September?

Wait, hold on. It's September? Weird. What happened to August? haha. I can't believe how fast things are going. Timewise, not work wise. Cause the work is definitely not going fast. Unfortunately. Anyway.... GO COUGS! So happy to hear that they beat Ole Miss! Booya! So guess what? I don't have a lot to talk about again. Neither of our 2 investigators are progressing. We met with one of them a lot this last week, but not a whole lot of good came out of it. She won't commit to baptism, so we focused this week on getting her to church. She won't commit to that either. So I think we're going to drop her if she's not there this week. Maybe if we do that, she'll wisen up and change her mind. Our other investigator is a whole different story. She is also cambodian. She has NEVER heard of Jesus Christ, so we are started from nothing with her. Which could be good though, cause she'll get the truth the first go around. No corruption for her. However, we have to teach her very slow. One principle at a time, actually. She wants to learn, but has a hard time taking it all in, so we are going slow for her. Hopefully she'll be able to remember it and start to progress. She also has an aunt that lives with her. She's like the funniest cambodian lady ever. She always tells me how good I am at speaking the language. It's really funny. She reminds me of Grandma Hammer. If Grandma was Cambodian, she'd be this lady. haha. But that's about all for people we are teaching. We are in a rut right now for finding new people and it's starting to get on my nerves. I don't like it at all.

So, remember last week when I said my watch broke? Well, I made a new strap for it. Duct tape. Yeah. I made a strap then realized I didn't have anything to keep it together so it'd stay on my wrist. Well, I found a golf glove and took off the ball marker snap and taped it to the strap I had made and now it stays on my arm. haha. It looks pretty ghetto. I'm hoping I can get a new watch. Maybe I'll find one in the gutter, or one will fall from the sky. Or maybe someone I'm related to could send me one...... *cough Coby cough* haha.

I don't remember if I said this already, but last week for pday we went to a driving range and hit some balls. That was like the best pday ever. Except for yesterday. The temple is always open on the monday holidays so we went and did a session there. After our session, I saw some of the people from my last area (he's a sealer in the temple) and got to talk with them for a few minutes, and then we did some sealings with them as well. That was great. After the temple, we went and played soccer with a bunch of the missionaries. That's always fun. I love soccer. Then we went into Boston to go to Jamba Juice. We recently discovered that they had one of those out here, so we decided to go. It is on the Boston University campus, and it was welcome week, so we got all sorts of free BU gear while we were walking down the street to get there. It was great to have Jamba Juice again. I haven't had it in forever. It was so good. mmmmmmmmm.

Good news - Remember Rose who I started teaching in Lynn and then she and her family got baptized after I came to Lowell? Well, last Sunday, Rose's sister and her son and daughter were baptized too! That is SO cool! I love seeing the gospel spread. Makes me so happy. I love it!

Well, that's all folks! Hope you have a great week. Love y'all!

Love,
Elder Hammer


P.S. my new zipcode is 01851 by the way, not 01854.