Lots of Stuffs

Ok so I don't have a lot of time to email today because we are in charge of our district pday and we need to go get things ready for it. We're having a BBQ. So I will just run over everything that I have written down in my planner that happened this week and if I feel the need, I will elaborate. First, this week we taught a lot in Khmer. Probably the most of my mission. Things are finally starting to make sense when people are talking to me, although there are still lots of people I don't understand. Just the regional differences in the language. Some I understand perfectly, others I don't. haha. But it's going well. We have 2 cambodian investigators right now, and a few more potentials. It is always a good day when we get to talk a lot of Khmer, so this week was good cause we did that a lot. We extended a baptismal date to one of those investigators but she didn't accept. Bummer. She said she wants to get baptized, just not on the date we extended. But I think she's a little crazy. She's not all there in the head, so I'm trying to figure out if we should even be teaching her. Oh well. haha.

Sunday I got to do my first confirmation. It was for the daughter of one of the cambodian members in our ward. That was pretty cool. The baptism was pretty funny. Elder Ang baptized her, and when he was doing it, he had his left arm raised instead of his right. I wasn't one of the witnesses, but neither of them caught it so I went up and told them and he had to do it again. That was good. I was like the only one that realized it was the wrong hand though. haha.

We have transfers this week too, if you haven't guessed from the late email. None of us are being transferred. There was only one transfer in my district, so that was kinda weird. haha. I've come to realize that my mission has lots of weird things in it. Such as being in one area for 13 months or being in a threesome for more than 1 transfer. That's going to be fun... threesomes are a lot different than normal companionships. But, we get along alright and things are going better than they were, so it's all good. With it being transfers, there are like 13 missionaries going home. And one of them is one of my good friends that I've made on the mission. I lived with him as my ZL in lynn for 8 months so we are pretty good friends. It's weird that he's going home. I've known him since the beginning of my mission too, so that's cool. He's going to BYU so I'm sure I'll see him there but it's still weird that he's leaving. But, that also means that Dax gets here too! He arrives today, but unfortunately I don't get to go to the transfer meeting so I won't be able to see him for now. But we have Zone Conference next week, so depending on what zone he gets put in, I might see him then. That'd be cool. Speaking of Hawks, I should thank Bro. Hawks for the couple letters he's sent me. It's always great hearing from people back home. And they were really encouraging too, so thanks!

So here's a cool short story- I was on tours (exchanges) with one of the elders in my district last week. We went to try and visit this potential investigator that they have, and as we were driving there, it started raining like I've never seen it rain before. It was incredible. So we got to the place we were going and realized we had to go out in the rain to get to the door of the person. haha. We got DRENCHED! It was awesome. We were outside for maybe 1 minute (the person wasn't home) and we were completely soaked. It was fun. I enjoyed it.

Oh yeah, and a few days ago we were out tracting and we ran into this Jehovah's Witness lady. I didn't know she was JW until she gave me their newest edition of The Watchtower. I asked her if we could trade, so I gave her a Restoration pamphlet. She talked to us about some stuff that was kinda weird and non-relevant to anything, but she thought it was interesting and wanted to share it with us. It was actually pretty funny. Good news is that it didn't turn into a bash or argument, although we definitely could have turned it into such. We kept our cool. But then later that same day as we were continuing our tracting adventure, there were a couple of houses we tracted that had different copies of the Watchtower on the front steps, so I politely took them and replaced them with the truth. haha. So now I have a watchtower collection. Interesting...

So I think that's it. We got the go to move houses. We should be moving within the next two weeks, but I'm not sure yet. That should be exciting though. We got to go apartment shopping and choose the one we liked, so it's pretty nice. And it's on the second floor, so no worries about someone shoving our AC through the window and browsing around our apartment. haha.

I was also wondering about that GPS and when I could get it. That would be mighty helpful. FYI. ;)

And I was also wondering if there's any update on my application for BYU. I think I need to write some essays or something. I want to apply to Snow College too, I decided. Just in case...

So yeah, I think that's it. Just kidding. Mom, Water Festival is next Saturday, the 20th. I'm super stoked. It's gonna be fun. Our booth is going to rock.

Ok well, That is all. I hope you all have a wonderful week. Love you all!

Love,
Elder Hammer

P.S. I guess that wasn't all. I hit 18 month last week. That's weird. I can't believe BYU football starts in less than a month. And I don't know if Elder Gluch gets my emails, but if he does, I just want him to know that I loved his comment about how he thinks he has worms. Made me laugh a lot. haha. Cool beans!