HOLA Y'ALL!!
Ok well to explain the title of the email, me and my companeras finally set up the christmas lights!!!! (pics included) and we got a (mini) tree and all our presents and letters around, so thank you to everyone who has sent me a christmas card or package!! it has meant the world to me!
So something that was like AMAZING this week, is we found a NEW investigator. Her name is Esmerelda and she is GOLDEN. she was saying how something was missing in her life and she wants to strengthen her relationship with God and Jesus Christ and me and my companions couldn't even believe it, she was like shot down from heaven or something haha so we're going to extend to her baptism later this week. SO pumped, Brownfield might actually have a baptism for the first time in 6ish? years?
Wednesday. Ok this story. So we have a lady in our ward who we had needed to go visit for awhile, and she was moving in like a week so we decided to go on wednesday. My trainer had tried to warn me about her house, but nothing could have prepared me for the things I have seen. Ok first. go find the song from the movie "Pyscho" and look up the song "Murder" now play that as you keep reading. lol i'm not even joking. we walked into her tiny house, and oh my word. cigarette buds everywhere, cat hair in everything, brown stained carpet, mold on the walls, couch torn apart, a weird odor, and something (literally) growing in the kitchen. I just told myself not to breathe for an hour. So we sat down on her couch, and i sat right next to the bowl of cigarette buds, and my skirt kept falling in them, so when I left i smelt like a smoker lol. then we went on and tried to teach her, but me and the other girl being trained (sister judson) couldn't stop laughing, the cat kept attacking us lol. so my trainer just kept talking to the woman while we collected ourselves. we then taught her about the temple and she's moving to Lubbock for a program to quit smoking, so YAY!! so yea what an experience to have!
Thursday we had a party at the REHAB CENTER!!! those people know how to dance. so we played piano and sang for them and i went full out chorister. I had people singing along and dancing. it's christmas!!!
Saturday we got to go to the TEMPLE!!! it is so small but oh my word it is stunning inside. there was some missionaries there from my zone in the MTC so we had a little reunion and it was awesome to see them again. I literally miss my MTC zone so much haha. We also got pepper spray for christmas gifts that day, not that Brownfield is dangerous or anything mom ...
Sunday was my first official sacrament meeting and so as tradition the new missionary has to pray, so i chose the closing prayer! well about 30 minutes into sacrament meeting, MY MISSION PRESIDENT WALKS IN. so i was like oh crap, this prayer has got to be the best thing i've ever said. luckily i gave the prayer without passing out, and then president came up to me after and said "good job". That was a proud moment.
Monday (this is why I didn't email yesterday) we had JINGLE JAM!!! basically just a talent show, spritual thought and then we watched saratov approach. scariest movie ever! so good thing we have our pepper spray now lol. AND we got a BRAND NEW CHEVY MALIBU. we reached 50,000 miles so we got a new car. BLESS UP. so yea we were pretty happy about that.
Ok wow so sorry this email is so long. I have had some struggles adjusting this week, but I know with time I will finally adjust!! I just keep constantly praying for strength and help and always try to be positive. I honestly find so much happiness from reading the book of mormon every morning. I like have such a hard time putting it down haha. But I know this church is so true! I'm so sad I can't be with y'all for christmas this year, but I'm so happy I get to spend it sharing the gospel of jesus christ with people. LOVE Y'ALL.
con mucho amor,
hermana neilson
ps. these pictures basically sum up this week
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