Hey family!
I hope you all are doing well! I have been worried about yall this past week for some reason so i hope all is well. This was a pretty slow week for us, its so hot and lots of people leave Lake charles for the summer to get away from the heat. but we have been trying our best to stay busy and to find the Elect! easier said then done. haha
mon- we went to beaumont for our combined zone pday and we watched the best two years. it was so funny to watch all of the missionaries crack up and be like oh that makes sense now. haha it was really cool which was nice becasuea everyone has been telling me about how miserable july and august are. but we got a cool front so that was really nice. We went to visit brother Boise and i said goodbye becasue i was assuming that i would be getting transfered. I gave him a hug. Whoops. I have hugged so many men this week. I am probably going to get sent home! haha but ppl down here love to hug!
tue- we had 5 member present lessons set up and all of our gators cancled on us! it was soooo sad! so we just checked up on a bunch of formers and none of them had time for us and told us to come back later. so then we just did tracting which noone is ever home but we do our best to go to places where it looks likek ppl are home.
wed- we usually dont tract really nice rich areas casue they have a reputation for not talking to us but we decided to anyway and we found a really solid potential so that was awesome! then we visited with a LA that we just got into contact with and he basically told us taht he dosent have time for church but he still believes the church is true and everything. but he siad that even tho his wife is catholic we could come over anytime and they would feed us. so he was super nice and we had a good visit. then we taught Carl and he told us that we are trained really well to talk about the priesthood because we keep trying to tell him that he needs to be baptized by the proper authority. he is so funny. he thinks we are brainwashed to talk about the priesthood. I said goodbye to him so if i can ever get my camera to work i will send you a picture of us! haha then we went to visit Rose and i said goodbye to them. Rose is the sweetest lady. And i feel really bad for her. but i am glad that i got to work with her and hopefully i was able to help her in some way. After dinner we did some tracting and we talked to this lady on her porch for a long time about how much she loves her church and how it changed her life. It is so hard when you meet ppl like that becasue they really have changed and they are being blessed and they are happy but they are still missing so much! We went to check on a LA man Niraj who is from Nepal and his family they are doing well and they were having a big partry so we didnt stay very long. hopefully we will get to teach the whole family soon! well i guess sister Barton will get to teach them. But i still hope they get taught eventually!
thur- Was a really slow day and it was super hot. We went to visit maw maw jones and try and teach her friend that she has been talking to but the firend was gone so we just talked to maw maw for a minute and then we did our hour of power which got moved up to 5 for safety reasons and we knocked on 40+ doors and only two ppl answered and they didnt want us. hahah but it was good and we felt good about it becasue even tho it was a holiday and noone was home we were still diligent and obedient and did what we were asked. then we went to our ward party and had dinner and a couple of our LA that we have been working with were there so that was happy for us! and then our president wanted us with member or in our apartments unless we had lessons. and all of the members had plans and were going to watch the fireworks and wouldt be home in time for our curfew so we just went home. It was weird. i always forget that i am not in utah anymore and that lots of ppl get drunk on holidays and i guess its not safe for us to be out. haha i wanted to go do work cause evening is the best cause its not as hot and more ppl are home.
fri- we had zone meeting, my last one in the zone. it was good. we talked about being more consecrated missionaries and our zone leaders made us this chart that we are supposed to fill out and how our missions will benefit the rest of our lives. it made everyone trunky. haha then we went on exchanges so i stayed in orange with sister Hyde and erickson and Gremlin went to lake charles with sister Barton. orange is a really open area. basically everyone you talk to is open to you coming back. i wish lake charles was like that! haha Exchanges are good.
sat- I was in orange half the day so we did service all morning. and we went to the church to help give out the food from the bishops store house. that was really interesting. but it was good. Its sad how many people are struggling. it sure makes me feel even more blessed! Then after we exchanged back we went to teach a little old lady that we fould tracting but once we started talking to her we figured out that she has short term memory loss. haha so it was a interesting lesson. then we did some more tracting and checking up on potentials. then we had a prompting to go and visit Keitha, a LA lady i dont know if i have told you about her befor or not. but when we got there she was so happy and said that she had been praying all day that the sisters would come over. She is having a hard time and her brother is dying so we talked to her for a while and i said goodbye and i cired to much! i didnt think i was that attatched to her but i guess i am! she has a soft spot in my heart. Then i got the call that i was being transfered and then i really started stresssing and thinking about packing! haha i have so much stuff.
sun- my last corellation meeting i am going to miss the elders i serve with here so much! it has been a good 6 months. I am truly blessed to have been able to serve here in lake charles for the time that i did. I met so many good pelple and made so many memories that i will treasure forever. Michael bore his testimony and talked about how grateful he was for me but he calls me pocahauntis. haha and then it was really sweet untill he started talking about politics and at the end instead of saying amen he just said thank you and walked off. haha it was so funny! The reynolds took us home with them so we would have to use our miles and we had dinner with them and they made bbq in honor of me cause its my favorite. it was so cute. I cried so much saying goodbye to them. they are like my grandparent now! I went to say goodbye to Lee Savoie and he told me that i made a difference in his life and he is truly grateful for me. He melts my heart! what a cute little old man. We went to go teach a lady that we found but there was a creepy guy outside her house that wouldnt let us talk to her so we jsut left.
And now today i have been packing all moring and trying to get everything together for me to leave. I am really sad about leaving but It will be good for me to have a new place, new streets to tract and new ppl to love. Lake Charles is like my second home now and even tho i could never live here i will always love it! I am excited to find out where i am going next and the new adventures that i will have. I am so blessed to be a missionary! I would have never expected to be where i am at this point in my life but there is nowhere else that i would rather be then out here sweating my guts out talking to ppl about the restored Gospel! the church is true, i know that with every part of my heart and soul! This Gospel has brought so much into my life and so many blessings. I am grateful for all yall and the support that i get. I love you soooo much! have a good week! Dont send my anything or i wont get it forever! hahah Love yall!
Sister Hamilton
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