I LOOOOOVED the Putnam Family Calendar!!! Thank you so much for sending it to me!! Everyone at the VC was absolutely loving it :) I also enjoyed the Carr family and the Ellersick fam Christmas cards! I miss you all so much! We have such a dang good looking family. Seriously. Those cards are gorgeous!! I hope it isn't snowing too much in ID and UT ;) We have actually dropped down to the 40's at night...kill me. Seriously, what is this weather? I want my 80 degrees back haha I had to be outside for like 3 hrs at night during our VC shift and it was windy and blowing my little skirt up. I was dying. I shouldn't even complain haha AZ has the greatest winter weather ever. I have seen quite a few friends from BYU!!! It's been way fun seeing everyone. If you ever come down you better say hi to me!!!!
This week was a super bipolar week as a mission usually is. It started off normal-ish and then Hna Sordes and I found out that we were needed at the VC for the Christmas lights every single night until December is over. That is not normal. We usually have like 3 nights off a week. We are the only companionship that was asked to do this and we were totally willing to because we are awesome like that. So we now work every single night 5-11pm and some days 2-11pm. CRAZY! This means that we only have like 1-2 hrs in our area every day. So freaking sad, especially because we have more progressing and potential investigators. We knew that the Lord would bless our area while we were gone and HE TOTALLY DID!
On Tuesday we had exactly an hour and a half in our area before we went to the VC. This is what happened: 2 baptismal dates (kinda...Ramon&Jose), three lessons with a member present, and two new investigators. That's what I'm talking about. I have no idea how in the world we did that but it totally happened. We are supposed to have our baptism with Ethan this Wednesday...but it may get pushed back because of dumb reasons...we'll see. It'll happen though. Then cute little Ramon...except he's freaking huge/beefy Ramon haha....we all had a fast this last fast sunday together so that he would get his answer for being baptism and HE DID! He told us that he definitely knows this Church is true and wants to be baptized. The problem is is that he still has a hard time letting drinking go altogether. He drinks like a bottle a day or less just by himself. So, not too bad. We will keep working with him and officially set a baptism date soon.
This week was also super hard because our appointments kept falling through and we were just not getting anything done in our area with the little time that we had. However, all is well! The VC is chaotic as always. I enjoy it ...sometimes...and other times I feel like I'm not even doing anything. I just talk to people and don't really get a chance to bring the Gospel into conversation. It's such a hard balance. I had the chance to announce our huge concert thing that we have every night outside IN SPANISH! It was super awful and their retarded microphone kept shutting off while we were talking into it. I felt really stupid but whatevs. Everyone pretty much speaks in English in Mesa anyways lol. I just speak in Spanish for their entertainment :) Good times. It was pretty funny because I announced it with my companion for the night- Sis. Mackenzie, who is from Kenya (I live with her) and she has a thick accent when she speaks English. I bet people were just lovin us haha.
This Thursday is our TEMPLE DAY! We get to go once every transfer and this temple day is like extra special because it's Christmas time or something...I have no idea what that means but we will be doing temple stuff like alllll day :) YES! I am way excited. I miss the temple so so much. We got to go hiking last Pday up to these retarded Wind Caves. Mesa is kinda lame in the hiking dept. We basically walked up a little slope for an hour and didn't even make it up that high and these caves were like tiny in-dents in the mountain. Wowwww Mesa. haha, I forgot my camera on the hike, but my comp took pictures. It's not even that great, so don't worry about lol. For today's Pday we got to chill at a member's home with our zone and have a delish meal and watch 17 MIRACLES! I LOVE THAT MOVIE! I have seen it like 80 times and I just love it. We had delicious hot chocolate and popcorn and comfy couches. I forgot I was on a mission for that hour or so...it was great...I mean...never mind. Love the mish haha
LESSON LEARNED this week: The Gospel is just so simple. I have seen so many issues with the people that we teach. I don't understand how people live without the Gospel. I sometimes get super stressed because I don't know how to teach to all of these crazy needs that these people have. Then I remember...the Gospel is so simple. Just do what you're supposed to do and God will bless you. Just teaching about prayer, scriptures, charity, going to Church, etc and I already see these people changing their lives. Anyone can live the Gospel. Sometimes I judge too quickly when I see these Mexi's married to someone in Mexico but they have 3 boyfriends and 12 kids somewhere in the U.S. and I'm just like, "you are never going to get baptized in a million years." What a terrible attitude!! Seriously. So, I continue to repent and keep working and try to see these people in clean church clothes :) It's always possible
OHHH! GUESS WHAT! I met Tyler Haw's cousin last night at the VC (Tyler Haws is the freaking man of BYU basketball...next to Jimmer of course). Anyways, so his cousin's name is Taylor Haws and he promised me wicked awesome Bball tickets when I get back. YES!!! Love being on a mission haha. I promise there was no flirting involved while this went on. Come on now, I know better than that ;)
I CANT WAIT TO TALK TO YOU OVER SKYPE! Yes, it will be skype :) I get to use a member's laptop or something I guess. I'll update you next week!! MERRY CHRISTMAS..almost. Remember the Savior. He loves you so much :) Love you guys. Thank you for the letters and packages :)
Love love love,
Hermana Daly
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