This week has been fantastic! I got to skype with my family for Christmas, which was absolutely AMAZING. It was so good to see all of them!! It made me wish we could skype more often lol.
Christmas eve we had an early curfew, so it felt like we only had half a day of work. We were planning to give service to our investigators and help them even out their yard, but when we got there they were already finished. They didn't want us to do anything to help, but we just were persistent and found something to do. They use wood fires to cook, so we found their scrap wood and their machete (they don't use hatchets here) and started chopping wood. The machete was really dull, so it was a good thing that most of the wood was rotten lol. It was difficult if we got a hard piece; I felt like I was trying to chop through a rock lol. But it was fun to be able to help them :) After our work that day, us four sisters had a Christmas FHE. It was so much fun! We even got to see a couple of fireworks before we went to bed.
Christmas day was so good! We had our weekly planning in the morning, then got invited to one of our members houses for lunch. Then we met up with the elders in our district, did our exchange gifts, and went out caroling to our investigators. It was so fun to do that with all 8 of the missionaries in the district :)
On Saturday, we got the best Christmas present... Our investigators got baptized!! It was so amazing! They're life is so hard right now, but when they bore their testimonies, they talked about how they were starting to feel the blessing of the gospel in their lives. They both cried when they were confirmed, and in Sunday school, the husband told all of us how grateful they were for the blessings they're feeling. I love being a missionary :)
1 Nephi 17:50 And I said unto them: If God had commanded me to do all things I could do them. If he should command me that I should say unto this water, be thou earth, it should be earth; and if I should say it, it would be done.
God never loses sight of our eternal potential, even when we do.
I love you all!! Happy New Year!!
XOXO
Sister Pectol
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