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

Tears all around (from 8/12)

Dearest Family, Oh how i love you dearly. Can i just start by saying how much i love you? I really do. and I hope you know that. I hope you know how much i pray for each one of you individually and plead with the lord for you and the different things that each one of you are going thru. Words cant express how much i care for you. Yall are the best.

So this week has been a CRAZY week. I think i have felt the most different emotions this week then i ever have my whole mission. it was crazy. but i have learned alot about myself and also my companions. So first thing i learned is that I am SUPER out of shape. haha on monday at our zone pday we did all sorts of sports but i almost died. i just like to think that it is because it is so hot. haha but we had fun and i got a good workout. The nxt think i learned came over the period of about two days. on tuesday we had zone conference combined with the orange zone(my old zone) so i got to see my baby and all my old pals from Louisiana so that was fun. I miss sister Barton alot. we had alot of fun together but we also know how to work hard and do work. but anyway after we had to talk to pres about our companionship problems because they got so bad to the point that members could tell that things were not good and the zone leaders could tell so they called president and told him and then i guess sister kempton was complaining about things so she told him that we needed to talk. so we had a 2 1/2 hour companionsip inventory with president and sister Crawford. It was a bunch of Bologna at first but i decided that i needed to do my best to just get over it and i put on my big girl pants and realized that noone can make me feel any way. i am in control of my emotions and i control how i feel and how i choose to act. so after my two comps cried to pres for ever(I didnt cry once!) he told us to go home and just talk and get to know each other and work out our problems. so we went and got food and just talked and got to know each other better (Kinda) so that we can understand eachother better. I dont really feel like we got any better on a personal level but we did decide to be more open with each other. so when someone isnt happy we are going to talk about it instead of just letting it fester inside. So then the next night, wednesday night, i got a call from president telling me that i was going to get emergency transfered because a sister was going home so he needed me to go and be with her companion and help her get back on her feet cause i guess they had been having a really hard time. So i was totally taken aback because we were just getting to the point of our companionship working and then i was going to get taken away. So we just kinda sat there for a minute after i hung up and then sister kempton was like, No he cant take you away, I screwed up the whole transfer and i thought i was going to have one week to try and make things better. Then she started crying so i gave her a hug and reasurred her that she didnt mess things up and it was ok (even tho that was not toally true i decided to forget about myself and my hurt feelings) we just cried forever and she told me that she was going to miss me alot. So taht was a shock. i didnt even think that she cared about me. So i cried all night thinking about all the people here that i have learned to love and how i didnt get to spend that much time here but also knowing that i will go where ever i am needed but wishing and praying that i could stay. So it was a rough night. But in the morning president called again and said that he decided that i needed to stay where i was. so that was a huge relief! iwas so happy tha ti started crying again. haha Then during comp inventory it got a little heated between sister kempton and sister clegg. which i never know what to do. I dont want to but in there problems but i feel weird just sitting there watching. But We are alot more open with each other now and sister Kempton told me that she has really learned this past week how much i love the people around me and put my whole heart into the work and really truly love the people and her. So taht was nice. I guess taht is the one thing i am good at cause all three of my companions have said taht to me. that i am good at loving people. So atleast i am doing something right! But we have had lots of miralces this week. it is amazing for me to look back at the end of each day and write in my journal about the many miracles that happened that day. It is humbling to really see that we are just tools in the lords hands. one of the sweetest old ladies in the ward put it the best i have ever heard it. (She was talking about how she helped a family in need when the mom was going back to school and teh dad was working all the time so she went over to cook and clean for them.) She said "I didnt do anything, The Lord did it. I just had to be there because it wouldnt look dignified for the Lord to be carrying around a mop bucket." THis is so true! so many times we are just a tool in the lords hands. it is amazing for me to be able to see this in my everyday life. I love it! We found an old man Named James who let us in after 32 years of turning ppl away because he said there was something different about us and he needed to know what we were all about. he came to church on sunday and he has started reading the BOM. Karen Told me that she is so glad that i was unselfish enough to put my life on hold and come outand teach people about the gospel because she needed me. She told me that i have grown on her and she will never be the same after meeting me. We got a referral for a guy who found the gospel while in Boot camp because one of guys in his group was a member and he opened his mouth and shared the gospel with him. He came to church on sunday and we have started teaching him. These are but a few of the many miracles that have happened this week. These are the moments that make all the pain and heartache worth it. These are the moments that make me pour out my heart in gratitude each night to my Heavenly Father that he found me, Alexis Hamilton, worthy enought to labor among his children and share the gospel with them. I am the luckiest person i know, but it is more then luck. it is truly a blessing that i will be eternally grateful for. My quote from last week that i forgot is this; If you want the blessing, dont just kneel down and pray about it. Prepare yourselves in every concievable way you can in order to make yourselves worthy to receive the blessing you seek.- Harold B. Lee.  

