...And a Happy New Year!!

We had a great New Year's celebration and an awesome Sunday!!!!!  We had...A MIRACLE!!!!!

We were given a reference from a member to visit a less active member, the lescano family. We passed by and chatted a bit a few weeks ago and have been working with them since that time.  They have 2 twin daughters who are 9 years old that we are teaching.  Everyone said to us "they are never going to come to church, don't get your hopes up."   Well...haters gonna hate, BECAUSE THEY CAME!  The baptismal goal for them is this coming Sunday.  If not, it will be next saturday!!!  Incredible......

We are also teaching two more part member families and things are going great.  The sweetest sound is when the kids say "why didn't I get baptized when I was 8?"  "Dales los palos!!!!" (meaning...parents getting a beat down from their kids hahahaha).

We keep finding new people to teach which is a blessing!  They just appear out of nowhere! 

Also, we have been walking so much that I am just dead.  My feet really hurt, so it's been nice to have P-day to just chill out and recover.

New Year's Eve....Originally, our mission president said that we had to be in the pension at 10:30pm, but because our Bishop Allasia is homies with our mission president, we got to stay out late as we were given special permission!  So, we had:

Asado (steak)

Ice Cream

....and Asado

....and more Ice Cream 

IT WAS SOOOO GOOD!

I'm excited for a new year, as it gives me a blank slate and a new opportunity to make changes in my life.  I've got that New Year's resolution game going (not so much with the exercise haha) but i've made the goal to read the Book of Mormon everyday!  I love reading the Book of Mormon as I feel God talking to me personally through it!

If you don't feel close to God now, or don't feel like your on the right path, I promise if you make the goal to read the Book of Mormon (and the scriptures in general) and pray everyday, your desires will change, and next thing you know you will be back on the right path which leads to true happiness.

I have a new favorite couple of scriptures from the Book of Mormon...

HELAMAN 15:7-8

7 And behold, ye do know of yourselves, for ye have witnessed it, that as many of them as are brought to the knowledge of the truth, and to know of the wicked and abominable traditions of their fathers, and are led to believe the holy scriptures, yea, the prophecies of the holy prophets, which are written, which leadeth them to faith on the Lord, and unto repentance, which faith and repentance bringeth a change of heart unto them—

8 Therefore, as many as have come to this, ye know of yourselves are firm and steadfast in the faith, and in the thing wherewith they have been made free.

I know that reading the the scriptures daily can change us and through that change, we are made free.

Make the goal, it has changed my life already!

Love,

Elder Pomar