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12.22.16 - ¡Feliz Navidad!

¡Feliz Navidad de Mexico! 

Merry Christmas everyone!! I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas, and can really feel the Spirit this season.  It has been so incredible being a missionary and being so close to the spirit all the time. He is literally my best friend and I have loved every minute of it.  This Christmas season has been especially special to me because we get to focus even more on the true meaning of Christmas.  This last Sunday, we watched "To This End Was I Born", the video of the life and Atonement of Christ.  I had seen it before when I was younger, but as a missionary, it just hit me harder than it ever has before.  I could feel the Spirit so strongly, and my heart was filled with so much gratitude.  My testimony grew sooo much, and I just wanted to go out and share with everyone the message of the Gospel.  After we watched the video, we had a district discussion, where we talk about it, share our feelings and thoughts and what not.  I didn't talk for the first little bit, because I couldn't without tearing up.  I had the words of "Savior, Redeemer of my Soul" going through my head, and it just made me cry.  I shared my feelings, and I could feel the Spirit so strongly.  The love Heavenly Father has for us is so strong, and is unimaginable. He loves us so much that he sent his son to die for us, so that we can be forgiven and return to live with him again.  And our Savior, our older brother, Jesus Christ loves us so much, that he come to this earth, organized his church, and then performed the ultimate act of love, and died for us.  He died for us, so that we can live again. "Oh it is wonderful that he should care for me enough to die for me. Oh it is wonderful, wonderful to me. "  I am so grateful for my Savior, Jesus Christ, and for the love that he has for me, and for all of us.  I am grateful to be able to repent everyday, and to feel clean again through his Atonement.  I am so grateful for this season, and for the opportunity we have to remember the birth of our Savior, and that he came here to save us.  

This last week we found out our travel information for heading out into the field! Oh, also, I don't remember if I told you all this or not, but my comp is going to Cuernavaca too!! So we get to travel together! We leave Tuesday morning at 5:30 for a couple hour drive to our mission and then I think we start proselyting once we get there.  I am so PUMPED. I can't wait to share the gospel. I'm also slightly terrified because the Latinos speak reeeeeaaaally fast Spanish, and don't always use consonances. So I'm pumped. And scared. but i have faith that it will be alright! And i will learn quickly, i hope.  ;)  I have loved my time here at the CCM, and I have learned so much.  I cannot wait to teach and to share this gospel with others. It is so special and important to me, it is the best gift I can give.  

Thank you all so much for your love and support!! You are all incredible, and I am so blessed to have you in my life!! 


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