Elder Jacob Todd Hammond: Nov. 10, 2014 Machala Hey! This huge week!

Nov. 10. 2014 Machala Hey This huge week!

Wow, this week was a very very big week for me!! A lot of experiences! A lot of growing for me!! I LOVE it!! Well this week!

I'll start off in

Martes: We heard that we would have a capacitacion con El President! I was soo excited to finally hear from our President! He is powerful and I learn from him how we need to improve as missionaries! There were a ton of missionaries! I learned so much from him! You can definitely feel his love for us and I love that!! I really learned so much about obedience! How important it is for us to learn HOW to be obedient in our missions!! We can see the fruits of our efforts here segun nuestro obedencia! If we are obedient our kids and our grand kids will be blessed because of our efforts!! I loved it and it made me want to do so much better and more obedient like the 2000 stripling warriors!!

Miercoles!

In the Coco we heard that 2 people got shot and killed yesterday and they had the funeral there... funerals are very very different here... that will tell you how dangerous the coco is! I have another picture of the coco! The truth is I found out that the coco is the POOREST part in our mission! I just want everybody to know how blessed we are as Americans and as people of the church! We do not realize it until we see the horrors of Satan attacking the family and the lives of others! I am seeing everyday kids starving.. moms beating their kids and kids begging us for money to buy rice or a banana in the store! It just kills me! They're are people well women that are Moms at 15 or 16 years of age! They take showers in their backyard by taking 2 buckets of water and scooping the water out of the bucket! Wow, it's soo different! A story of the coco was this Sunday we had lunch with a very very humble family and they gave us our food and they were watching us eat and she said that we should hurry so the others could eat.. they only had 4 plates.. and those 4 plates were for us! So I downed my food as fast as I could so the others could eat! Wow!

Thursday I gave my first blessing, well because I always do the 1st part of the blessing with the oil but not the second part! It was really bad... so bad... my Spanish was terrible and not even I knew what I said but it was for Elder Narro because we are sick... we both have diarrhea... yeah it's AWESOME!! BRING IT ON!! I love it!

A miracle this week was that we had another baptism!! I had the opportunity to baptize her too! She wanted me to baptize her!! I just LOVE baptisms!! They are just the best ever!! Wow, this email is the longest I've ever written!! ahah but gosh I just want to tell everything about here!!

Something really that I am learning is something Dad wrote me and that is that the only hope for the world is the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is the only thing pure enough to save us from sin and from the evils of the world! We see this truth at a younger age than ever before! I am so grateful! I am so blessed to have grown up in the gospel to be born like Nephi of goodly parents!! I love my parents!! Thanks so much for all your support! I love you soo much!!

Love this week from
Elder Jacob Hammond

This is Dayanas Baptism! She is so smart!