Week 73: Selfies & Testigos 😛

Ladies & Gentlemen :) 

Ahh man! What a week it's been here in good ol Fuen :) S/O's this week: FAMILY cuz the best and sent me a package with dad's work friend full of letters and love. :) I love you family! :) My boy Brady Childs needs a shout out cuz he's peacin' tomorrow on the Lord's errand. He's gonna kill it in Brazil I know it. :) Good luck bro ❤ Also shouts to Grandpa Kenneth and my cuzzzzz Kanon cuz they have their birthdays tomorrow! Happy birthday lads, love and miss you both. :) Alrighty then... I guess I'll tell you guys a little bit about my week! 

So Wednesday we had Zone Conference with two other zones over in Málaga, it was a really good conference! The APs called everyone telling them they had to prepare a five minute talk and that they'd choose three random missionaries to speak. Well, of all 55 missionaries there, guess who was one of them? Yep, me. 🙄 It's okay. :) I talked about The Doctrine of Christ and read a little bit in 2 Nephi 31 when Nephi is talking about Christ's example that we need to follow. I also shared a little bit out of the talk from last conference called "The Master Healer". It was good stuff. :) That night we had English classes and after a less active member calls us and is like, "Hey! I have two friends over right now, can you come

over?" So we're like siiiick. We went over and taught them but it wasn't anything special. They didn't seem too interested and honestly I don't think either of them understood Spanish para nada lol. One of them was from London and the other was from Turkey. I'd say it in Spanish then repeat it in English. It was weird. 

But that same less active member literally planned out our entire week for us! She has a ton of friends that she wants to listen to us. She scheduled at least one cita with all of them for every day of the week. Thursday we went over and we met with a new girl from Ecuador named Nancy. She had a little bit of interest, but maybe the more we teach her, the more she will open up. The lesson went really well though! We talked about the restoration a little bit and how much God loves us. :) 

Friday we had a lesson out in our pueblo called Benalmádena. It is a super touristy place. I love it. It's beautiful! We were supposed to meet in a park with a guy, but he was taking forever and we had to get back so we called him and rescheduled for Saturday. We caught the train home and then we went back over to Lorena's house (the less active who set up all the citas) and taught our investigator Bridget! We watched the restoration video with her and she had a ton of questions about baptism and the priesthood! She loved the video and is progressing really well. She mentioned how baptism is something that's life changing and how she really wants to make sure she does it for herself because it's what the spirit tells her is true. 😊 She also came to church with her daughter Nikol again yesterday! It was awesome and they both loved it a ton. :)  

Saturday we went back to meet with the guy who bailed on us on Friday, and he bailed on us again. It's okay because we contacted this guy who was very religious and he gave us a picture of Jesus and he just went off on what he thinks about Jesus. He's a good guy. And I also got a cool pic of the park/ocean so I'll for sure send that. :) Later we met with Leonor! Her baptism was supposed to be this day buuuut she's still living with her boyfriend. So we talked to her about that and she said she literally never had time to talk to him so it's really hard. He's always busy or she is doing something. But we read with her in 2 Nephi 31 about baptism and how if Christ was perfect but was still baptized, how important it is for us who aren't perfect to be baptized! She talked about how she really does want to be baptized, and she had some doubts/questions about the Priesthood and why women can't have it. We told her the priesthood is meant to bless everyone, not just the men, and how God said it would be that way, so that's how it is. Luckily our ward mission leader helps us take care of questions like that too. She understands now and she knows that just because the women in the church don't have the priesthood, doesn't mean they don't play a huge roll in the church. :) It was a really good lesson and instead of setting a new baptismal goal with her, we set a goal of when she needed to talk to Jamie (her boyfriend) so that later we can set a baptismal goal again.

