Christmas in the City

And this week was another lovely round of TRANSFERS. After a long bus ride of 8 hours, I´m in Cruz del Sur, Guadalajara as a Sister Training Leader with Hermana Zapata. So I´ll officially be spending Christmas here in the city. I was sad to leave Salvatierra....we have at least 3 investigators that will be baptized in January, but I´m grateful I was able to be a small part in their conversion process. Our recent convert and her daughter (one of our investigators), Monica, fasted this last Sunday and saw miracles. Monica needs to get married with her partner in order to be baptized, but he wansn´t willing to get married. After fasting, he proposed to her without her saying anything and they´re going to get married this week! The best thing in the entire world is to here one of our investigators say that they received an answer to their prayers and it happened 5 times this week. Many of our investigators were able to read the Book of Mormon, pray, and receive this answer that this really is the true church. The work of the Lord is progressing so fast here in Mexico!

This last we had a fun activity with the Salvatierra ward. I taught the Relief Society Sisters how to make Christmas Sugar Cookies and then the Primary Kids decorated them all, and everyone helped us make more then 200 packets with pamphlets, cookies and the Christmas pass-along-cards. We later sang Christmas songs and handed out the packets at the market. Nearly every person we talked to gave us their address to visit them this month. It was interesting trying to make cookies without a recipe, but they turned out really good and the people seemed to enjoy them! Haha.

Also this last week on Sunday we were able to watch the dedication of the Tijuana temple and it was beautiful! I love seeing the work of the Lord moving forward throughout the world. Sunday I stayed in Prados Verdes with the Sister Training Leaders to travel Monday morning. We were able to visit Hna. Angelita... she was one of my investigators while I was in Prados and now is a member...and we were able to have a family home evening with the Rodriguez Family as well! It was so great to see them. I just love these people so much. 

Well, I´m sorry I don´t have a ton of time to write today, but I´ll be sure to fill you all in on my adventures here in Guadalajara the next week! 

Enjoy your White Christmas up north there! Thanks for all your prayers and love!!  

¡Feliz Navidad!,

Hermana Anderson