Hi mom!
We had an awesome week!
The conference was wonderful! We spent the day from 8 to 12 listening to music and talks from our mission presidency, then had lunch and pictures, then heard a few more talks and headed to the gym to see Santa! We took pictures and got Phoenix mission t-shirts from the Taylors. Then we all packed up and headed to the temple! I haven’t been in what feels like a long time. It was sooooooooo nice to be back in the temple enjoying that spirit. At the end we were all in the room and I just looked around at 115 missionaries in white and was awestruck and thought, what an army of God we have here, and it’s only a small part of it. Then we walked around outside and looked at the lights and listened to the choirs they have there. It was beautiful! Then we had a great surprise! We went back to the church we’d been at and they handed out packages. It got handed three big packages! My roommates are very happy with all the fudge, cookies, and treats, since two of them are about to go home in three weeks and asked their parents to just save the money and give presents then.
The other night I saw something really cool. We were walking in to the apartment at night and I saw a light in the sky. I thought it was a low plane but then realized it was a shooting star! It was huge and close enough that I could see blue sparks coming off of it as it went across the sky. Beautiful!
Saturday we had the ward Christmas party and it was great! Obispo Lopez had a lot of fun directing the activities. Everyone dressed up in robes and such and the kids did a short nativity scene. We all sat on the floor eating pan and hot chocolate. Bishops must love having missionaries around. They can ask us to do anything and we’ll say yes. We were just sitting there innocently enjoying the show when he pointed to us and said, “And next we’ll have the missionaries sing!” We looked at each other and just said, “Wait what?” He had us sing two hymns, and it was funny about one of the Elders was on splits and he doesn’t speak any Spanish, and even he had to. He did pretty good.
That same day we had a cool miracle! We’ve been looking up in the register all the less actives and trying to visit them. We knocked on a door and the man, Francisco, didn’t answer. So we left a note saying, “Hey Francisco, sorry we missed you, hope you can come to the ward party tonight!” We wrote our number and left. Five minutes later we get a phone call from him! My comp talked to him.
“Hello?” “Hi, this is the missionaries!” “Hi..I just got a note on my door a few minutes ago.” “Oh! Francisco!” “….yes. How do you know my name?” “We’ll we’re the missionaries in the ward and we’re just trying to get to know the members better.” “But I’m not a member.” “….Well! We share a message about Jesus Christ. Would you like it if we came over to talk to you?” “Well, sure. I actually have some friends who are Mormons.” “Great, when can we come over?” “Well I work every day.” “When’s you day off?” “Today.” “Can we come over today?” “Sure.” “Maybe at four?” (It was two.) “Okay.” “Great we’ll see you then!” So we went over, after scrambling to find a Sister to come with us, and he’s really awesome! His exgirlfriend was LDS and he had a Gospel Principals book. He’s really interested and seems golden. We gave him a book of Mormon and reinvited him to the party in two hours, and he actually showed up! He had a great time, and the members were wonderful. He even told a Brother to call him and let him know where the family home evening was going to be today because he wants to go. Sweet! We had a great week!
Love you all! I'll talk to you sunday!
Hermana Watson
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