Email we received 12/31/12.
HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everything´s going good here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was REALLY GOOD talking to you on Christmas too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everything´s going good here. Yeah the ward is small but they have enough people to fill all the callings. They usually won´t open a ward if they´re aren´t enough people to fill callings. The only thing we have to help with is the sacrament. But the work is coming pretty good!!!!!!!! We found this family the other day that as soon as we came to the house the grandma called everyone out to come listen to the missionaries. They´re SUPER positive!!!!!!!!! They didn´t come to church yesterday because they were super sick but they we have another appointment with them on Friday so hopefully they can start coming to church. They live SUPER close to the church so I don´t think it will be terribly hard to get them to come. Elder Daw is good. And that guy that was sitting on the ground while I was Skyping... His name is Elder Teyes and he´s from Mexico. And guess what? He was training his companion but he ended up going home last Thursday for some reason. So, Elder Daw, Elder Teyes, and I are in a trio now and we´re working both Guadalupe areas. Ha ha yeah pretty crazy!!!!!!!!!!!! Our area is HUGE now!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it´s a little weird being in a trio but it´s all good. And it´s SUPER good because we´re speaking Spanish pretty much all day everyday now and this change for some reason is longer than usual (2 months) so my Spanish is going to improve A LOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So I´m excited about that. The rest of Christmas was good. We pretty much just stayed at Hermana M´s (the house that I skyped from) until dinner then went to dinner at another members house. Today we´re going back to Hermana Mirrella´s house for New Years Eve. It´s nuts... we eat with her Saturdays and Sundays and Elder Teyes was telling me that whenever there´s a holiday or something out of the ordinary we eat at her house too. So we end up eating at her house A LOT!!!!!!!!!! But it´s all good, she´s SUPER COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She was a missionary here in Panama and then after her mission she came back to live here. Seriously she´s DANG COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But yeah everything´s all good. Today and Tomorrow are supposedly SUPER CRAZY!!!!!!!!!! {because of the holidays} We can´t get too much work done but we´re going to try to do as much as we can.
Anyways, I wanted to share with you guys the lesson that Hermana M gave in Sunday school yesterday (yeah this lady does EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Anyways, she gave a lesson about coming closer to Christ through reading the book of Mormon. As you know the Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ so there are hundreds of stories about Christ and what he has done and what he will do for us. Something that I started to do while I´m reading is everytime it mention´s Christ´s name (in any form) I box it and then put a little check mark on the side of the page. It´s REALLY cool because you can step back and look at the pages and see how many check marks are on the pages and it helps you realize how much this book talks about Christ.
It´s SUPER COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also in Moroni it talks A LOT about reading the Book of Mormon with real intent and with a sincere heart. This is important because God does not like it when we just casually read it and don´t have a sincere heart. Anyways I want to challenge you all that when you´re reading the Book of Mormon everyday (4 pages per day just like President Monson said) to pay attention to the many stories and testimonies of Christ. And I promise you that you will get a lot more out of the Book of Mormon if you go about reading it this way. I know because I DEFINITELY have a deeper respect for the Book of Mormon and of Christ now that i´ve been paying more attention to HOW the Book of Mormon is another Testiment of Christ.
Anyways, I´m glad that you all are doing FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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