Week 61

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful week!


This week was super crazy but super amazing!


We had a our Christmas party as a mission! It was so incredible and I learned so much. 
President talked a lot about the atonement of Jesus Christ. Something he said that blew my mind was that Christ felt everything that we went through but we still feel some pain. Why is that? So we can use His atonement. So we can rely on Him. 


We had an exchange! I got to be with my bestie Hrmn Micheli and show her around my area. It was so much fun and I just love her so much!


Since we has so much going on this week my comp and I were finally back together in our area on Friday and then on Saturday I got sick.
I had a 101.8° fever hahaha but we saw so many miracles from home over the phone on Saturday. It was super efficient since everyone is on vacation. We ended up putting 2 people on date over phone calls! So that was awesome to see  God's plan work out perfectly. Maybe I had to be sick for a reason. Everything is part of Gods plan.


We didn't have time on Monday to go food shopping because we had to travel to Santiago at 9 in the morning, so when we finally got back to our area on Friday we ran into a supermarket at 8:50 one night. We grabbed some food and called our taxi, but he wasn't working. So by this time it was 9:15 and we were 15 minutes from home. We have to be at home by 9:30. Well, we put on our muscles, grabbed our groceries and went running home, we were sore the next day but hey! We aren't starving now.


On Sunday we made cinamon rolls! It's a little sad to be away from home over the holidays so we decided it would be fun to do a few of our traditions here! We also had a big giant sleep over as a house in the main room! We moved all pur beds and had a fun slumber party. 


On Sunday, none of our friends were home, so we made a Jesus jar. We put slips of paper with Christlike attributes in it, with questions, and with hymns. We went around our area and shared messages of Christ with everyone who would draw a paper out of our Jesus jar. It was so much fun. Everyone wanted to participate. Everyone wanted to celebrate and learn of Christ with us. 


what a wonderful time to be a missionary. its my second Christmas as a missionary. last year was hard. i didn't truly understand the purpose of Christmas or understand the importance. but this year, im so grateful to be here sharing the peaceful message of the gospel and that families can be together forever.


Luke 2: 10-11
"And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."


Jesus is good tidings and great joy for all people. Today the Savior of the world, for everybody was born. 
I love my Savior and I know He lives. I know he changes life's. 


Have a great day and cherish this time with your family. I love you all so much! I would love to hear from you! Send me an email or pictures! And remember to put God first :)


pictures 
1 cinnamon rolls
2 & 3 christmas party 
4 day in La Vega
5 santa
6 exchange
7 intestines in the middle of the road
8 christmassss 







Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week 10

Image
Heyyy!!! Im loving life here in the DR! SO MUCH FUN!!!! this week was crazyyy!!!  This week we had exchanges! On Friday morning the Hermana leaders came to our apartment and picked me up and I said bye to my companion for 24 hours! The hermana leaders are a threesome so it was me, Hermana Dominguez, and Hermana Torrez. We headed to their apartment in a different area of Santiago but it was only about 20 minutes from my area. We had lunch (Hermana Torrez can COOK!!!) we did companion study, then headed out for the day! Their area was popey (rich) haha! It was beautiful, flowers everywhere!! But the people weren't as friendly. But we got ice cream from BON for dinner and it was good but not as good as my mom and grandpa's homemade ice cream!! The next day I headed back home and I missed my companion! I love my area so much and my comp so much!  We have been speaking only Spanish in the streets and I think it's been helping me a ton! Shoutout to Boomer for the great idea!! FEL...
Read more

Week 46

Image
Hola hola cómo están? Hey hey how's everyone doing? I hope you are all doing so so good and I just want you to all know I miss you so much! This week was so speedy!  And not anything really special happened. It definitely was a little bit of a harder week but with God anythings possible. But I saw a few wonderful miracles. Uur friend Jenny. She told us she wanted to go to church but she only had money to get to church, not to get back home. But she took a step of faith and God worked out the rest of the details like He always does.  We had zone conference and it was so so good. The thing that stuck most with me was becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ, not just a missionary. We also talked about keeping the end in mind as missionaries and our goal as missionaries is to baptize people who are converted to Jesus Christ. It was a really good conference. Then the senior missionaries made peanut butter bars and they reminded me of my dad, bittersweet. On Sunday we had stake conferen...
Read more

Week 9

Image
HEY EVERYONE!!!! Hows everyone doing?? On December 12th I got to the DR! It was a long day of travel but we made it! We flew from Mexico to Florida then from Florida to the DR! We got on our second flight to Santiago and the plane was full of natives. I tried to talk to this cute old man sitting next to me but I swear he wasn't speaking Spanish hahaha. That's when I knew I was in for a wild ride.  We got to Santiago and went to President Bretóns house! We spent the night there and in the morning they had a Dominican breakfast ready for us! It was really good! Then we headed to the mission office and had orientation. Then we got to meet our companions! My comp is so awesome! Her name is Hermana Lowry! She's been out in the field for almost 16 months! She's an incredible missionary and I love her!! We headed to our area and I'm in Bella Vista!  The people here are so awesome!  We mostly teach kids and women! The kids absolutely love to hear the gospel!  Since I'm ...
Read more