I am so happy!

Family, it was so great to talk to Y'all yesterday! it was so nice and i am not even trunky like i thought i would be so that is good! it was good to hear your voices and to hear bum getting a deeper voice. so cute! and bubba doesnt sound like a little kid anymore. ahhhhh so sad. im sad to be missing all these changes but im glad that i am were i am and i know that this is where i am supposed to be! i just wish y'all could be here with me. they should start making family missions. that would be awesome! you move to a ward that is pretty small and then just do missionary work and help build up the ward. maybe i will have to write the first pres about that. hahah

mon-was a good day. we were trying to contact formers but the one we were trying to find moved but we left a BOM with the guy that lives in the house now. so that was good.

tue- we met with savannah and had a good meeting. we brought sister reynolds with us and she was amazing! she brought the spirit so strong! w3e decided that we need to bring her everytime we go and teach anyone! haha then we went and talked to this LA lady that hasnt been to chuch in over 10 years cause a bishop offended her but she said that she would love for us to come and visit her every once in a while. so that was good. we had dinner with mama jones again. she is so cute. i love her. she walked us to our car after and she was so proud to be walking with us and everyone we passed she siad " these are my friends, they are missionaries." it was so cute! then we met with michael and we had to set his date back casue he loves coffee and said it will be hard for him to quit.

wed-we had new missionary training. we had to get up at 4 in the morning and get ready then drive to sulphur to meet the elders and the memeber that was going to drive us. it was a long day but the trainging was good. it was mainly for the new mish's but i felt like i needed a trainging just for me! we got home and 6 and then we went and saw kizza. we had a good talk with her and we talked about how sometimes we prevent our own prayers from being answered because we dont do what we need to to have them answered. i told her about how i was preventing my homesickness prayers from being answered becasue i would constantly think about home. well obviously the lord cant take that away if im going to be thinking about it all the time. so i realated that to how she wants to improve the quality of her life but she wont go back to church and quit smoking so she is preventing her own prayers from being answered. but it was good and it really made her think.

thu-we tried to contact formers all day. we only found one that was home and she wasnt even being taught! she was just talking to the sisters and they would talke about the bible becasue that is all she believes. so we talked to her for a long time well just listened to her for a long time go off about her life story. she would make a good mormon. but she is dead set in her ways. we did our hour of power with susan and she said the most simple and shortest prayer for us, but it was humble and full of faith and we had our best hour of power yet! we placed two copies of the BOM and we got numbers to call and set up appointments. and htis one guy wanted to come to church with his two kids. it was awesome! then we met with our investigator Jared. he is going to get baptized soon. i can feel it. he is so ready and preapared for the gospel. we had a really good lesson with him and we had a miracle finding a member to come with us. so that was awesome.

fri- it was pouring rain all day. i loved it. the roads all had about 4-5 inches of water on them so it didnt even look like a road and when you drive thru it the water sprays everywehre so it was like we were all boats instead of cars. it was pretty fun. we had district meeeting and that was good. the elders are so weird. i dont understand them. but i guess i never will. we contated formers and LA again and noone is ever home. its really sad. the Zl came and blitz out area agiain and we sent them to meet with michael and they think he is awesome so that was good casue sister barton thinks he is crazy. haha he kinda is but not too bad. he just wants to be an indian and he says that he had a vision that he walked th trail of tears and when he woke up his feet were all blistered so he really did walk the trail of tears. haha funny guy.

sat-we contacted this guy that we have been looking for forever. he rides his bike to the library so we finally found him and we talked to him and we are going to start teaching him. his name is gregory. so you can add him to the prayer list. we had all of our lessons fall thru today. surprise. haha but we did get to do service for a LA later in the evening. so that was good.

sun- was obviously amazing! church was good. and we had michael and savannah both at church. but the guy we met during Hof P didnt come so that was sad. but they gave roses to all of the women for mothers day and when we walked into class elder limb looked at me and was like you cant have a rose, your not a mom, so i said, ok if you want to play like that then i wont cut your hair, or hem you pants, or make you cookies, and he said ok ok you can keep the rose. hahah that little sassy. we went to the reynolds to call and they are so cute. i love them. then we went to a family the wards house for dinner. it was really good. we had grilled zucchini and chicken and sausage. it ws real nice. then we took cookies to some of our others moms here in the ward. it was a good day. I am so glad that i got to talk to y'all. even tho it wasnt that long i t was amazing and i am so happy yo9u are all doing so well! I pray for you constatly and i am glad that the lord is hearing my prayers. I hope you all have a good week and remember my advice that i told you on the phone! You are the best family anyone could ever ask for and i am so blessed to have you! And kaci i will do my best to get your present toyou by friday but i have to find the perfect thing for you so if its late dont hate me! but i will be thinking of you all day friday! have happy birthday and know that your sister loves you! and so does sister barton!

Love you all soooooooooooooooooooooo much! have a good week!

Love sister Hamilton