I have had a lot of things that have gone on
these past two weeks with a lot of experiences and a lot of just the
normal. One thing that happened is that my friends Elder Sousa and Elder
Goes have now gotten a home closer to their area now. Well actually its
in their area which means now we have a house that is huge for just two
missionaries lol. But this week we have had our investigators really
really progress by either going to church or they are understanding
everything we teach them and literally throwing out the coffee from the
house lol.
One of the days we were knocking
doors ( we have knocked a lot!) we entered into the house and felt the
spirit really strong. Anyways at the end of every lesson we ask if we
can do anything to help of service of any kind. He began to talk about literally nothing and about life. It came down to it and he was asking
for food. And its not like he said i wasn't a hamburger, he just said as
small as a cup of rice would help his whole family be able to eat. At
this moment i felt bad because sometimes money is tight for everybody
but he was just asking for a little bit of rice. We don't have money to
give out but i do want to see how we can help him for sure!
The
other day we were fasting to be able to find those that are looking for
the truth. We passed a house and i saw a little boy running inside
(maybe 2 years old) and i had an impression... Knock their door and talk
to them. After lunch (because we were late) i knocked their door and
said exactly what i thought Hello my name is Elder Hammond and my friend
is Elder Pereira and we had a thought earlier that we need to share our
message with you because its important for me and i know it can be
important for your family and it brings blessings! Can we share this
message with your family right now? Needless to say we entered right
away and taught them. I don't know what will happen next but if i wasn't able to listen to the Holy Ghost we would not have talked to them. We
will visit them this week to see how they are doing!
Last
thing i want to talk about is we found a less active family the other
day with her 5 kids and how she wants the best for them (mom their son
looks like me as a 2 year old and my cousin Bracken lol). We were
talking and i thought of my mom! I remember my mom always wants the best
for me and my siblings and i am so so so grateful for my mom today!
When anything was hard she always brought Scriptures and God into the
subject and even when sometimes i wasn't always the best at following i
know we need the scriptures and God in our lives today! Thank you mom
for always being a big example for me even when i was stubborn at times
and didn't know where i wanted to be. Now i know without you i couldn't have found these things for myself. I know now we all need to search God
in our lives to be better people and to learn and grow. I know that we
have a Prophet today that talks with Our Heavenly Father and can guide
our family better ! As President Gordon B. Hinkley said Satan knows
where to place those bombs to destroy us and the first bomb is to
destroy a family. In these days we need to build our house on top of God
and Jesus Christ (our cement) and then build our pillars of church,
prayer and scripture pondering! I know this is a priority in these
modern days!
Love you all!
-Elder Hammond
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The pizza was my 6 months in the mission!!!! - Bryson |
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A new tie! Thank you Grandma! Its a woven tie! - Bryson |
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Jacqueline made a birthday cake for Bryson! Claudio sent me these pictures on my birthday (9/15/17) over WhatsApp and said that Bryson said he was sharing this cake with me for my birthday. Such a sweet son I have! I missed him more than words on both of our birthday's, which are 4 days apart. - Mom (Amy Hammond) |
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Thank you Jacqueline for making Bryson a birthday cake! Thank you Claudio and Jacqueline for always taking such good care of our boys, and sending me pictures and messages so we know how Bryson is doing! We sure miss him, so these are tender mercy blessings you bring to us! - Mom (Amy Hammond) |
Claudio with all 4 Elders
Such amazing missionaries!
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