Feb. 2, 2015 This week in the Galapagos!!!

Feb. 2, 2015 This week in the Galapagos!!

Well to be quite honest with you guys this week has gone by pretty dang fast!! I am really just so grateful to be the Lords servant here in the Islas Del Mar!!  Me encanta!  (I love it!)

Tuesday! We had a district meeting, which is 8 of us.  I am the district leader.  This time I gave a 30 minute talk about how we can dedicate ourselves more to this amazing work!! And how we can try to develop more  Christ like attributes!!  I prayed super hard that I could have the spirit touch the hearts of  the missionaries and after I talked and we had the meeting, one of the missionaries gave me a note saying! Dude, I look up to you so much! You are such a great leader! Thanks, the meeting hit me hard! I was like OH wow super cool!  So I am trying to be in tune with the spirit always so I can have these type of experiences a lot!!

On Wednesday morning, we went running and OH MY GOSH!! We saw the worst motorcycle accident! We were walking after our run, and there was a bus and a motorcycle!  They slammed! There were 4 people on this bike and I've never ran so fast  to them! All of them were bleeding like crazy from their heads because none of them were wearing helmets, and they were just screaming! I felt sooo bad because we couldn't do anything!!   It was awful! How great to start the day on wednesday right?!?

 Thursday!!  Oh my gosh!  I've never done soo much service  in my life!!  First we started out at 8 and helped a family who was moving out!!  That was AWESOME!! We saw spiders as big as like baseball mitts! I kid you not!! It was awesome!! I had spider webs all over my hands because this family hasn't touched this stuff in like years.  Right after, we went and pulled weeds for 2 hours on this patio! My hands were  raw after!!  I was like this is why I came on the mission so I didn't have to pull weeds!! haha, but it was good because they fed us!!!  AFTER THAT!!!  It was around 2 in the afternoon! We had another opportunity.  This lady wanted to chop down  a tree! But all she had was a machete!! So Elder Hammond (with a machete) chopped down this super huge tree haha it was funny!!  They were very grateful!!

Friday- we had a super cool noche de hogar (family night) in a house of a member! It was super awesome!! Super spiritual and it turned into a testimony meeting.  It was my turn to bear my testimony and then we ate empanadas!  While we were walking home my companion turned to me  and said dude I have never been so shaken after you testimony! You should have seen the faces on the people you were testifying too!!  So that was fun!!

 Saturday!!  We had a thing for a missionary that is going to leave here! It was super cool! The people (the family) don't have enough money to buy all the things for him, so they had all the ward get things for him!! It was  awesome!!   He wanted the missionaries to talk about their experiences and everything, and that was super fun!!

This time that I've been here in the Galapagos has been amazing,  I am sooo blessed beyond belief to be here! You guys really cannot imagine how beautiful it is here!! It's always super hot and it's super super green!! The sunsets and the sunrises are gorgeous!! Every  night you can see SOO MANY Stars!! I love it soo much! The Galapagos are gorgeous! I  DO NOT WANT TO LEAVE AT ALL!!! I want to stay here!! I love it!  I thank the Lord for letting me serve here!! I love you my family sooo much!! For another week in the Galapagos!!

Elder Hammond
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