A couple funny things that happened to end my email and will explain my subject line. We were walking in the street one morning and this construction worker comes up to us randomly.  He says, "Yo! Can I take a selfie with you guys?" I told him yes and so he took a selfie with us. :) Then later that day, we were just about to leave to go work and someone rings our door so I go over to the phone and pick it up and this guy asks if Christian lives here. I said I was sorry but he had the wrong piso. Two minutes later someone knocks on our door so I open the door and it's two guys and my first thought was Jehovah's Witnesses. I was right. They go hey is Christian or Isaac here? I'm like no. They say oh well someone told us his name was Isaac and that he lived here and wants to learn more about our church. We're Jehovah's Witnesses.  I say, "Well guys, Christian and Isaac don't live here and I'll be honest with you, I do exactly what you guys are doing but for my church, we're Mormons." They laughed and so they gave me a pamphlet from their church and  I went and grabbed a restoration pamphlet and gave it to them. So yeah that was definitely one of the weirder things that's happened to me on my mish. 

Well boys and girls, there ya have it. It's been a good week and we're hoping for another good one! Elder Bettridge's Spanish is coming a long little by little, but he'll get there. He's working hard! :) I love you all and I hope you have a great week! 

Much love.

Good News Preachin,

T_HAM2

My group from the MTC... our hermanas go home in 2 weeks! 😳

Pretty park :)

Me singing in the talent show 😂

Week 72: I almost got hit by a car today lol

Fellow Mates,

Oh my good golly gee I just want you all to know how much I miss you guys. I hope your week has been amazing, mine was pretty solid. :) I also just wanted to clear up two quick things about my email from last week. 

1. When I said Abraham's wife, I meant Lot's wife. My bad haha. 
2. Also 2nd thing, The selfie of me was not on the toile.. Hahaha! It was in the bathroom but I wasn't on the toilet, the lighting was just really good 😬😂! So, yeah!  Just so you know! :) 

BUT HERE'S MY WEEK!

Leonor - we met with her on Saturday and it was awesome! We haven't been able to meet with her for the past couple of weeks so it was good to finally meet with her. We watched the movie of John Tanner and talked about the faith he had to help the church out with his money and how he had the faith that his leg could be healed. We talked about how he acted on his faith. We told her that she needed to act in her faith as well. Last time we met with her we talked about how in order to be baptized she needs to either move out or get married. She told us neither of them really want to get married but she does want to get baptized. We told her to tell her boyfriend that she wanted to get baptized and see what he thought. Anyways, this time we did a check up on how it went but she said she wasn't able to talk to him about it, so we told her about how she really needs to trust in the Lord that he will help her out because she's doing what is necessary to return to live with him again. The spirit was so strong and it was awesome. :) So hopefully she is able to talk to him about it! Also, I forgot to mention we actually got a chance to meet him and he watched some of the movie with us but then he left. He's a good guy, but just doesn't have any interest.. yet. 😜

Bridget - well we met with her and her 14-year old daughter Nikol and we taught them at her friend's house who is a member with our ward mission leader and it was great! We talked about the restoration and she had a lot of good questions and it was good because we didn't know she had a daughter but she was there and listened and loved it as well! The best part was this Sunday. She was planning on coming to church with her friend, so we called her on Saturday to see if she was still coming but she didn't answer. When Sunday rolls around and we're about to start and she came in with Nikol and her 3 year old Christopher came in! Ahh! It was so awesome to see them all! They loved all three hours too so that is good. After sacrament meeting, one of the members came up to Nikol and they were already friends so that helped out a ton and the mom and Bridget were also already friends! It was awesome! They're both progressing really well and we are meeting with them tomorrow night and hopefully going to be setting a baptismal date. :) 

We had some interesting things happen this week with some Spaniards... I don't know why, but every Spanish male we talked to just was in the worst mood ever. First of all. I was making calls to see if some of the referrals we had wanted to meet with us and I called one of the numbers and asked for the girl and this guy says he has nothing to do with her, so I'm like alright well I might as well see if he has any interest... I go "Oh, excuse me I must be mistaken, what's your name?" He goes, "I've been talking to you for 30 seconds and you wanna know my name?" I say, "Oh, I'm sorry." Then he said that he doesn't  even know me and he's not going to give me his (lots of swear words) name. I said that I just wanted to share a message about Jesus with him. Oh my goodness! This guy went OFF. You guys all have seen the Spongebob episode where they learn about the swearwords right? At the end when Mr. Krabs just explodes with swears? Yeah, I felt like I was right there with them except instead of old car horns and dolphins squeals it was the and every other word you can think of. 

