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My dear family :):)

this week has been MIRACULOUS!! in every sense!! we have received RREFERRALS OUT THE WAZOO! AND I AM SOOOO EXCITED because the work is starting to pick up and rolllllllin on! i love it!!

sooo we had transfer meeting on wednesday and cute little sister sui is now back in drayton valley so its just sis. schofield and i again. oh how i love her! :) we are just going to be best friends forEVER and i get kinda emotional thinking about that... because i was promised in more than one blessing that i would make friends for LIFE on my mission :) and life never ends!! what a wonderful thought :)

sooooo we had a MIRACULOUS investigator named DONNA... im not sure if i told you about her or not... wellllllll if not basically the lesson was the best i have ever been in  cause we didnt really even get to plan that much and all FIVE of us missionaries (the elders and 3 sisters) were so guided and all of what we were saying blended in to this perfect lesson to kick it off and she basically begged to be baptized... and so the next lesson we were going to set a baptism date.... we go over... and she wouldnt answer her phones or her dooor!! i was so frustrated so i said well maybe she'll answer her back door (haha) and the elders were like "sister douglas that is super creepy if you knock on her back door" and i said "I KNOW SHE'S IN THERE AND IF SHE ISNT GOING TO ANSWER HER PHONE im going to ask her why!" and so i marched to her back door and i couldnt get to the door to knock on it cause it was on this balcony thing so i started yelling!! hahaha it was like i movie i was like "donna!! donnaaaaaa!! DONNA! we know your in there!! why are you hiding!!!!!!!!!???" AND so she called us haha and was like "go away!!!" WHAT THE HECK RIGHT??? ends up her MOM  said that if she kept meeting with "the mormons" then she would stop paying for all this stuff that donna needs.... (which i THINK that she should just pay for herself ANYWAYS) buuuuttt donna is going to meet with us at a MEMBERS house this week.. and not at HER house so that her mom doesnt know... which sounds awful i know... keep in mind donna is 48..... so her mom is like 80 something anyways.. i dont like that old 80 year old lady and i kinda wanna call her and ask her why she hates us so much when she has never met us! but i wont. not yet at least ;)

Natasha is making progress... she actually says she's coming to church after the new year! AND she quit smoking!!! booooo ya!

thursday we met our... do do DOOOOOO...DRUM ROLLL PLEASE........NEWWWWWWW INVESTIGATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! her name is dana :) and she has 2 kids... and her life is MESSED. but she is so awesome :) and i cant wait to see her again today :) we are going to teach her the very best lesson and we are just going to focus on God and his love for US his CHILDREN!! so that she can pray to him :) we ACTUALLY knocked on this lady's door a while ago and she didnt want to talk to us.. but the elders ended up doing some service for her... which led to her heart softening right up and now we get to teach her :) cause she is a single sister and that is our specialty ;) haha :) i love her :) THANK YOU ELDERS! i have come to realize that it is like practically unheard of to FIND someone TEACH the same person AND be there for their baptism. THE lord lets us just leave little finger prints here and there on the conversion story of someone else.. like the elders are the ones that got INTO her house to open it up for us... WE will teach her.. and someone ELSE will baptize her.. and hopefully she will have member friends that are influential in the whole thing as well.... we have a cute girl coming with us to her lesson today... she is 18 and wants to go on a mission herself... shes awesome :)

really i have been SO prideful... for a while i was frustrated feeling like we werent getting enough support from the ward or the bishop.. really this ward is AMAZING and the leaders do SOOOO MUCH and our job is to HELP THEM.. our purpose to to invite OTHERS to come unto Christ. and as much as we want NEW MEMBERS we also are doing our job when we help EVERYONE members included... and i have found a whole new love and respect and appreciation for the ward and the ward leaders as we have looked to serve them and pray for them.
a lady in our ward gave us a CHRISTMAS TREE!!! :) were going to set it up on monday :) im so excited! and we have ZTM tomorrow and christmas conference the next week... so hopefully i will be able to get some mail to put under the tree! :) and mom sister rolls texted us today and said SHE HAS MY PACKAGE!!!!:) THANK YOU SO MUCH :) were going to go pick that up today... i REALLLLY want to open it.. but im going to wait till christmas :)

OH before i forget there are a few people i have been telling to add me on FB so hopefully can you just accept those for me :):)  theres carrie and mary lou and danielle and shelby... and i love them all :)

lets see what else has happened this week.. oh! we had the ward christmas party which was a HUGE SUCCESS dana and her mother came! her mom is being taught by the missionaries in stony plain so that is GREAT :) and we had a potential investigator come! heather :) haha oh heather.. she said she loves us so much already like her own granddaughters and she wants to take us to dinner... but only if we dont talk about church.. ahha i laughed and said um heather.... thats kind of our JOB... haha so she said... ugh fine.. :) shes totally gonna be baptized lol the members all introduced themselves to dana too.. so it was amazing to see :)

soooooo i have to sing a SOLO on the 22 for our christmas program..... NOT sure how i got roped into that but it IS a pretty song... jk its not actually a solo.. more like a suet with sis. oviett who happens to sing proffessionally which is super scary... but the harmonies are SO pretty.. i DO have to sing by myself for a whole verse tho... D:

alfred and nancy are wonderful... they are coming to the stake christmas concert which is the first sign of commitment we have ever seen from them! a lady in our ward will be taking them... so hopefully the fellowship helps :)

yesterday for Pday we went to walmart and made Christmas cards :) youll be getting those gems one of these days :) also i sent my packages to you off LAST week... so you should be getting those soon.. hopefully :) haha

ummm but ya we HURRIED and got everything done that we need to so we could actually relax yesterday... sooooo heavenly to just wear SWEATS for like an hour haha :).... ALMOST got the dunkin business down.. watch out when i come home mitch imma be such a baller youll lose all the bball games ;) hahaha

some other questions you had... i bought the liner at super store.. its just like a fleece jacket basically that feels like heaven and it is super warm :) but it was like 30 dollars :P i hate money... other than that i have been keeping warm... my toes get cold.. but not TOO cold.

the moose we had actually was suprisingly delicious.. its very lean meat so not greasy at all and it tasted pretty similar to beef :)

service lately??? we delivered all the left over food from the ward party to some needy families :) that was really fun :) we also shovel sidewalks alot annnnd helped with the lighting of central square which was suuuuper cool and ill have to tell you about it but im out of time!!!
i love you all!! and i MISS you all :)
love sister bronwyn