Dear Family,
So
this week has been great! We started with a great zone meeting and
then had interviews with president on Wednesday. Our sweet mission mom-
Sister Tye- made sloppy joes with chips and cheescake!!! It was so
great! And then we got to watch general conference on the weekend.
Okay-- General Conference is like better than Christmas!! No joke. It
was like the best 2 days ever. If you haven't seen all of it yet make
sure you watch it. Because this isn't just something the prophet and
apostles do for fun, these are men called by God who spend days
preparing to give us words that COME FROM OUR LOVING HEAVENLY FATHER.
These talks are given them from God for our benefit. So it's only our
loss if we can't find the time to listen, study and live their words.
We
had this beautiful woman come with us to conference. I can't explain
why I love her so much. I just do. She has this sweet Spirit and is a
less active who came to church last week for the first time in a long
time and then decided she wanted to go to conference even though it
meant a 1 hour bus ride there, 5 hours at the church, and then a 1 hour
bus ride home on a Sunday. This is a woman who has no running water at
her house. This woman carries big buckets of water to her house each
time she has to do laundry. I just think she is so awesome! So glad she
could come and enjoy the spirit of conference.
Umm...
some cultural notes for fun. In Tonga it is literally illegal to work
on Sunday. The 2 places that work are the hospital and the police
department. And random... here in the Philippines blow dryers
(i'm pretty sure) don't exist. Hair spray does but it is not easy to
find and not cheap! Anyway... so if you want your hair to dry faster you
have to sit in front of an electric fan. haha. That's the most common
method I have seen. But mostly people just walk around with wet hair
for a while.
Okay
so I only have 5 minutes.... More next week.. promise. As a last
note. Let us become as little children. I love teaching children
because they get excited about knowledge. As adults I think we get more
careful about getting excited. We get cynical or we question before we
believe, we get worried what others will think of our reaction or
beliefs. But you tell these children that there is a prophet on the
earth and they have all sorts of questions about how the prophet gets
messages from God and what kind of things has he said. If they are sure
about something they listen when we tell them how they can find out for
sure by asking God. Obviously there are some ways in which we cannot
be like children but we learn from Christ that these little children and
those that are like them will enter the kingdom of God. We must be more
willing to trust and act. As we learned in conference, "Doubt your
doubts before you doubt your faith." :)
I love you all and hope you have a great week!
Love
Sister Hamm
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