WEEK 34: February 17, 2020

No pictures this week, so we got a picture of him on Google Hangout

This week flew by again!!  This week was good!!  We started preparing Lede for her baptism!  WE had to do a Face-time to teach her which was different, but super cool!

Another super cool thing happened this week after our fridge broke last week (because they were trying to chip the ice out of the freezer and punctured the freon coils). We resorted to asking our neighbor if we could use theirs. He said “for sure” and then he invited us in to drink a beer and watch a movie (clearly we can't do either).  We told him that we can’t, but we'd love to tell him a little bit about our church.  It was cool and he seemed interested!

One thing that was really funny this week happened with one of our investigators and a family of members. We watched a film about the restoration which was super awesome, but also shows a lot of fighting scenes between the saints and the anti-saints. At the very end, it shows Salt Lake City and the temple there.  I made the comment that I live there, and the grandma of the family said “well, good thing you escaped!” (She was thinking the whole film was about modern times. haha)  I laughed hard and so did my companion.

Got high hopes for this next week and hopes that we will get our fridge working again!  Thanks for reading!

-Elder Hammond

From our conversation:

• Do you know what was so important that they needed to chill in their neighbor’s fridge? Soda pop, not veggies or fruit, SODA!  (Andrew forgot how to say “soda” in English, so he must say that word a lot.)
• He’s still learning how to budget his food money.  He never has any left over so hasn’t had shampoo for 2 weeks.  He assures me that his hair doesn’t look dirty and water alone is working just fine. On the positive side, he is staying hydrated with the soda they CAN afford to buy. Yikes!
• Lede’s sister, Wendi, is now preparing to serve a mission.  
• Carnival is next week and the missionaries have to be in their apartment by 5 or 6 each night.
• In Vacaria, the missionaries teach lessons in church EVERY Sunday!  Andrew was complaining that it’s hard to teach that way because he never knows he is going to teach until the branch president says after sacrament meeting “So & So didn’t come today, so you’ll have to teach the youth Sunday school.”  I told him that since he’s had to teach each Sunday so far that he should just prepare like he was going to teach and he probably will be.  He laughed and shook his head.