It was so great to talk to you yesterday! Thanks for the duck lips, Adele!
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| Adele's duck lips from Arkansas. |
When we were on exchanges and I was with Hermana Brown, we met this lady named Monica. She was pretty nice, but didn't seem like she was dying interested or anything. So we went back to visit her this week, AND IT WAS SO AWESOME! At the beginning, she told us that she had grown up Catholic, but when she grew up, she decided that she didn't like that and that she didn't believe that it was the right church. We taught her the first lesson and it was pretty chill. She is just so awesome. When we were explaining dispensations and then the great apostasy and then she asked if we are in a dispensation or an apostasy right now. Like that kind of awesome. :) At the end, we invited her to be baptized and she said yes!! Usually, I'm pretty scared to invite people to be baptized because I know they'll say something along the lines of, "Oh I was already baptized when I was little." Like in another church. But Monica didn't say that, she just said, "Yeah, if I know it's right!" So, yeah, we are so excited about her! As we were wrapping up, she started tearing up and said that she had been praying to know what she should do next to increase her faith and that she was so happy that we came over. I am so excited for her and to go visit her again this week!
<a couple paragraphs from Hermana Thornton's email that Arianna told us about on Christmas>
This week was sooo good, we started it off visiting an inactive and she didn't have a Christmas tree, so we brought her over ours. Let me remind you this tree is huge and we didn't have rope so we put it on top of our car with Christmas lights. CHRISTMAS LIGHTS!!! If you can think of something more festive than that lemme know. So, we drove like 10 mph with our emergency lights on and it made it so it was a success.
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| Merry Christmas. |
Christmas was the best. On Christmas Eve, we baked sooo many cookies... so domestic and had dinner with the Benitezs and ate mole!!!... my favorite. Then we went caroling with the district and stopped at the presidents house too... iconic. It was so fun.
Christmas was so good and weird too. Claudia came to church with her kids, they're so cute, we went to the Bowens and ate and talked to the family. WHAT, it was awesome but at the same time it was like dang I'm not gonna see them for a year!
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| Christmas jammies from Hermana Thornton's mom. :) |
We had dinner with our a couple with help out with things. They have a lot of health problems so we help out with cleaning and stuff. It was fun. They're Jewish, so we did Christmas and Hanukkah... lit the candles and everything!
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| Presents for our investigators. |
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