It's Christmas Time!

Catching up with Sister A in the UK over the last two weeks…

The week before Christmas was super cool. We had a nice family home evening

on Monday and then we had our Christmas conference in London that week. It was so much fun! Our whole District wore reindeer jumpers because we're the coolest District that way.

We also ate American Pizza! It's been so long since I had American pizza. Best thing ever! I ate too much. I was tempted to sneak some in my bag but I decided against it cause my bag would smell like pizza and I'd always be Hungry! Haha!

Got to see Sister Barnes
at the Christmas Conference!

After that night I witnessed how amazing guardian angels are. I know the Lord is protecting me! We had an experience this week that gave me solid proof that there are guardian angels surrounding me, not just one but armies of angels are assigned to me. So flippin awesome!

Big Ben and me!

This week we had some really interesting experiences with some very anti-Mormon people. It's interesting to see some people's opinions when they don’t know the truth of what the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints teaches about Christ. One very strange experience for me, though, was when we walked into a Korean fast food place and this guy said hi to us. He looked exactly like Ryan, just a couple years older. My jaw dropped and I even took a step back; I was just in shock. But when he started bible bashing us, that moment was over. But it was really neat because it felt like I got to see Ryan one last time; what a wonderful gift it was for me.

We are teaching an awesome young lady, about Alecia’s age, named Amber. She is the sweetest soul you'll ever meet. When we walked into church, Amber was there!  It felt like Christmas morning –  I almost jumped outta my trousers! I was just super happy! This week has been full of hard work and many miracles. Just too many to share and not enough time!

Pigs! It feels like home!

While driving in the country, I saw pigs and asked the elders to pull over so we could take a picture! Haha! It made me feel like I was back home in the mid-West. Then a tractor drove by as we were taking the picture; I almost cried. We're in the boonies out here and it's just like home.

I'm feeling better this week we've tackled most of the mold in our flat. I enjoyed opening my Christmas gifts and the feelings of love and gratitude I have for all of my many blessings!

We had a busy week! This mission is great and I love the people so much they're just amazing. They all have such great potential!