Love the Christmas package!

Wed Dec 16, 2009

oh my gosh mom, the package was so amazing!! thank you thank you thank you!! the clothes are so perfect, everything. you know me so well. and yes of course i already opened it all!! and my companion wants a toffee recipe. so yeah could you please send that for next week?
So sweet. This week we have a baptism! a beautiful young mom angela who just got married (its so crazy cuz she is only 22, has two kids 4 and 2 and is about to have her third and the four year old has epilepsy, we are just in such different places her and i). anyway and her mom too! we are going to start working with the husband, norberto. Anyway they are super strong and fieles. I am so excited for them, they had their interviews today and passed!
It is so crazy to be working in a ward now, we had ward council and I was just like agh crap I dont know what to do, i dont know how to work with a ward?! Anyway. We have a christmas dinner this friday and my comp and i are trying to cook up something good to show the ward a good time. its tough sometimes they are always talking about the old missionaries and how funny or nice or animated they were. which im like, hey im pretty darn animated. its cool though, i feel like I already have a lot of good friends here in this place. i love all the people i meet. missionaries, investigators, ward members. it's so neat.
yesterday we shared a message with someone who hasn't been to church in a really long time because she cant stop smoking and can't take the sacrament. anyway we promised the Lord will help her and we started reading in 3 ne 18 about the importance of the sacrament and anyway i kept reading and i was like oh the next verses are so good its talking about how if Christ is our rock we can overcome the gates of hell. yeah totally misunderstood but realsized a litte too late., anyway so i had her read them, she was like wow son fuertes. I was like oh my gosh I dont want to tell people they are going to hell!! haha anyway so I turned to helaman 5 12 to see the blessings of having Christ as our rock. it turned out well. but it was like a terrible feeling to share something asi and then realize it was the exact opposite of what i wanted to share just because i skimmed the verse and didnt understnad the spanish well.
Anyway my companinon and i received some extra strength to start fresh and be hard working. and its much better now. I love my companion a lot, I think because i understand her so well, i was just in her shoes of wanting to go home.... Anyway But it was funny a member of the ward who served a mission como hace 3 anos found out that we both have such little time [as missionaries so far] and he was like man if the mission pres wasn't a member i would have said he was drinking to have made a decision asi. I was like haha yah thats what i thought when i found out. but then he said no it really must mean you were just really prepared well. I guess so... i still dont feel like it, but i know with the help of the Lord and the power of my calling I can be a powerful teacher of the word of God. what a blessing. I love testifying to all the people that I know this is the true church on the earth today- that the same church that Christ established was restored by a prophet of God!
ok i love you so much and i am going to call on christmas day como a las 10 en la manana your time. great. I will write again next wednesday. love you so much! chau