Amazing Week!

Dearest family,

Well this week was amazing. that is all i have to say. So many great things happened! It was a hard week tho too. but i am focusing on the good. We face alot of ppl who are not willing to keep commitments and they will talk to us and be like yeah yeah come vack! and then when we go back they are never there. But we have two progressing Gators James and Karen

K let me just go off about james for like 5 years. I LOVE HIM SO MUCH!

He is the cutest old man that i have ever met. he is by far my favorite ever! He is the man that we met tracting and he was a miracle from day one and the more we meet with him the more we see how much of a miracle he really is. He loves calling us sisters, he thinks its cute and it has become his pet name for us. We had a lesson with him monday, wednesday, and friday.

On wed we were all crying! even the member that came with us. He was talking about how he can tell by looking in our eyes that we truly know that the things we are telling him are true, that he can see that we love God, we love our brothers and sisters, and that we love him. And that means the world to him. He can tell that we are genuine and truly care about him. Then on friday our member cancled two minurtes before our lesson with him and we were already in the driveway so we called him and we were going to cancle but he was so sad so he brought chairs out onto the front porch so that we could sitll go over. and he brought us cokes on a silver platter with straws and napkins and he was like " yall are young so i got you baby cokes!" ahhh so cute! Then he told us that he was having sucidal thoughts because he is all alone and he doesnt want to become a vegetable like his mom and wife did. and he told us that we were tyruly sent from God and that he know God loves him because he sent us to him. He melts my heart. I cry over him everynight pleading withthe lord to help him and comfort him. James likes to pretend like he is hard core but he will always do what we ask him. he just likes to give us a hard time about it. haha he told us he wasnt going to come to church this week but surprise! in walks james. haha that makes two weeks in a row! and he wants to start paying tithing. We are going to commit him to a date tonight. We had him read alma 32 and he read it 3 times and he was telling us about all the things that we have taught him that he is going to "Plant" in his heart and let them grow. it was amazing! he is truly ready for the Gospel. It is such a testimony to me that the lord really does prepare people everywhere to receive the Gospel. We bought him a plant to remind him of the seeds that he is planting and on the pot we are writing a quote from the bible dictionary about faith. it says. Although faith is a gift, it must be cultured and sought after until it grows from a tiny seed to a great tree. So please keep James in yalls prayers!

Next is Karen. She is getting baptized on the 31st and she has been telling us that when she prayed about the book of mormon and if it was true her whole day went better and she felt at peace, and then when she committed to her date she said that she just felt peaceful and warm, and comforted. So she is doind awesome and the Lord is answering her prayer. She is so funny. she calls us a milltion times a day and leaves us 10 minute long messages. She loves us and tells us that we are her daughters that she never had. She made us dinner of saturday. it was really good. she grew up jewish so she says she can cook really good. I believe her now. haha but i love karen, she is a sweet lady.

Now about my comps. So sister Kempton is getting transfered and i am really sad. Once she opened up to me and i got to know her we got along really well. and now i can truly say that i love her. she still does things to bug me but everyone does. And i am staying in Beaumont with sister clegg. I am kinda worried because she is not motivated at all and i have to drag her around everywhere. But i will make it work and do my best in the situations that i am placed in. I am going to miss sister Kempton, she is a hard worker which i love because i love to work hard to and its nice when you dont have to be dragging someone around all the time. But things are going great. I am laughing everyday, I am happy, the work is hard which is good. I love Beaumont and all the people here. I am so blessed to be a missionary. I miss you lots but this is where i want to be and where i need to be. I hope yall have a good week and have fun with school starting!

Love sister Hamilton