I love you all! have a Great week!

ALLLLLLLLLLLright

Well Fam-bam what a great week i had! It really was a pretty good week. aside from being sick and. . . well i dont want to get to graphic but yeah i was pretty sick. The stress is getting to me, but Im alive which is all that matters right? So I have been thinking alot about alot of things, like usual so if this is all scattered and random, i forgot my planner which is my brain. sorry i will try and remember everything. Oh and this might be short cause we are having zone pday and we are going to go play mud football and a bunch of stuff but i will hit the high lights of my week.

So Karen, basically our only progressing gator is doing awesome! we started teaching her the POS yesterday and she had so many AH-HA moments and it just made me so happy! moments liek that, when you see an investigators face light up and they see the truths that htye have been missing and everything makes sense to them. those are the moments that i live for as a missionary. they boost my spirit and show me again why i am here. I was so happy. i was smiling all day :) she is gong to get baptized on the 17 if we can teach her all the lessons by then. so hopefully we can. she is crazy and loves to talk and go off about random things so it takes us along time to teach her. It took us 4 visits to teach L1 so yeah. we gotta work fast. 

We have seen alot of miracles this last week. during the hour of power sister Clegg picked the street and then when we got there she changed her mind and said that we needed to go somewhere else and sister kempton was really mad but we went to the other street anyway and we started knocking and the third door we knocked on the lady let us right in and we talked to her forever! she had met with missionaries before and she was super open to us coming back. she is AMAZING.  She has 11 kids only 2 of them are hers and the rest are kids who were in foster care that noone else wanted because they were too old or they have disabilities. and she was basically quoting the family proclamation to us while we were there. so she is mormon and she just doesnt know it yet. so that was awesome. we are going back to teach her tuesday.

We found an old man yesterday and his wife died last year and he wanted us to come in but we couldnt and he siad that tons of people have knocked on his door but he just noticed somthing different about us so he decided to let us in. so that was pretty cool. we are going to teach him on tuesday also.

Things are starting to pick up for us. We are trying really hard to get our investigaors to progress its hard to get pl to keep commitments but weare working hard.

We talked in zone meeting about buring our weapons, again. i seem to always talk about that. because it is so important. And i need to have my desires be more focused on the lord and the work. I sometimes dont have my desires focued totally on the work and i let the natural man take ahold of me and i get lazy and i dont have all my heart and soul into the work. so the weapon that i am burying is the desires of my heart. My desires always need to be focued on the work. In Preach my Gospel under faith in Lesson 3 it says that God can help us change the desires of our hearts. I have to work. God is only going to help me. he isnt going to do it for me. I have to pray and work hard to get the blessing that i want. I had a really great quote but it was in my planner that i forgot so i will send it next weeek.

I have been being really hard on myself lately because i see all of these awesome missionaries around me all the time doning really awesome things and todya i had some personal revelation during studies when i was looking over my notes from the MTC and trying to decide what my weapon was that i was going to bury. And I realized that God just wants us to work to improve ourselves, he doesnt expect us to be perfect but he does expect us to work hard and to keep working and never give up. I can try and try my hardest but i will never be perfect, I am a work in progress, a construction zone, a Glorious being Capable of becoming. Becoming what my Father in Heaven wants me to become. Becoming the missionary that he expects, Becoming the Sister, daughter, wife, mother anything that i am called to be, i am capable of becoming. We all are. We are all Glorious beings and our heavenly father loves us and wants whats best for us. And its better to be a contruction Zone then a bumpy pot hole filled road where no work is going on. Remember that.

