Email received 1/4/11

HAPPY ANO NUEVO mi familia!!!!!!!!!!

    I miss you guys terribly and hope you had a blast for the new year! What did you guys end up doing? Wanna hear something fun and ironic and somewhat sad at the same time... my companion and I both have the family traditions of having chinese on New Year's eve, so when we found that out it was without a question to go buy chinese. So apparenly chinese food here is nasty, but don't you fret cuz they have a panda express near by which we knew was safe food to eat. And before I continue on I thought of an analogy with panda express food in this situation. So we knew we would already like panda express food and be safe because its the same wherever we go, just like the church wherever you go the church services and gospel is the same. It may be in a different language (like the labels here in PR Panda Ex), but it is still the same food. Panda Ex is chinese food and church is spiritual food. Anyways continuing on with the story... so we planned to go buy our comida de china and we noticed that everything seemed closed and it was weird cuz it was new years eve. We drove and long and behind panda was.... CLOSED! We were so depressed because how were we going to follow our family traditions???? Well we went to the grocery store and I bought a make your own chinese kit ( I could not pass no chinese on NY), and Hermana Miller bought chef boyrde. Yep and we didn't get to return at 6, they changed on us last minute and we worked til nine. So then we were like okay new years day we will get some.... nope every place was closed except one place walgreens. So we were depressed again for not having the chance to have our new years chinese. But we got some last night (Monday) and thoroughly enjoyed our panda and said "Happy 2011). The End!

Next story about the stores being closed... so last minute once again, we were commanded to get 2 liter bottles each and empty them and fill it with food that could be used for a 72 hour kit. Yeah weird we know... so we were like okay we have just one day to figure out what food could fit into a 2 liter bottle opening that will last and we would want to eat. So we tried checking the stores (this is on ny's day) and not one place was open except walgreens of course. So we were like okay maybe we can buy trail mix or crackers and soda bottles. So we walked in and to our surprise mostly every kind of food content was blocked off. They had some kind of netting around them and blocked, so no one could grab them. SO BIZARRE! Totally doesn't make any sense and the only food that was opened was candy (holiday kind) and eggs and some cheese. We were so shocked they would block food off especially junk food when it was a junk food holiday. Very weird and good news is the date when the bottles were due changed, so we received more time.

Anyways thought you would like those stories of our bizarre closed stores on holidays thing. But I miss you guys and hope you are all well and the flooding is done. Things are interesting here. People still aren't coming to church which is really sad, cuz we are trying and we have had a lot of rejections where people would just walk straight across from us when we started talking to them. Very rude and sad. We had 3 different people for investigators and they are interesting situations because one of them is a couple. We had to miss their cita because we had one of our random mission activities and they didn't really seem interested, so we were like they'll probably forget. Well they didn't... a couple weeks later we ran into the guy who seems arabic (jewish) and he was like you didn't come for the cita. We were surprised cuz they definitely didn't seem like they cared... and so we apologized and told them our plans had changed. We rescheduled with him and then we received a phone call from them saying the gf was sick. So once again we didn't see them. Then we did another rescheduled cita and we arrived and they were there waiting. We taught them the first lesson and it was interesting he was really focused on the authority being restored on the earth and the great apostasy. Their names are Elizabet and Mixcha. Anyways Mixcha was asking a bunch of questions and Elizabet was very quiet. We also couldn't tell what religion they were.... so yeah the cita become really long, good, and interesting. We made another cita with them, hopeing they would want to be investigators. Well I don't think they do anymore because last night they cancelled their cita and when we asked for another day they were like "we don't know what to tell you right now".... so for me that's like a no. We'll keep trying!!!!

