Better Week

So this week turned out to be one of the better ones since I've been in Lowell. We were finally able to find a new person this week! Wahoo! haha. He is a headquarter referral we got about a month ago that we haven't been able to contact for awhile because his family got in a big accident (a backhoe fell off a trailer and landed on their car, killing his mother in law and injuring his wife, son and daughter) and he has been pretty busy with all that since it happened. But, we were finally able to meet with him and talk to him about the Church. We watched part of Together Forever with him and talked about it, and he asked us a bunch of questions and it was a really good visit. We set up another appointment with him so that we can teach him about the Plan of Salvation. So that was one of the good things that happened this week.

Another one comes from another headquarter referral we got this last week. We drove out to her place to contact her since she didn't answer her phone. She answered the door and told us that she was super busy with her 4 kids, but asked us who we were. When we told her we were the missionaries, she got a huge smile on her face and was super excited to see us. We talked to her for a few minutes and she told us that she is Catholic, but that she doesn't agree how lots of the leaders in that church preach what they don't live. She said that she thinks there is more than what the Catholics have to offer, and for some reason, she thinks it's in our church! Booya. I love when people tell us that. haha. She took a Book of Mormon and we set up a return appointment to begin teaching her as well.

We are also in the process of setting up an appointment to teach someone that some of the other Elders met at water festival. We called and talked to him. He said he was interested in the Book of Mormon, but that he was busy at that moment, so we are going to call him back soon. So overall, things are looking like they are going to start picking up sometime soon. Hopefully :)

Oh yeah, and we were planning on dropping one of our cambodian investigators cause she won't commit to church or baptism, but after 30 minutes of talking about church and how she doesn't want to go, the member we had with us said "well I could take you" and then she committed to go to church next week. So if she comes, we'll keep teaching her and if she doesn't then we're dropping her. I'm hoping for the best.

Well, I guess that's about it for this week. Mom told me that Kasey's expecting that I'll forget her birthday so I won't mention anything about that:) Happy Birthday to Justin, though. haha. Oh yeah, and apparently there's a new term in our mission. It's called "pulling a Hammer". It means staying in one area for a really long time. haha. I've heard lots of other missionaries use that term. It's pretty funny. Good to know that I'm leaving my mark on the mission. haha.

Ok well have a good week everyone. Love you all. Bye.

Love,
Elder Hammer


P.S. Hope BYU creams utah this week!