Happy December! (Christmas music time, yay!)
Hello dear family and friends,
Time has really flown by. I
cannot believe it is December already. Without snow here it is sometimes hard to guess
which month it is. Luckily we are blessed by having festive people in this area that have been putting up Christmas
lights to make things feel more like the Holidays and Christmasy =)
Thanksgiving!
This has been an especially terrific week with lots of service and great lessons. Plus Sister Reneer and I had a wonderful Thanksgiving Eve and Thanksgiving. Since Sister Mastin was having us over for Thanksgiving we went over the day before to help prepare the dinner and it was so much fun! We love sister Mastin!! Also on Wednesday (J) gave us a Thanksgiving dinner, he had bought it for us and it was really nice of him, and tasted yummy too.
On Thanksgiving we started the morning off as usual with prayer and our scripture study and then the other sisters, the Hermanas, in our area, came over and we made my Thanksgiving traditional corn muffins for breakfast! (Thanks mom for sending the mix and the cute fall muffin papers! They turned out scrumptious:) I also made two chocolate cream pies to take to the two homes we were celebrating Thanksgiving at.
We also had a special gratitude District Meeting in the morning and right after that we
went straight to a sweet less-active's house (Sister S) for our first dinner. It was a great time and we laughed and talked a lot. I've sent pictures today that I took on our happy Thanksgiving week:)
We then went to Sister Mastin's home and we felt so blessed for the kindness of others to share their celebration with us, and to spend time with us, helping us feel loved and cared about. So we ended up having two wonderful Thanksgiving dinners on Thanksgiving, and one on Thanksgiving Eve. Plus my companion and the Hermanas were able to do my other family tradition during the day, and put jigsaw puzzles together! (Thanks again the puzzles mom and papa!)
Busy Time of Year for Everyone
We
have met a lot of great people in this area, the only hard part is
making return appointments with them. Everyone is so busy so we are
trying our best to work around everyone's schedules. We understand that there are lots of things going on at this time of year. It's the little things that make us happy though, like we have an a great investigator that we gave a CTR ring to and she wears it all the time.
Happily we were able to
have a great lesson with (J) on Wednesday.
We had him teach us the Restoration to see how much he understood it.
He did really well using the cup activity. We had a great discussion
afterwards and answered more of his questions. At the end of the lesson
we had an amazing miracle... but I don't have time to write all about
it! I'll write about it
later. That's a cliff hanger for you guys haha! And mom, I know you
don't like to watch too many movie trailers, so it doesn't spoil the
movie, so I wont give anything away for now:) Just know we know he has such wonderful faith, he just needs to make the personal decision to take that Leap of Faith and act on it!
Faith is Like a Little Seed
Speaking of (J)'s faith, that is what my thought is on today. In sacrament yesterday one of the speakers used Alma 32:21 - 'And now as I said concerning faith - faith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye hope for things which are not seen, which are true." And the speaker reminded us of how Jesus Christ would say that "faith is like a little seed".
Sometimes we wonder why we don't have something big in the beginning, but I have been thinking if you look at a seed, most seeds are very small. Some seeds don't look like they will grow into something like an apple tree at all. So things that are going to be wonderful can start little or small. When we act on our faith and water it with lots of scripture study and many prayers it will continue to grow each day. It is great that we can each increase in our knowledge (our own knowledge, not someone else's level of knowledge) and our trust will grow in our Savior, Jesus Christ. And as we act on our faith, than we are showing our love to our Heavenly Father too. This is a marvelous work and I hope more people will want to 'water their faith' more each day so it can grow:)
Love you all!
Sister Karissa:)
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