NEXT P-DAY IS CHRISTMAS

Dear Family and Friends, 

NEXT PDAY IS CHRISTMAS!!!!! I am so excited to be able to Skype you!!! Also, it will be my 5 month mission birthday the 24th! Craziness! 

  

 Right now our main focuses are working with the members and service. We are trying to fortify the members by helping them learn to serve one another as well as their family and friends. We have been visiting all of the members of the branch to see how they are doing with our branch goals to share the gospel and also if their is anything we can do to help or serve them. One thing that really impresses me about this ward is that all of the members are really passionate about their callings. I hope that we can get some of this same passion for the Obra misional. 

At this Christmas time I have been especially impressed with the example of Jesus Christ and how he was constantly serving. Everything He did was for Us. And Everything He did was the will of God. If we follow the spirit and God´s plan for us we will naturally be serving others as Christ did. I love being on the mission and having the calling to serve my brothers and sisters 24 hours a day. I pray continually to find opportunities of service and to become a better servant of God. 

I wish you all a very very FELIZ NAVIDAD. And family - Can´t wait to see your faces next week!!!!! 

Love,  

Hermana Fuller

Dear MOOoOooooommmmm (said singingly)

how are you and the family. Okay details for next week. We are going to be skyping around 4pm  (MY TIME) which I think will be about 10am   (YOUR TIME) Yayaya So be ready. Then my Pday ends at 6:30 so depending on when we start skyping we will have until that time!!! I am SO excited! And don´t worry Mom! if you want time where everyone leaves and we can just talk, we can do that too. Oh also BE ON YOUR EMAIL. Because I don´t have your skype information. I am going to try to make an account now and send you that information. 

Anyways about spain, here they celebrate the Three Kings. So the three kings that delivered Christ presents are the same ones that deliver them to the children here. But they also have Santa depending on the famliy- Also I´m sending you a package with these amazing christmas treats called Turrón. They onle sell them here during christmas time but they are AMAZING: I´m sending it to Utah because you´ll be there! 

As far as transfers and companions. I still have my same companion and she´s awesome! But i feel like this next transfer coming up I´ll be going. the next transfer is Januray 5. it´s a little nerve wracking but I think I´m up for a change. 

I can´t wait to see the house in Arizona. i am still not sure what I´m going to do when i get back but I still have a while so plenty of time for some personal revelation... I hope. haha 

I love you all and Im glad colling is doing better! Could you send me the russian tea recipe? Thank you!! LOVE YOU MOM!!!

AND TALK TO YOU NEXT WEEK ON SKYPE!!!

Love, y our Hija

Hermana fuller

Shifting our focus to service

Hey mom!

 Sorry I have no time this week to write to everyone. Do you remember me talking about the ladies that worked at the Florería. Well, Marta and her family planned this whole excursion and they drove us all around Gijón and such. It was SO much fun but we ran out of time and didn´t get the chance to write. I loved hearing all of your e-mails and sorry I can´t reply more. We are shifting our focus to service so if you have any ideas at all PLEASE let me know :) and here is a little clip from the letter to the president. 

"I would just like to share the highlight of our week, Our new investigator Ricky. We met Ricky in a locutorio where we ended up teaching him the first lesson. This week we have been able to consistently teach him and he has progressed really quickly. He is from Ghana and is muslim but he has the biggest desire to learn more about the things of God. He said he chose to be muslim because all of the different christian religions interpreted the scriptures differently from each other... He relates a lot to the story of Joseph Smith. Our last lesson we had with him we challenged him to pray about getting baptized. I am very faithful and excited to see what happens with him. It has truly been an honor to teach him so far." 

I love you all and I´m praying for you! Can´t wait to talk to you so soon!!!!

Hermana Ariana Fuller

Hard week

Dearest Family and Friends, 

Hermana Cançado and I have had a hard week but we have also seen many little miracles. We have both been striving to live up to our calling as disciples of Christ and serving others. Two of our investigators we found out will be leaving the country in the next month and neither of them will be ready for baptism before. So we continue our search to invite others to come unto Christ. With every struggle we have also received some sort of tender mercy from the Lord. I feel humbled and all I want to do is contintue to become better, a better missionary, a daughter, a better disciple of Christ. 

As Hermana Cançado and I fasted and prayed this week, we both feel we are being guided in the direction to work even more with the ward members through teaching them to serve one another. We have many ideas and things that we are working on that I am very excited about. (If you all have any ideas as well, don´t hestiate to send them my way.) I don´t know if you remember hearing about the packets we made, but this week we received a tender mercy about those packets. One of the ward members, Elena, came up to us and was telling us that those packets were exactly the push she needed. She then told us about 5 missionary experiences she had had that week. Last night we went over to her home and she had a list of Family, Friends, Aquaintences, and Less Actives that she was praying for and looking for opportunities to share the gospel with. We were able to help her with ideas and then pray together by name for each one of these people. I feel so blessed to be working with such amazing people here, both members and missionaries alike. I feel inspired and motivated to work even harder and show God how grateful I am for the love and knowledge that I have. 

Estoy muy agradecida por cada una de vosotros y por mi oportunidad servir también. Yo sé que Dios contesta oraciones y que tenemos una grande potencial como hijas y hijos de Dios. Tengo un testimonio fuerte que esta es la Iglesia de Jesucristo, y mediante él y su expiación podemos hacer todas las cosas. Os quiero muchísimo. 

Hermana Ariana Fuller