I love Christmas on the mission

Hey Everyone! 

Christmas was so beautiful:) I love Christmas on the mission. On Christmas Eve we went caroling with all of the missionaries and some of the ward members. We sang in the Gran Manzana de Alcobendas so a lot of people heard us. Hermana Grover wrote the link for He is the Gift on the sidewalk. Then as we were singing we had a few of the children pass out pass a long cards which went SO well. They would literally run up to everyone and give them a card, it was perfect. They even placed a couple book of mormons:) I think we always need to have 4 year olds with us when we are contacting haha After caroling we had a little devotional in the church and we watched Joy to The World and the each bore our testimonies about christmas and Jesus. A few investigators came, including Marcos, so that was really fun. 

Christmas day the other hermanas came over to our piso and we ate Oven Pancake, Spanish Tortilla, and Pumpkin Chocolate chip muffins. Then we all opened up our gifts and read the christmas story. We had lunch with our ward mission leader, Segundo, which was delicious. And then I skyped with you:) Later that night we went caroling to various ward members and investigators and we gave them cute little treat boxes. So it was a very fun Christmas. 

Our miracle of the week was Felix. We met Felix in a street lesson we had the other week. He is an older Spanish man and he also was a little bit duro at first, but he has faith in God. We were able to have a lesson with him this week and everything went so well. He asked the best questions and wanted to know what made us different from other churches. He has a really strong testimony of God and believes a lot of the same things that we do. He is very interested in learning and there was a very nice spirit in the lesson. He also gave a very beautiful prayer to end the lesson. I´ll keep you updated on him! 

ps. The romanian investigators of the Elders got baptised this week! It was such a beautiful service!

Os Quiero Mucho:) 

Hermana Ariana Fuller

We´ve been hitting the streets

Dec 15

First week of the transfer and we´ve been hitting the streets. All of the investigators that we´ve been working with seemed to have dropped of of the face of the planet. But we are keeping up the animo. We have managed to have at least one street lesson everyday which has been a very edifying experience. It´s really amazing to be in the middle of a busy street testifying of gospel truths to people.

My new companion is great! Her name is Hermana Griffin and she is from Port Huron, Michigan! So we´ve definitely been talking about Michigan. She is 20 years old and the youngest of 6. She has a boyfriend serving a mission in Provo! She is already doing so great with Spanish and has a ton of potential as a missionary. It will be so great to be with her for my last transfer!

Cecilio - is a new investigator that we found by having a lesson on the street with him. He is an older Spaniard man and was a very hard egg to crack when we first found him. It took us 45 minutes of talking to him to be able to get his number and agree to meeting with us again, but after those 45 minutes we became his best friend. He has a lot of doubts about churches and needs to develop more faith in God, but that is why we are here. He came to the chapel and we were able to give him a tour and then show him the Christmas video "He is the Gift" and talk a little bit about Jesus Christ. He then came to the church again Sunday afternoon to watch the Christmas devotional. Slowly his heart is softening. Miracles!

News from Barrio 2:

Valentin is doing so great! He bore his testimony, in Spanish, in church on Sunday. He also received the Aaronic Priesthood!

Take care everyone and know that you´re in my prayers.

Os Quiero

Hermana Ariana Fuller

One miracle

Hello everyone!

I might not have that much time today to write because today is transfers! So I´m just gonna do a little copy and paste from my mom´s email :)
"My companion is leaving to the canary islands! and hermana Grovers companion is going to Vigo in the north. and guess what..... I´m training again!!! I´m really excited!! so that means tomorrow I´ll be going and picking up my new companion. Hermana Pavez (my argentinian companion) is coming here to be with Hermana Grover... and they will be training a new sister too! So they will be in a trio for three weeks until Hermana Grover goes home and then Hermana pavez wtih stay here and finish the training of the new sister. So crazy things are happening but it will be fun."

One miracle that happened this week was with a young woman from the ward named Sarah. She is 18 years old and turns 19 in March. Her mom is a ward missionary so she is always helping us on visits. Her mom has been kind of worried about her because she hasn´t been showing much enthusiasm about church so my companion and I decided to invite her to come out to some lessons with us. The first time she came she seemed to really like in and the second time she came our lesson ended up failing so we had a Missionary Work lesson with her. The next day we saw here mom and she came up and asked us "What did you say to Sarah last night? She came home all glowing and happy and then told me she had been thinking and she wants to go on a mission!" We saw them both here on Sunday and they told us that she started her papers and Zully just started crying. She said she had been praying a long time for this to happened. It was such an amazing experience and we really felt like tools in God´s hands. Miracles exist!

That´s it for this week! More on the week to come:)
MUCHO AMOR

Hermana Fuller