It's Christmas Time!

December 14, 2015

I love you all.

I don't have buckets of time today. We were able to spend some time with one of our recent converts, A., today. We made some rad gingerbread houses, I'll attach pictures! 

The Houses. Mine is in the middle.

This week was just fantastic. One highlight was our Christmas zone conference on Wednesday. There were three zones, so there were LOTS of missionaries! We got to give our training twice, It went well! We were really blessed with the spirit and unity in presenting the training, and I think the missionaries liked it! We also had a white elephant exchange with items out of our apartments! If you've ever heard any rumors about missionary apartments...they're all true haha. Needless to say there was a lot of unnecessary stuff getting exchanged around, but it was a lot of fun and we had a lot of good laughs. I loved the focus on the Savior at zone conference as well. Missionaries LOVE to testify of the Savior. I think it's because on our missions, He becomes so REAL to us, and we can't help but share :)

We were blessed to be able to find a lot of new investigators this week, all of which were referrals or part-member families! Blessings. We are so excited about the work here! We are working really hard to perfect our adherence to the missionary schedule with a challenge called "success breeds success". It's based on the principle that if we can successfully master our morning schedule, getting a full 30 min of exercise, full personal and comp study, we can be successful in our missionary work. And it WORKS. Sister Schow and I are becoming masters of the missionary schedule! And our week went so well as a result.

Our investigators are doing well! We love them all. We were able to have some great lessons this week. I just seriously love this area. So many people progressing towards baptism!

We also got to have stake conference this week with Elder Snow from the 1st quorum of the 70. It was amazing! I learned so much from everyone that spoke. The best part was the new member meeting with Elder Snow before stake conference. We were able to attend with A.! Everyone stood up and told their stories of how they came to be a member of the church, and the spirit was SO powerful when A. bore her testimony! She has struggled with different things in the church, but as she testified, I think she really felt her testimony confirmed. She was able to reflect on the blessings the gospel has brought to her life, and it was amazing to hear. We love Amber!

Hope you have a wonderful week preparing for Christmas! 

Sis. Schow and me and our houses :)