Yellowhair

Greetings my family!

This week was a bit of a blur.

The End

Elder Hamson



Just kidding my family!

This last week was a great week! We had our Zone Training Meeting and
I didn't have to give a training so, that was good. A bunch of new
missionary work news came about how member present lessons will bring
more success to our work. There was an in depth training about the
significance of The Atonement. That was really good! And we talked
about dedicating an hour each day to finding people in the evenings.
And we are trying to get a member to every single lesson. Which is
pretty big because before the goal was 60% of the lessons. But, anyway
they challenged us to go a month with out card games. Apparently some
people would rush through planning each night to get to there card
game. So, hopefully we will start doing a ton better this week.

We have a less active Native American man that is a painter. And
apparently he is pretty popular for this area. And he has some really
cool symbolic paintings and guess what!? That's right I got me one of
the famous Yellowhair paintings! I got a frame for it and everything!
I love it, it's of he snowflake temple and tells the story of the Book
of Mormon and how it applies to him as a Lamanite. So, I got me some
fine art. Thought you would want to know.

We were cooling off the house last P-day and a dog just ran in on us.
That's all that happened, we put him back outside but, just a random
funny story.

I have a silly story I forgot to share last month. We were going to a
dinner with some members. They were too lazy to cool so they invited
us to a Mexican restaurant. So, being naive missionaries, we got to
the restaurant, walk in, and it was a bar. It was a classic saloon
scene. We walk in, the room goes quiet and everyone turns to stare. We
were confused and uncomfortable then, the bar tender just points to
the door on the left of the room. And of course we walked through the
door and there was the restaurant. I just thought it was funny that we
walked into the bar and it was seriously the classic western scene
where someone walks in the bar and everyone turns and a tumble weed
rolls past. Haha, golden. Also last night as we were driving home. The
sisters called us and we ran over and gave their less active member a
blessing. It is nice to give a priesthood every once and a while.

Our investigator Irvin is doing quite well and still on track for
baptism. And we met a guy named Donley and he accepted the invitation
for baptism and he is a new investigator. So, a bunch a fun going on
in the missionary world. Hope your world is going well.

Love you friends!
Elder Hamson

Mothers

Happy Mothers Day, Yesterday!

I got to see and talk with my family. They are doing well I guess.
Haha just kidding, they are doing great! I love them and it was super
nice to see them. I hope my mom and all you other mothers have had a
great and loving Mother's Day.

This week was an interesting week. We have been trying hard to get
some members to come to our lessons but, most of our investigators
didn't answer and missed the lessons we planned. We did however have
some good lessons with a couple potential investigators. Sister
Alvarez did not want to talk to us the first time we met. She has
softened her heart since and agreed to read a bit of the Book of
Mormon. We also met a potential investigator that is one of our less
active's son in law. He said he would read and he was kind of
interested in family history work. Other than that, not too much
happened this week. We did a lot of service. Shoveling poop, painting
walls, and moving furniture. It was great and I'm having fun.

Hope you guys are having fun!
Love you!
Elder Hamson

Dessert Calendar

Ey'o!

It's the beginning of a new month and a new transfer. Still stuck with
my same companion. Haha, just kidding! I love Elder Robinson, we get
along super well! I'm going to miss him. He has been in he mountains
his whole mission and it is likely he will head to the hot valley next
transfer. Haha I don't know why I am laughing, I could be transferred
there too. But, anyway this past month was awesome! The funniest thing
that happened is that my apartment houses four missionaries and the
other Elders are sick of being chubby. So, they are trying to go super
healthy and eat strictly fruits, veggies and meat. Haha and they made
this no-dessert calendar and they handed me one. So, I would come home
all proud that I had so much dessert and get to put a nice black "X"
for eating dessert. They all hated me for it but, I thought it was
pretty funny. I give you a picture. But, on a more serious note. This
week was flip flopped. Usually we have some pretty successful lessons
with new investigators and the less active members want nothing to do
with us. This week we had maybe four lessons with investigators. The
rest were less actives, it was awesome! I love teaching less actives.
I don't know why, they are just more relatable I guess. They
understand what the spirit feels like and have had experience with it.
So, it's so fun watch them feel that again. Anyway people have been
super nice to us this week, I love it. Oh, also this week we have been
teaching Irvin and he came to church! He hasn't ever been and that was
way cool to walk someone through church for the first time. He isn't
one to show too much emotion so, I couldn't tell how interested he was
but, he said he enjoyed it. Yay! Well, I'll leave you with the quote
I've been leaning on lately.

