Dec, 22, 2014 Galapagos

Dec. 22, 2014 Galapagos

I can't even believe that I have 6 months on the mission! To be quite honest I don't feel very good right now! I ate something bad for lunch ayer and was throwing up all last night. Yeah it wasn't that fun! It was at  3 in the morning! What is hard about missionary work is I have to be able to function... I have to be able to work and walk and teach!   It's hard because you don't want to work when your sick! You just want to lay in bed and have your mother at your side all day! But nope, you wake up at 630 and you exercise and get to work!! haha so that's what we did! Bring it on!! Well I don't have any time to write!!  We went to a place where the biggest Tortuga's in the whole world are today!  We just got on! SO sorry!! But I just want everybody to know that this work is of the Lord!

Monday! Super weird, we met a family that was on their  vacation and they said, elders!  I was like elders that sounds soo weird!  It was a family from Pennsylvania, it's fun to see members from all over the world!!

I really don't remember what happened Tuesday and Wednesday!!

 Thursday- We had our baptism!!!! ESO!!! The lady that's pregnant! We couldn't do it in the beach because she was pregnant! So en the pilla! That's okay!! I love this work soo much!! And I love the Galapagos!! I don't have to  feed families or worry about dogs!!  Or worry about getting robbed!! The 1st time in all of my mission when I've worked around with my camera in my pocket! It's amazing!!  But the baptism was amazing!

We had a  fun activity in the ward!!  We won the race of potato sacks!  It was fun! Then Sunday wasn't the best day! I had to give a talk in sacrament meeting, how about that!!  I was like well I'm going to give this in English  and all the congregation laughed!  I gave an 8 minute talk on the importance of the members in the obra  misionall!  You know at home when everyone says thanks for your talk it was great! Nobody does that here! They were like yeah cool! Got sick from lunch, we had an okay lunch I don't know why I got sick but it was really weird I could barely walk and that night we had the opportunity to give a blessing to a guy that sees devils and bad things happen to him!  I gave it, and then I said I got to go! I just threw all my lunch up! I didn't cry!  So that's good!!  Today I feel better!!

 

Today we went to the place where the biggest Tortuga's are in the WHOLE WORLD THEY ARE SOO BIG!! l'll send the photos!  Afterwards, the taxi wouldn't stop! We walked 13 miles!!!!!! Because the taxi driver wouldn't stop! So, it took about 3 and a half hours to get here! I'm super tired!!

I really cannot wait to talk to all of you guys on Christmas!!  I love you soo much!  This church is true!! Seriously, I love love LOVE being a missionary!! The mission is the best thing ever!!  I really want to extend if I can!! Ecuador is amazing and the people even more!! I just LOVE LOVE LOVE these people here! Even though we get rejected and they don't accept  the message! I just get so happy because this is the true church and I love the Lord and I love being his missionary! I love teaching his people here! Nothing brings more happiness and joy to this world than teaching the restored gospel!!! 
Love Elder Hammond