Some new photos Dec 30th and letter

new jamas

clothes from TJ

Skype on Christmas Day from Bron's side

hello my lovelies!! i love you all! i just LOVE tuesdays cause i love being able to read all of these emails and write home! agh i love it :)

so this week was CRAZY! like it was super busy... but also hard to be productive cause NO ONE IS HOME during the holidays and also NO ONE wants to talk with us :P suuuuper lame.... and ALSO all of our investigators are busy during christmas time... which i totally understand... just sucks for us ya know? but on a happy note... CHRISTMAS WAS SO WONDERFUL and the best present in the whole world was getting to see all your beautiful faces!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love you so much! and just talking to you! ahhhhh! i love you :)

so ya umm on monday was the funnest Pday ever!! we hada district christmas party :) pizza and all :) i wore my cat shirt ;) (paha!!!) then we had the live nativity that night with a minature horse as the donkey LOL it was FAREEZING..... -35... i dont know what that tranlates to in F.. but with the wind blowing it felt like -80 degrees... needless to say we didnt have that many people show up the first night but it went well. oh............. waiiiiiiiiit that was actually on sunday that it was that cold.... on monday it was beautiful weather and we had a KABIZZILION people show up and we were running around like mad people trying to talk to everyone... we talked to SO MANY PEOPLE and got another GOLDEN referal from it all so it was totally worth it. i. was. EXHAUSTED. after that... like 6 hours on your feet running around being ridiculously bubbly and happy and smiley and laughy and trying to make everyone feel loved was the GREATEST THING Ever... BUT  i could hardly walk up the stairs and crawl into bed when we were finally done haha... but it was worth it and lovely.

tuesday was Christmas lovely eve and we delivered christmas grams all day and then went to the Anecas for Christmas.. they SPOILED us and it was so so sooo yummy dinner (sushi!!!) we played games and got to know them and had a blast. (i got a huuuuge bag of clothes from tj... ill have to send some jeans home cause they are to DIE for but they will prolly fit morgan.. but the pair that is mine is OFF LIMITS you have to put it in my bag in storage... no touchy pplease!!!)

wednesday was CHRISTMAS  and the best day ever and you know all about that day.. plus i guess theres evidence of it all over fb???? hahah i dunno... but we had fun ;) loooots of fun :)

thursday we had a lovely district meeting and then went to menchies for lunch which is a frozen yogurt place.. now dont ask my WHY we were going there... no one really knew why we just felt like it... and then low and behold it was actually the Lords plan all along BECAUSE!! this guy named nathan comes up and is like "i saw your badges and it says the name of your church on them right??? is that like the mormon church? what do you guys believe?? cause i have been reading alot about different religions lately and i dont know much about you guys"

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thats basically what all six of us missionaries did for like 30 seconds as he stared at us confused until finally i was like

"YOUR AWESOME!!! well lets tell ya!!!!" and he's like"dont you guys preach this or something what are you all about, what makes your church different from everyone else??"

so i said"we believe in the RESTORATION of the gospel of jesus christ, and we know it to be true from the evidence of the book of mormon" which then led to alll SIX of us missionaries giving him the first 2 lessons in a 45 minute discussion at menchies... it was SO COOL.

we sorted doterra oils at sister hamiltons, we smelled so yummy after we left, had dinner at the lillies (she is the one during our first week here we saw and thought we were gonna convert her and turns out she was already a member! suprise! haha :) )

then we went to see miss wanda and we helped her get ready for bed... she is like 90 years old... and she is HILLARIOUS.

friday we did weekly planning which took FOREVER but was good... then we went to natashas... her husband dave is home and .. he got us SWORDS FOR CHRISTMAS.... well not REAL swords.... more like... daggers..... BUT THEY ARE SUPER LEGIT AND IM LIKE A MISSIONARY WARRIOR PRINCESS...... :3

went to the rosaks for supper,  i love them, and they had this little purple guitar that i played for them... haha sooo funny. also her mom's name is ATHENA which is super cool :) to end the night we visited sis. depeel and she gave us white hot cocoa which is DELICIOUS

saturday seemed like a day full of good intentions and great planning but everything fell through and everyone was busy and no one was home.... :P LOTS of praying. visited natasha had dinner there... then visited sister baade (she is suuuuper sick with a disease similar to vertigo.. except way extreme... called menaes or something??)

sunday: WHAT A DAY!!!!! SIMONE CAME TO CHURCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I REPEAT SIMONE CAME TO CHURCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SIMONE. CAME. TO CHURCH. oh my heck i was overjoyed! it only took us 10 weeks to get someone to come to church lol and she brought her gorgeous baby girl oh my goodness i love them! and we will be meeting with her sometime next week! :) so excited!!! sunday was also filled to the brim at church cause we were teaching the sunday school lesson and the ym/yw lesson at the same time as trying to give simone a tour but then trusting other people to do it (which was scary but the right thing to do anyways) (her baby HATES nursery haha... but it will all work out) but everything worked out how it was supposed to,

had dinner at the goebels :) went and visited tamala and her husband dave and shared the video Good things to come by elder holland and dave even shared it on fb haha :) we got non members doin missionary work for us! :D

overall its been a rollercoaster of a week but heavenly, we really are in his hands. im praying i dont get tranferred we find out on the 12.. i dont ever want to leave!!!!!!

i love you all so so much!
love sister dougie (thats what all the elders call me lol)