Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas!!  Again!!

I told most of you Merry Christmas over Skype but for those who weren't there Merry Christmas!

This week was great!  And the obvious highlight was Christmas!  So I'm going to mostly talk about what we did for Christmas Eve and Christmas.

Christmas Eve!  We worked normally that day until about 8:00 when we went to an awesome recent convert )her name is Llanina) to have Christmas dinner.  The only problem was that there were only two grown women in the house so we couldn't enter without another man or another woman, and they were planning on having a friend over but the friend canceled at the last minute.  So we couldn't go inside, but they were awesome and brought the table and chairs outside and we ate Christmas dinner in the street!  It was actually really cool, I thought it was awesome that they cared that much about getting us dinner.  Then we got back the house and celebrated by making oreo shakes!  They were delicious, and the first shakes I've had since I've gotten to the mission since they don't really exist here.  My Argentian comp was a huge fan, and has since told everyone we've met about this weird delicious gringo drink that has ice cream and cookies in it.  We're actually going to make it tonight in a FHE with the Wyco family.  Anyway, I digress.  We made shakes, drank coke, ate potato chips, told stories in Spanish, it was a great night.

Christmas!  Our district meeting was moved from Wednesday to Friday in order to have it on Christmas morning, so our whole zone got together in the chapel in Santa Cruz and made pancakes before the meeting.  That was probably my second favorite part of the whole day, because the zone here is awesome and we had a lot of fun.  After the meeting I got to sing songs from Les Miserables with Elder Anuarve (one of our favorite pass-times while we were in Conti) while we were cleaning dishes, which was also a ton of fun.  The meeting was great too, the zone leaders talked about faith and in our district class we read the christmas story from Luke.  Then Presidente Warne and Hermana Warne came and gave us a little spiritual Christmas thought too, which was great.  After that we went to the house that we skyped at to have lunch and email you guys about the time we would be skyping.  After lunch we ran over to visit Janet real quick before skyping, and I haven't told you her story yet!  So I will now.

So Janet is an investigator of ours who owns a little store in a neighborhood in our sector.  Her son was baptized about a year ago, and recently left on a mission in Bolivia.  She's not married to her husband (husband? partner? not sure what to say in this case) still, and she hasn't ever listened to the missionaries or attended church.  We've been passing by her every now and then to talk and try and start teaching her, and she invited us to come when her son skyped for Christmas (Elder Leguizamón knew him before he left.)  So we went to skype with her son right after lunch, and the son was awesome and frank with his mother and told her that she needed to get married and get baptized, that she needed to listen to the missionaries and do what they say.  Then Elder Leguizamón asked him to bear his testimony of the gospel and baptism, and he bore an incredible testimony of the gospel and again testified of the importance of her getting baptized.  I could tell it made a huge difference in her.  At the end he challenged her to pray about the church and ask God if it's true.  What he said was perfect, and I was really excited that it might have made a change.

After that we skyped!  Easily made my month, or even my year.  It was amazing, thanks for being awesome, family!

After skyping we passed by the Wyco family to say Merry Christmas and then we headed for the house.  So it was a great day!

THEN the next day we passed by Janet again, and she said that she prayed like her son told her to and felt something really strong.  She told us that she wasn't expecting to feel anything, but she did, and that she knows the church is true.  I was blown away!  Best Christmas ever!  I didn't even know what to say because nothing like that has happened in my mission yet, then Elder Leguizamón said ''So what are you willing to do now?''  To which she replied, ''Wait for my son to get home to be baptized.''  Another good example that having a baptism is never easy, you've really gotta fight for it!  We talked to her about the blessings of baptism and also told her that it'd be cooler if she could get sealed to her son when he got home and that her son would be really happy to find out that she was baptized but she still felt like she wanted to wait for him.  She did, however, commit to being taught and to go to church this Sunday.  So that was an amazing miracle of the week!  Even though she's a little stubborn and doesn't want to get baptized now, she will one day, and that's amazing!  I think that when she has the lessons and goes to church she'll start feeling the desire to get baptized as soon as possible, but if not I know she'll get baptized so I'm very greatful I got to witness the first stages of her conversion.

So that was my week!  The rest of the week we spent finding past investigators from the area book trying to find more people to teach and also a lot of contacting.  As well as visiting our recent converts and strengthening them.  So it was a great week!  I love you all!  Sorry this letter was a little shorter, I spent a lot of time reading letters today.  But have a great week!  The Church is True!  And great!

Love

Elder Fox