Second story. We were in the elevator on our way out to work and a guy gets in on the floor below us. The first thing out of his mouth is calling us swear words.  With a huge smile on my face I introduced myself and companion and said that we would like to get to know him better. He got even more mad! He starts yelling at me because apparently the missionaries before us make too much noise upstairs at 7:00 in the morning. I'm sure we make noise at that time also and so told him I was sorry and I'm like sorry we have weights we didn't know anyone lived below. We haven't had anyone tell us to keep it down before so we didn't know. I thanked him for telling us. Then I tell him I've only been here for like a month and he interrupts me and goes says he doesn't care if I've been here for 3 seconds or 4 years shut up! I'm like sorry guy we will. :) Then he's like, "I see Jesus on your door, I believe in Jesus and Jesus thinks of others. Well, you don't think of others. You just think about yourself! Uhhhh ohhhh... the family will understand when I say I almost went "Keri" on this guy. In the calmest way possible (on the calm scale of 1-10 (10 being my mom when she's absolutely livid) I give myself a 6) I told him I'd love for him to find two other 18-19 year old kids who gave up everything they had to come out here and serve God and serve other people. I told him that thinking of others and serving them is all I've done every single day for the past 18 months and I'm the happiest person ever doing it. When I said all that he didn't say a word. I told him if he has a problem with us next time to just politely ask if we could stop doing it and we'd be more than happy to stop. 😊 The best part of it all was we get out of the door and my comp goes.. "I have no idea what just went down or what was said but you just made that man poop his pants!" hahahahahhahah 😂

So yeah that's my week! :) It was a good one for sure even though those two jerk faces tried to ruin it hahaha. I hope you guys have an excellent week! 

Much Love.

George Lopez,

E. T Ham™

Some cool sand art!

Goofy!  My BOY!!!

Week 71: Deja Vu 🏦

What's uppppp erry11111 :) 

Well wowzers! Time is going by so fast. MY week was a good one. Some ups, some downs, some grapes, some food, some talkin' in church, some training and some New Year. :) 

I'll start off with the ups. :) Monday night after we ended PDay, Elder Pearce and I taught our last lesson together to a new investigator named Bridget!! Ahh! She's awesome for sure. She's a referral from a less active in the ward. She came to the Christmas dinner a couple of weeks ago. She's from Columbia and lives in Spain with her sister but only has been here for about 2 months. She has 2 kids and has a desire to follow Christ. :) We talked about the Book of Mormon and we wanted to give her a copy but she says, "Oh! I already have one!" I asked he if she would read it and pray to know if it's true because that would be a good idea for sure. So she is going to read it. She wanted to come to church with us too so we went by her house yesterday buuuuut she was caught up with all the stuff for New Years (that was kinda the down of the week as well) but hopefully she comes this week! We are meeting with her again tonight so I'll letcha know how it goes! :) 

Training - Well, my new companions name is Elder Bettridge. He is from Hurricane, Utah! He's a good kid for sure! He's quiet, but you all know me and know I will break him out of his shell! 😏 I picked him up in Malaga on Wednesday, then we came and we were in meetings/devotionals/firesides with all the other brand new missionaries all night. The next morning they had an appointment for their residency so they did that while all of us trainers hung out in the office. I met a couple of new elders. One is named Elder Krummenacker or something like that. He is straight up one of the funniest people I've ever met. Also his trainee is from Draper, Elder Rembacz. He is a total homie!  They both slept over in our piso on Wednesday night it was a good time!

Food - We ate on Saturday night for New Year's Eve with our first counselor in the bishopric and his family. It was really fun and pretty good. We were with them from 8 until 10:45 ish and then we went back to the office and waited for the New Year to come. :) 

Grapes - Spanish tradition is the last 12 seconds of the year you get to eat a grape for every second. So the members we were with gave each of us 12 grapes and we spent the end of 2016 eating grapes! Me, Elder Bettridge, Elder Gomez and Elder Pesce were in the office and celebrated there. Elder Garrard and Elder Ohlund ditched us and went to their piso. But it was fun. I'm extremely excited for 2017! 😛😛😛

Talks in church - yesterday I started off the year with a killer talk in sacrament meeting :) I talked about the Light of Christ and how all of us can find it we just have to look for it. Everyone told me they loved my talk so I mean I guess it was the bomb.com right?