Our other investigator is the one I mentioned before her name is Wanda. We weren't going to meet her, but I felt like we should and she ended up being interested. She's a cutie and she's good. She has a sweet son named Angel (9) and he just adores his mom. Totally a great kid and sweet family. Sadly she just got laid off, but they are positive and keep moving forward. She is great too because she keeps her commitments with reading the BOM and asks great questions. She says she is confused, but Hermana Miller and I think she knows it's true. She is a religious person and so she understands the scriptures pretty well. Also every time we come she is just so kind to us and open, very comfortable. It's hard for me though because I can't really understand her and she sometimes has a hard time understanding me... and I think it affects the way she looks at me. Hermana Miller is usually the one who teaches the lesson cuz I can't understand what is happening and I am always afraid to mess up the situation or seem hard hearted. I simply don't know. Anyways she's special and we really hope she has the desire to be baptized cuz I think she would be great in the church and so would angel. SO pray for them because they look forward to our visits and they are trying to learn and understand.

One more story.... there are many Jehovah's witness here and their caribbean headquaters are just down the street from where we live. We went contacting one day and walked down a road we haven't walked down before. We contacted people at their house for 2 hours. We were heading back and we saw some white guys fixing up a house. We said Hola and in Hermana Miller's words, "they got excited when they saw us." I didn't notice, but I wouldn't be surprised two white american girls all dressed up speaking spanish to them. ONe of them came out and starting talking to us in spanish. He had a great accent, but looked american. We found out he is from NY and there is a group of them who work and serve for the Jehovah's witnesses heardquarters as spanish-english translators for their materials. He had lived here doing that for 5 years. So we don't know if it's a job or he's some kind of missionary too, but he was cool. He also invited us to have a tour of their headquarters and check it out, which all the missionaries in the mission dream for an offer like that. All of our missionaries want to have an espianage in teh headquarters and program the BOM in their computers. LOL anyways we testified of the BOM and he claimed he has read parts of the Koran and BOM. He then asked us how we perceived the trinity/ Godhead. We explained it and he was surprised cuz I think he thought we believed them as 1 being instead of the 3... so hopefully that triggered something. But yeah that's my story

Happpy NEW YEAR 2011~!!!!

LOVE- ME

25 December 2010 - Feliz Navidad!

We got to speak with Jessie on the phone Christmas night.   What fun it was to hear her voice and give her the chance to explain events in detail.   Although Jessie has been gone from the house most of the 3 years since she graduated high school, we’ve always had the phone to connect us.   There were texts and long phone calls to keep us informed of what was going on in each other’s lives.   That’s been the weirdest part of her being gone on a mission.   No long talks with lots of detail.

She did tell me a lot of things (she was on the phone for 3 hours and spoke to her Dad, brother, and aunt as well), but I can’t remember all the details very well.   The good news is her companion wrote everything down in a letter to her family, so I’m going to steal some of the info from her.   Thank you Hermana Miller!!!!!

Christmas Conference was held last Tuesday and Wednesday. It was a two day spectacle of lights and color. Not really...that just sounded appropriate there. It was a two-day activity with lots of missionaries and lots of fun. Tuesday was the fun day and Wednesday was the spiritual day (not that it wasn't fun though...). Tuesday we went to the Yunque, which is the rain forest!  (Jessie told me it’s the only rainforest in the US).   It was very exciting. We did two hikes. The second one was really intense, and some of the missionaries couldn't make it to the top, so President had the Elders carry them. It was all very dramatic because it was raining too (I mean, we were in the rain forest). We made it to the observation tower, which is the famous part of the Yunque. We climbed the tower and all we saw was cloud, because it was a cloudy day. We were in a cloud. Very exciting, but not a beautiful view. We had a title of liberty type activity up there. It was cool. But cold.   (Jessie told me they got very dirty, muddy, and wet.   Yuck!   But they had a good time).
Later that day, we did the flash mob I had previously mentioned at the outlet. It was super fun.    (While they were muddy and wet!)   We had a dinner and talent show that night, and it was really good. There were some entertaining talents, some talents that were actually good, and a really wonderful moment when some members from a nearby ward came in and did a real Puerto Rican paranda: Puerto Rican Christmas caroling. It's like that picture I sent of the Puerto Ricans playing music and singing loud, but even cooler……….. You should have seen our President. It was awesome. It was just loud and rowdy and completely awesome. We recorded some on video, but you just can't capture that. It comes out as noise, not as music. It was awesome though. So good.

