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The Christmas Story
 

Let us make Christmas a time of rejoicing and celebration, a time to share the marvelous truth that Almighty God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to redeem the world! May the joy of that knowledge be with each of us this Christmas season and throughout the coming year.
Sincerely, Thomas S. Monson
Henry B. Eyring
Dieter F. Uchtdorf



Me and Hermana Santos
Merry Christmas!!!

 

This week nothing too exciting happened... except we have a BAPTISM this Saturday!!!!!! Yay! It will be my first baptism, and it is someone who I taught with my companion, if that makes sense. It was really quick, but awesome right? His name is Jorge and he is 16 years old. His uncle who is 19 is a member, and we have been working really hard to prepare him to baptize his nephew. I am so so so excited! Our other 6 baptisms fell through, but we are going to still work with them. We have these awesome investigators that have so much promise, the hard thing is getting them to come to church. too bad, but I know they will get baptized, there is no way that they won't be! 







Our House we live in

So after Christmas we will be receiving new missionaries in our area. Right now our area is HUGE and takes us a hours to walk house to house. And to be honest with you we haven't even ventured to the far parts of our area. So we split our areas into 3 areas now, the hard thing is that we need to find a house for the new missionaries. There is absolutely NO houses here for rent, or sale, or in all reality houses. We spend hours just walking around asking people if they know of a house for rent. And... well they aren't very helpful. Oh well. We still have a couple days ha ha. 





Yesterday we practiced with our choir, and it has been a miracle! We actually sound decent. It is really hard because most people here have not had any music classes, so everything needs to be very basic. I really hope that it will sound wonderful for Christmas so the people in the community can feel the sweet spirit as we sing. I know that the Lord will help us, and it is going to be a great experience. Also with my district on Christmas day we are going to the hospital to sing to the people there. It should be a really neat experience. Also for church 3 other sisters and I are singing Noche De Luz, but in English, Spanish, and Guarani! Should be interesting! Especially for someone who does not specifically love singing. But people love to hear music here, so I am glad to be apart of it. And it will fun to do something a little different! 

 

It is raining again!!!

 



On Saturday my companion was able to enter in the temple with a family in our area. Unfortunately I was not able to go in because President only wants 2 missionaries to attend the temple at a time. And the other sister who was in my area previously really wanted to go. Which seems fair since she has been here 8 months and has not been in the temple yet. Still I was a little disappointed, but it's alright. I was able to do splits with other sisters in the area of the temple. I was with this adorable sister from Guatemala. I am surprised how much spanish I can speak. We quickly became friends as we walked around her area. She lives in a very rich area, which was such a nice change! They actually had roads, and the people had more of an education and understood what we were saying. I really enjoyed being in the city with her, and learned lots of new ways to teach. It was really good experience. Unfortunately it was really HOT and I received a heat rash. Now with a heat rash all over my legs, accompanied with my mosquito bites... my legs look lovely! What can you do? 

Anyways I love you all, and think about you all everyday! Thank you for all the prayers and support! I can't wait to call home next week, I am so excited! I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU!! Have a great week! 

Love, Hermana Sanders