Merry Almost Christmas

Hello everyone!

It's almost Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAYAYAYA!! It is such a good time of the year! I’m so grateful that we get to celebrate Christ and serve as he did even more during this time! I hope that all of you have been having a good week and that you’re excited for this amazing Holiday! I miss not being in good ol' AZ but I will be having a semi white Christmas so it will be way fun to experience something new! 

The work here is going well! Bebeto is progressing and has been coming to church and our lessons with lots of questions but his heart seems to be opening to this gospel! I’m so grateful for him! I truly didn't know how excited you could get to see someone walk through the church doors! I hope that all of you look out for those who may not have been at church in a while and reach out! All they could need is an invite and when they DO come, go say hi! I know that the mission has changed my perspective on the importance of fellow shipping people and church attendance! 

 This week we had a Fabulous Federal Way Festival of Finding! We went out all day on Saturday from 10am-5pm and knocked doors. It took me a while to accept the fact that we would be doing that all day but once sister Taylor and i got into the grove of things all was well! We drove all over the place going into every part of our area, which is bigger than any other area. We drove 93.1 miles... that is not a good amount to drive in one day when you have to keep track of your miles and you are limited to how much you can drive in a month! But it was all worth it because we were able to share the gospel with a lot of people!! The day turned into the Frigid Fabulous Federal Way Festival of Finding though! It wasn't supposed to snow, just be in the 20's all day. We woke up to 19 degree weather and when we finally got out of the house to start the day it was about 25 and it was snowing.... my toes, fingers and nose almost fell off but it was a fun experience that I wouldst trade for anything!

We had a zone conference on Friday that took us back to the basics of missionary work. And I mean the basics. We talked about dress and grooming, what preach my gospel is and how to study from it. Surprisingly, it was a much needed topic of conversation! Ha ha! We then had Christmas lunch, ham and potatoes and such, and played a few games as a zone! we played one where we broke off into 6 different teams and had 5 min to write as many Christmas songs as we could on a piece of paper. we then went in a circle and had to sing, as a team, the first 2 stanzas of the song. If we repeated a song that someone else had sung or took longer than 10 seconds to start singing we were out of the game! it was way fun! You’ll never believe it but Sister Taylor and I sang a few of those songs by ourselves because no one else knew them. We basically sounded like the dream girls. No Biggy ;) also, our team won but who is to brag... not me :) ha ha! I love the visionaries in this mission! They are all so amazing and they teach me new things each time we have the chance to gather together! It is awesome!