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Weekly update December 26th 2016 - January 1st 2017

MONDAY: We started off p day a little differently... Brother Thomas hosted ultimate frisbee again! So we headed over there and played frisbee for a couple hours. It was crazy how many geese there were, landing in the field next to us! All I wanted to do was go hunting! We had a fun p day with the whole zone at the church but the only awkward thing was I forgot to do my hair.... oh well who cares. We played fun games and had a little white elephant gift exchange. I brought a super small tie and I ended up with a bag full of random candies.... yaaaay even more junk food to make me fat... we stopped by our new investigator Jose Salazar and he's a nice man and likes when we come share messages. I hope we can get him on date the next time we visit him.

TUESDAY: We had district language study and it's funny because the first 10 min we go over slang that certain places use. After district meeting Elder Larsen had his hot seat. It's crazy to see missionaries go home because I'm so far from it haha. We then came home and taught a new investigator named Victor. We taught the restoration and the importance of the Book of Mormon and then he accepted a baptismal date for the 5th of February!! He is a super nice and humble guy from Peru and has lots of questions! His work schedule is a little tough though so we are gunna try and find him a new job. We then went to Hermana Zanardo's house and had dinner. After that we had weekly English class with our star student Helen Woo! She's the best student we have.... And our only... I got my sisters gift in the mail too! I'm so glad to have the family I have. They are such a blessing in my life!! 

WEDNESDAY: We had to drive out to Patterson to have interviews with President and it went good! He really focused on working with less actives so that's what our focus will be now! We had the scripture class at Brother Thomas's house with the Sisters and he always accidentally calls one of the sisters "sister Davis" haha it's pretty funny! We then went over to the Whitneys house and when we pulled up there were 3 deer and a raccoon out front. So you know exactly what I did.... ;) haha I tried to see how close I could get to the deer and they didn't really care about me and I was able to get about 10 feet from them! There was one that when it would go to run it would put its head down and jump side to side backwards.... it looked so goofy we were both laughing so hard!! 

THURSDAY: We met a new guy while we went to visit a less active. A member had us come over to get pizza after that, we get pizza every single week!! We had a solid weekly planning session for the 5 people we have on date!!! Nidia had me come over and gave me a quick hair cut since she owns a salon. We headed over to a less active members house and the daughter is the sassiest girl I have ever met! She screams at her mom and the mom doesn't care.... we shared the plan of salvation with Ronny and his wife and it went really well! 

FRIDAY: At bridges we did a lot of moving boxes and bags. At the end we got some ties! I'm gunna send a bunch of ties home to my brother! We cleaned up the house a little bit during lunch since I hate having a dirty house! It was snowing while we were visiting less actives so that was fun!! While it was snowing I was outside trying to catch snowflakes in my mouth... I'm sure I looked like a goofball but it was so fun. We visited one of our new investigators and we were going to share the restoration lesson and put him on date, but the person below him had super loud music playing so we waited and just talked about it a little and we will do it next time we see him. We had a lesson with a less active and she said she wanted to go to the temple so we are going to set that up soon!! 

SATURDAY:  We played frisbee in the morning for the LAST DAY OF 2016!!!! It was like 28 degrees with a little snow on the ground haha it was the best!!! "Grandma" fed us dinner and it wasn't good at all!!! It was a bunch of pickled stuff. We then went to a member who lives on our street who is a RM. We talked to him about the mission and stuff and he said how much he loved it and how much he misses it. He is going through a super hard time right now and had me give him a blessing. The spirit was strong. I felt the power of the priesthood. By the end of the blessing he was crying. I love the mission so much!!! We didn't get to do anything New Year's Eve since we're missionaries so it just felt like any other day! 

SUNDAY: The first day of 2017!!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! At church I had to give a 10 minute talk in Spanish and I feel like it went well! I was a little nervous but no biggy! We then had burgers at a members house which are the first ones I've had on my mission! They were alright but nothing like the burgers my dad makes.... oh man I miss my moms home cooked meals!!! That evening we knocked a lot of doors of former investigators and found a few more people to teach and to come to English class. Sadly we did have to move our people with dates back a week or two since they have been so busy with the holidays we haven't been able to teach them. 

Anyway I love you all and the church is true and make sure you make solid goals for this year!!! Here's an awesome quote from preach my gospel on goals...

 "Goals reflect the desires of our hearts and our vision of what we can accomplish. Through goals and plans, our hopes are transformed into action. Goal setting and planning are acts of faith."

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