Hola Familia,
The verdict is that I stay here in San Marcos and Escondido. Should be good. We're excited about helping many friends enter the waters of baptism soon. The ward council didn't really like the idea of a baptism on Christmas Day but said it should be possible. We just have to keep working with Hna Mercado so she is all ready to go. She is still a touch hesitant, but still pretty great. She loves us lots which is just fascinating. It's interesting how we come to love people so much as we serve, love, and teach them!
I am doing well even though have borderline sickness. Ugh. We're having hot days and cold nights. I'm thinking about buying a coat because the cold has just begun and I'm really truly cold - even with three jackets. Yikes. THANKS mum & Shantaye for the purse package. It made me so happy yesterday morning. The purse seems to work out okay. Not quite as big as I'd like. And thanks for sending all these packages. Sorry I've asked for so many little things lately. Just count the postage on my Christmas budget :) I'll probably receive the journal package tomorrow as it'll be handed out today at the transfer meeting. AND Hna M was excited for the treats for her. Great job in sending duplicates! I really liked the foreign kitkats. Te he.
Well, well. This week we were able to meet and teach a wonderful new sister, Hna Z Ortega. She is pretty great. Then later we dined with her neighbor who is an inactive member (and actually loves us already because gave us scarves before we left thinking one of us would transfer and not see her again. Precious.). Anyway, her neighbor said Hna Ortega talked about how she was grateful and really enjoyed our meeting. We stopped by last night and were able to meet her husband and can hopefully teach both of them tonight. And she wants to feed us already. Sweet! Love it.
The leadership training meeting was pretty great. Then we went to ward council on Sunday and I realized it takes time to apply new teachings :) We continue thinking how we can better help in such a situation. We have excitement this coming Sunday - Elder L. Whitney Clayton is visiting the ward!! And so they told us all to be there at 10:30 am. Yep, Latinos are famous for being late. It should be a great experience. And this past week was the primary program which was so great. I loved how the children had so much enthusiasm when singing "Siga al profeta" (follow the prophet) and "El vive si!" (Yes, He lives). We also had a great lesson on baptism in Relief Society. Hurrah.
Hna Merrill was volunteered by our mission president to sing in the stake's annual Christmas event. It's held at the Escondido Center for the Arts and sells out all the 1200 tickets each year. Sa-weet. We visited the coordinators today and she "auditioned". They were impressed and she'll be the final piece. !Oh si! So now we get to hype that up and see how many investigators we can get there. It'll be Tues 21 Dec. Yeah. We only have a little proselyting time on Tues night and so that Tues will be interesting as all the time will be taken by the performance and prep. We'll see. Hna M is grateful for an opportunity to use her singing talent. She surely loves to sing. I've learned that the best thing to do if she's having a rough moment is sing.
We had some success this weekend - an inactive member and her non-member boyfriend and their cute little baby came to church on Sunday after our Sat. afternoon visit. Sweet!! It was pretty great. And our investigator Hno Alferez is doing pretty well. He listens to and reads the Book of Mormon at the same time. It helps him focus and understand which is great. I'm grateful for all the amazing technology we have!
Today in my studies I was struck by Helaman 5:12 in thinking of how it doesn't say we won't have problems when we're faithful and built upon the rock of Christ. It says we'll have strength and ability to withstand and overcome WHEN ALL of Satan's forces are coming at us. Wow. What awesome promises and strength! I love the gospel and I love striving to live it as I teach it to all the great people here in this area.
THANK YOU for all your love and support. And that everyone is well and flourishing. Yes, Pres. Cook knows Spanish very well. He served in the Mexico West Mission. We were talking to him one day and he got really excited when a word came back to his memory. Te he.
Love you all super much! Thanks for the love and support. It wouldn't be possible without you. Keep on being awesome.
Love,
Hna Green
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