I watched a video that came out a couple of years ago talking about Abraham's wife. it was about how she dwelt on her past too much and when she looked back she turned into salt. Anyways, there was a scripture in the video and it was in Genesis 19 verse 17 and it's short, sweet, and simple: "Look not behind thee." Don't look back on the past. Remember the good times, yeah.. but don't worry about mistakes that were made or anything like that. Look forward to new things. 

A new year gives us the opportunity to start fresh and make the most of it. So don't look back, just look forward to bigger and better things and learn from the past. I look forward to seeing you guys in 2017! 😍

Have a great week and thank you all so much and I love you all :) 

Much love.

2017,

T Ham 🐲

Selfie cuz new year and only pic I got 😊

Week 70: Short and Sweet. I'm Training! Happy New Year!

HEY LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!

Well, I talked to the fam bam yesterday so I don't have a ton to say for a whole letter, but I just want to wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR this upcoming week! I can't believe it's like literally 2017... I'm looking forward to a lot of big things happening in 2017. I also want to thank everyone who sent me packages!!! Ah! You guys are the best and I love you all so much. I hope your Christmas was grand, and 2016 goes out with a 💥.

Soooo... some stuff about my week right quick. We met with a new home boy from Columbia named Cristian who is 21 years old. We showed up to the cita with him and he got very excited to meet us. He like hugged me! Hahahaha! It was so funny. So he goes on and tells me that he wants to be a missionary and I was like, "Okay, first we need to teach you everything and then you have to get baptized AND THEN you can go on a mission." And then he says, "K! Sick! So when am I getting baptized?? Haha! I was like, "Now man! Let's go!" So we are going to be meeting with him again soon and I'm excited for that! :)

Also, as the subject says, I'm going to be getting my first hijo! I'll be training a brand new missionary and he won't know any Spanish. He is coming straight from the good 'ol USA to the MTC to me. I pick him up on Wednesday and so I'll be sure to get some pics for next week! Wish me luck! 😬

Thursday Hermana Burrell and I did our dance/song (no touching) in the talent show, and as presumed we killed it! 😛 Hahaha! It was so fun and everyone loved it! The music was a little loud but I mean other than that and my shirt coming untucked we did a really good job and it was fun! :)

I love you ALL so much, have a great end of the year and you'll hear from me next year! HAVE A GREAT WEEK AND MAY GOD RAIN BLESSINGS ON ALL OF YOU HUMANS!

Much love.
Trizzainin'
E. Tan Ham :)

The zone in Malaga on Christmas Eve

We went to an aquarium today for PDay before we came to Malaga. It was dope! We played mini golf and I won! :) 

Week 69: MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄:)

GEY HUYS!!

What the heck is up people?? Don't forget to watch the video below.

We had a bomb district meeting last Tuesday! Our district leader really knows how to put a solid district meeting together.. the Spirit is always so strong and the Elders always love it. (I'm the district leader... hehe). No, but really it was good. We talked a lot about obedience and how many more blessings are waiting for us when we are obedient, it was really good! :) We also met with an investigator named Juan, he's way weird. Great guy. Super nice just a little weird, ya feel? He invited us to come out to his cabin thing in the middle of nowhere and to like talk to the nuns that are out there and do some "missionary activity". I don't know man! I was just like, "Hmm...nuns and Mormons... weird combo." We talked about the Book of Mormon with him. He's read it 2 times all the way through. He just reads because he doesn't have too much else to do. He's a good guy. :)

