17 Decemeber 2018

So the news is in: I'm staying in Wallace for another transfer! I get to spend Christmas over here in the Southern Kingdom, changing it up from last year. It is always interesting being a missionary during Christmas, it feels a little weird. You're slightly disconnected from everything that's Christmassy in the normal world. It still is great to be able to go out and share a message about Christ during this season though. So often people forget why we have this season, and it's great to be able to be the ones going out and reminding people of the birth and life of Christ. Also, I love the Light the World initiative even more this year. We're going into week three(light your family), and it's my favorite one of the videos.

The work over here was pretty great this last week. We got up with Dan and Sandra again, and actually got to teach them. They also gave us baliadas, so that was pretty exciting. (Baliadas are a food from Honduras, and they're delicious.) They have some problems with the idea of going to a church, but I think that they'll keep on progressing well. They certainly love having us over. 

Speaking of being fed, there's a less active from El Salvador that we found and have been trying to visit. We're now pretty sure that she won't ever return to the church, but she and her boyfriend both really like us and they made us pupusas yesterday. And taught us how to shape them. I would have pictures, but my hands were covered in oil and water. Still, they were delicious. 

We also went by to visit Diane again. It's always so much fun to talk to her. It's a little hard to teach her because she really, really loves to talk, but she's a great lady. We managed to segue into the Restoration, and she was really into it. We mentioned the gift of the Holy Ghost and she cut us off a bit and asked how that worked, because she had always been taught that you just got the Holy Ghost after you accepted Christ. So, we explained it and read out of Acts 8 with her. She got kind of quiet and sat there for a minute before saying that it went against what she had been taught her whole life, but that it felt right. She's so humble and ready to learn, it's great! 

Aside from all that, the only other thing is that two sisters in our district were dying, so we had to take death pictures for their last district council. (For anyone who needs clarification, they were not actually dying, they were finishing their missions.) But those are the only pictures I have from this week.