Merry Christmas Everyone!

Ok so this week was super cool. This family

is the best ever! We have been working with them for a long time. When we first met they had been super afar from the church. Well we went over this week and we saw a Christmas miracle! We knocked the door and they opened it with the biggest smiles asking if we wanted to come in. We had to get home and so we invited them to the Christmas dinner and they said they would be going and they'd be coming to church and I was shocked beyond belief. As we walked away Elder Newns said, "I think they saw an angel". We went back the next day in the morning to see what had happened. We knocked the door and again they all greeted us and we ate breakfast with them. Well to make an amazing long story short they had had an experience that changed everything for them. The mother, in her time away, had been trying everything to experience the same joy of having the Spirit in her life that she enjoyed as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ. She had gone to other Christian churches, political parties, service groups, she really ran the whole gauntlet. Well she described experiences she had away from the church and in short it had brought her back with a testimony stronger then ever! She shared her testimony of the divinity of the Sacrament and that nowhere else is it the same. That nowhere else is there the power to do so. That it simply just isn't the same and that the light in her life was not there without it. She told us about how her Heavenly Father throughout the whole experience never abounded her and that she was so eternally grateful that her Father in Heaven had thought her, that she truly came home knowing something she had never known before with a testimony stronger than ever. It was amazing! They came to the party, they came to church, and they brought three families with them, the kids are going to seminary and tonight they are having us over for a family home evening. It was amazing! It was the most real life prodigal son story I've ever seen! And wow is the light in their eyes amazing! 

Also this week I got a call, who remembers Pepe? Jose Luis? Well he was Elder Moss and I's brother we helped bring into the fold. Well they gave me a call and his wife is getting baptized and I do believe that he will be doing the ordinance. I was soooo happy all day I could not have had a bigger smile on my face. Part of it was that they called and me wanted me to be there. Well in the past I had wondered to myself if I had really done anything to help them because at the time I could hardly speak or understand the language. Well them remembering me and calling to tell me - wow that made my joy complete. I knew that that was a tender mercy from my Father in Heaven. Now in a year that family will be able to be a celestial family! I was sooo incredibly happy. I know this is God's work, this is His church. And God's plan doesn't work according to man's timing;  however it is perfect timing with a perfect plan! I love you guys and hope you have a great week,

The ward dinner

Our Christmas tree.

The district. 

The sisters left their door open when they went shopping?

Mission Christmas celebration.