Sunday, January 15, 2017

DECEMBER 13, 2016 

WHO'S EXCITED FOR CHRISTMAS?

Hola! 

I love Christmas so much and so I just keep getting randomly SO excited. It’s going to be super different and I don’t know if it makes me super sad or really happy but either way, it’s all an experience. 

This week was really just packed full of so many things! We are balancing a lot of new investigators this week and it’s been kinda crazy but so awesome at the same time. I have really taken the lead on all of our first lessons and it’s been so great! My Spanish is really improving and its making me so much more confident to talk to everyone!

We also had interviews with President Richardson this week. He is so awesome!! He is such an inspired man. He is just one of those classic "characters". There really isn't a way to describe him unless you know him. I was really scared of him before the mission because of how strict everyone said this mission was. The mission is REALLY obedient but President Richardson just makes is so much "easier" to be exactly obedient to every rule. He is the culture of our mission. 

Another thing that I have really learned about this mission is how truly diverse it is! I honestly feel like I am in another country a lot of the time. One day we were knocking doors and on one street I knocked into so many completely different people. The first door was a crazy older Cuban woman who didn't speak any English at all and when we were saying the prayer, she screamed SO LOUD right in our faces because her cat came near here. The next door a really old Jamaican woman in a robe talking to her Jamaican friend on speaker phone opened up. We shared a prayer with her and she told us we were just the "nicest young woman" and her friend joined us for the whole discussion-- two for the price of one! The next was a middle aged Latin man who was blasting music. He denied the prayer but said "Your beautiful, COME BACK ANYTIME!" Needless to say, knocking door is always an experience. I've learned to really appreciate it.
I miss you all! And love you so much!! I pray for you every night! Talk to you next week!!!

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