Sep. 22, 2014 Santa Monica
Okay, this week here in Santa Monica!
It finally rained here!! Well maybe not rained but there wasn't so much sun as usual!! Oh my gosh what an amazing blessing that was! I seriously just die of the heat here! ha ha but ya no I love it! ha ha
This week wasn't all exciting to be quite honest! I've never worked so hard in my life! We seriously just pounded out this week! I can see now why missionary work is WORK!! ha ha I love to work! Well maybe not love... but I love the feeling of yes I am working as hard as I can and if I am obedient the lord will bless me! This week was total menos actives! (less actives) We have over 200 menos activos in esta barrio! (this ward) My goal is to have 20 active by the time I leave here! This week we had 14 people come to our church that were menos activos! They need to have 2 times and an entrevista (interview) with the obisbo! (Bishop)! ha ha so yeah!
Mom, ha ha funny story this week I broke out the candy! I ate so much candy and everything I probably had a major withdrawal! The candy here is terrible! I like Americas filled with sugar! ha ha! I ate so much and the peanut butter too! I ate a whole can of that!
It's bad because I can already see myself getting fat... I know it's bad! Why is this curse the same with every missionary?! It's okay if I work out in the mornings it will be good right?! ha ha
This week we worked with menos activos! We do have 4 fechas por bautismo! (dates for baptism) Which is cool! I placed 2 of them and one of them is the mom of Daniel Miguez!! She came to church! Those dang hard Catholics! I love them, but man they are not fun!! They are soo closed minded and I love teaching them when they don't hear anything!
Story of the week! We found a lady who is a miembro...(member) testigo de jehovah.(Jehovah Witness).. Catholic,.. and evangelic! What a mess!! She had so many questions and she is just fighting against the Book of Mormon and everything! She was just yelling, but I was so calm for some reason! It was soo cool! The coolest part was when I bore testimony of the libro de Mormon! She doesn't have a testimony... because sometimes here in the mission the missionaries only baptize for the number... not a convert... She was a number! It's soo hard to bring those people back! I bore strong testimony of the book of Mormon so much that she stopped asking questions and said that she will read it! WHAT?!! It was cool! I was like... that was not me... total spirit right there!
This week was good, fast, hard, long and exhausting! I can barely get up! But we do! and we are exactly obedient! When we are, we are blessed! I can already tell that the mission is changing me! I just have a stronger testimony than ever before in my life now! It's amazing and I am soo grateful for this gospel!
Thanks so much for all your prayers and support my amazing family! I love you all so much!!
Love
Elder Hammond
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