We got bailed on a couple more times this week so that was greeeeatttt! 🙄 People in Fuen are just hard to be honest. I've only been here 5 weeks and we've been bailed on more than I have my whole mission! But on the bright side, we have a lot of potential to have a really. really good week next week! We called a ton of people and set up a bunch of citas with them so we're stokedddd. Also, coming up next week, we have the talent show and guess who's singing? 😏 Yeahhhh buddy! I am. One of the sisters in my zone calls me freaking out last week. "ELDER HAMMOND! You have to sing with me at the talent show!" I'm like I don't sing, but count me in. So needless to say she did the typical girl thing and goes all out. She freakin' choreographs a whole dance routine and we are singing White Christmas by Michael Bublé and Shania Twain. We're gonna kill it. There will be a video of it. Soooo just prepare yourselves! Hahaha. We just got done practicing it with Hermana Burrell and honestly it's so dope.. Video to come next week! :)

Friday night was doooope. We had the Christmas dinner with our whole ward!! There were soooo many people there! Holy crap! I hated it because it was like, "Hey! Oh! There's food! Let's go! But let's NEVER come to church on Sundays"!! Yeah! No. When I say I hated it, I lied because I actually loved it! :) It was awesome and helpful. One lady brought like 5 friends and one of them apparently is interested in learning more. We are going to start meeting with her! We also met a lot of people that we don't know and got to know a couple of them more! It was awesome. The Elders sang in the choir. We killed it, duh! I had a solo. Hahaha! Ahh man! Let's just say I think Blake Shelton would have turned his chair around for me! 😎

Our plans for Christmas, you ask? Well... some members that we don't see very often invited us over on Saturday night. Then President invited us over for Christmas brunch right after sacrament! THEN I GET TO TALK TO MY FAMILY!!! HAHAHAHAHA! YESSSSSSS! UGH! 😍😍😍 I'm stoked!

I hope ALL OF YOU have a GREAT CHRISTMAS!!! My last one in Spain. I was thinking about that during the Christmas dinner while watching all the kids re-enact the nativity scene and it was such a cool feeling knowing I was blessed by the Lord to be able to serve in Spain for two years of my life and get to know the people I've met. It's been so awesome and I'm gonna live it up these next 6 months! Time is running out! So many more people to teach about the Gospel! 😩 HAVE A GREAT WEEK AND MERRY CHRISTMAS!! 🎄🎁 ❄️☃️😊

Much love.
White Christmas Dreamin',
Elder Tanner B. Hammond
AKA..Barbara and Tammy (see video below)

My Christmas sweater with bells on it!

Week 68: #ILUMINAelMUNDO

Heyyyyy guyyyyys!

Ladies and gentlemen guess who? That's right! It's me! Mr E. Tanner Hammond again. I'm gonna give you a warning before you read this email.. our week suckeddd. We had SUCH a good week planned out! Then Sunday rolled around, got bailed on by 2 different people. Monday, 2 more. Tuesday, 3 more. Wednesday, another one. Thursday, nothing set. Friday, 1 more. Saturday was decent then Sunday, yesterday we had a good one. That's my week so yeah see ya guys later have a good week!

Joking? Chill guys. Soooo yeah! Bad week but let's look at the bright side and I'll tell you about a couple of highlights! :)

Okay! So to start off the week on Tuesday, I SAW MY BOY ELDER LAYTON FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A YEAR!!! Oh my gosh! It was so awesome! He was here in Fuen because he had consejo and I walked into the mission office and I see his companion and then out of nowhere Layton comes flying thru the door pushing anything that gets in his way out of the way and just straight up jumps on me!!  It was the best hug I've had since I saw my other boy Elder Beckstrom last December.

The other biggest highlight happened on Saturday morning. We had a cita with two investigators that we had, Gonzalo and Kelsey. I heard her name and I thought, "OK. Definitely not Spanish!" So we get there and go in start talking to Gonzalo and then I saw her and immediately knew she was American. She started talking in Spanish just like a native. It threw me off big time. I asked where they were from and she said Michigan. Then after that we just had an amazing lesson with them. It could be considered the best lesson I've been part of in the past year and a half. Side note to missionaries who teach in English - I envy you. We didn't really talk about anything in particular, we just answered all of the questions and everything that they had which was literally sooooo many questions. Good heck! They asked literally everything. It was incredible! The first half of the lesson was in Spanish, but then about an hour into it, they realized my companion was totally lost and also the questions were becoming insane so we switched to English. 😂 It was awesome. They are very active in their own church so they have a lot of questions and are trying to understand how everything compares, BUT, never say never, right?

