"A Savior is Born"

On Saturday we had our Ward Christmas party. There was a ton of food.The big Christmas event that they have at our Ward is The messiah which is this huge play/musical that the stake puts on each year.

Yesterday we met this Indian family who was from dharmsala which is where the Golden Temple is (I've been there). They were so nice but they weren't willing to change. It reminded me a lot of the great time I had in India and the memories that I made there.

This week we have been showing "A Savior is Born" which has been a great opportunity to bring the spirit into the conversation and then we are able to share a restored truth. It's been such a great blessing to have iPads and be able to show the video on people's door steps. Then we don't have to ask awkwardly if they could pull up the video on their computer. On average we show the video about 3 times a day and our zone leaders told us last night that we need to double that number.

We didn't have any investigators at church again but we meet and talked with many people this week. We knocked many more doors than we have been because we need to find new investigators. We met a man named Danny who we had two lessons with. He has a couple different beliefs than us but hopefully the Holy Ghost will continue to testify of the truth and he will change. We just are praying that he will pray read and ponder the words in the Book of Mormon. Joe Tolman has been
out of town all week and won't be back until the 20th so we won't be meeting with him for another week. Also this week we dropped a few more people as they were either not progressing or we can't get a hold of.

On Tuesday Elder Pino who is in the 1st Presidency of the Quorum of the 12 and his wife spoke to us. We also heard from President and Sister Slaughter. He spoke in Spanish so they had a missionary translate for him. Elder Pino spoke mostly on how we need to make sure that we our focusing on our purpose as missionaries. Then Sister Pino talked about humility and how we need to not be prideful and think that we are better than other missionaries. She went on to talk about how we all have strengths and weaknesses but how we not to compare each other's. It was great to hear what they had to share with the mission.

Christmas here in Texas is weird. Not as many people put up lights and there is no snow so it doesn't even feel like Christmas.

"It's not so much what happens to us but how we deal with what happens to us."