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Oh man, it has been snowing a lot here lately. About everytime we go in somewhere to teach, the car will be covered with a blanket of snow when we come back out. I have to admit that everything does look very Christmasy and it is making me really looking forward to celebrating Christmas. President Campbell is really wanting us to focus on sharing the Christmas message in our proselyting. Mormon.org is a really good resource to use. Also, did you guys watch the Christmas Devitional of the First Presidency? It brought the Christmas spirit really strong.
We have been having a lot of success lately. We have two investigators that are on date to be baptized. The first is named Marta and she is from Mexico city up here learning english from on of the local universities. She is really prepared and is going to be baptized on the 22 of December. We invited her to be baptized and she prayed to find her answer. She called us back that night and told us that she had her answer, but that she wanted us to pray and find a part in the Book of Mormon to read to her that next day. We all said individual prayers and flipped open the Book of Mormon to a random part. We all came up with very personalized messages just for her and all of our scriptures applied to her situation and baptsim. It was really amazing to see the look on her face as we read our inspired scriptures. It is really amazing to me that we can be the messengers for God when people are making life-changing decisions. We taught her the Word of Wisdom yesterday and her only hang up was coffee. She simply said, "Well, I guess I got to change now." Nice!! But The other guy on date is named Eduardo. He will be baptized in January and he is really prepared. He has already read 1 Nephi and it's only been like 2 weeks. He was even a little apologetic when we met with him. We are looking forward to great things with him.
One good thing about covering two stakes is that you can go to all the Christmas parties!! Ha ha but it really is great to bring out our investigators and less-actives out to feel the Christmas Spirit. We are going to have a city wide Spanish Christmas Activity in a few weeks. If it is as successful as the last one, than it will be a hit. I love Christmas time as well, because all the Spanish people start making their favorite Spanish dishes. Especially tamales. They are so good! We are going to learn how to make them here soon. So ready to learn how to make these things from heaven. I recommend you find a Spanish person and have them make them for you!!
Mucho Amor,
Elder Kipp
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