Merry Christmas! Happy new year!
Well as I already told you on Skype we had a great old dinner Christmas eve so while you were eating delicious crab meat i was eating stake and brauts with potato salad and coca-cola. So it wasn't that bad of a Christmas haha. Any who Skype was great it seemed as if I had never left, I hope that Bain's fears of a robot brother coming home that she is unfamiliar with are now extinguished. I warned my companion about all of you and he finally understood what I meant. You are all exactly the same except Bree's finger is a bit heavier. As we worked this week we fasted with our investigator Nils, in order for him to receive his answer from his prayers. And through that fast he came to the conclusion that he is not yet ready for baptism. Which rocked me to my soul. Never have I had an investigator so ready and so exited to learn, with so many questions. But, I know that the Lord heard our prayers. We fasted and did all that we could so if it is the Lord's will I can do nothing more than all that I could give. I just hope and pray that Nils will continue with this excitement to learn. He did come to church this week so that was a great thing. But it still is hard to know that all of our 7 dates fell and that my good buddy Bustos and I will have our second change together without a baptism. I feel like I was put into this zone and this area because the President trusted me. In a zone 3 hours from the nearest airport. Where every area is a 45 minute drive away. Where there hasn't been consistent baptisms for a year. And where the branch is dying slowly. And in these 4 and a half months here I don't think the branch had progressed that much. I baptized 2 in my first change and both are less active. I know the Lord loves me and loves these people and will bless them through their faith and diligence. I am just jealous for the missionaries that will receive all those fruits.
Mosiah 23: 21-22
The lord gives us trials to test our patience and faith. If we trust in him we will be lifted up. There is a reason the first principle of the Gospel is faith. Because with out faith nothing can be done.
I have my fingers crossed I don't get changed I have lots of unfinished business here. Love you all I'll see your faces on mothers day.
Talk to you next year!
This is a nativity scene that the people display in their homes at Christmas!
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