We are home teaching! Semana 6

Hello Everybody!

  So last week I lost all of my photos from the mission so right now I don't have photos because well I lost them and also I don't trust these computers here now! lol so I will try to send photos next week for sure. 

  This week it had rained a whole lot again especiffically when we are sleeping so that makes it really easy to sleep ! This week we visited a family that needed us in the moment. We made a street contact with this woman and she had 3 kids and a baby with her with maybe 6 months old (I remember when I was that age ....) anyways we tried to make contact with her through the weeks but she had been in the hospital for 20 days with her 2 year old son. He caught a virus in his blood that he had to stay there. She also stayed by his side for 24/7. She mentioned how she called pastors from a lot of places and nobody answered but we had arrived the same day she got home from the Hospital. We will be visiting her again and help her and her son however we can. We offered a blessing for him but anybody with white shirts ( like in the hospital) he is scared of so wont let us near. I felt so bad for him because he has no idea what is going on. 

  On another note, we have been practicing Bible bashes in our house to be able to teach other people that have questions about our church which is really good way to study in groups. this only happens at night if we every have time but its actually really funny to practice and study like this lol. 

Today was transfers but we all stayed in our area so that's great! Another 6 weeks !!!

Com amor

-Elder Hammond

Soccer = New investigators (10 months)

So this week it rained a little as you can see in one of my photos and this was right before we left for lunch so that was exciting .... Anyways but this week I learned a lot training and also in bettering my teaching. One of the chapters or sections talks about how when we find we teach and when we teach we find. I started to really apply this to my week and we also taught more of what a person needs to hear and not always the basic lesson. So we were more aware of the needs and not just a lesson. We actually found more than double our goal of new investigators this week and a lot of them are wanting to learn more and are listening to our message! 

Also this week we were teaching a less active family and as we were leaving I said "Iago throw me the ball (soccer ball) I will kick it!" He threw it up and over the fence and I then kicked it a little just so it would return to him..... I forgot how strong my leg is and I kicked the ball up over his house and to the other street and all the sudden I heard a Bang! He tried to get a ladder and look on his house but he didn't see it. Anyways I said I will find it and if I cant I will buy another. Lol we walk to the other street with shame and found the ball on top of a house under the water tank. So we were yelling from one street to another saying to him we found it. Then a young girl walked out hearing us and asked if she could help us. I said laughing so I kicked a soccer ball and it flew up onto your house. Can we grab it? I ended up helping Elder Capistrano onto the roof locking my hands together . He almost fell I was laughing and then we just made a contact by saying this is crasy but have you heard of the Mormons?!  We ended up teaching about the Book of Mormon and marked another day to return for her and her family and a friend too!! Lol I was not expecting this to ever happen in my life but I think I will walk around with a soccer ball and just throw it onto roofs and then teach . Heavenly Father works in a lot of ways this being the last way I would of seen coming but we couldn't leave this opportunity and not share the Gospel! Without a doubt I know the church is true and that God has a plan and reason for everything in our life!!!

Her are some photos too!!

 

Love you all!

 

- Elder Hammond

 

 

10 Months already!!!!

I am so shocked that i am already 10 months into my mission! I never thought that I would arrive at this day so quick which is a good thing and a bad thing at the same time. This week we saw that our investigators have progressed a lot this week! Gulia and Franciele have been liking the ward a lot and better yet they have stopped drinking coffee for more then 1 week as of now! They have a baptism date for February 10th which is next month! 

We will be start working in a area that the missionaries have never visited before which means we need to talk to everybody without a person missed. Its almost like an area that could be a branch so it would start out small with our ward but possibly break off into a branch because our area is so big that its really far from the church. We had splits with the Assistante of President Cuvelier because they wanted to see if we have enough work for 4 Elders to be here or we only need 2 Elders in this area. We talked with them and clearly we have enough work here to have 4 Elders here and even the area is big enough to one day have 2 wards which is awesome! More to come with the area this next week but I am super happy here and for sure could stay for a while!

Favorite scripture this week: Alma 26:12, 7:23 and Mosiah 24:15. More then one but I liked them!

Love you all! Until next week! 

 

- Elder Hammond

HAPPY NEW YEARRR 2018!!!!

So this week has been a bit of a rainy week but its also been a good week finding more people to teach and getting wet because it rained every single day but there is a saying the more it reins the prettier your wife will be so i am okay with that! I did have to buy another umbrella because i left my other one in my old area so i wasn't too happy about that part lol. 

This week we have seen a lot of progress with our investigators ! Two of our investigators have stopped drinking coffee for about 5 days already which they have had headaches which is normal because its one thing that people get addicted to. This is a huge problem in Brasil that i have seen so to see them with a huge desire to stop bring a smile to our faces for sure! They have a date to be baptized and have confirmed this date for them! Lately i have seen my testimony grow even more about families and how when we are all following the Gospel we can see miracles and the Lords hand in our lives. I gave a talk this last Sunday and i talked a little about The plan of salvation and how this plan is made for our benefit to be with our family for forever and live with our Heavenly Father one day again! I don't know what i would do without my family so i am doing what i can to have eternal life with them!  

Lol something that was funny happened yesterday as we were getting home from our district meeting was that a drunk or homeless man chased us down the street like Forest Gump and all the same type of clothing 😂 Its great because they always try to speak English with the Americans so he asked what is your favorite sport and i said football (i should of said something ridiculous like ping pong or scooters just to see what he would say) and he said how do you play this awful sport? is it like sumo wrestling?! (talking really loud) . I said yes actually its exactly like that. 😆 Lol Always have something funny to say to them!!

Anyways i am online late because the lan houses have been closed until today.... I will be back on Monday! 

love you all!

 

-Elder Hammond 

of photos next week because this lan house is bad lol