The next day we had a little talk with the President and then we watched the Christmas devotional by the first presidency. ……………. Elder Vines also came and talked to us about knowing God through other's experiences (the scriptures), and through our experiences. It was cool because he said that we can know Him through the scriptures, but we can testify of Him when we experience His characteristics and attributes in our lives. It was a really cool talk. He knows the scriptures really well. Later, we practiced singing again so we could sing at an Art Museum in Santurce (downtown). We went and ate lunch at the mission home………. we went and sang at the art gallery and then went on a walk through the botanical gardens afterwards and went and had a testimony meeting and then watched a movie of the activity.   (Jessie said the museum had a really bad feeling to it and that the missionaries were very uncomfortable being inside, so they all went out to the gardens.   She was glad to leave the building.)

On Thursday night we ate dinner at a member house and it was the classic Christmas meal. Lechon, (some type of pork?), rice and gandules, and pasteles, which are those tamale-type things……………We also had arroz con dulce, which is like a sweet rice pudding with cinnamon and raisins and ginger that is chilled in the fridge.

Next exciting event was Christmas Eve. The enchilada tradition continued because the family we ate with had Mexican friends visiting, so we made enchiladas.  We also had Chinese take-out leftovers and other stuff. Half-way through dinner we experienced a little tremor (of the earth...like an earthquake, but not strong enough to be termed earthquake).  (Jessie was so excited to be in an earthquake.   She said everyone thought she was weird because she was glad to have had the experience.   That’s my girl!)   We were just eating, and I was talking about Niagara Falls and then all-of-a-sudden, the hostess jumps up and yells: "It's a tremor! It's a tremor!" and the host jumps up and is like "Oh no!" and the rest of us are just kind of sitting there. ………………… It happened in Aguas Buenas, which is actually fairly close to us. People have been saying it was a 5.4, which is a step up from the last one, which was only 5.1 or something…………. Nothing fell off the shelves…... Then, we continued eating.

On Christmas Day we went around and caroled to members and shared a little scripture about Christmas with them. Then we went to a senior couple's house (missionary couple) to eat Christmas dinner. It was fun because we were a ton of missionaries together eating American Christmas dinner food. Delicious.   (Jessie loved it!)   After that we went to a hospital and caroled to the people there that we just happened to find in the halls or in rooms.

Somebody really cool that we met on Christmas Eve and then went to teach on Sunday and had a return visit yesterday is Wanda. She is a single mom with a son, and she seems to really understand the message and seems excited to learn more. I'm excited to keep teaching her, especially since she is the only thing like an investigator that Hermana Comoletti has experienced. Yay! We mostly just visit menos activos. But, something really cool that has been happening with them is that we have been really working on listening and question asking...asking "questions from the heavens," and these last three days (Sunday, Monday and Tuesday), we have had several "confessions" as to why people are inactive, which is wonderful, because we haven't been able to get to the root of things for so long. The Lord has really blessed us this week though with these "confessions" (for lack of a better term), so that we can focus in on the needs of each person instead of just blindly guessing. It has been a really cool experience. Well, it is kind of sad to hear why everyone is less active, but it is definitely going to help us as we work with them.

Once again…………THANK YOU HERMANA MILLER!!!!!!   I could never have given these events the justice they deserved.   You stated them so beautifully and in wonderful detail.   Next time we’ll have to get Jessie to write these things down.   J

Jessie and Hermana Miller on Christmas Day 2010.  

Hermana Miller is almost 6 feet tall and Jessie is not quite 4'10".

                                               

Jessie and Hermana Miller in the rainforest.

This photo is all the sister missionaries together for Christmas dinner 2010.

The following video is the missionaries singing at the mall.

