¿Comó están? ¿Dónde están sus sonrisas? ¡Porque es la Navidad!
Well this week started out pretty brown - ha ha. Not a lot of snow has been falling lately and finally yesterday we got some snow. We have been hoping for a white Christmas. It really makes it seem more like Christmas when there is snow on the ground. Everyone here is truly in the Christmas spirit and we love going to member' houses and sharing Christmas messages about the true meaning of Christmas.
On Wednesday, we visited la familia Cruz, the less active family that we have been working with, and finally met the people that were living downstairs: The Contreras family. They are all from El Salvador and they are actually leaving this week to go to El Salvador and wont be back until January. But it was really good to make contact with them and meet them. We also visited Mario Fico, our little Argentinian friend on Thursday. He was really sick because of his diabetes and could not walk at all. We felt that we needed to help him and asked him what he needed. He responded that he needed eggs and chocolate milk. So we went to the store and got him that. He was so thankful and we then gave him a blessing. I hope that he can get better. He is going to the hospital and hopefully they dont have to remove his legs.
We had dinner with the Cuevas family on Friday and they insisted that we try their fried jalepeños. They were so hot! Elder EZ was practically dying and could not feel his face. It was a funny experience. They were proud of us for trying them and asked if we wanted more. Ummm, definitely not! Spanish people really know how to cook.
On Saturday, we had Vianney's baptism. It had to be one of the happiest moments of my life. From the moment he walked into the church he had such a big smile on his face. If you guys remember we started teaching him and then had to turn him over to the other Spanish missionaries because he moved. But I remember when we started teaching him and thinking that he would be baptized. He had such a light to him and he seemed ready. It truly is a miracle to see someone that you just met enter the waters of baptism and see the joy in their faces. It makes you so happy. It is so hard to explain and I will never forget it. But Elder EZ got to baptize him and it made him so happy and honored. It gives us both motivation to find more people to teach. I want more people to feel the joy that he felt.
Yesterday we met with Ruban and Cindy. They are both very religious and study the bible a lot. We are going to need to bring reinforcements (the bishop) because he knows the bible inside and out. But he has great faith in Christ already and is really happy to be meeting with us. We shared our testimonies of the Book of Mormon and they both said they would read it. We are going to start working with them and hopefully we can get them to church on Sunday. We then had some more time before we had to go home and so we tried an ancient address in our area books. We showed up and found a man from Africa that speaks Spanish. He speaks many other languages so we do not know what language he will want to be taught in. He was a great guy and was happy to talk to us. The crazy thing about it is we looked back later and saw that the address we put in the GPS was wrong. The work of the Lord goes forward.
Spiritual Thought: I was reading about the 2000 stripling warriors this morning. And I love the verse that talks about how they were taught by their mothers the ways of the Lord. (Alma 56:47-48) This is so true. I give a shout out to all the mamas that taught their children the right things. Always remember
where you came from and who taught you.
Mucho amor!!!
Elder KIPPPPP
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