Dear Friends and Family

Well, it sounds like life is just going and going and going!! :) Things are going and going and going here too! :) Funny how that happens huh? 

I actually know sister Hungar, she was in this area before I got here, and she is training Sister Challis Carter, the girl I went to High school with! Crazy connections! 

Sounds like lots of crazy weather happening, we are getting lots of snow here too, it's not sticking too bad, but it makes it hard to want to go out in it, but alas we keep going! :) heehee ! :) We had our ward Christmas party this week too! It was a lot of fun! I'll tell you a bit about it, we had food that they would have had in the BOM times, chicken taco's and rice and beans and salsa stuff like that! :) It was a lot of fun! I'll explain a little more down later in the letter. 

Questions(I asked her how her companion is doing, she has been really struggling. 2. how Kelsey is doing. She has ben having some anxiety 3. What the mission was going to do for Christmas and 4. does she get the opportunity to sing very often)

 

1. Sister Little is doing better, we have made a pact that we are getting each other out of our moods right when we see them, and so we are helping each other that way! We went to LDS family services again on Friday and had a great session with Kimberly, talking about pushing out unwanted/ negative thoughts it has really helped me. Sister LIttle doesn't get much mail from anyone except you and grandpa, she really loves it, She is getting indifferent to not getting mail, but it is really sad to see. I really wish her family would be as awesome as you guys and keep her updated on things! 

2. I am doing better, sometimes it's hard to get going in the mornings, and focus, because it's cold outside, and starting the winter drawl but it's fun most of the time! :) I am learning more ways to deal with stress and that seems to help a lot!  

3. we just had a mission Christmas party where we had the whole mission together and we had a bunch of musical numbers and the stake presidents from the whole area got up and spoke for a minute, then we had christmas dinner, I got to sit by sister Black and sister Garner and talk the whole time and just catch up! It was just what I needed! I loved it so much! :) 

4. I actually was able to sing  at the christmas party in the choir that they had. and then Elder Browning and I are singing in church the week after Christmas! it's awesome! I am determined to sing in every ward I am in if I can! :) 

Did you see on facebook that Bro. Channell posted some pictures of us at the christmas party? They are the best! It was so much fun! :) 

 

This week has been quite the week! There has been a lot of progress with Jason! We had 4 lessons with him this week. And each one there was a surprise that we didn't expect! Monday's lesson we asked them how their book of Mormon reading was going and they said that they hadn't read any because they were talking about plans for a wedding! One night Jason all of a sudden had the idea of why wait? Just get married in January? We had been praying, fasting and stressing over this for the last few weeks and the Lord really answered our prayers by telling Jason that it was OK for them to be married! WE were shocked and amazed, and ecstatic!!!!! So our next lesson was a chapel tour, and we talked to him about the Word of Wisdom! He loves the word of wisdom! That is how he got out of his depression was through eating healthy and coming closer to Christ. He already had a testimony of it before he knew about it and he LOVES it! Then we had a lesson on Thursday with him, and we taught him about Obedience, near the end of the lesson My heart started racing and the only thing that I could think of was Extend baptism on January 4th, over and over. So I told him that I was being prompted to tell him something and that the Lord wanted him to get baptized on January 4th. He accepted that date. I know that Jason is ready for baptism! He loves everything about this church! He's our miracle!

We have had a lot of success working with less actives as well, mostly through service this week. WE have been baking cookies and inviting everyone we talked to, to our ward Christmas party that was on Saturday, and 3 people we invited came! It was so great! At the party we had a musical presentation about the signs of Christ's birth through the Book of Mormon, and it was very well done and it brought the spirit, everyone loved it. 

 

I have also been working on my relationship with the spirit and trying to follow every prompting I get, and it has been really good, it makes me listen and slow down, and be more still. 

 

We are struggling to find new people to teach though, that is where we are weak right now. We are working on ways to do things differently and smarter so we can fix that! 

Sister Buhler