The Missionary Life of: Week 50

I am a week late posting this one, sorry! Todays email coming soon.

Hola!!

So this week was downright crazy. First off it was the worst thing ever to say goodbye to my companions and I just wanted to hang onto Hermana Soba forever, but she is in good hands as she is with Hermana Bennett.

Tuesday was a packed day, we got new companions and got lunch and then there was a lot of planning for things this transfer. Planning for our zone and for things for the Christmas party we are having next week. Many things had to be done in a little time haha, but it was good!

Hermana Méndez is awesome! She has a big personality and laughs a lot, she will be fun to be with this transfer. I'm excited to get to know her more and more and work with her! There are many meetings this transfer but we are focusing this time around on new investigators, so I hope to really get working when we have time to! Find those people that are ready!

We also had MLC and then zone meeting this week. MLC (mission leadership council) was super awesome haha it's a long meeting but there is a lot to be learned! There were so many thing I loved. I especially loved when we talked about faith. Faith is something that is hard to define but it is one of the most powerful forces. It drives us to do what we do.

We were invited to ask each companionship to find 12 new investigators this transfer. Now for here in some area that's quite a lot of investigators, including our area I think we found 4 last transfer. But it was emphasized and talked about how if we really have faith and we really pray, we will. Now faith doesn't mean there isn't nerves or hard times it just means that we know the lord will provide what we need if we are doing out part. So I'm really excited for this transfer and excersizing faith. Because if we can have faith, we will.

So we meet with Jairo this week! We went into the lesson preparing to review the restoration with him. We got in and just started chatting with him and finding out how he was doing. He told us he had a question from the Book of Mormon so of course we asked him to share. Come to found out in a week he had read all the way to alma. He said he just liked reading it and we addressed that the calmness he felt while reading was the spirit. At this point in the lesson the spirit was screaming at both Hermana Mendez and I that we should invite him to baptism which was the last thing we thought we were going to do. But the spirit knows best and we did and he said yes!! For February 28th he said he wants to continue learning and will prepare. I don't think I stopped smiling for a good 24 hours. It was so cool to see how the spirit works and knows best and was so happy to hear someone say they believe in the power of the Book of Mormon and want to continue learning.

This transfer our zone decided that we are going to focus on LIGHT. It stands for live in Gods hope today. We are really focusing on finding the people the Lord has prepared to teach and by living in our hope or faith we are going to be able to see miracles and share this message about Christ with those who need it and are looking for it. Exciting things are going down in California. :)

We did get to have our branch Christmas party as well. It was Saturday night and was full of tamales, rice, pastel, and all that good stuff. Jairo came with his cousin! We walked in and he was already there it was so exciting! The kids are the cutest things in the world and they performed the nativity for us in Spanish and then as always afterwards there was music and dancing. I really love the Christmas season.

That's about all for now. Enjoy this Christmas week!!! Hug your family and spend so much time with them! I love you all so much. FELIZ NAVIDAD.🎁 That's right, sometimes I speak Spanish. :)

Con mucho amor en este espoca,

Hermana Foster