I cannot believe it is already December and I have been out almost 3 months on the mish!! CRAZY! Seriously, I feel like I've done like nothing haha. It sounds like you guys are having an awesome holiday season so far :) I love hearing about what you're all up to. I bet the lights on the house look freaking awesome as always. I'm glad Cameron hasn't died yet on the roof haha, he seems to survive it every year somehow ;) Winter time in AZ is the greatest thing in the world. It is sooooo warm every day all day. The Visitor's Center is crazy as always. We just started having our concert shows that happen every night of December. Choirs from different churches and different high schools come and perform. They are AMAZING! I love Christmas. I have been able to talk to A LOT of interesting people from all around Mesa and around the U.S. I really do love the VC. I love being able to talk to people and see how their life is. It's super fun :) Yet, it's also hard because I should just be testifying and inviting them to do something to come closer to Christ....and all I ever do is talk to them about their families and see what's goin on in their lives....oops haha I'm working on it!! I've only been out three weeks, give me a break lol. I did have this super awesome experience though...
So, there is this Mexi family that came into the VC and they weren't too interested in the Church but they wanted to look around and see what was in the VC. One of the sisters immediately ran to get me and made me take them into this movie called "God's Plan for families." It's a super awesome movie and you like go through this cool tunnel room thing and watch the whole movie at different parts of the room. It's way fun. But, as usual, I immediately started to have a panic attack because I had no idea how to introduce this movie in Spanish and then testify specifically about families...yeah I was about to pass out. So they come to me and I just say "Hola, Como estan?" like 10 times because that's all I can say haha oh goodness....SO, I was super bad at introducing the movie that the mom was like trying to finish my sentences for me because she felt bad haha too funny. I take them through the movie and then I just said like the simplest testimony in the entire world about families and how we can be together forever and they were just sooooo nice to me. They kept saying, "muy bonita, gracias," and I could tell they were a little emotional. I felt a little bit better about the experience. Then later that night my frenchy comp, Hna Sordes, was telling me about a Mexi family that decided they wanted to have missionaries teach them right after they saw the God's Plan for Families movie and I was like "WOAH!!! I was the one that took them through that!" Then we were both jumping up and down and screaming with joy haha. So, I felt super good about that experience. That is the first cool Spanish experience I've had!! Awesome, yeah??
On the down side...our investigator, Ethan (13 yrs old with the baptism date), never came to Church these passed two weeks and we visited him every Sunday to get him to come and he won't. Now he is always gone and it's weird. :( Freaking satan ruining our investigators. ughhhhhh. We'll work on him, but so far it doesn't look like he'll get baptized on the 15th. BUT, our other rockstar, Ramon, always comes to Church and loves it and loves the people and has like 30 friends already. So awesome. He is totally gonna get a baptism date this week. HE BETTER! I love love love all of the sisters I work with at the VC. My frenchy comp rocks. Everyone loves her. We get along great!
I haven't heard anything about VISAS at all :( That's ok though. I am loving Mesa...sometimes haha. A part of me keeps saying, I am so glad I won't be here too long. I know I shouldn't think that but Mesa isn't that pretty sometimes. Super brown and ugly and dumb cacti everywhere. Seriously, why do people like those things? Hna Sordes LOVES THEM! She wants to like decorate her house with it. Weirdos haha I hope I get to Spain around January!!!
Enjoy the Christmas season! I am missing SLC lights SO BAD! Mesa has cool ones, but seriously, SLC has the best. Everyone go. I think about all of you every day! Spanish is still hard but now I just don't care :) I laugh and say stupid words in Spanish so people will laugh at me. It's fun :) Our area in Valencia is still very hard to work with, especially when you only work about 3-4 hrs a day in the field. We are always at the VC. I have seen the five minute Luke 2 movie about 187 times. I can now imitate every sheep noise in that movie. haha It's great. HAVE A GREAT WEEK! Love you all, share the Gospel, bring the sheepies home. YEAH! Adios mi familia, Ciao!! (I hope that's how you spell Ciao)
Hermana Daly
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