December 21

It's hard to believe that Christmas is in four days. It is just oo beautiful! We have our mission Christmas party on Wednesday so maybe that's when it will feel like Christmas...
This week has been good, like always. We are still preparing Pamela and Gary for baptism next Sunday. Pamela came down with pneumonia yesterday but is still gung-ho. The bought their quads last week and are showing them off to everyone. They are going to be awesome members. They already sacrifice so much time and effort to the church!
We're meeting with a young mom with 2 children as well. She does everything for her children and wants them to have faith and hope so that's where we come in. She took her children to the primary activity on Saturday after we had met with her 2 times. We're excited about her progress. Her children are going to Chile for 2 weeks (who isn't in Chile!) so hopefull we can really work with her. It's amazing how fast people's lives change when they accept Christ and let Him into their lives.
This may be selfish of me but ever since I've been on my mission my life has gotten so much better and all I've done is started praying a whole lot more and reading from the Book of Mormon. It really is the little things that build us up.
We're also meeting with a less active named Shannon. She moved from Tennessee after husband died to here and has 3 little girls and a 17 year old son. She is struggling so much and we knwo thtat if she is doing those little things that her life will get better. Her children are so cute. We gave them a Christmas basket with all of our goodies that we got in the last week because we are not eating chocolate still! (Marisa and her companion gave up chocolate to support some investigators who were giving up drinking) She was so grateful for it.
In other news: we got fitted for our pioneer costumes this week. Training is the last week of Jan and we start tours Jan 30th! I'm so excited. It's six hours in the visitor center and 6 hours proselyting in our areas.
The members of Chula Vista are just fantastic. On Thursday I will have been out in the field for a MONTh. craziness. Time is going fast on this end.
I love you all and I'll speak to you on Christmas!