It is almost Christmas!?!?!

Hola amigos!!!

 I ALMOST CRIED OPENING UP THE PACKAGE SAYING I AM GOING TO BE AN AUNT. WOW. I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!

This week has gone by so fast!! We taught the investigator twice that came to church with the less active last week! He seems pretty interested and says he will read the book of mormon to know if it is true :)

We also are working with a couple of less actives and getting them to come back! We found a new investigator, Sandra, this week. She wants to practice her fatih but says its super hard with her kids. But she seems really interested and we have an appointment with her tonight! I am excited.

We also went on exchanges with the sister training leaders this week. We had a weird day! We encountered someone walking their cat...leash and all... We did a ton of finding and didn't find too many people that were interested. We ate dinner with a family from Taylorsville so that was fun. I also gave away a Spanish Book of Mormon by myself so that was fun haha!

We had a lesson with one of our investigators that is super hard to contact and he says he would like to be baptized!! So that was awesome!! This week is going to be a busy week! We have an all mission conference tomorrow where everyone in the mission comes to one place! So That will be super fun!! I hope you all had a great week and have a Merry Christmas!!

Transfer #3

 Hola friends!

This week I got a new companion. Her name is Hermana Whetten. She is from Allen, Texas but was born in Mexico. She was fluent in Spanish before she came out on her mission so I will be able to learn a lot from her! I am excited. She has been out for a little over 6 months.

We got snow here. More than I was expecting! Probably like 2 inches but it did stick for a couple of days. It was interesting to drive in the snow in Virginia without street lights. Don't worry, we are alive. We were supposed to have a Christmas party on Friday but it got canceled because our branch does not like to drive in the snow so we had to go the next morning and take down all the decorations they had put up! Then we had a branch dinner at our branch presidents house. It was a little crowded but it worked and we had 3 investigators there!

We went around to find some less actives to invite to the party and we knocked on the door and asked for the less active and they said he had passed away on Monday. So that was super sad and one of the most awkward door knocking experiences I have ever had.

We are going to restart teaching some of our investigators, Angel and Gisella. We had stopped teaching them for a while but they say they want to know if this is the true church or not so we are going to go through all the lessons with them! I am super excited!!

On Sunday we had a less active bring a friend to church! So that was exciting and we got a return appointment for this week. We have been doing a lot of finding because we don't have a ton of investigators right now... So hopefully we will find more people to teach this week.

What are we doing to light the world? Well one of our members who is our neighbor was sick this week so we made her a little care package thing and brought her dinner from the party :)

We don't see many nativities in Virginia but a lot of house put a ton of Christmas lights up... an unnecessary amount. Apparently there is a thing called the tacky lights tour and that originated in Richmond.

I hope you are having a great Christmas season. We have encountered a few people who don't celebrate Christmas because "we don't know the exact day of Christ's birth". But we should celebrate it not because He was born but because He live and He atoned for our sins. I love you all so very much!!

Hermana Whetten and I

Hermana Whetten and I with our little tree

End of Training!

Hola amigos!!

Things are so great. I love this area so much. We have the best members!

So we got a call saturday and Hermana Coleman will be leaving this week and I will get a new companion on Wednesday! We are super sad but she has been here for 6 months so we new it was coming. I am so excited to stay in Henrico! I love it here so much... I would stay here my whole mission if I could.

Anyways.. this week was awesome! Last Sunday we had talked to this guy on Facebook who was super interested in the Book of Mormon so we told him we could give him one and he was super excited. So we met him in his high school parking lot and gave him a Book of Mormon! Then we did the same thing but on saturday with another guy! It is so awesome!

On Tuesday we had a lesson with Javier and a member, Hermano Escoto. He is so cool. Javier has a lot of questions, some that we can't answer in Spanish and some that we just don't know the answer in English or Spanish. So we got Hermano Escoto to come with us. It was the best decision we have ever made because he just answered all the questions without a problem. It was so so awesome. Then after the lesson we told him how cool he was and all he said was "why?" He is so humble it is so so cool.  Members of the church are so powerful and so so important to missionary work. I had no idea before my mission but wow, now I understand.

We were at Chick-Fil-a last Monday and we saw our investigators eating with a friend so we went and talked to them. Well their friend, Fabiola, invited us over for lunch so we could talk about God with her. So we get there and she is not too interested in our church and was not at all open about the Book of Mormon so we decided to show her the light the world video and she then said "we don't believe in Christmas". It was super awkward. We didn't even know what to say. But it was good and she still likes us and wants to have us over again.

I hope you are all watching the light the world videos and participating!! Service is so awesome and is such a great way to share the love of God with everyone!! I love you all so much!!

Us and our members that always come 

 Me with the Escoto family. I love them so much.

Us and Hermano Escoto at chick fill a 

Us with Javier and Kevyn (a returned missionary member)

We went and got pho with a member