanges, but Hermana Izu and the other missionary that was here had a miracle day!! They found a WHOLE FAMILY THAT IS SO PREPARED TO MEET THE GOSPEL!!! This family, actually started because of a really cool lesson at Giovanni's home, and he invited one of his friends into our lesson and the friend listened and Hermana Izu and other missionary went back for them! From this one day we have 8 new investigators!!! I am dying over here!!!

This week is Hermana Izu's last week in the mission, so we have citas like crazy, (lots of eating citas... its how they show their love... yay for having Thanksgiving everyday this week!) The theme of this week for us is HIT IT HARD. We are going with all our heart, might, mind, and strength!!

LETS HIT IT HARD!!! I love you family!

All of me loves all of you all!

Hermana Hammond

Nicholas's questions

Do dinosaurs need to be baptized? Because they are mean they need to be baptized

Do animals go to the celestial kingdom?

How did Jesus know he was Jesus?

Why did Jesus have to get baptized?

 What do Gods shoes look like?  

 This is me and a new Hna, Hna Shipp! She has the coolest camera!