Happy Easter!!

Happy Easter!! 

I love you guys! You are all great! Your Savior loves you! Man do I have some gospel for you guys. This week has been great and super Easter-licious. We successfully did some contacting and have two new potential investigators to go teach. Also, cool story! Mark is getting baptized! It is actually a funny story. Elder Robinson has been trying to reach out to an investigator they have been teaching Mark Hamlin, and he was always busy and avoiding them and they were going to drop him. So, one day they decided to call him and when they did he was super excited and wanted to learn more and take the lessons. Which of course came as a surprise to Elder Robinson and his comp Elder Bateman. (Lol, I know Bat(e)man and Robin(son)) Anyway they meet at the member's home they invited him too and here comes Mark Hamlin. But, he did not look like the Mark they were reaching out too. So they taught him as they were a bit unprepared because they had no idea who this guy was and why he claimed to be Mark Hamlin. Anyway they find out that the other Mark Hamlin is actually a Mark Prescott and they just assumed he was Mark Hamlin. Haha, so we taught the real Mark Hamlin the first lesson and he was super solid and I asked if he wanted to you know... be baptized, and he said yes. He is super faithful and loves what we have to teach and he wants to get over his coffee and smoking problems. It is great! Also, that means I successfully invited my first investigator to be baptized! And that is saying a lot because our areas covers maybe 600 people total, and 80% of those are LDS, and the other 19% have had past experiences with missionaries. Haha it sounds tough but, it is great. You get to know everyone in the town real quick and as soon as someone moves in we are ready to serve them with in a heart beat. So, yeah that is my mission story. Easter has been great! I love easter and all the emotional Jesus Christ videos out there. We have been sharing Easter messages all weekend. My Easter was perfect. We went to the Taylor 3rd ward and they had an Easter program. They sang songs about Jesus Christ and his Atonement and it his me so hard I was almost crying. Especially the primary song about Gethsemane. "Gethsemane, Jesus loves me, so he went willingly, to Gethsemane" I love my redeemer, Jesus Christ SO MUCH and this week has been so spiritual for me as I cry to peoples hearts my testimony of the atonement and the suffering in Gethsemane. It brings me to such an emotional/spiritual state every time I think about how much pain He went through, how much love that took and it honestly makes me want to love my bothers and sister so much. I hurts me to see people feel that spirit of what we teach and what God wants them to hear, then to deny those feelings and not partake of that love and joy that brings so much happiness. Anyway this is a little long. I just love Easter so much and what Jesus Christ means to me. This is my favorite time of year and I am so thankful to be helping God's Children find Him as well. Loves all around!

Love you and my Savior 

Elder Hamson