The little girl in primary :)
The only day we actually get ready is for district meeting!!
So literally does not feel like Christmas AT ALL here! Yeah, people have trees and lights, but without the cold and snow and Christmas music, it feels missing! Oh, and the fact that I am a missionary :) That makes Christmas season a little bit different :)
So this week we were walking away from lunch, and I looked up to the trees, and there was a monkey!!! We were like three feet away from it! Then I looked up even more and THERE WAS A WHOLE FAMILY OF MONKEYS! I am talking like 15 monkeys! And of course I didn't bring my camera that day, because we went to a kinda stetchy part of Santa Cruz! But we stopped for a few minutes and took it in, because we had to remember it only in our heads! I have def only seen monkeys in a zoo. Such a cool experience :)
On Sunday morning it was raining WAY hard here! The whole presidency of the primary was sick, so we got to sub for them and help out another sister!!! IT WAS THE BEST THING EVER. It just made my decision even firmer that I want to be a teacher when I am older. There is a family from the US in our ward, and there are three kids! So I took them aside and taught them about Jesus and it was the best thing ever. It is SO hard to not be able to hold the kids!!
So I have discovered the two hardest parts of my mission: accepting the agency of others, and having constant faith. Sometimes it's HARD to accept that people don't accept the gospel, or don't come to church, or don't want to hear more. BUT faith is KEY. I learned this week that really, faith is a belief in something that we can't see, but we believe. For example, we need to have faith that we can have three baptisms this month, even though we can't see the outcome yet!! So I have been focused on faith this week.
We have a few SOLID investigators and we are just fasting a praying for them!! And having FAITH that we will be able to see our efforts :) Pray for Michael and Martha :)
I love you all!!! Have a good Christmas and listen to lots of Christmas music for me!!! :) Remember the real reason we celebrate Christmas, Christ. All that He did for us, and because He was born, we can have such a happy life and happiness in life.
Hermana Hansen :)
My zone and three other comps of the other zone!
We played volleyball and made sandwiches today! Super awesome :)
Our DL bought us dinner. It was sweet! Def not gonna turn down free food :)
But we walk like 10 miles a day, so I am not getting fat don't worry ;)
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