I honestly cannot believe it is Christmas! Jethro who is 5 and Elijah who is 7 gave Hna Whetten and I some christmas gifts yesterday when we were at their house for dinner. First of all we each got 7 coins, I got quarters and Hna Whetten got dimes and nickles...but we both got 7 of them.Then she got an apple and a broken jewelry box, I got some catadryl creme and a big eraser that I am supposed to give back to them next week when we come. Haha I don't know how they knew what we wanted!
This week was random and crazy! The temple...amazing. Afterwards, the hermana that drove us up there told us she was going to give us a tour of LA and Beverly Hills haha I don't think that was approved but it was an experience...6 white missionaries packed into a suburban with a Latina Hermana driving us around the ritzy hoods.
Basically the best thing that is going on in Reseda is Antonio Gutierrez! He is that investigator I told you about that we found my first week here...he is getting baptized next week! (He is the one that talks really fast and slurs so we don't exactly understand him half the time where we just point to the pamphlets haha.) It has been the funniest best experience teaching him. He is from Peru and he is just a cool guy. He was so prepared. He has kept EVERY SINGLE commitment we have given him. He reads the book of mormon every day, has come to chruch every week since we met him, and he even randomly had a tithing slip in his house before we taught him tithing because he saw them at church and wants to pay tithing. Latinos are not known for being on time, but he will text us 5 minutes before our appointment is supposed to start and ask where we are. It has been a miracle to see his progression. He didn't believe the Book of Mormon was true when we first met him, he asked us for evidence, he wanted to see the gold plates and wanted proof. He would tell us that we haven't convinced him yet. But it was so cool, at the beginning of every lesson we would ask him where he was in the book and if he has been praying about it etc. And one day we asked him where he was and he just said are you going to ask me if I believe it? Becuase I do. It was such a testimony builder to me becuase it was so simple. He came to feel the Book of Mormon is true through reading a little bit every day and praying about it. That probably sounds like a really generic missionary thing, but it was so faith building to see it happen to someone! The spirit really can change people. He felt it was true and no longer needed physical evidence....seriously missionary work is the coolest.
A little miracle that happened this week was our exchanges. We were planned to go on exchanges and I was supposed to stay in our area and Hna Whetten was going to leave. But we got a call the day before saying they felt like they should switch it...so I got to go spend a day in North Hollywood wit Hna Marquez! That was a Christmas gift to me because they set up a lesson with Ban!
The weirdest thing I ate this week was a grasshopper :)
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!
Love Hermana Mulliner
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