Family!
I hope you had an awesome week! It was fun to get all those pictures. yall are getting so big and grown up! i cant believe it!
So i need to start out with a funny story. yall migh not think it is funny but maybe you just had to be there.
So on monday we went to meet our recent convert N at mickey d's close to his dorm to have a lesson with him. So we were in there and no one else was in there just us three so the whole restaurant was empty. well a while later a scary looking person comes in and sits like two tables away from us even tho the whole place is empty. well we were watching it and decided it was a girl, but she looked like a mix between michael jackson and ET so it was pretty scary. And she was obviously a crack head cause she was doing all sorts of crazy stuff and she was talking to herself and then she got up to go get more drink and there was a fly on a chair and she flung her whole cup of ice at it and it went all over us. Then she went and got more drink then went back to her table, then back to the fountain and got napkins, then back to her table then back to get napkins and she did this about 5 times in two minutes. then i noticed that one time she didnt come back so i turned to look and she was about 2 feet away from me with her hands like a gun pointed at my head! i just looked at her and said what? and she muttered something that we couldnt understand, so i said what? again and then she pretended to shoot me in the head and muttered something again and then walked off to her table. Hahahahaha I was dying! i almost peed my pants. it was sooooo funny and it was so random. only in beaumont Texas would i get shot up by a crack head at mickey D's. hahahah so funny.
Well anyway besides the fact that i dont have a head anymore cause i got shot up this week was pretty good! I went on exchanges fridayand we decided that we need to use the branch more and get them more excited about missionary work. and we already did the willing and brief message with them so now we are gonig to start meeting with them indivudally and follow up with the challenge that we gave them. I hope it will be good and we are going to really try our hardest to help them trust us and want to refer us to their friends and teach them. So i hope and pray that it will go well. They have such an awesome opportunity to share the gospel everyday with all the kids they see and go to school with.
This week has been pretty slow and its so hard for us to find new investigatiors. Its so cold and so noone is outside and nooone wants to talk they just want to stay in their houses and keep warm. But we were able to have a really good lesson with P on thursday. she hasnt quite grasped the whole importance of the priesthood yet and why she needs to be baptized again but she will get there. I love teaching P because she is so ready for the Gospel and she hangs on our every word when we teach her. She looks you right in the eye and she is always giving us her full attention. She was out of town yesterday so she wasnt able to make it to church but she did come to our ward christmas party. that was good. she was able to meet some ward memebers and get used to the church and now hopefully comoing to church will be easier.
R has finals this week so we were not able to see him. He apologizes all the time and says that he still wants to see us and meet with us, he is just so busy. I think that is how alot of people are. The holidays are a busy time and just like our church leaders last night said, we need to make sure that we are thinking of Christ and who this holiday is for instead of running around busy all the time and getting caught up in other things.
I loved the christmas Devotional! it was inspiring and uplifting. I love christmas time so much. I love how everyone is so nice to each other and the spirit of the holidays is the best. I hope that we will be able to find more people because i feel like they would be more open to the spirit during this time. but most people tell us to come back after the holidays. I know that there are people our here tho that need the gospel. We just have to find them. Its like an Easter egg hunt. Sometimes you have to look at it different so it is fun instead of a drag. cause knocking doors in the freezing cold isnt very fun sometimes, but when you think about all those people who need to hear the gospel and you think about how you are that person who needs to bring that to them you feel a sense of ergency and you want to work hard and make sure that you find those people. I love what i do and i love being a missionary. Watching paula and the light in her eyes as we teach her is worth all the doors shut in my face and all the raw knuckles from knocking in the cold.
I am so blessed to be the one to bring the gospel to these people. I dont ever want to stop.
I hope that yall have a good week! i love you soooo sooo much!
Love sister hamilton
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