Dear Everybody,

 

So my companion has an interesting sleeping pattern, he likes to wrestle in his sleep. haha me and him wrestled last week while he was asleep and he still beat me! Yeah it was so crazy I was laughing so hard. I was on exchanges with an Elder from Pacen Utah, Elder Pace. We went to this Portaguese ladies home. We met her and said we would come back when we got a book of mormon in portaguese. So we went back with a member. We taught her and her husband jason about the restoration of the gospel through the Prophet Joseph Smith. And the end of the lesson we invited them to baptism and they acceptted :) so we will be teaching them this week.

 

One of our investigators John has been doing really well. He missed church yesterday because something happened. So we stopped by and talked to him for awhile. At the end of talking, without us even mentioning anything, he asked how do I get baptized? We were like wow John that is so great that you have a desire to be baptized! We will help him through his hard time and eventually into baptism :)

 

We were able to teach our recent convert Shuet Yee this week. Her hand is healing quite nicely. We taught her in Asda cafe, which is like Walmart. Then at the end said a prayer in front of everyone. It just goes to show, we can make anywhere a holy place. And can pray anywhere.

 

I was looking at my family history this week, and saw a picture of my great great grandfather Milton Hammond! That was so great to see. Also saw on the church website that there was a massive tsumani in the Phillipienes :( that is scary.

 

On Saturday we were teaching this lesson on what we believe to a family, we have been serving them alot. We went over the Article of Faith and exactly what we believe. We explained how you must be baptized by somone holding the priesthood. And that the child must be accountable. The daughter asked if she could be baptized and the mother told her no. She asked again and her grandma told her to stop being silly. It broke my heart. Me and my companion testified of the importance of the gosple. And I started to testify of eternal families and started to tear up a bit, and the little girl started making fun of me. Yeah a 19 year old boy getting made fun of for crying by a 8 year old girl :). I pray the mothers heart will be softened. and that someday the childeren will be able to be baptized.

 

This is my last P day before the transfer, so there will be no email next week, maybe Wednseday if I stay, Thursday if I leave!

 

l Love you all,

 

Love Elder Hammond

 

This is my district and me and Elder Kunzler with our hats on :)

Dear Everyone,

 

So this past week was Guy Fawks night. It is a celebration of a man that tried to blow up parliment and was stopped or somthing like that. Anyway we went with a member and watched the fireworks. It was quite nice to see them. It reminded me of the 4th of July! Which was 4 months ago,... I can't believe its been 4 months.

 

I was on exchanges with an Elder from Holiday Utah. His name is Elder Manning. He is the one that was 3rd in the nation for wrestling and played highland rugby. Found out his dad is cousin's with Peyton and Eli Manning!! So that was quite a shock!

Our newly baptized member Shuet Yee had to get surgery this week. Her finger was all messed up. So we have been praying for her alot.

 

Friday night we were at Naomi and Bue's they are so great. We taught them the Restoration and they were asking questions like were do people get the authority or priesthood. So explained about prophets and how Joseph Smith restored the priesthood to the earth.And at the end of the lesson Bue said the closing prayer and the spirit was so strong! they are progressing really well.

 

Our dated investigator Terrence is great. We met with him yesterday. He is struggling a little with the word of wisdom, so we gave him a priesthood blessing. I was the spokesman. I am so happy I have the priesthood and that I can bless peoples lifes with it. I am proud I am a worthily representative of Jesus Christ that I get to bear his name and be his missionary.  I hope you all have a great rememberance day! God Bless :)

 

Love Elder Hammond

 

A week of Halloween!

Dear Everyone,

 

I had a very happy Halloween! It was quite a celebration out here. They light off fireworks and you see alot of crazy people dressed up. But thankfully I had the opportunity to help with the ward halloween activity. We had lots of nonmembers there. and they were able to a comfortable way to be in the church. We had lots of candy. And we thought it would be useful to putmormon.org cards on all of the candy and our names and numbers. So that they could bet a hold of us to teach them more.

 

This week we taught a lady and her son. Their names are Naomi and Bue. They are so great. she recently lost her brother, so her heart is really soft. She wants to know where he is at. So we explained the spirit world, and the members where able to bear powerful testimony of the atonement and that they would see him again. Naomi and Bue are so great. It was raining, so they gave us a ride back home :)

 

Last Wednesday we went to our recent convert Shuet Yee's for lunch. She fixed us Lamb chops. I have never had lamb before, but that wasn't the strangest thing I had all day. Later that night we went to a members home. She is from Nigeria and her husband from Whales. She fixed us some african food. we had ox tail soup. And yes it was actual Ox tail. but boy was it delicious. I absolutely love african food :) and foo foo. It is hard to describe what it is, but it is so good.

 

We are working with this boy name Terrence. He is 23 and has been really taking on board our message. He was taught awhile ago, but faced really bad peer pressure so dropped the missionaries. But now he is starting to get back into it. We were teaching about the restoration and he had a testimony that this was God's church on the earth. So we invited him to baptism and he will be preparing for his baptism on the 30th of November :)

 

More great news! We were at a meeting with other missionaries last night and their investigators. We saw Rikesh, the boy me and Elder Kunzler were teaching in Liverpool. He was the one that his dad wouldn't let him be baptized. Saturday his dad said he could be baptized!! I was so shocked. I gave him a big hug :) Rikesh will be baptized on the 16th of November :) I am so excited for him! He will be a great member of the church.

 

Thank you all so much for all the love and support I have :) I love you all

 

Love Elder Hammond