The following video is from when she was in class in the Dominican Republic Missionary Training Center.   Her companion was Hermana Kamisese who had been her companion since she entered the Provo MTC on October 6th.   They were together for 9 weeks during all their training.

Jessie and Hermana Miller - December 2010

The Christmas ornament Jessie refers to in her email

Email received 12/15/10

        Thank you so much for the perfect ornament I love it!!! And i am glad you’re not sending it cuz I would lose it lol.... and yes that is the exact same Hermana Miller who is my trainer. (Hermana Miller also has a blog.   You can find it at:  http://hermanamiller.blogspot.com/   She is Jessie’s first companion in Puerto Rico.)   She is from Buffalo, New York, but her parents are now in Utah. She is 6 ft, so we probably look a tad bit funny together, but its cool. So hmmmm so much to tell you let's see if I can remember it all. Sorry last time the only time I had was to write the email after that I had no other time to write to anyone else. Also you’re not going to like me, so I asked the ccm president if I could have special permission for emailing the pic and he said no, then I went to walgreens when I arrived here and my card wasn't working at the machine, and then today I forgot to bring my cord, to download and email it to you. Sorry so today we are going to walgreens and I'm going to try again and send you my mission pic.... its not great, but it will work, I will give you a few to choose from hopefully its not to late. (I asked for a photo for the family Christmas letter)   ………………….

I am in the city of San Juan, in Guaynabo you can check it on a map, definitely not the best looking place lol.... the people are very kind though. It's challenging because they say they have faith, believe, and obedient, but they don't show it. So that is something Hermana Miller and I are trying to figure out (so) that (we) can help these people take action! That is one thing the Puerto Rican people do not like to show action, they all believe it’s the heart, they tend to me lazy and somewhat stubborn (extremely kind-hearted and sweet spirit's).... so that is our goal with the people we teach. Our goal in the mission is to recruit the menos activos- less actives because there are so many, so we don't really have investigators cuz we're just trying to get the already members back. It's really sad because there are about 16,000 members of the church on this island, but only 3,000 are actually active INSANE eh.... so that is our job. Also crazy thing so once Hermana Miller leaves in April, I'm the person to be in charge of this area cuz I'm going to have to stay here for at least 3 transfers. 1 transfer= 6 weeks…………………. And its interesting cuz everyone raved about how beautiful pr is, but it's not that pretty and that could be cuz I live in a city.  The houses here are interesting very retro, and they all have bars so we have to yell to see if someone is home. Also our place is interesting. I'm starting to get used to it and not mind it as much, but it’s very petite... I don't know if I wrote in my last letter, but we can't flush TP so we have to throw our tp after using it and I thought it would be so awful and smelly, but it’s honestly not as bad when you get used to it.

    So Spanish has been very stressful for me, cuz I feel like I am getting worse, other missionaries think I'm doing well, but in all honestly it’s not good. The accents are really hard to understand, so it’s definitely a challenge for me to respond back because I don't want to say something that won't relate to what is being spoken. So I rely a lot on Hermana M. and try to listen to her and follow her., but she gets frustrated because she does most of the teaching which I feel bad, but I just don't know what to say. We have had some tensions and it’s been a challenge, but we are still working on it. Some days are good others are not, so this has been a very hard experience for me, and I feel bad cuz she is going to end with me. Just keep praying please I really really really need them …………..

      Okay let me give you some better news.... after last pday we had the chance to have a hermanas conference at the mission office. The conference was all the hermanas in the mission (which isn't it crazy I'm serving in PR East mission area), (Jessie’s mission call letter said she’d be serving in the Puerto Rico San Juan West Mission.   Shortly after she received her call the East and West missions were combined into one.   That’s why it’s ironic she’s in the East side of the mission), anyways we played games at night because it was after our pday which ends at 6 and so we got to know one another a little, and then had a sleep over. The next morning was the conference, it was a full day experience.... it was good, but most of it was in Spanish so it was hard to understand it all, but bless hermana M cuz she translated a lot for me which helped. We watched the other Errand of angels and had a lot of food and speakers. One of the activities which hermana M. and I didn't care for was washing one another’s feet. This was our 3(rd) day together and we both hate feet. So we did a super quick rinse to one another and that was it lol. We got cute little lotion, spray body kits and it was a good time to get to know the sweet sisters here. Then we had our planning session which took 3 hours out of our day... it was good and it seemed like the spirit was helping us figure out good plans for our menos activos and I had suggested a lot of ideas which we wrote down, but then when we were with the people, my lesson plan was shut down all of sudden and we changed. So yeah....

