My family!! 

Thanks so much for the birthday song!! Loved it!! I forgot that my birthday was coming up until just recently. I miss and love you guys!! So glad things are going good with moving. Sorry we have so much stuff. Grandma emailed me and said that I will love the house. I am excited to see it when we Skype! Which is up in the air because transfers are next week, so next week I won’t email until Tuesday. Since transfers are before Christmas, I don’t know when and where I will be Skyping. But I will let you know after transfers.

This past week was hard but every companionship has its ups and downs. It doesn’t even feel like winter here because it’s so warm. Since it’s so warm here people can spend hours putting up there Christmas light so they go crazy!! Christmas lights here are pretty awesome!!

So this week was a bit hard because I got super sick. I was out for 3 days. All I did was sleep cause I couldn’t move and our nurse wouldn’t let me go to the doctor because I didn’t have a high enough fever. I wanted to go so bad. I had a really bad sore throat, it was really red and swollen and it put pressure on my ear so it made me feel like I had an ear ache. I would have killed for an ear candle! It was annoying but it’s okay. I am better now and the members helped me so much. I had 4 different kinds of chicken noodle soup. so that was fun. Caught up on all my sleep ha-ha.

Other than that bump in the road we saw and had so many miracles this week! We got to take our recent convert to the temple! And the best part was that his 15 year old son came too! His son has always been afraid of us and wouldn’t ever come and join us for lessons so this was a shock! But we were so glad we got to meet him! He is a stud. He is super quiet and shy and won’t talk but still a cool kid. He and Frank loved the temple so much. We gave them a tour and then after went inside to the waiting room and sat there for a bit. Frank said he loved it and wished he could sleep there. His son loved it as well and said that he would think about baptism! Which is a big step!! It was beautiful and made me so happy! I can’t wait for Frank to be able to go and do baptisms! 

At the Fort Lauderdale Temple with Frank and his son

We also found a lot of great new investigators. One is named Barbie. She is a friend of a member in the ward who has been reading the Book of Mormon and had some questions and was very interested in the church. We went and taught her. She loved it and came to church on Sunday and felt the spirit so strong. Amongst our interesting testimony meeting the spirit still spoke to her and testified to her the truth of the gospel! We set a date for her for next week so we are super excited and are praying that she gets baptized. We love her so much. 

We also have been showing He Is the Gift, an awesome Christmas video from the church and it has helped us find lots of great people and has gotten the members excited to share this video with their friends. I love He is the Gift video. Every time I watch it, it makes me cry because it really puts into perspective the true and real meaning of Christmas and how He truly is the gift. I encourage you to use it. To show friends on the bus or where ever!!  I love my savior so much and don’t know what i would have done if our brother had not volunteered to come down and sacrifice his life for us.  He truly is the best gift ever. In the new Ensign magazine, I encourage you to read the story Fill the World with Christ’s Love. It is such a good story and so cute and really reminds you that it’s okay to have little for Christmas and the spirit of service.

Temple is so beautiful

 Inez is doing well. Her husband just found out that he has cancer so she has been dealing with that, but Heavenly Father will help her. Manny was going to come to church but he got really sick too. So many sickies ha-ha but that’s okay. Our faith is high and we will not let Satan win. We got this!

I love you all so much!! Sorry this is so short but since I was sick not much happened this week :( But that’s okay. This week will be a week of miracles!! :) I hope you all have a good week. Thanks for the birthday wishes!!  Happy birthday to you mom!!!! Love you. Can’t wait to see your faces!!! :) Pray for you always. Branden said that his dad has a truck and his dad would love to help with the move :) 

    Love,

 Your soon to be 20 year old daughter,
 Briaunna