Dec. 15, 2014 This week in The Galapagos!

Dec. 15, 2014

This week in The Galapagos!

I just LOVE MY MISSION soo much!! Maybe that or it's just the place I am in!! The Galapagos really are soo beautiful and I love it here so much! Okay so I am here on an island that's called Canta Cruz!  It's super awesome! The people here are cool!  There's like 2 parts to the island - a high part and a low part! The high part is seriously like the jungle! The low part is like a port and that's where we live!  It's great!  Really, I could just spend all day on the higher part because seriously it's like Jurassic Park!  It's amazing and I love it!! I love Ecuador! It's so fun!  We are waking up at like 5:45 in the morning to go running everyday! It's soo fun not really but it's good because I'm getting fat, super fat! So it's good for me!  I hope it helps because I'm always so tired!!

Lunes! Was great we had an amazing noche de hogar with a lot of members here and it was super fun to share our testimonies! What was even better was that it was in the high part and soo super green!  It's just like a dream! Super dark and the people are so humble and they want to learn more and we teach them and I love it soo much!! We shared our testimonies about Christ and his birth and importance why he came here!

Martes! We had the great opportunity to teach our family that are going to be baptized soon! Well at least I hope!  We also had the great opportunity to give 3 priesthood blessings! It was the fist time I've given a priesthood blessing on a home! It was different, but I loved doing it! Then after that I gave 2 blessings of comfort to 2 widows! They have such hard lives, but that's why I love the gospel, we can reach them and teach them how to have BETTER amazing lives!! I love it!!

Jueves we had the great opportunity to do service for a family!  Let me tell you, it was service! We had to move lava rocks like half a block away and it took us like 2 to 3 hours to do!  I was okay with it because we were sweating like hogs in the Galapagos and it was in the high part so it was super beautiful!!  After that, this family wanted us to gather their chickens and oh my gosh!! They are sooo fast!!!!!  There were like 20 of them! No wonder why the old people lived longer, they chased and gathered chickens! They hurt too, just saying!!

 Something I loved this week was, we were teaching a family about the restoration of the gospel and about Jose Smith!  We watched the movie!  It is SOO POWERFUL!! It was just awesome and powerful! After I bore a strong testimony about His divine work that the prophet had to do here on the earth!  The great life that Jose lived! It was soo cool and everybody felt the spirit super strong!

I love this week and all that it did for the lost and sick!

 Today lunes!! WE WENT TO SEE THE HUGE TURTLES!!! THEY ARE HUMONGOUS!!! THEY ARE COOL! I love you all!!  Can't write more! Thanks for all of your prayers for me!! Have an amazing week!! 
Another week closer to Christmas!!
Love, Elder Hammond