I hope everyone had a good Christmas! Ours was good. For Christmas Eve and Christmas day we didn't have anyone to eat with but last second people invited us. We are loved after all ha. We were calling people to plan the bauptism we have coming up and one of those people was Sister Welch who is going to be playing the piano for us. She asked if we had anywhere to eat for Christmas Eve and Christmas day we told her one of the members would be ordering us pizza and so we'd be eating it in our apartment for that day, wlhich was Christmas Eve and Christmas day we had someone to eat with. She felt bad and asked us to please come to her house that afternoon and eat with them. We gladly said yes. So we ate with the Welchs. It was a lot of fun. She made turkey, home roles, pie and other things. Soooo good! We were getting ready to leave when we saw someone pulling up to their driveway which they thought was weird becasue they weren't expecting anyone. It ended up being Santa! Also known as our Bishop who dressed up like santa. We were soo excited! We took pics and everything and they even had stockings for us which were full of goodies, it was awesome. For Christmas we ate pancakes for breakfast after studying and we got to call our families which was sooooo fun and nice, I love you guys! We ate with the Padilla family. They had been eating for the last two days straight so they didn't eat with us but talked to us as we ate ha. She just kept putting food on the table to it was an amazingly delicious combo. She made us pancakes, salad, rice, tomales, mexican hot chocolate, champurado, eggnog, soda, atole, pies, salsas, and I can't remember what else. It was so fun though and the food was good. Hermana y Hermano Padilla do foster care so they have three foster girls who are living with them, Brenda (15 yrs), Sammy (12), and Deisha (11) (not sure how to spell her name). They've all had hard lives and it's awesome that they have such a wonderful foster home. We've been able to get to know them a bit more which has been cool. Brenda is a member but Sammy and Deisha aren't. They all go to church though and we're hoping that we'll be able to start teaching them. Deisha's mom has been going to church the last couple Sundays which is awesome. She wants to change her life around. I think we'll be able to start teaching her and her daughter soon, which will be so awesome. So right now we teaching la familia VillaSenor but Jose Luis VillaSenor is still married and needs to get a divorce in Mexico so they can get married, which costs a lot. but even though it costs a lot we think it's possible but he's not trying as hard as he could. We going to have a sit down with them and make a plan to help them. Jeremy VillaSenor, their son who has 8 years, is getting baptized this Saturday which will be good. The others that we were, kind of teaching, are canceling their appointments a lot or they just never around and so we might be dropping them which never is fun... We have other's who are potentail investigators but with Christmas it's been hard to get a hold of people so I'm hoping it'll change within the next few weeks. Yeah not a whoooole lot is going on but things are going good here. Enjoy the snow for those in Utah!!! The weather has been pretty rough here it's been between 55 to 70 degrees the past few weeks I've been here... I know rough huh?? ha =-) Anyway I'll talk to you all later, take care!!!
Love,
Hermana Alvey
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