Aloha!
So I find out thursday if I stay in Colorado for another 6
weeks or if my visa's in and I'm going to Brazil! The other day it was -13
degrees when we woke up and had been -19 that night! I was thinking about it
and if I go to Brazil that will be a 100+ degree temperature change. Oh
boy! I have a feeling I'm staying one more transfer though. My companion
says he thinks he'll be leaving Rifle because he's been here 6 months but I
would be surprised if they had me take over an area because I'm a visa waiter
so there's a good chance I'd be handing it back off after 6 weeks.
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So we got a little over a foot of snow earlier this week so
we got to do quite a bit of shovelling. We ended up walking a lot more than
usual this week for a few reasons. First on the snow day we weren't
allowed to drive but the roads weren't that bad so we got a ride with a
member to an area where we could see a few people so that wasn't that bad. Then
the next two days we were walking because we hit a curb driving
in the snow and bent our front left wheel. It was cool though because we
went on exchange with the Spanish elders so that we could see
both Spanish and English investigators instead of not seeing any english
that day while they went down to Glenwood to get our car. While we were on
exchange we accidentally knocked the wrong door and realized after knocking but
as we went to walk away someone came out and we apologized but offered to say a
prayer with their family (we call it the prayer approach). They let us in and
as we got talking we shared a message with them too and they invited us to come
back this week to study with them! It was cool as well because they spoke
spanish and english and at the end the spanish elder asked if they would rather
meet in english or spanish and they said English. It was super funny because we
both looked at each other when he asked and it was just a funny moment of
suspense to see who would get this awesome new investigator so when they said
english we both stayed natural but on the inside he was crying and I was doing
a huge fist pump. It was cool
One cool miracle this week was a new investigator named
Jackie that we met yesterday. Her sister-in-law encouraged her to meet with us
and gave her our number so she called and set up an appointment. She's had a
hard time the last few months because her husband has been in jail and she's
been trying to support her kids as a single mom which can obviously be really
stressful. We taught her yesterday for the first time and she was very
receptive to the message of the Restoration. She kept asking really good
questions and then when we would explain something she would say "Okay,
that makes sense." She was very willing to read the Book of Mormon and
pray and she is coming to church next Sunday!! We explained what baptism is and
asked if that would be something she would be willing to consider and she said
YES! She's a very humble woman and said her husband gets out of jail next week
and she wants to be meeting with us and bring him into it when he gets home! So
I guess I'll keep you posted on how that goes. It's cool because she is
actually David's aunt who is one of the people we started meeting with last
week.
We got to meet with a less-active member that will be
starting to come back to church once her broken leg heals and we talked about
keeping the Spirit of Christ in Christmas. There were some awesome videos that
we watched on mormonchannel.org about
it. One was "The Reason Behind Christmas" and the other was
"Wise Men Still Seek Him." It was really cool to talk about why we
really celebrate and how we can overcome the commercialism that tends to
surround this season. I love the quote from Thomas S. Monson that goes
something like "The Spirit of Christmas is the Spirit of Christ"
I love you all, and wish you all a Merry Christmas Season.
~Elder Della-Piana
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