     We had a chance to go to the mall in Carolina which is in our zone and sing (in the mall Christmas songs) with all our zone and pass out pass along cards. It was fun and it was really good to go to a mall. Also we got to see some of our hermana friends from the conference. Hermana Ghersi and Moldovo are in our zone which was so fantastic too see them, they are the ones from the ccm. Even Hermana Ghersi is on my district which is wonderful, I love that girl. We also had our first district meeting together yesterday and that went well and was enjoyable. We have a good group and hermana M and I had to teach them about difference between teaching a lesson while contacting and one with a cita (app). I've noticed I am a million times better when I teach in English than I do in Spanish, I just have the spirit with me more and I really can get my thoughts out... dang Spanish lol. Also I forgot to mention that I came here for the ward Christmas party the food was great, met the ward members, and they played PR music and sang PR Christmas songs. It’s interesting cuz they people here don’t know the Christmas American songs in the hymn book, many people do not speak English here. It’s not like the US at all. It was good though I had fun at that. Our ward is very small, just as many people here as there are in KW (Key West).

     One day we were walking and making contacts at a neighborhood and we saw this woman who was putting her kids in the car of her ex- husband and we started talking to her and she did not seem interested at all, but she told us to hang on while she put them in the car. Then the kids left with their dad, and they woman started talking to us. We contacted her and asked her questions... she was really thinking (which is a sign that they could be interested), then she interacted and kept listening. During our contact we started to teach her the first lesson. She was still interested so we were like this could be someone ;) so she then offered to let us in. We got to teach her the full 1st lesson and she was kind and interactive. We gave her an invitation to read and pray... so we really hope that she will do those things and have the desire to learn more. We have an appointment with her this sat... so we are really hoping that she will let us in and become a progressing investigator. That was a good experience. Also the other day we were driving around (which by the way, I am going to hold off getting my license as long as I can, cuz people here are crazy drivers, not as bad as the DR, but still. We also have this rule that I have to help my companion back up and so I get out the car and help every time, and we always have to park in backup) anyways... so we were searching for an inactive in the ward directory and we were going to the houses and asking if the people knew this one member. So no one knew him, so after we tried contacting them talking about the gospel. One girl answered and she is 16 and was interested in our message, her mom allowed us in, she listened here and there, but the 16 year was the one who was listening the most. The family were Jehova's Witnesses, …………..... but she took a Book of Mormon and seemed very interested. We'll have to see how it goes cuz I don't know how her mom felt about the whole situation.

   The last story is about a couple name Rafaella and Pedro. Pedro is not a member, but Rafaella is and she is inactive, starting to go to church again. Sweet older couple. Apparetly both us and the elders teach them. So we visited them and taught them about the scripture, commandments, and prophets. (we don't use the discussions as much cuz they are for investigators, but we teach non actives so it’s different) Anyways apparently he has told everyone he will get baptized, but he won't accept the days that the missionaries have given him, so the missionaries said he could choose, and he claims he will receive an answer to a certain day. Well this has been going on for awhile and personally I think it's becoming a joke, so i don't the missionaries they need to give him a day and say this is it or nothing. Because he could just be giving us all a hard time and instead of realizing this is not a joke. So I recommended that we pray and fast as 4 missionaries to figure a day for his baptism than represent the date and explain that we a source of his answer that we prayed and are trying to help him receive that answer. So we prayed and fasted and have chosen together Jan 15, so next time we see him we are all going to be there together and be 4 witnesses and testify to him. I really hope this will be a spiritual moment for him and he will know of its truthfulness.

