Portão - Week 16

Hello everybody!

 This week was super crazy and divertido with lots of splits and a visit of Sister Franco that is the Second counselor of the Primary! She talked to us not really about how to teach or how we can do better but she gave her testimony of her conversion and how the missionaries had found her family when she was just 3 years old. We could feel her testimony strong and even being in Spanish i was able to understand along with a lot of other missionaries. There was a translator for the words that made completely no sense in Portuguese lol. She shared how she knew somebody that could know that God exists just by reading the Book of Mormon. She challenged us to be more focused on having the people read the Book of Mormon to have conversion. In my life this is how i have been able to be converted. Being born into the church means nothing but what helped me know that the Church is True is reading the Book of Mormon every single day! So I want to extend that same thing to everybody a member or not. Read the Book of Mormon every day and if you do so I know you will have a better understanding of Gods love for you all and you can know that He is there! 

  Also this week i think I have never had so many splits (when we teach with another missionary for a day) with other missionaries. We had 5 splits this week which breaks my record of splits in a week! it was very very tiring but we made it and got to find new people to teach! There were a lot of things that I was able to learn through these past days! A lot of good things! 

 Well, I don't have pictures this week! Sorry lol

Love you all!

Elder Bryson D. Hammond

Missão Curitiba Sul

2017-2019

Portão - Week 15

Curitiba Temple - Saturday 20/10/2018

  As the pictures are showing a family that I had the opportunity to teach and see their progress were sealed for time and all eternity on Saturday with their son Samuel that is 8 months old! I have never met their son because when they got baptized he was still waiting to be born! It was such a great experience to see how ready they both are to be sealed in the Lords House. Honestly, there are not words that I can write or say to explain this experience! I know that families can be together forever by the power of God on this earth. I am so grateful to know that this life does not end here on earth but is just a small part of our lives as literal sons and daughters of God! 

  I did splits with Elder Guttirrez (17/10/2018) which he is from the capital in Mexico! He is super funny and such a hard worker! We had a cool experience teaching families and young adults in one of the parks. That was something that I have never done until that day. He said it is hard to teach families at home so he goes to the parks to do that. I Learned a lot from him! Also, it rained on us and we had to change clothes and go back to some other homes! Needless to say, this week was really good! We also played ball with some other elders for exercise! 

Elder Bryson D. Hammond

Missão Curitiba Sul

2017-2019

Portão - Week 14

Hello family and friends!

  It was another week in the Portão ward! It was also another really rainny week but still not as rainny as the other two weeks! 

  This week I have seen a ig topis in the conference and in our ward. How we as missionaries (all members) need to unite in these latter days and work as a whole and not let satan win the bettle. We are in a world of more things of the world than spiritual things happening. Of people wanting to be baptised and cant or choose in the last hour to not be baptised. I know that this battle is tough now I can't imagine how it was when Christ was on the earth doing this work with the first 12 apostles! I know that the worth of sould is great in the lords eyes! 

  I am so happy within these challenges that we have I will have the privelege os seeing a family that I taught be sealed in the temple with their son that is 6 months old!! I will be going to the temple this week to see this wonterful moment in my life!! 

Hope you all have a great week!

 Love you all

-Elder Hammond

Portão Semana 1

It´s His Church - É a Sua Igreja

  This week we had a great chance to listen to Gods chosen Prophet Russell M. Nelson and Apostles that are chosen of God. In this short time of Conference, we have had a lot of answers to our questions and prayers on how we can be closer to our Heavenly Father, What we need to do to return to Him someday and more and more about the plan that God has for us. I urge you all to go back and study your notes if you took them and urge those that did not get a chance to watch or simply didn't watch, Go and listen to the modern revelation that God the Father has given us. Study what was said, meditate on HIS words through a modern prophet and then pray how you can best follow Gods words! 

  It´s His Church is what the Prophet talked about lastly that was a huge topic about 2 months ago and now we have a greater urge to say the name that Christ himself gave His church. There is a lot of nicknames that people have given The Church of the years but the Lord Jesus Christ has ordered that we use the correct name "The church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints".  "the most blatant omission is the absence of the Savior's name. ... When we discard the Savior's name we are subtly disregarding all that Jesus Christ has done for us-even the Atonement."  

-Prophet Russell M. Nelson

  As we strive to follow God and our Savior Jesus Christ in the small and simple things I know that we will have a better understanding of the existence He and God have in our lives and that he really does communicate with a Prophet that he has called as he called Prophets in the olden days. I am so happy to know that God gives us modern revelations. Let's all look for how we can truly take upon the name of Jesus Christ and say what he would say, do as he would do and serve as he would serve us! 

  It was a great week of answers and experiences that I will always remember! 

I love you all!

-Elder Bryson D Hammond

IM BACK! Portão - Semana 5-6

Well... IM BACK!

  Sorry yall, that I did not have a chance to send an email last week about my week. I am now writing about 2 weeks of work so I will try to remember all that I have to say! 

  Week 5 was a bit slow because we were working in a new area. Actually, we were given another area to work in while in our current area. Does that make sense? So our space to work is now three times bigger and so that means we have more to do. President wants to see how this other area is. If there is potential or not, which I know that there is because we found a lot of people there in the last two weeks! 

  On week 6 or six weeks in a transfer, we did three splits which means I worked with two other missionaries this week which was Elder Hill from the MTC and Elder Lira!! Both these splits were really cool and I learned from the two splits so much that I will be able to put into practice this week! 

 One contact we did this week was super funny!! We talked to her and she looked surprised or startled. Elder Alvarado was like have you already talked to two missionaries like us before? her response was "My son is handsome too!"  Hahaha she didn't want to talk to us that much but we couldn't stop laughing after this one! I think I have to funniest experiences doing contacts in the street! Another contact that we did after recognizing who we were she yelled "my but is coming I have to get to the bus stop!!!" I looked down the street and .... There was not even a car in the street let alone a city bus haha! Sadly this happens and remembering that it also happened with Christ makes it easier to keep doing what we have to do! Maybe he didn't have somebody say my but is coming but he went through other things for us! 

I feel like it's been a while since I have bore my testimony here. 

 I have had so many experiences in this short year and a half. But one thing I know is that he is with us always. He does NOT shut his door on anybody that is seeking him or not. I know that my Savior is with me in every contact, every lesson and every footstep i take. With whatever challenges, questions or just thoughts we have he can help us in all of this as long as we do our part. My area is by means not the easiest area but I know he has somebody here ready to see how the Gospel can change their life. I know that all that happens here is in His time and not ours. Yesterday Maria ( investigator) told us "you guys knocked at the right time that I was needing you most. I know that I would not of accepted you guys before. " Knowing that I can take part in the Lord's work by answering a prayer to just one person I know that we are doing all that we can! I love the missionary work and I love the people here in Brasil! I know that God is our literal Heavenly Father and he knows each and every one of you by name. 

I love you all so much!

-Elder Bryson D. Hammond

Missiao Brasil Curitiba Sul

2017-2019