Already the 7th of December

Familia!

Man can you believe that is already the 7th of December?! Man I can’t. This is crazy!

I got the Christmas package and the nifty cute advent calendar that the Orr’s sent. :) thanks! Our tree this year is a little guy. goes to about my mid-calf and we have him sitting on the coffee table in our living room with all the presents we’ve gathered sitting around it :)

The weather here is getting colder and colder. We woke up this morning and it was below freezing: / man I tell you what. I do not miss the cold. But here it comes anyways :)

I cannot believe that you got the paper telling what airport I’m coming into already! that’s crazy man! I feel like I just got out here!

Things here this week have been really good. We’ve been working and working and working. Last week we were blessed to find 7 new investigators and they are awesome!

One of which is a man named Luis.....I don’t remember if I told you about him already or not but he’s 19 and his family is really inactive. The mom is the only one that was officially baptized in the church and idk I figured he was already a member and a brother to this other member that he is always with. but basically he came up to us and asked us what he needed to do to be baptized. So we had a lesson with him and at the very beginning of the lesson what did we do? Well we invited him to be baptized! Set him on date for the 24th of December :) and when we asked him what he thought about that date and he was silent for a bit almost to the point that we thought he didn’t like it and he looks up at and says "That would be.....so awesome!" He is seriously the most excited person i have ever seen for baptism. What a special Christmas this is going to be :) I feel so so so so blessed.

Another 3 of the new investigators that we found this week are this little family of 3. Reyna, Gustavo, and Isaac. And man oh man. They are amazing people. We actually found them on our lunch break and decided to go see if we could see one of our other investigators who works there (Cruz) at KFC and Reyna and them where in line and needed help ordering their food since they couldn’t speak English. and Reyna was so impressed with the fact that white girls are speaking Spanish that she started asking us questions and one thing led to next she invited us over to her place and as she was giving us her contact information Cruz came out and saw that we were talking to her and she comes over and starts talking to Reyna and Gustavo telling them how much we have helped her and her family how her family prays every night and all this stuff that when we finally got to go over there last week it was so comfortable in their home. They already felt like members to me. And we felt really impressed to talk about the Book of Mormon and Reyna got so excited about it that she invited herself to read it! So we get to see her and her family this Saturday :) I can’t wait! 

This Friday Sotero is gonna get baptized! yeah man!! :) I cannot wait for that! :) and the best part is that neither can he! He told us how excited he was. Sotero is an amazing man who reminds me a lot of a quiet shy child wrapped up in a big guy body. His baptism is gonna be so great! I love baptisms! 

We put Victor on date again for the 21 of January and I really am hoping that he will be able to get his butt to church. We have taught him everything and he knows it’s true and wants to be baptized so bad but due to his work schedule it prevents him from being able to come to church but he told us that in January work will be slowing down and hell have more time to come to church. the problem is that him and another recent convert (Carlos) have the same job. So whenever Carlos isn’t working victor is and visa versa. So in order for Carlos to be able to come to church Victor has to work...dilemma...but it will all work out. We talked about temples yesterday and he really wants to be able to enter there and one day be sealed with someone forever. Victor has not had an easy life and he is trying his best. I know that it’s gonna work out and I just hope that I get to see that brother get baptized! 

So this past week was a really good one. And this week well actually tomorrow we have zone conference :) 6 and a half hours of getting to learn how to be better people and teachers and missionaries and listeners and remotivated all over again! Super excited!  

Hope you all are staying happy and warm and I look forward to hearing from you!

Miss you tons! Have a great week!

paz y amor,

Hermana Maughan