Other highlights?  Hmmmm?  Well, my companion didn't get any oats or anything stuck in the back of his throat this week so that's good! :) We had Zone Conference on Friday over in Málaga that was really good. We talked about something that our mission is doing called "The Big List". It's basically a list full of names that's really big. We go around to members and everyone and just ask them for names of their friends but that's it. We don't contact that list but just ask the members that when they see the person with that name they kinda remember about it and we challenge them to try to bring up the gospel and how important it is to them. I'm excited to see how it works! :) After the meeting we went to some Bolivian restaurant and ate some good Bolivian food with the whole zone. It was soooo good.

On Wednesday we had a way cool thing happen. We were tired because we literally walked all day and we were on our way to go home and our phone rang. I answered it and it was one of our investigators Damaris. She's not really an investigator due to the fact she has been and will be investigating the church until she dies. She comes to church every week but she just loves her cigarettes and beer and just doesn't want to change that part of her life. She called and she say, "Heyyyy! I have a niece that wants to be baptized! Haha um like oh well I can help with that! :) We talked for a little bit and she said that her niece was coming to stay with her for a while and she wanted to be closer with God and she wanted to be baptized. So we set up a cita with her for this coming week and hopefully all goes as planned and we can talk with her! I'm not holding my breath though because I guess Damaris has been known to be a little flojo. I'm not sure what that work is in English hahaha. It means like loose or something like that. Sorry, I speak Spanish better than English at this point haha.

CRAZY THING! OH MY GOSH. So Elder Pearce and I were walkin' along walkin' along you know mindin' our own business and from a distance we see a huge group of people and cop cars looking down one of the streets so I'm like oh geez that's not good. We walk up to see what was going on and we were looking and some guy jumped from the 3rd story and fell in the middle of the street and died. 😬😳 It was suuuuper sad. I won't give too much detail. We don't know anything about it or anything, but if I hear anything I'll keep y'all posted. Sad.

That's pretty much my week! Sad because we weren't able to meet with Leonor because she was out of town, but she's still progressing really well and going strong for the 14th. :) We have our Christmas Dinner this Friday night and I'm sooo stoked for that! I'M SO EXCITED FOR THIS CHRISTMAS YOU GUYS. 13 dayyyyys :) Also last Saturday we played soccer with all the chavales from our ward and it was way fun. My team took the title for week one 💯! We are going to start playing every other Saturday so I'm excited for that. AND THERE'S THAM'S WEEK!

I love you all and hope you have a fandabidosie week and you'll be hearing from me in T-7 short quick ones. :)

Much love.
Running out of sign offs,
E. T Ham 🔱

Elder Pearce and me today. He's a good comp!

Elder Layton!  Our reunion!

Coincidence?  Look closely!

Week 67: Oral Surgeon in Training

What's Gucci Players? :)

Another week has come and gone.. can't believe we're in  December! I hope you all are enjoying all the snow back home. Thinking about snowboarding makes me extremely trunky so I do my best to not think about it. 🤔 But hey! I hope you all that go enjoy it! I guess It's a good idea to tell you people about my week! It was a good one that's for sure.

So Leonor is still progressing! We had a lesson like we always do on Friday, and we talked about the Law of Chastity. Luckily not as awkward as normal. She accepted everything and was very open with us. We always bring a member (which is so helpful for me because my companion doesn't speak Spanish very well yet so we usually teach the entire lesson), who is our ward mission leader named Becarlo. We were talking about how it's a requirement to live the Law of Chastity in order to be baptized. She said she really wants to be baptized, but she was scared to talk to her boyfriend about it because he's not religious at all. Becarlo told her that she needs to put her trust in the Lord that He will help her and that since she has the desire to follow Jesus Christ, He will bless her. Then I told her that she also needs to trust her boyfriend and that if he truly loves her, he will support her! It's hard because in Spain nobody gets married. They just live together and say they're a couple but not married so it's always hard in situations like this. But I know the Lord does what is necessary for his children so that they are happy and can follow him. :) We changed Leonor's baptismal date to the 14th of January as well. It was super cute when we were ending the lesson with a prayer, Becarlo was saying the prayer and he was blessing that Leonor would be blessed for her efforts and all this stuff, and her little 9 year old daughter Sara who was baptized about a year ago, goes "and that she will be baptized on January 14th!" Hahaha! It was so funny and cute. :)

