Dec 17,
2012
Hola
Familia Mia! Como Estan?
Feliz
Cumpleaños Connor!!! I can’t believe that you are going to be teenager! Ahhh!
Stop growing up!
This week
has been great, hard but great. So it definitely doesn’t feel like Christmas
here. It’s so hot! The tan lines are coming in and we are sweating like crazy!
But I am feeling the Christmas Spirit!
Thank You so much for the Christmas
Packages. I love them! I’m so excited to share the gifts with the little kids here.
I even let some little kids in church play with the quiet folders and sewing
cards during sacrament meeting on Sunday. So fun! Thank you so much!
The work
this week has been awesome! We have been working really hard, and we are
starting to get a hang of the new area. It’s all on an incline, but we are
getting to know the streets and the people. The members are willing to help us
and love the missionaries. But it was another tough week finding people in
their homes. The first couple of days
were really long and we didn’t find anybody. But Thursday, Friday and Saturday we found
people!
I keep
being reminded of the Conference Talk about the Lord being the Gardener and
cutting us back because he knows what he wants us to be and who we can become.
I love this talk and how it applies to me right now. Right now I am studying
chapter 6 in preach my gospel and it’s all about Christ-like attributes.
And I think this is what I need to learn. To realize that it’s all in the
Lords hands and that He is going to help us, but we need to be humble and patient
and full of love and charity. So much to learn! I love it!
This next
we have lots of Christmas stuff going on. It’s funny here, because they only
start getting ready for Christmas about a week before the big day. In the
states they are just dying to get started on Christmas, just waiting for thanksgiving
to get over. haha. We are singing Thursday
– half of the missionaries in the town center, it should be great fun. We will have a devotional with President and
Hna Turk that day too. Friday is the
ward Christmas party. Then Monday is Christmas eve! yay! Here they don’t wake
up early. They all stay up until midnight Christmas eve and then have a big
dinner together, then the visit all of their family. So the party starts Monday
night. Its fun! And there are lots of fireworks that go off too. It will be a great
view from the sixth floor!
I love you
all! And hope that you are enjoying the spirit of Christmas! I love this time
of year. People change, they are happier, we express more love! Why can’t it be
Christmas all year round!
Loves and
Hugs! Hermana Sandstrom
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