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LOVE YOU!!!!

ME

Email received 12/8/10

          Como esta? So I am alive and you should be receiving another letter saying that I am alive and safely in PR. Yesterday was an extremely long day and so is today.... I think they all think we are superhumans.... its kinda crazy. So I have a new companion and her name is Hermana Merril ( I think she has a blog online that you could check) anyways she is from New York and will be leaving in March. She is 6ft very tall and nice. I feel some tension and awkward with us, but hopefully it will get better. I think we are definitely still in the new comfort zone stage, so pray things will go well. I feel that she is worn out and it's hard cuz I need motivation and I have some and want to do more work than it seems she does. So we will see. I've had the chance to meet a few missonaries and tonight I will have the chance to meet all the sisters at a sisters sleepover conference thing. So that should be fun! It's interesting cuz we have tons of rules here, we can't have any ipods at all, we cant visit tourist places so our Pdays will be lame, we can only write on pdays and much more. ................I'm serving in the city of San Juan in Guaynabo, its a little ghetto lol and was part of the East mission side. It's only me and Hermana Miller in our place and we live in a small building behind a house where an older single woman lives in named gaga (spanish prounciation). Our apartment is extremely tiny and it will be a humbling experience. Our water is cold (except it was warm for me today), we can't flush TP (so so so so so gross) we have to throw it in the trash, and we can only have one or two lights on. Its small and falling apart. We do have a car, but the people drive crazy, its every man for himself.. lol but I won't lie its a million times better than DR. There was one time at the DR where I was on the temple grounds and you can stand there and see a street... so I was looking and a car was driving up the street in reverse, going opposite direction from traffic I have no idea how that happened, but it was bizarre.

      Anyways today has been long its our pday, but I have been waiting all day to get my interview with the president.... I'm the last one, so I am writing this as I wait for him to get me to finally have a 10 min interview. Spanish here is crazy I have no idea how to speak i feel like, so can't wait until that miraculous moment where I can just speak and hear it the way I do with english. oh p.s. before I forget don't send dearelders anymore cuz now you would have to pay for them. So just regular mail to the mission office is best. Today there was a woman who came into the mission office and was crying and trying to find the true church. Very sweet woman eagerly searching different churches to find the truth. We had the chance to be one the of the sisters to sit with here. She had another pair before us that taught her the first lesson. Anyways we had the chance to find out about her situation and she had some interesting fews on things. She had felt the spirit here which is good and definitely something. The only thing is I had no idea what she was saying I was so so so lost... ahhh.... after I looked at my companion and said what did she say lol. My companion did all the talking, cuz I had no idea was she was sharing with us and I didn't want to say something at the wrong time, so I just smiled and showed that I cared. Her name is Maria and she was a very kind, sweet woman, she kept saying we were like angels. One concern she had was about the trinity because she really things they are one and not seperate. Also from her last job she got fired because she was preaching and teaching to people about Jesus Christ, also she  said her neice talks to angels, and one time she got healed at a church but she believes its cuz of her faith and not because the church that helped her was true. SO very interesting and we hope that the missionaries can help guide her and help her to find out for herself of the truthfullness of the gospel. I think with a sincere heart, open to understanding, studying, and faith she will know this is the right place and church to be. S o please pray for Maria and still Fabrice.

     My pdays are on Wed. and good thing is our email time is however long I think.Hmmm let me think I'm trying to remember what I put in my alive letter you'll be gettting soon... but yeah. It was very sad leaving my district at the DR the night before we had the chance to have just our district sing "God Be With You Til We Meet Again" and of course I lost it... I had the hardest time singing it. That district had been interesting and wonderful at the same time. I had been with them for 6 weeks and hermana Kamisese for 9 weeks, it was bittersweet but we knew we were leaving one another for a great cause. I hope we all stay in contact and have the opportunity to share stories with one another. There are two specific people I'm gonna miss and that is Hermana Kamisese and Elder Pinkston.