The other Elders gave us a reference of a lady who is a begger.  That is was they are called here. Her name is Aurora, and she's from Romania. On Friday morning we had a lesson with her and she doesn't speak very much Spanish, it's all broken and hard to understand. She told us how she wanted us to talk to God and tell him to help her and how she wanted money for her daughter who is in Germany to come to Spain with her family. Her life is a mess and I'm honestly unsure what else she said because it was in Romanian. I gave her a Book of Mormon in Romanian and she's told me she can't read. I told her that maybe her husband could read it to you because you'll be able to find help in this book! So shed asked us if we have a church. I told her yes and so she said she was going to come to church.  We were a little skeptical because she's a begger.  However she has a house and family and all that stuff and she doesn't speak Spanish but we figured it'd be good for her to come. :)

Now Sunday rolls around.. we met with Aurora and walked 30 mins in the pouring rain to the church with her. We get there and she enters and it's really quiet because none of the other members were there yet, so it was cool to see her recognize the Spirit that was there. Then she sits down and she moves to the ground and gets on her knees and says like a 10 minute prayer just in the middle of the foyer.. not gonna lie, preeettty weird. But hey, a prayer is a prayer 🙏🏻😊. She sat with a member who is from Brazil or Portugal, but she doesn't speak any Spanish lol so it was funny because these two people were sitting next to each other in Spain, neither of them speak Spanish, one speaks Portuguese and the other speaks Romanian hahaha! Also, Leonor came and stayed for all three hours! Usually she leaves after sacrament meeting but she stayed again so that was good. The ward loves her and all the relief society is so nice to her so that's helpful. After church, some of the other sisters in the ward were talking to Aurora and they were telling her if she needed help she should talk to the Bishop.  So she asked to talk to the Bishop. I'm not exactly sure what they talked about but  Aurora was crying.  I asked her why she was crying and she said, "I don't know what anybody is saying!"  I told her we would talk to the Bishop and see if we can figure something out.  She thanked us and then we walked her to the bus stop.  We will have to figure out how we can help her.  

Two funny stories to end the email... my companion isn't a super coordinated lad, so we've been working on that together. There are orange trees all over the place here and so we always pick one or two and I throw it behind me in the air and he tries to catch it. Saturday we were on our way to a cita and I grabbed one and threw it to him, he caught it, then he always throws it back over my head and I catch it then throw it back. On the throw back to him, I threw it up and he went to catch it but completely whiffed and it hit him right in the eye and orange juice splattered all over his face and in his eye. Hahaha! Oh my gosh! I laughed so hard because of how it looked, and then I remembered to see if he was ok.  Man! I love him so much! He's hilarious! 😂😂 

My second story is that Saturday, my companion got something stuck like in that back of his throat, we aren't sure what it was.  We think it's like an oat but really we don't know for sure.  He kept trying to get it out ALL day and he was making gross noises and I was about to flip out. So we get back home after working and I'm like, "OK!  I can't take this anymore. Open your mouth!" I spent the next hour and a half trying to fish out an oat that was like stuck up in his tonsils using a dried noodle(s) (had to use multiple. We almost
went through a full bag! LOL) and a flashlight so I could see. It was gross but I couldn't stand him making that awful sound any longer. Best part of the story is that I only got half of it! But... it was enough to get him to stop making that noise! :)

Well! There ya have it! Another week of for Elder T Ham for y'all. I think this week is like week 67 or something. THAT'S SO INSANE!   Gotta live it up out here that's for sure. I miss you all, you're all amazing and I wish you a fantastic week!!

Much Love.
Wildest Dreams,
Elder T. Brady Hammond 🍑💸

The sites of Fuengirola

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Look who I found!!!! Long lost Elder Layton!