This week was a week full of miracles and things I have learned, things that I will forever remember and that I will always be grateful to my Heavenly Father for!!
This week my comp that was the other Z L left! I have my companion that I am training still, and also I have another companion that is my lider de zone (Z L) comp! I was left alone as the zone leader in a trio with another comp! It was very very hard because my comp and him didn't get along at all ...like at all! So, it was very hard!
This branch is very very new! It's only a year old.. the people that have callings have only been in the church for 3 months. Even the Primary president and things like that!
We are at war here in this city and Satan is fighting very very hard! I have seen the works of his power here in Naranjal I don't want to sound weird, but I have seen things with my own eyes that are truly frightening! Here in Naranjal we are at war! Right now the other Churches are printing out newspapers and are fighting with words against the church! People and members in the U.S think that persecution is over! The members here are getting persecuted right and left! I have battled with 2 pastors here in Naranjal.. I am teaching the members every day and showing them how to say and defend the truth!
Our missionaries here are getting down on this and for the first time in my life, I had an experience where I turned to a scripture in Doctrine y Convenants 6:32 DO NOT FEAR!!!! For I am with you!!! In our reunion (meeting) I shared a powerful testimony and a powerful message in the next verses until verse 37!! THE LORD IS WITH US!! DO NOT DOUBT AND DO NOT FEAR!! When trials and tribulations come it is testimony that the Church is true!! Our Church out of all the other churches is getting opposition! Every day we are working so hard to defend it!! It WAS NEVER EASY in the Book of Mormon to defend the truth! Prophets were killed, they were spit upon!! They were sent into jail!! FAMILIES and kids were thrown in the fire for believing in the word!! They would kill every person who would not deny the Christ!!!
Here it will not be easy!! But we have the truth! We have The Gospel!! That's all that matters! The church is true!! and I know it! It was fast Sunday and I got up and bore POWERFUL testimony that the church is true and it doesn't matter what anybody says! You keep reading the Book and you keep praying every night and the Lord will help you!! Jose Smith was a prophet of God!! The gospel doctrine class was full of people because they wanted to listen to what the missionaries had to say!!
Finally my lider de zona came on Friday and it's been a great help!! Today we moved the sisters for over 4 hours!! I was like, I want to write, I am hungry! I was carrying a bed up the stairs complaining a little but then I remembered that if Jesus Christ could carry a cross up a mountain after being beaten and whipped! I could carry a bed and fridge up the stairs! and I did it! It was a powerful testimony of the expiation (atonement) in my life!! I am learning soo much here! I love serving the lord here in His work and here in this vineyard!! We have seen soo many miracles! I am sooo excited to work more this week! Thanks for all your love and your support! I love you my family!! I KNOW THIS CHURCH IS TRUE!!!
Elder Hammond
Naranjal!!
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