Love sister Hamilton

Ollo

Hey Hey Hey

Well this week has been pretty awesome! its amazing what an attitude change can do for you! Mom i think i finally understand what you ment when you would always tell me that noone can make me feel a certain way. only I can influence how i feel. So yeah this week has been good. Not to say that its not hard anymore, believe me, its still super hard. but i am just finding more joy in the work and learning to just treasure and love every minute of my mission because itgoes by so fast and i will never have this time back and i dont want to keep looking back and regreting things. But I am getting more used to Beaumont. I still feel like i dont know anyone is the ward, and Lake Charles still feels like my home. I dont get home sick anymore, i get home sick for Lake Charles. haha Sorry guys. But dont worry. i still miss you too. The ward is super nice and VERY missionary oriented so that is a nice change from LC and we get fed alot which is not so good. but i am doing better about not gaining so much weight. haha sister Kempton is the sister Training leader so she goes on exchanges once a week so that is good and gives me a chance to get to know the area better cause i get to do stuff. And sister Clegg just walks around like she is in a daze all the time and doesnt really do anything. poor girl. i think she is really homesick and her dad writes her a letter everyday and talks about home and sends pictures so that doesnt really hlep either. But we are doing really good. When i was home i never felt like i was funny cause dad and Kaci were always arond. but now my cmomps laugh at everything i say so i guess i am funny? who knows. you get a strange sense of humor when you are a missionary cause you dont have that much to entertain you. But i did find a huge dead beetle and i kept hiding it around the apartment to scare my cmops. that was pretty funny. then while Kempton was gone i tied him (his name is baxter) to a piece of thread and taped it to the fan so when she came home and turned on the light inthe bedroom he came flying off and flew around in the air! haha it was so funny. i was peeing my pants! baxter flew around the room for 10 minutes and she didnt even notice! so he started getting really stinky so i finally took him down. But i still have him so now i am going to hide him in the elders car so it will stink it up. haha im so mean. Oh and mom the elders here are Elder Limb who i was with in LC and Elder Ho Ching he is poly. They are awesome but sometimes they bug me and they are always asking me to make them food. but i guess hat is just guys for ya. haha So we have Karen who is our main progressing Gator. She is getting baptized on the 17th of august in a swim cap, nose plugs, ear plugs and sitting down not going backwards. she has a phobia of water and she gets dizzy if she lays down. so that will be interesting but its awesome that she is goig to overcome her fears and get baptized! she is kinda crazy and she came to a baptism on friday the ward pinewook derby on satrurday and churchon sunday and she has to be the center of attention. it is so funny. but she loved it. Kurwin is our other gator. He is awesome and committed to baptism our first visit. but he lives somewhere else on the weekeednds so he cant come to church here so we are working on that. I am in the Ghetto and there are always sirens going off and gun shots being fired but it is pretty awesome. I am atarting to love the ppl here and Today i am cutting a ladies hair in the ward who just got baptized and she just found ot that she has breast cancer. it is so sad. We do alot of tracting and LA work because there are alot of part member families in the ward. I love being a misionary and even tho i hate the heat I am loving it down here. I hope you all have an awesome week! I love yall sooooooo much!