"The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life
braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his
full capacity, never stands up to his full stature. The successful man
thinks he can."

With boonies of love,

Elder Hamson

Bonk!

:) ... Hi!

Awwwww... Hello my friends! I had a pretty fun week this week! We had
a baptism and had plenty of lessons. It was great! It went by so fast
I don't even know what happened. All I remember was the baptism.
Login got baptized, (Yes it's spelt login, not Logan) it was a super
packed service it was crazy! We filled a gym just for his kids baptism
it was epic! Also, we had the talk on Baptism. It went well, I really
liked the musical number.  It was his lady friend singing I know my
redeemer lives. It was super good! I love musical numbers and the
emotion and spirit it brings as it sets the setting. Funny story! When
he got baptized it was going well. I was a witness and he said all the
words and here we go into the water. Then, BONK! He hit his head on
the back of the font but, it gets better. His friend, who was
baptizing, just kept shoving him into the water as his head skid down
the font wall. After all that we had to do it again because the water
was shallow enough his knees didn't go under water. He brought him up
out of the water and had there laugh and the second time went fine.
Over all it was super nice and there were so many friends and family
there to support him. Other than that we had a good lesson with the
Preston boys and they are progressing toward baptism. Hopefully they
will understand the plan of salvation. They are native boys but, they
have been super awesome so far. I am excited for them. Our possible
next baptism! Everyone else we are teaching are more potential
investigators. Ooooo! We talked to some members and now we have the
hook ups to go golfing! So hopefully this crazy 70 mph wind stops so I
can get my golf on. :) Welp. You all take care! I love you, be safe,
and remember Christ. Sorry if this is scattered Imma go play
basketball now. :* (that was a kiss face)

Loves,
Elder Hamson

Service and Silliness

Welcome everyone to another story time with Elder Hamson.

Angel is not yet baptized again, still waiting on finding his mom and
getting her approval. But, still good news, Logan is still on track
and will be baptized here on the 23rd. So, yay! Oh, we met this guy
who is super close to God and he feels like he has a six sense of know
what is right and wrong. He had some cool stories about following
promptings and helping people. Ah, it's so cool because he is already
living the Christ like example and it is so easy for him to notice the
spirit. He asked us to read through the Book of Mormon with him. So,
that's what we are doing and it has been going super well. I am
excited, he is amazing! We went to Sister Preston's and she was
sleeping so, we just taught her grandsons and they said they were
interested and would be baptized. We haven't been able to get back to
them yet they had to reschedule. Haha this week was kind of
uneventful. All we did was a bunch of service and picked up trash and
rescheduled most of our lessons. Yeah we were picking up a bunch of
trash in this guys yard and we found a gofer snake and chased it away.
Then we found a spiky lizard and kept him and took some pictures with
him haha it was silly but cool. We moved a bunch of wood for an
investigator of ours and it kinda reminded me of back home when we
used our wood stove and kept a wood pile. We helped a guy rake leaves
and pick up tree trimmings. We painted this ladies room and guess what
job I got? Yep, you guessed it, I painted the ceiling while all the
other elders painted the walls. It was kinda funny. We also moved a
chicken coop. It was super heavy and I am still not sure how we
managed to man handle it all the way down that hill. But, we did it!
So thats crazy, in the stormy cold wind too. It was fun though I have
been a little under the weather this week end so it has been hard to
get up and going when you feel sick. But, I didn't really have any
symptoms so, I just push through it. I just had a soar throat in the
mornings and I felt super weak and shaky Friday.  But today is
preparation day so I am going to take a nap now so I get feeling
better. Thank you for your prayers, they mean so much to me! They
really do help and I wish I could return all the love rushing my way.

