(12-8-14)

Hello all!

Okay, first of all, Hermana Dalrymple and I didn´t have changes so that means that we are still here in Villa Flor! Or Villa Fuego as our zone likes to call it. That means that we will have had 3 changes together and by the end of the change I will have been here in Villa Flor for 7.5 months! Good thing I love it here so much. I´m so happy that I get to stay here for Christmas with these people that I love so much and didn´t get switched two weeks before Christmas.

Okay also lets just have a happy moment and remember that Christmas is in almost 2 weeks!!! I still don´t know what day we are going to skype home, but I will let you know! Also, fun fact here everyone paints their houses before Christmas so all the neighborhoods are pretty fun with bright new colors.

Also, yesterday was the Purisima which was pretty interesting. There are a ton of fireworks and people go house to house. It is almost like a Catholic Halloween. The neighborhood we live in has a lot of people who are Catholic so there were a ton of people in the streets. Also, The Christmas devotional was so great!

We had a really special experience and miracle this week. On Thursday we got a call from Bishop Cuz that said that there was a husband of a member that wanted to meet with us. So we stopped by the church and met him and put a cita for the next day at 8 am. We went and when we asked what he was hoping from the visit, he told us he wanted to get baptized the next day! We talked to him a lot and reviewed the baptismal questions and doctrine etc and he was beyond ready to get baptized. We got him an interview with Presidente Collado and on Saturday he got baptized and Sunday he was confirmed! It was so happy. There is more back story there but basically everything worked out the way the Lord wanted and needed it too. It was adorable because he kissed his wife before he went to get baptized and afterwards they gave each other the biggest hug and had the biggest smiles on their faces. They have their goals set on the temple! I´m so happy we could share this with them! They even bore their testimonies in testimony meeting yesterday

I´ve really learned here that God lets us help. This is his work and I´m sure he could do a lot better job of it but he lets us help so we can learn and grow. It makes me think of when a kid wants to help cook dinner. You know that you could get everything done faster and prettier without them but you still let them help. I am so grateful that the Lord has given me this opportunity to help him here in Villa Flor! I love this work so much!

Hermana Lee

ps A member made us a really good dinner because we still didn´t know if we were going to have cambios and she made baho de pescado. Also, I learned that you can eat everysingle part of the fish expect the bones and scales. We even ate the eyes. Please be proud because it took me like 5 minutes to get up the nerve haha.