I hope you all had a really great Thanksgiving! We ended up with a really hot Thanksgiving here in the 80's and three meals so by the end of the day all of us were moving really slow.
We started the week with a meeting in Albuquerque for the sister training leaders and zone leaders and guess who was there?! LITTLE VASQUEZ! She is now an STL and she has been out 9 months! I can't believe I trained her 9 months ago!!! Time is flying by.
Our meeting was really good and a lot of it was preparation because Elder Christofferson is coming to our mission this week. There will be meetings for the missionaries, investigators, recent converts, YSA and leadership meetings. We are going to try to go to all of them. haha. We are for sure going to go the the missionary and women's leadership meeting so we just have to find some people that fit in the other categories so we can slip in. I'm really excited to meet him though and hear what he has to tell all of us.
Thanksgiving was spent at dinners and the El Paso parade. The parade started at 10 and ended at 1 pm.... it was so long and there were so many Guadalupe floats. The members down here volunteer as the clean up committee so we spent some time cleaning the trash of the streets but the people were really grateful so they gave us free cotton candy :) Then it was off to the dinners. Nothing to special happened but we met a lot of non member family members who seemed to have some interest and gave us their phone numbers so we could come by and share a Christmas message with them! Hopefully we will see some really cool things come from that.
On Friday after district council I got to see KILLIAN! Laicey made lunch for Sister Hazen and I and all of our companions. It was so sweet to see him! He is doing awesome and just came back into town from Greenland. It was this week a year ago that we started to teach him and now he is a very active member of the church! Sometimes it is hard to be here and I feel like I'm not making any difference but seeing some of my recent converts and how they are doing today makes me so full of joy and all the trials are worth it.
We started delivering our living Christmas cards Friday night because we got really excited and couldn't wait until today. We received over 20 referrals from members on out first Sunday when we announced it and that was only from maybe five members. So on Friday night we went by one of the referrals and it was a super nice christian family. We sang to them and read the Christmas story from Luke, closed with a prayer and left with another carol. The family referred us to another family and then that family referred us to another family and so on. We went to 5 homes that night and met over 15 people! AND NONE WERE MEMBERS! We felt the spirit so strong as we walked into those homes and testified of our savior. I am so excited for this Christmas season and to share this message with the people here in El Paso.
I hope you all have a great week!!! I love you all so much!!!
LOVE,
Sister Nye
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