I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas

November 21, 2011

I honestly can not believe that Thanksgiving is already here! Today we are going to look for the American food store, to see if we can find some PUMPKIN!! This is my heart´s fondest desire this week...that and find more families to baptize!!!

  I do not know what is going on with the mail. I just recieved a package from Aunt Amy that she sent at the beginning of October...it was delivered to our neighbor. It might be something to do with the zip code... I guess the real zip code is 08013. Hopefully that will help things come better but you can just send packages to the mission office if you are worried.

  This week we are having a fireside of Past, Present and Future Missionaries. It is to help the returned missionaries in our ward have desires to still be missionaries, concentrate on our efforts now and encourage the young people to serve missions! It should be pretty amazing because President Hinckley is coming...I will be speaking as well!!! Bahaha.

    We have some baptismal dates set for this next month! It is pretty exciting because the last Saturday of the month just happens to be Christmas Eve! A White Christmas indeed! And what better gift to receive than the resmission of your sins and the Holy Ghost! There have been lots of miracles as usual- people walking in from the street and wanting to know more, people who have investigated long ago showing up at church. The Christmas Spirit is in the air!!

I love you a million baptismal fechas for the perfect White Christmas

Love, Melissa the Beautiful

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Happy Halloween...a day late

  Today we get kind of a short preparation day because...it is my duty and privilege as an 'experienced' missionary of the Spain Barcelona mission, to lead around a new missionary and show her what it is like to work hard! Bahaha. And in the words of the Assistants...to know the amazing Hermana Roberts. My fame will spread far and wide. It is hilarious that I am now an 'experienced' missionary! Surprise! It should be fun and there will be lots of miracles to be found, especially with  TWO new missionaries!! I will teach them what it means to be Amazing....bahaha.

Also I told the Elders that I was the new Assistant...and they believed me.

  I am putting all the conference talks on my mp3 player so that I can listen to them while I am getting ready! There were so many good ones in this conference!!

  This week was a lot of missionary-ness. Talking to people in the street, visiting members and seeing miracles. On Sunday one of the members gave us a reference...Member references are GOLD, so I called the man yesterday. I told him that we were the missionaries that his friend Jorge had given us his number...He said 'Is this a joke?' I started laughing and said 'No we would love to meet with you!'. He agreed and we are meeting with him today!

  I have decided that my happiness as a missionary is very much based on how much I talk to people during the day! When I am sharing my testimony, I come home exhausted but so happy. It is the best. I don´t think I ever realized how satisfying it is to share what you believe!

I love you a million member references...even when they think it is a joke!

Love, Melissa the Beautiful