Tanner Hammond - Málaga Spain Mission: Week 85: If ya can't beat em

Hey Hi Hello Fam 💥

'Tis upppp everyone?! It's me again, comin' atcha from Spain. Another weekly report on what's been happening in my life! I once again find myself getting happier and happier every day and it's just good time to be me. I can't help but think of all the blessings I have in my life, the people I know, the happiness I feel. :) It's all so good and there are so many things all of us have been blessed with so count your many blessings. Love life and love God. Because God is Gr8. 💯

MY WEEK ----

Alrighty then, so Tuesday, we had interviews with President
and they went really good. We talked a lot about finishing these last 9 weeks with double the effort due to certain circumstances. We basically just talked about the work here and how to help it. We talked a lot about focusing on the right things once I get home to be a great son, sibling, boyfriend, husband, father and example in general to everyone else around me because there are eyes watching. 👀 Good stuff. We missed our bus due to talking to him for so long so we had to wait in Sevilla and it was fun. :)

Wednesday we had to go back to Sevilla for a Zone Conference. I mentioned last week, I got to see my best friend T Becks for first time since 2015. 😭😭 It was a great day to say the least. He didn't save me a seat to eat with him so that was messed que hay though. 😌 I also got to see some ex comps who I love dearly, and a familiar face from WX good ol Chad! It was a great conference and was filled with great insight on how to be a better missionary.

Freakin Beckstrom and I are such a good team, if we were comps.. ahh man. Sister Anderson kinda threw down on some peeps for their dirty apartments that were inspected haha. And also, whenever we get interviewed while we wait, we teach her as if she was an investigator. She threw down on us and basically said we need to be better teachers and that Jesus wasn't a prophet, he was a teacher. It was good stuff! In our defense, we only teach in Spanish so teaching in English was absolutely not normal. I thought we did a fine job but she thought otherwise 😬 and it's good to be reminded. It
solid 2 hour bus ride and that was that.

We met with a homie named Prince who we didn't know was a member. We thought we had a baptism but then we find out he's a member. It was awkward for sure. He's homeless, from Ghana and so we met with him on a park bench last week. It was a funny lesson because my companion likes to make people laugh randomly so it was funny. Prince is a good guy for sure though. He won't come to church but he loves "da eldas fum da chuch of Jesus cwist of latta day saints" hahaha! That's what he calls us every time he says our name or anything relevant to the church. Really funny. He's a great guy. :)

We met with Amalia again!! It was another solid lesson and she is progressing reading the Book of Mormon. :) We are trying to get a really good friendship with her so that she has a good first impression of the missionaries and mormons in general and we can be our friend if she ever needs us. And so we will talk about random stuff and it's been going really good. :) She doesn't believe in God... yet. But she said she wants to because it would make life easier. We showed her the video The Hope of God's Light, and she absolutely loved it! I looked over at her midway through the video to make sure she was understanding it and she had the chills! It was so awesome! :) We got done and she was like that was incredible. So we talked a little bit out it after and we ended by inviting her to pray to know if God really is there and we bore testimony of His love for her and that He misses her and wants to help her. :) It was a solid lesson all around !😌

SEMANA SANTA!! Holy freakin crazy! Jesus and Mary are everywhereeee. So many people. During the week of Easter, Spaniards go all out people. Like the whole city is just a giant parade and party and so it's just absolutely nuts. We tried to go work yesterday and to go our area. To get to our area you gotta go thru the central part of town which is where ALL the parades and parties are. Sooo we got stuck for 3 hours in the city and finally after about 45 minutes we went with the tactic "Well, if ya can't beat em, join 'em!". So we watched some of the parade and stuff and tried to contact some people. It way very good because we have pictures of Jesus and so we did our best with that. Some people listened, others just took our card because "pity the fool" 😎 which was still good. I'm excited for this whole week! 😂 You'll see lots and lots of pics so be ready.

I love you all! I hope you have a fantastic week and you'll be hearing from ya boii in another 7!! 😛

Much love.
15 Minutes in Heaven 😍
Mister Tanner Hammond