White Christmas

hey family! :)

Happy new year!! :)

It was so awesome to get to talk to you on Sunday :) weee everyone sounds so much different on the phone then I remember. Mike you sound all grown up. its gonna be weird to you when I get home seeings how your way taller than me now.

Thank you so much to all and everyone that sent me Christmas cards and gifts! they were awesome. p.s. mom I'm wearing the sweater I love it.

 This Christmas was a good one especially because instead of having a white Christmas outside looks wise. We got to have one inside and soul salvation wise:) Luis got baptized and it was seriously an amazing baptism. The smoothest I have ever had. The font was filled with warm water. the copy machine worked. the programs were all done correctly, the people participating in the program showed up on time and even Luis did too! We even started the baptism pretty much on time. 10 minutes late which is saying something. the only thing that went wrong---Luis and Elder Allen (who was baptizing him) both forgot their towels and change of undies. But nonetheless the spirit was there and it was pretty sweet. Sunday he was confirmed and that was an amazing blessing he received. its so cool to be able to see the change in people take place. Luis is now preparing to serve a mission and is really excited about it :) his blessing even talked about that and yeah Luis is one special kid.

 For Christmas eve we got to spend the night with the Mather's a family in the English ward. it was nice to have an English Christmas :) we read the Christmas story and opened up presents. and then on Sunday we went to church and it ended up being an hour and a half with a meeting after. but then we went to the bishops house and had a cool little family home evening. we played taboo and talked about all of our conversion stories. after that we went and visited with Kiki and her husband Shane and then headed over to the Sarmientos and had Christmas dinner and a lesson about the B of M with their brother Roberto.

This week was a busy one. we were able to teach 28 lessons this week. pretty crazy-the highest amount Ive ever been able to do in a week maybe one day i can make it to 30! :)

WE had an awesome miracle happen on Monday :) God led us to 4 new investigators. Our first appt after district meeting was with this family that we felt the impression to knock their door the week earlier and they opened the door and told us they were busy and asked us if we could come by next week. so we did. they let us in and its this cute little family of 3 who have been searching for the truth and didn't even really recognize it. They had a lot of questions and told us a ton about all of their religious views which line up with a lot of our beliefs. They really do believe in the importance of hard work and families, and have already invited us over for next week and told us they want to feed us! but it was a really cool lesson and I look forward to teaching them some more. :)

Then later that day we had lesson with Miguel who is a recent convert and we were planning to talk about the Christlike attributes with him and we went in and all of his roommates were there which is kind of unusual unless they are just about to leave so we invited them to come and listen and they said sure. One of them was a woman named Alejandra and she is large with child and we taught the plan of salvation and oh man. I have never had the spirit so strong in a lesson before. it was tangible with how strong it was. we talked about the importance of being baptized and having the gift of the Holy Ghost and how they right now can feel the spirit in moments but that if they want that feeling with them always then they need to be baptized and receive the companionship of the Holy Ghost and towards the end of the lesson, Alejandra told us--I don't know much about the bible or anything but I love this plan. I felt really peaceful and relaxed--its like what you were explaining how I felt it but now its not there. So we invited her to be baptized so she could have that companionship and she said yes! we have a return appt with her next Monday and she's pretty excited to come to church!

Oh and we find out about transfers on Saturday if there are any. I don't know whats gonna happen but I could see president leaving us together for another transfer but no one ever knows! So next time I email it could be in a different place!

But yeah that's whats up here! Sure miss you guys! love you tons and wanna know something bien loco? 13 weeks and I'm home. crazy right?

I hope you all have a good week!

paz y amor, Hermana Maughan