Big birthday shout out to HEATHER WRIGHT today!! Hope you have the most amazing day! Brother better do something extra special for you. Also happy birthday yesterday to Shelby! I sent a letter but my scatter brained self forgot to put a stamp on it so it just came back to me. That would be something I would do... Hahaha but HAPPY BIRTHDAY! LOVE YOU BOTH!
Hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving weekend! It was sure weird not being around all you, but we had an excellent day. Wednesday we went over to Hermana Ainsa's house and helped her cook up some pies. (Mom I'm embarrassed to hear that you didn't even make a homemade pie. Haha She was so cute to invite us over. She wanted us to feel as much at home as possible. It was so so fun! Thanksgiving morning we got up and did Personal Study and then we went to the church for Turkey Bowl. Pero, being Hispanics, they decided to play soccer. We ended up playing for a good 3 hours. Ohhh it was sooo much fun! I haven't played soccer in AGES! It wasn't just a friendly little game either, it was so intense! I'm embarrassed to say how soar I was the next couple of days. Boy oh boy am I out of shape! Anyway... We had our first Thanksgiving dinner with the Ainsa Family as well as a few other families from the branch. It was SO FUN! Good old American Turkey Dinner :) We had so much fun helping her prepare the food and crafts! She made us feel right at home! Later that night we went over to another members house for the second dinner. It was a Turkey dinner with rice! Now there's the true Hispanic turkey dinner. It was an excellent day though. I was thinking about you all lots. I truly am so grateful to have such an amazing family!
Apart from Thanksgiving not too much happened this week as many people were out of town. We had a cool lesson with one of our newer investigators. She didn't like how we were telling her that only one church was true. We continued to try to explain to her that many churches are good but that only one holds the power of God. We weren't really sure where to go with the lesson after she kept saying that same thing, but then the spirit led us one way and the lesson ended up being amazing! We're excited to see how things end up with her! :) She wants to come to church, but unfortunately couldn't make it this week. It's truly amazing how the spirit works in the lessons. We would have gotten nowhereeee without the spirit!
Church this Sunday was absolutely amazing! Our investigator's (Maria) daughter (Melanie) was blessed this week. Her husband (Javier) has an interview to talk to President about receiving the Priesthood this week. Then he would be able to baptize her!!! Ohhhh I'm so so excited! They are golden. Seriously, I've never met somebody with a stronger desire than Javier. His testimony is soo amazing! Maria's is as well. The only thing that's holding her back is her Catholic family, but I'm sure she'll make her date ofDecember 14th. Awww they're sooo AMAZING! They want to have us over for Christmas. How cute is that?? We aren't sure if we'll be doing something with the mission or not but we'll have to see but that would be the best Christmas ever!!
Next we also had the confirmation of Ixchel. Guess who came?? Her dad, RUBEN! He had said that he would, but he always says maybe about coming to church so we weren't sure. I almost plowed all the kids over when Ixchel asked me where her dad's class was. YAYYY! We're working with him lots. There poor family wants to go to the temple so bad. We had an amazing lesson about temples with them, and we asked him if he wants to be sealed to his family some day. He said "I don't know, maybe?" (He doesn't really share his feelings very much) Ixchel gets after him and says " WHY NOT DAD?!" It was so amazing. I think it helped him realize how much his family really does want this. Ahhh he knows EVERYTHING, he just isn't willing to listen to the spirit. Well, or at least act on it. We'll get him though. They'll get to the the temple some day. Someday hopefully being next year :)
Well family, I love you so much! Sorry to all who are writing me and I don't write back. I'm even getting lazy with the emails. It's so hard to stay caught up with all that! AHHH so sorry about that. I would say I'll try to do better but I'd probably just be getting your hopes up. I really do love you all so much though! THank you for all the love and support! Enjoy the holiday season and remember the meaning of them all. It all started with a little baby born in a manger. I love this season! I keep thinking about how I'm going to miss the reenacting the Nativity scene. I've already told Hermana Dangerfield that it's a must that we do that on Christmas Eve. Love you all so much! Have an amazing week!
Con mucho Amor, Hermana Wright
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