Week 15

Dec 17, 2012

Well Family,

 It has been another wonderful week here in NoHo.  We have been working our little hearts off and God has really been so good to us!

We have continued to teach the Ramirez family and they are so great. The mother is still a little unsure of the whole thing. She gets really stressed out when she doesn't understand as quickly as the others but we are helping her and we saw them yesterday and she is doing great! I just love this family! They are all so awesome!

We also have been teaching the familia Noriega, they are the ones we found through talking to the father on the street. They are AWESOME!! We just love them soo much! We saw them a couple of times this week and they are just such champions. They are reading and said every time they read they just want to read more. They came to church yesterday, which was just so exciting. Having investigators at church can be really stressful though. We are just so worried the whole time, you never know what will go down in our ward. They came in late so we walked them up to the front of the chapel to sit, that way the members would see them and know its their first time. Everybody came up to them after sacrament and they were all so nice! The classes went well, we talked about final judgment in gospel principals, which was a bit scary because we hadn’t talked to them about the plan of salvation yet, but they liked it. They have a 7 yr old son named Jesus and he LOVED primary. They said on the way home they asked him if he liked it and he said yes I want to know more about Jesucristo! awwww! So precious! We went over after church and taught them the plan of salvation-my favorite to teach. They are so solid. They really just have a desire to follow God and want to know if what we teach is true. They are really trying to receive an answer from God. They are amazing! Please continue to pray for them!

We went caroling a couple of times this week. We are trying different finding ideas and so we thought caroling would be fun, with our district. It was a lot of fun! Its great to be a missionary this time of year! It’s crazy that Christmas is next week. It doesn't feel like it usually does around Christmas time at all. It has a very different spirit about it this year. I am so grateful for my Savior and all that He has done for each of us!

Happy Christmas!!