#realweeklyletter :) 12-11-14

Hola!

This week has been super awesome! We've picked up 5 new investigators, and they are all awesome! It has been so great to see such great miracles happening, because this has honestly been the hardest transfer of my life! We've had some pretty rough patches as a companionship and as a zone, but everything is finally getting worked out and now this has been my favorite transfer yet!

We now have two investigators with baptismal dates, Zach Wilde and Max Bloom. They are both awesome :) Zach has a bit of autism, but he loves God so much and now that he has received his answer that the church is true, he has been so missionary minded and has been telling his testimony to everyone he knows! He has also been bringing his girlfriend to church and she wants to get baptized as well! Max has turrets or something and lives in a group home, so he has a care taker who brings him to church every week. It's really cool because his care taker "secretly" listens in on our lessons, and this last lesson he asked for a book of Mormon and gave us his personal number, so we were able to pick him up as an investigator as well! Milagros Pues!

Speaking of spanish, the spanish area in our zone is getting closed down, and since my companion speaks spanish they are making us a zebra (1 spanish sister and 1 english sister) and we are going to be teaching all of the spanish people in vacaville! They are also going to give us another spanish sister and make us a trio next transfer, so that's going to be exciting! I'm practically an Hermana :) ...If only I could understand spanish!

haha, well, I hope that everyone is having a good holiday season! Did anyone see the LDS take over of youtube on December 8th? I heard it was pretty cool :) If you haven't seen the 'He is the Gift' video, watch it!

Love you all! Have a great week!

Mandee:

Your singing was beautiful :) I have a job for you! please send me (either through email or in a physical scrap book) all of the cute pictures that you can find of me and our family and everything :) Old family pictures or baby pictures or any fun pictures that you can find, and make sure you include some of me with black hair please, because my companion won't leave me alone about it! 

Haha, so you won't believe what happened! So this zone is super messed up and everyone hates everyone and no body gets along. I've never been in a zone like this before! So anyway, my companion got in a fight with this one elder over some stupid teasing or something, and long story short we found out that the whole root of the problem was that he had a crush on me. It was super awkward. 

Anyway, that was the fun story that I had for you :) Love you, have a great week!

PS. Please tell Daddy that it's about time for a hair cut :)

Tyson:

It was good to hear from you again! I'm super excited for Christmas too! I don't know exactly when I'll be able to skype you guys, but I'll let you know soon! I'm so excited that you went to the temple!!! Was that your first time going to do baptisms? haha, whatever national hug day, that girl just thought you were cute!! :P  I hope you helped mom put up her Christmas decorations. :) Every Christmas tree that I see I compare to mom's. You just can't beat her award winning tree! haha! Love you! have a great week!

Grandma Nanna:

Thank you so much for the Christmas card! I love you and hope you guys are doing so well! Merry Christmas!

Kari:

Aw, dang, it would have been cool to randomly see you guys on the street :) haha, I'm glad you had such a good time in Disney Land though! I can't believe how big Lindsey is getting, whoa!! Thanks for the present! I'm really looking forward to Christmas so I can open it :) haha! Love you guys! Merry Christmas!

Grandma Bowcutt:

Thanks for the package! I freaked out when I saw the Idle isle candies, me and my companion were in heaven!! :) I love you guys!! Hope you have a great week and a merry Christmas!

Lacey:

So fun!! That's awesome that you guys are going to come to California for Christmas! I can't believe your kids are getting so old! I still think Braven is so young, every time I see a picture of Stryker I call him Braven, haha :) I hope that you guys have a Merry Christmas! Love you all lots!

Marilyn:

Thank you so much for the card! I was really happy when you told me you had been reading my letters! :) Where are you living now? Still in Utah? I love you and hope you have a wonderful Christmas!