Friends! Feliz Navidad!
Its been a week full of miracles and all the missionaries here are getting supper exited about the holidays and seeing our families! Its a good thing we have ipads I heard these events were pretty difficult to plan back then... in the dinosaur era...:) haha jk jk
So on to our miracles! For some background Hna Eastwood and I have been praying about finding some new investigators to teach. Its been kind of a struggle tying to get a hold of the same people every week that aren't completely progressing. Well mostly all of Murfreesboro has been knocked, but the other day we felt inspired to spend the day in this trailer park that is kind of close to the church. We hadn't tried it before because it would be the obvious place to go and so we figured there were ether no Hispanics and or a lot of dropped investigators but we tried it anyways and it was awesome! Every door we knocked were Hispanics and everyone seemed to be interested and had not heard or ever talked to missionaries! MIRACLE! So now we have a bunch of new investigators and renewed testimonies of the power of prayer. We are marching on with high spirits this week:D
That same day was Adiels birthday! Adiel is currently our favorite investigator:) We made him a journal and decorated it for him to write his thoughts down and we wrote our testimonies in it. So we drop by pretty early because we know it will be a drinking party and there are all these people watching James Bond and drinking beer... Is that normal? I don't know but we pull Adiel over to the kitchen and give him his birthday gift and he feeds us:) We talk and he seems very happy then right as we are about to leave he tells us that out of everyone at the party we were his only true friends... awwwww! We took some pictures and then before we left he told us he loved us:D ahhh so sweet! He's going to get baptized!
BUT... my favorite part of this story was when Adiel's drunk uncle came up to us and asked us if he needed to bring his Book of Mormon to study with at the party! hahaha then as we were eating he has Adiel throw away his beer and bring him a glass of water to "be respectful to the sweet ladies". I seriously love these people!:D
Well there is not much more to say other than this up coming week might be the funest week of my life! We have parties, spiritual Christmas thoughts to share, ginger bread houses, ugly Christmas sweaters, Salvadorian Christmas dinners, presents, naps, chocolate, chatting with loved ones at home and much much more to come! Ill make sure to take lots of photos:)
I hope y'all have a Merry Christmas and that you take some time to thank our Heavenly Father for the gift of his Son.
Love,
Hermana Orellana
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