May 4, 2015 May the 4th be with you!! Naranjal!

May 4,  2015    May the 4th be with you!! Naranjal!

  This week was awesome!!  SO many things to tell in SO little of time!! haha

 On Tuesday I had such a cool experience that I never thought I would have! We were talking to a man that had 92 years of age!  I couldn't understand him real well, but I was trying to listen and talk to him!  He said what do you think of marriage!  I said  "families can be together forever!" He said marriage don't work out,  because they don't understand sacrifice! I thought wow, that's such  a powerful concept!! I loved it!!  I was like it's soo true! The church requires sacrifice!!  So powerful!!  It's soo true marriages don't work out, enduring to the end is soo hard and is because people don't know how to sacrifice!! Missionaries go home because they don't know the concept of sacrifice! Being an investigator is hard because it requires sacrifice! I was just blown away by that!! 

Something that happened on Friday that was super cool was, we got to go to a hot spring. We got special permission!  We are a part of leading this branch,  and the youth needed leaders so me and my companion went! It was super super deep into the jungle!! Soo cool!!!!  There was a spring of hot water!  It was a place of Indians!!  Just super super cool we couldn't do anything, but it was soo fun to see Ecuador and the jungle! I loved it!!! 

 Saturday!! We had a baptism!! His name is Patricio! It was awesome! I let my comp baptize him so he could baptize someone in the river!!  It was fun!! Patricio! ha ha We are good buds and it was such  a great opportunity to teach and baptize him!! I love it!!!

 Sunday!! Yeah like always I had to teach gospel doctrine!  I was fasting and it was soo hot and my throat was dying!! My Spanish was wearing out! When I sat down the 2nd counselor asked me to teach the quorum de elders again! haha so 3 hours without sitting and teaching ALL of church!  In total I taught about 100 people about revelation and Prophets! Soo awesome! This week was amazing and a great opportunity to be here in Ecuador! I don't have much time because we are going to Guayaquil right now to a zone leader meeting with President Torres! PLEASE PRAY FOR ME!!!!
Love you!!!!! Elder Hammond

                 

                                      Beautiful Ecuador!!!!

Baptism of Patricio