Christmas!

Christmas Eve, we ran around stopping by all the people we could think of to stop by, but eventually, we ran out of people to stop by.  We gave in and did some knocking.  I couldn't believe the miracles we saw!  We found 3 solid potentials one of them by the name of Paul practically gave us his phone number without us even asking.  They were all impressed we were out tracting on Christmas eve!  After that, we visited Adam and Melinda and we were able to have a good chat with them!  The crowning event though was when we went to the Martinez's and we had some tamales!  Basically the whole ward and then some were at their house singing songs and having fun!  It was nice we actually knew some people so we were able to strike up some conversations.  When I got seconds on the tamales I made the grave mistake of letting Sister Martinez serve my plate up for me.  I was rolling out of there by the time we left! 

Christmas day we went around and we dropped off brownies to all of our friends and some of the members.  At five we went to the Jaimes and we called home and had dinner we had planned to go caroling at a nursing home, but we got out to late and they weren't open to visitors anymore.  After that, we dropped off our last two plates of brownies and headed home.  It was a super fun Christmas and even though we were away from home we were able to get into the Christmas spirit!

We were able to pick up a couple of awesome friends to teach this week!  We got a referral from the sister missionaries here in Bay City to a Cole.  We visited him on the scheduled day and he was out back playing basketball with some friends.  We invited them to come to join us and one of them actually did his name was Spencer and he ended up being Cole's brother.  They both were excited and happy to start learning more about our message.  We also visited with Ian.  We knocked into Ian about a month ago and we finally were able to sit down with him.  We had a botched very rough Plan of Salvation lesson, but he still agreed for us to come back.  I'm pretty sure the spirit made up for that one!

This last week I was able to finish the Book of Mormon for about the third time and I was able to give Moroni's promise another try.  It always works if you haven't tried Moroni's promise yet you need to! Moroni 10:3-5 pg 525.

pictures
-Adam and Melinda
-a bunch of pictures at the Martinez's
-The great lakes!
-out knocking Christmas eve