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