12/7/2010
Lunes: Not much happened during the day until the evening when we ate dinner with Los Salvador and then we went to this big noche de hogar that we arranged. We had it in the bishop’s home and we invited all those that were investigating and those that had been baptized within the year to come. It got started an hour late, but it was a good success. We were pretty happy.
12/14/2010
Miercoles: In the afternoon we went and checked up on this former investigator and we had a sweet lesson with him. He had a lot of unanswered questions from former missionaries, and we were explaining about the true church of Christ and then the First Vision. The most powerful/spiritual First Vision moments of my mission. He was crying and then afterwards we were silent for about 2 minutes. Really sweet.
12/21/2010
Friday: It started raining hard on Friday and it has not stopped once since. There is SO much water and thank goodness we have a car. We have been soaked the last 4 days, and tomorrow it is supposed to rain too.
Sunday: We saw so many miracles. In sacrament meeting, we didn’t have any investigators…but Elder Kidd and I sang a song, “O Little Town of Bethlehem”, and Hna. Yturralde played piano. It was beautiful and it sounded really good, REALLY strong spirit. I also gave the opening prayer. So afterwards in gospel principles there was this guy that was just sitting there dressed in shirt and tie that looked familiar. We started talking to him, and turns out he isn’t a member but has come to the ward like 4 times. No one knew that he wasn’t a member!?!? And he is in our area. Practically is a member already, has a friend in Encinitas who is a member. We are going to spend Christmas Eve with them, and the qoute was that “I am going to work hard, to get my wife involved in this!” And he has never actually spoken to missionaries before! So great! We got home after church so happy. We ate dinner with a member family, Los Salvador, and we are going to be over there for Christmas calls and such. They are an awesome family. Great day, and miracles continue.
12/28/2010
Friday: Christmas Eve!! We went at 9:30 to pick up Elders and then we drove them to Vista for the party. We had all the packages divided up and we gave them all out to our zones. There were a lot of them. Then we practiced for the talent show for a little bit and then mingled with everyone. We had lunch catered by some members for free and it was delicious. Then we gave President Cook a present from our zone. Last week when we were at the library the librarian said that they were going to be throwing out their collection of the encyclopedia of mormonism, but that if we wanted them, we could have them. So we took them and then we got them all signed and gave them to President. he LOVED them. P.S. This is the one that Grandpa Walker is in. Then I also played piano for the devotional. It was super good, and then at 6 we left. During the devotional I received some intense revelation, that the Lord is going to place in our path someone who is very ready to recieve the gospel. So Elder Kidd and I have to go find him now. We got our transfer calls, and I am staying again with Elder Kidd here in Escondido! So it will be 9 months and counting of being here in Escondido. Crazy. When we got home, we went over to Los Madrigal and we ate dinner with them. They are an investigator family, and actually it was the first time that we visited them. Super nice. Super ready. We ate Pozole and tamales, and it was really good. We picked them up as new investigators and we had a sweet lesson!!!
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