Five Months Out!

This week, I will have been out on my mission for 5 months. Time flies. I hope each of you had a marvelous Thanksgiving with lots of turkey and pie. I sure did. :)

There have been some super fantastic, amazing miracles happening in our area this weekend. Yesterday during church, we got a few text messages that really made our day. We got a message from one of our ward mission leaders that an investigator that we had been praying for months to come to church finally came to church! We were so excited, so as excited missionaries do, we gave each other a high-five. Then, we got another text message from an investigator who said that he had talked with his wife a lot over this past week, and she finally agreed to let him be baptized. He has been waiting for four years for his family to support his decision of being baptized into the church. We were so excited that we high-fived again. I should mention that this happened in between classes so we weren't being disruptive. He will be baptized this Saturday, and we couldn't be more excited for him. :) He's super excited, too.

On Thanksgiving, we had the wonderful opportunity to help a member in one of our wards make sopaipillas, which are a butternut squash fried bread. It was so much fun to make! We started by mixing the main ingredients for the flour, then we cooked the squash and added it to the flour. It was funny to watch the dough climb up the hook in the mixer and try to escape over the sides. After that, we kneaded it, then flattened it out. After it was rolled out, we cut it up into circles and other shapes with cookie-cutters. We stabbed each little circle with a fork so it wouldn't puff up when it was fried. Then we threw a few of the circles into the fryer. We would take them out when they looked cooked enough and let them dry and cool. They were super tasty!

Also this past week, the church put out a really awesome new Christmas video called "He is the Gift". If you haven't seen it, I think you should. I really like watching it because it helps remind me that the first gift of Christmas had nothing whatsoever to do with wrapping or stores or boxes. The first gift of Christmas was Christ. I am thankful for His ministry on the earth and for how He forgives me as often as I ask forgiveness (Mosiah 26:30).

I hope all of you know how much I love you and miss you. You are amazing. Don't ever forget that.