Welp enjoy my silly pictures!

I love you all! Hug this email from me. It's love and comfort for you. :)
Elder Hamson

Quit Complaining and Get to Work

Good day!

This week was a blur but, a quick update. We had zone training meeting
this week and I held a training about the referrals in on the new
system on our iPads. Because, I am now the iPad specialist for the
zone! So, that is exciting! Angel is doing good and he had his
baptismal interview and passed. So, we should be clear to baptize him
on the sixteenth but, we have a problem because he is a foster child
and we haven't found his mother. She is hiding out somewhere on the
reservation. We have been praying and are hoping for the best because,
he is so ready to be baptized. Marky boy is getting so close to being
cigarette free and I am so excited for him because he totally gave up
coffee cold turkey. Logan is set and ready to be baptized on the
twenty third. Irvin, our friend, is busy too much and I don't know if
we can get to all the lessons before the date we have him set for
baptism. It's hard because I think he still has some concerns and we
need to get him all pumped. Well, that's where we are at with our
baptisms. We teach the jones, a small family that live in a random
trailer out in the boonies. It was humbling to see how much they are
struggle and the little lot they live on is totally trashed because
the guy that lived there before left trash everywhere. We have been
over serving and helping them clean the trash and moving pallets and
other clean up work. Anyway, I'm sitting there teaching them about the
gospel and I am all of a sudden in tears because of how much God loves
them and the blessings that will come to them through living the
gospel. I am here helping people who are going through hell, who
barely have enough money to feed the fam and not sleep cold. How
spoiled am I with my slick new suit and a nice truck. A warm apartment
and a long bed to sleep in, plenty of food to eat and support from
members and all of your prayers. I complain about missing all my
family and friends when they lost them to addictions or death. It is
just so humbling to be in those moments where God slaps me in the face
and says "Quit complaining and get to work! My children are suffering
and searching for relief. Feed my sheep!"
Thank you for all the birthday wishes and your support and prayers.
They are working and I love you all. Stay safe and comforted. Turn to
God always and have peace.

Lovey dubs,
Elder Hamson

Hey Fam Fam!

My Fam Fam! How are you all doing? This week has been great and it is hard to remember it all because all I can think about is general conference. Which by the way these are a few of my favorite moments and I am sure you are familiar with them as well: President Uchtdorf in the Priesthood session: Even if you were to find the perfect woman, do you really think she would be interested in you?  Seek and you shall find. Seek for flaws and you will surely find them, we all have them, no one is perfect. Pride is a characteristic of sin. Charity and love MUST exist in all relationships. Elder Oaks: Opposition in all things brings about the plan of happiness, therefore Satan must be there to tempt us or there wouldn't be decisions to make.  Elder Holland: God blesses the faithful and righteous but, also the willing and seeking saints. We can take solace in the fact that if God were to reward only the perfect he wouldn't have much of a distribution. Only Satan wants us to think that we can not improve. Keep trying. Keep trusting. Keep believing. Keep growing. Heaven will be cheering you on today,tomorrow, and forever. The highlight definitely would have been Thursday. On Thursday we taught 5 people, and for the first time reached not only our daily goals but, the weekly goals. Which is crazy and amazing for this area. Elder Robinson says that this area has be pretty slow and no too successful. Right now we have 4 people on date for baptism! And it's all because we fasted for the area and we have been trying are hardest. Even then it doesn't feel like we do any work. It feels like we have the opportunity to walk around with a loving heart and experience miracles in our lives and the lives of others. Seriously this work would go nowhere without Godly aid and guidance. I love you all, you are my family. Family is life and happiness. Also, thank you for all the letters and packages. :) Love, Elder Hamson