This has been one crazy week
and it has felt like I have been here 6 months and I guess that is
really normal because everybody says you kinda start to go crazy lol! So
something I just want to get out of the way is that we are not allowed
to send pictures while in the CTM (MTC-Mission Training Center). We can
receive them but we don't have the ability to which is really bumbing me
out because we just got to go to the Campinas Temple here in Brazil
and it was beautiful!
In the mission every
Elder gets a companion which is usually just one but I am in a trio so
its really exciting and we are rooming with two Brazilians so we are
having some language lessons with them some nights of the week. My
companions are Elder Larsen and Elder Valdivia and they are really cool
guys and awesome companions! I am also serving as a District leader so I
am in charge of nine other missionaries to make sure we are all on task
and doing what we are supposed to!
The first
night we had in the CTM we had choir practice and I thought it was really
annoying to have to do that but I actually really enjoy the times we
get to sing in Portuguese because I only know but 50% of the words but I
recognize the tunes and I could not feel the spirit any stronger in a
room full of about 300-500 missionaries. So singing has become one of my
favorite things to do especially when my whole floor decides to sing in
the showers haha! We aren't that good sometimes lol
I
have grown a stronger and bigger testimony as I have been here. Landing
here with the last time I slept being Sunday and next time being
Tuesday night I kept thinking what am I doing? And in this past week I
have come to realize that God loves me and everybody so much and that I
am literally a tool in Gods hands to teach his children so so much and I
am the only person that can teach the people of Brazil. I sometimes get
emotional because its such a struggle being away from my family and
friends the people that I love so much. But I know that in the service
of people I am only in the service of my Heavenly father (Pai Celestial)
and if I love him as much as I do I am here for a much greater reason
then I can even imagine!
I have to sign off
now but I love you all so very much! Keep me in touch with your lives.
If I am not able to reply its not that I'm ignoring you its just they don't give me enough time. I love reading of your lives!
- Elder Bryson Daniel Hammond
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Insert: I have added some pictures of the Campinas
Brazil Temple sense Elder Bryson Hammond is not able to send pictures
while he is in the CTM (Brazil MTC). I'm sure the pictures he took
personally feel so much better. But this way we can all see the beauty
he felt this morning and shared with us. It IS really beautiful!
💗 - Amy Hammond (Bryson's mom) |
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