Jardim do Sol - Week 8

Hello, 

  So this last week we have seen a huge change in our teaching group which is a good thing and also hard to hear people say that they don't want to receive us anymore. We have been able to see some of the people we found last week also go to church in the first week we taught them. we are able to see the progress of everybody because of the way we are teaching the first lesson (the restoration). We teach it in 5 specific topics. 

1. God is our Heavenly Father. 

2. Jesus Christ is our Savior 

3. they talk to us through a Prophet 

4. god restored his gospel through His Prophet Joseph Smith and 

5. The Book of Mormon is how you can know if this is all true. 

  We have found that combining this with 3 Nephi 12:48 helps show people that through this message they can strive to be like God and Jesus Christ through following the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is helping a lot of people from what we can see until now!  

 Such a great and hard experience working on Christmas but it was so cool to be able to share the gospel with so many people and try to help them with their challenges and difficulties through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 

  I want to wish you all a Happy New years!  Sorry, this email is short but I will have more next week for you all! 

 We played Volleyball with the youth today! 

Until next time!

Love you all!

-Elder Hammond

Feliz Natal Jardim do Sol - week 7

SAAANNNNNTTTTTTAAAAAAA ( Buddy the Elf - Elf Movie) 

  This week was crazy with a new companion and being the last week before Christmas! We had our Christmas zone conference on Wednesday which some of my companions were there for a little bit so I got to see them before they went home! We got to eat a lot, play games, sing Christmas songs and then we got training about the nature of Jesus Christ that our President Cuvelier had prepared for us. 

  Yesterday we had a really cool experience of going to peoples homes to sing Christmas songs for them. We visited some homes especially but a lot of the neighbors came out and we were able to introduce ourselves and now we will be returning another day (today and tomorrow) to visit them and to share a Christmas message with their families. I was not feeling like it was Christmas until we had a chance to do this so I am grateful that we got to participate with the ward! 

  Also this week we have been praying to find some people to teach because we now have 4 missionaries so the area is now split. We have been searching for a lot of people and we were blessed to find some families that seemed really excited to receive the message that we have. We talked with one lady and her daughter last week in the street and she said I have worked at my office for 10 years with your church in the front and I always wondered why nobody has talked to me yet. Lol We laughed and said that it took an elder from Portugal and an elder from the United States to talk to you. She accepted us to visit and as of now she is really excited to read the book of Mormon and know if the church is true! 

  This week was awesome with so many great things that happened! I want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas! Remember why we truly celebrate Christmas and not about the things! I know if we focus on the real meaning of Christmas you will feel the spirit in another way! 

Love you all!

Elder Bryson D. Hammond

Missão Brasil Curitiba Sul 

2017-2019

Jardim Do Sol - Week 6

Well, the mission is hard in many reasons! The closer I get to going home means the closer my friends in the mission are all leaving. Today I had to say goodbye to a lot of friends that I served with, did splits with or just lived in the same house or the same district. it hit a little close to heart this last 2 days realizing that the mission Curitiba Sul will always be the same but I as a missionary and representative of Christ have forever been changed by the experiences, people and with those, I have served with. It is really hard to say good-bye to those that I don't know when I will be able to see again. As for now like Elder Bezerra says " after its done are only left memories!" Is very true and not so easy! As I am in y last 3 months I have to focus more than I have focused and soak it all up! I am so happy that I chose to serve a mission and be a representative of Christ for such a short period of time. It's not easy but its worth it!! At whatever time or place we are at in life we need to soak up the moments and try to remember them because they fly by super fast!! Basically, I LOVE my mission and I would never trade it for anything! I know the Church is true!!

 As for memories here is one picture from a Zone Conference that we had this last transfer!

 I won't be able to send other pictures because I don't trust this computer lol. I already lost pictures on this computer ... I will send more next week!   

Love you all!

Elder Bryson D. Hammond

Missão Brasil Curitiba Sul

2017-2019

Jardim do Sol - Week 5

HELLO, MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY!!!

  So this week we are going into the last week of my companion Elder Bezerra so he will be going home to Pernambuco next Tuesday! He is not that excited but he has finished his time! I will be with another companion next week so this next week will be really cool! 

  I have decided that Curitiba does not know if it wants to be winter or summer which is weird because it completely skips fall. This week i woke up one day and it was so so so cold "que frio da cebola" !! We also talked with this older man names Antonio that talked about a lot of history that he remembers in his lifetime! He has lived in this area since he was 25 years old and not is 82 years old! He talked about the war in Lapa which is a town in our mission, talked about how he remembers hearing about the second world war while he was in school and how he helped build a bridge that connects Paraguay to Brasi here in the south. He remembers a lot of things from that time! 

  Talking with Elder Bezerra this last week we talked about how the spirit of the mission is so different as we are here from being home. We will never have this chance again. Here our problems are the problems of other people because we are more worried about them then ourself. Being here to serve is an honor for me and I have to take advantage of this time that I have left to give it my all!

Love you all!

 Elder Bryson D. Hammond

Missão Brasil Curitiba Sul

2017-2019

Jardim do Sol - Week 4

Bom Dia Galera!

  This week was super crazy but then again idk what would be the mission if it was not a little bit crazy lol. So the week started out with a zone conference which shows in one of the pictures some of the Elders and Sisters and Presidente Cuvelier! We started our conference at 2:30 and it ended at 7:30 and after we ate Habibs until 8:30. During this conference, Presidente Cuvelier announced that we will open up the church in Quitandinha for Elders again. With this Presidente asked us to help them open up the area so we went with them at 10 am to help out. We ended up having to sleep there because we missed the last bus to get home at 10 pm so we slept on the tile floor !!  Yay for not being able to take a shower lol. It was super fun though. We got back up at 7 am and left Quitandinha at 7:45 and got home at 9:30 to take a shower and to leave right away to do more splits with other elders! We were so tired but splits are fun so yeah!  

  Saturday we got to do a service project which was super cool! I don't have pictures but we helped put together a wood pane ceiling for a family! As for Christmas, we are focusing on serving as much as we can! The church has a cool program every Christmas! Light the World!  This is the first week!! 

https://www.mormon.org/christmas

Love you all!

Elder Bryson D Hammond

Missão Curitiba Sul 

2017-2019