Love sister Hamilton

Sweating

Hello all my loves! I cant believe that it is monday already. This week went by super fast and July is going by in the blink of an eye. I cant believe that it is almost over. Yesterday was my "Official" six month mark and I have a year left. That is so crazy to me. I feel like i have only been gone for a month or two at the most. But i am loving my mission and This week i really took a look at myself and all that is and has happened and I realized alot of things. First of all, I need to stop complaining about everything. My Heavenly Father loves me and knows what i need, and i dont. I know what i want and what will be easy for fun for me, but i dont know what i need. I need to trust him that everything i am going thru, all the hard times, the rejection, the heat, the companions, the tears, the heartache. all of this is for a reason and i just need to learn from all of these experiences and turn them into stepping stools intead of stumbling blocks. Next thing, We have this paper that is called the ladder of accountability and at the bottom is people like laman and lemuel who just blame and complain about everything and then at the top are people like Captain moroni and Nephi, the people who make it happen and no matter what their circumstances are they make things happen. So i am working on staying on the top of that ladder and making things happen instead of being at the bottom. I am a missionary, a representative of Jesus Christ and I need to start acting like one more. Next is that i need to remember to take a step back and realize that missions are supposed to be hard!  My 18 months have the potential of being one of the greatest learning experiences of my whole life! Even tho i have never read it, i remember seeing a book titled 'If life were easy it wouldnt be hard'. I have taken that motto to my mission. If my missin were easy it wouldnt be hard. It my mission is easy and i never have to work for anything it wouldnt be hard and thus it wouldnt be worth it. I would leave and come home the same person (plus a few pounds from all the food i am eating down here) Things in life that have the most value are the ones that we have to work for the most. And i want my misison to be the best experience for myself and also for my companions so I need to crack down and remember the hard times are worth it. Next, I need to do all i can to be with christ. You may think that because i am on a mission and i go and share the word all day that i am close to christ. Wrong. Satan works on me so hard, some days i just want to give up and give in, But i cant. There are too many people who are ready and just waiting for the gospel. they are sitll in that state of Apostasy, in a famine of hearing the word of the lord and they want it as bad as they would want bread of water in a regular famine, and i can be the one to help bring them out of that state of Apostasy. Our purpose is to invite others to come unto christ. Well how can I invite others to come unto christ if i am not there myself? I need to do all i can to make sure that i am always With Christ so that when I invite others to come unto christ they will have no doubt that i am already there. There are so many things that i need to work on and imporve and it makes me sick to think of the past 6 months that i wasted because i wasnt thinking of these things and i wasnt working on them. so much wasted time but that is what the atonement of Our Savior Jesus Christ is for. We have the chance to repent and to turn away from our sin and to turn towards him and commit to follow him more fully. I am not saying that i have committed serious sins as a missionary, but repentance can be even just commiting to follow the Lord more fully in our lives. and that is what i have realized. Sometimes when i pray at night and think over my day and talk to my Father in Heaven about the day, i may not always have alot of things that i did wrong, but there is always room to improve and Concecrate myself more fully to Him and to the Gospel and Being a missionary. My brain is so full of things that i wish i could tell you. but i have never been good with words so i hope that this all makes some sort of sence. Haha I really had a good sunday yesterday and I really thought about my Savior during the sacrament and how important and sacred the sacrament is. we taught some LA members about the importance of the sacrament this week and it was a good reminder for me. One of the apostles said that if we really could understand how important the sacrament is, we would crawl on our hands and knees to get it. We dont repeat many things in our church, but the ones that we do are the ones that are the most important. Think of the sacrament, we do it every week with the same prayers and in the same way. it is very important. We had president interviews this past week and It was a good time to evaluate myself and how i think i am progressing as a missionary. I was stuck in the mind set that i am not going to learn much from this transfer becasue i am at the bottom of the bottom and i dont get to do or say much but that is the wrong attitude. I can learn and grow from any experiece if i let myself and i do my part. I cant expect the lord or simply just 'going on a mission' change me. I have to work to change myself. and believe me its going to take a lot of work, and 18 months wont be enough time. But I know that as long as i do my part and have faith and trust in my Heavenly Father that I can become the missionary that he expects and the Person that i want to become. I love you all so much! i am so grateful for every single one of you in my life and I pray for you ALL THE TIME. I Hope that all is well and that yall are having an awesome summer and that you are all doing your best to come closer to christ. we all can be closer and there is always something that we can do better every single day. I know this church is true more then i know anything else. I also know that the Book of Mormon was written for us is our day and for the trials that we will experience in our lives and that it can help us come closer to Christ then any other book. I know it is true!  I know that my savior died for me, but more importantly that he lives!

Love sister Hamilton  

Transferred (from july 8th)

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

B-town ( From july 15th)

Well hello family. Its so good to get to email! i feel like it has been ages! this has been a really long week and let me just say i dont have the best attitude right now but i am working on it. this is a really hard adjustment for me and i am kinda in a depression mode cause i miss lake charles so much. i thought i would be happy to leave but now that i am gone i want to go back! haha i am in a trio now and it is a hard adjustment. having three girls in one teeny apartment is not very fun or easy. but i am trying to get used to it.but i am praying my guts out for charity and patience so it will come. It was really hard for me to say goodbye to susan. i cried a whole bunch and her and her family were crying so that made me cry evern harder! transfer meeting was good and I am just trying to get used to Beaumont Texas. its relaly different and i dont know anything about the area or the ppl and my comps arent much help. but we are working on it. I feel like i am being punished so i will have to ask pres what i did wrong. haha But I just have to think about why i am out here and why i am doing this. I love my savior and that is why i am out here. Because of him. THe work is hard and the realationships are even harder. The challenge now is to get my heart into beaumont because it is still pounded into the streets of lake charles. I dont really know what went on this week and i am out of it so once i get more used to everything i wil be able to give a more detailed email about my week. but i am alive for the moment and i am working on loving everyone! haha I am supposed to be a experienced missionary because all the real experienced ones are going home now. haha that is interesting. but Life is good. besided me being a whiney baby i am good. My comps are sister Kempton who is the boss and sister Clegg. she is really sweet and told me today thanks for coming cause if i didnt she would have gone crazy. so im glad that i am helping someone. I love you all and i miss you all sooo much! sorry for this lame email by thoughrts are all just scattered and I feel like i am living not my life. haha But i hopw all is well at home and that yall are all safe and happy. I love you all so much! have a good week!

Love sister Hamilton