The mission is coming much more alive now!!! Oh my gosh this week was super bomb!! I love being district later!! It’s fun. It’s really not all that much I mostly just take the datas of the companions and pass them to the Zone Leader. I had 2 baptismal interviews. I like doing those and I help out the areas and do divisions! Elder Lopez and I are going to put some people in the water here. I feel the spirit with him as my companion! He is really laid back and chill, but we had a lot of fun this week! We cover a ward and a branch here so we cover a whole lot of land. There was a part of the Branch that I’ve never been. It’s a bit on the outskirts of town and we found a little pueblo in the middle of the city, its a town of about 600 people in the middle of nowhere so we went and contacted there! It was so beast!! There were cows and chickens and all there!! I loved it!! This is how I thought Colombia was like! We helped some old lady that must be pushing 120 years old but said she was only 83 but we helped here with her stove wood. She lives in a house the size of my closet! But I really enjoyed this town!
Yes this was the statement that one of the members said last night in one of our lessons. I was like what are you saying homie. And this homie would not shut his mouth oh my gosh it was the funniest lesson of my life. This girl has been coming to church for about 6 months and so we were going to put a baptismal date with her. This brother just talked about the whole eternity in about 10 minutes. I was tappin him on the shoulder and everything but he kept talking. We are teaching a girl named Alejandra. She’s super cool!! She’s a 14 year old kid! But freaking hilarious. So my new comp Elder Lopez and I were trying not to laugh through this whole thing because he was just talking some real hard core nonsense. He even went into talking how there are oxen in the baptismal fonts in the temple but not in the chapels. He asked me why we don’t put oxen in the fonts in the chapels. I told him I don’t know the answer to that, that’s something I will need to study haha!! He then said, “maybe that’s a flaw of the church.” I was like brother what side are you on!! haha!! Sometimes the members are a battlefield here haha! But the best part was that Alejandra was even trying not to laugh at him haha!! Everyone was on the urge to busting up, so to relieve us of this burden of holding in our laughter I made up some terribly stupid joke so we had an excuse to laugh. It was some joke about the clothes of the Nephites and we laughed haha!! But the Lord blessed us and she accepted a baptismal date for 28 of June as of now we will have 7 baptisms for this date! With Elder Vigo we would have 1 or 2 a weekend but to not spend so much time filling up the font and all. We have 7 with dates and hopefully 10 for this month!!!! I am stoked!!
The mission is coming much more alive now!!! Oh my gosh this week was super bomb!! I love being district later!! It’s fun. It’s really not all that much I mostly just take the datas of the companions and pass them to the Zone Leader. I had 2 baptismal interviews. I like doing those and I help out the areas and do divisions! Elder Lopez and I are going to put some people in the water here. I feel the spirit with him as my companion! He is really laid back and chill, but we had a lot of fun this week! We cover a ward and a branch here so we cover a whole lot of land. There was a part of the Branch that I’ve never been. It’s a bit on the outskirts of town and we found a little pueblo in the middle of the city, its a town of about 600 people in the middle of nowhere so we went and contacted there! It was so beast!! There were cows and chickens and all there!! I loved it!! This is how I thought Colombia was like! We helped some old lady that must be pushing 120 years old but said she was only 83 but we helped here with her stove wood. She lives in a house the size of my closet! But I really enjoyed this town!
Elder Lopez and I like to be creative. We have a family that is living together but aren’t married. He has to get divorced first to get married and that costs some money which they don’t have. He has been investigating the church for 10 years!! I think that the other missionaries left him because he needs time to get married and all and if you contact enough and get some good contacts you can have a baptism in 3-4 weeks, so he needs more time so the missionaries have been focusing on him. But we had a killer lesson with him. We read in 3 Nephi 13 about not putting your heart in treasures of this world and focus on the eternal things. So I bought this freaking huge clay piggy bank!! Its awesome, then we hooked the lesson into tithing, because he’s not a member he doesn’t pay tithing. We told him to practice paying his tihting by putting 10 percent of his income into the piggy bank this will prepare him for the time when he pays tithing to the Lord in the Church. And I put a pic of the temple on this beloved pig!! haha! It was an awesome lesson. The couple cried and we had a great time!! I love the people that have a quick conversion, the Lord has prepared them, but I love it when I can see it when the Lord has used me as an instrument to change the lives of the people and see the progression of them. I am here clearly to put people in the water, but more than anything I am here to change the hearts of the people an invite them to come unto Christ!! That’s’ what I love as a missionary. I had that change of heart and mind this week. I was a bit sidetracked with putting the people in the water, but that’s what I have been doing. The Lord has used me to put 15 of his children in the water in these past 6 months here in Colombia, The Lord has blessed me with all of these people. But I am here to change the lives of the people. When I focus on the change I feel the spirit a lot more. My favorite chapter in the BOM is Alma 5! It talks about if we have experienced the change of heart! I love this chapter. I have been studying this chapter for like 2 weeks now, it has so much doctrine in this chapter!!
This Saturday we put on a talent show with some of the members and converts and investigators. I did the breaking the wood with the hand lesson on faith and trusting in God to break the obstacles in our life, they all liked it, it was a fun activity!!
So this week was a good one. We are doing new things here, and the Lord is blessing us for our intentions and work. With all of the conferences and all we lost 3 days of work, but we had a successful week of 20 lesson in 4 days!!! It was good. My new comp is awesome, we work good together, we both like to have fun so we try new things, on Saturday we are going to pass out bread to the poor on Saturday!! It will be great!!
The Mission of the Lord is going on. The Lord is using me as an instrument to bring His children unto him!! These past 4 days with my new comp I feel like I have done more this week than in the past 6 months here in Colombia. We put 5 baptismal dates this week and we plan are putting 2 more this week for the 28 of June!!
Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!! Sorry I didn’t write last week.
Love Elder Hammer
oh ya, for pday today we are having a ping pong tourney and an ugly sweater party!! I am stoked!! Heres some pics of Elder Vigo leaving this morning1 We had to wake up at 5 to say good bye to him. I bought him a cake and we had a small party. I cant imagine how it must feel to leave. Dad was right, I am getting to the point where I am really loving the mission. I know whats going on, and I feel like I am progressing alot and I am making a difference!! I love my area, we make it fun here, and the Lord protcts me daily,its amazing to see the Lord's hand in my life!!
Elder Hammer
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