 

Well I'm going to head out, sorry we still haven't had the chance yet to go to the store or anything, so I probably won't have the chance to write a handwritten letter this time sorry. . ...................

 

I love you so so so so so so much and miss you guys!!

 

Tell Kyle I say hi and WANT to hear from him!!!!!

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX

 

Email received 12/2/10

Hola mi marvillosa Mama!!!!!!

     Como esta? So spanish oh dear spanish oh how I wish I knew it fluently. You know how people say their spelling gets worse and their grammmar is awful, well it is definitely happening to me, seriously bad spanglish going on around here. Anyways how is the family? Thanks for the letters I got them last night and last week after I emailed you.... thanks it is so so so nice hearing what is going on and receiving letters. I seriously need a phone though it is pretty hard doing this whole writing thing and not talking... seriously it is killing me. I am the worst at it.... anyhow..... thanks for the letters and glad things are going well and you still on your toes. Sorry to hear about the christmas shopping, i would have definitely helped you out on black friday cuz you needed the help, but also especially now because I have not left this place except for one time for 9 weeks ahhhhhh going crazy a bit and antsy. It's hard cuz here they take full control of you, absolutely no freedom or time, and so many rules where you have no freedom at all. So i can't wait to go in the field and have a breathe of fresh air and be able to do my own schedule, its pretty ridiculous.... so much more strict than provo 10x.

      So I get to leave on Tuesday at 7 am and so so so so so aminado (excited) I am so ready to get out of here, and I just keep hearing great things about the mission, so I'm ready to check it out. I heard we already have our companions assigned, which is pretty exciting and our next day is pday, so I'm hoping and wondering if we get to take that pday. Things have been crazy here lately, we have been having serious senioritis here but missionitis instead, so we haven't been as dedicated as we should be which i know is bad. My district is interesting, I love them, but they do drive me crazy. We call ourselves the bi-polar district cuz we have dramatic change of emotions all the time one day so happy, laughing, straight to wanting to ring someone’s neck.... but we are good for one another.

………........ We had a thanksgiving feast here which was so so good, loved the food. We had mashed potatoes, turkey, honey glazed/cinna sweet potatoes (fav), fruit, vegetable, stuffing, and a pumpkin puie crisp, it was a wonderful meal. It was a good thanksgiving, sad thing is we couldn't take pictures. Bummer eh!!! I got the chance to meet my 1st counselor in the mission presidency of PR mission here cuz a huge group of PRicans came to the temple, so I met a few and they are super nice and talk so fast. Its interesting PRicans look like americans, they don't even look latin, they are light skinned and don't have the latin look. Interesting eh and they are petite yah! So that was cool and one of my companions friends was in the group so she got her friend to get us a bunch of junk food (we gave money) and we pigged out it was so delicious and fattening lol.

       Hmmmm we met with Fabrice he came the third time which was great we talked and taught him about the comparisons of the bom (Book of Mormon) and bible and how they work hand in hand. We taught how there is a greater light out there, what he has is good, but there is more he can learn about the gospel of Jesus Christ and that is the restored gospel. The spirit was definitely strong and we hope he felt it. One thing about Fabrice is he likes to use logic more than feelings I think. He tends to try to understand things in a deeper logical sense than from a feeling in your heart sense, so we hope he will do his commitments and feel the spirit!!! We will meet with him one more time and try to get other missionaries to continue teaching him. Also we had another investigator but she confirmed on coming but when we got there we waited for 30 mins and she never came unfortunately!

Well my time is up..... I love you so so so so so so so so so much and miss you guys!!! Give kyle and cody a huge hug and pet from me!   (Cody is our dachshund)

Did Kyle receive his letter and money?

Alma 57

Loves-

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxdoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo Hermana Jes Comoletti