We were talking about what we call CPR, or church, prayer, and reading.

    

This week went by almost too fast. I spent all week looking forward to Christmas and now it's already over. Pretty crazy. But it was still a great week! With the holidays we unfortunately had a bunch of people cancel lessons on us but we did have quite a few that happened. 

      One in particular really stood out to me this week. It was with this girl in the new stake we are covering named Tiffany. She is 17 and seems like a super cool girl. She wants to be baptized but her dad was very against it. So she and her friends fasted and prayed the day before she was going to ask and he actually consented so that was cool. She will be getting baptized on January 21. But in our lesson she had four of her guy friends come to support her (her girl friend that usually attends just left for her mission!). We were talking about what we call CPR, or church, prayer, and reading. And it was just really cool to see how literally every person has had a very significant event in their life where they used CPR to help them either strengthen their faith and keep going or to overcome a trial. It was an awesome lesson. 
     We had a really good lesson with Jose too. He is seriously such a great guy. He is willing to do whatever is needed so he can get baptized. He had been smoking about 15 cigarettes a day and in two weeks he has gotten it down to about three. He has such a strong testimony and will to become better and I love teaching him. 
     For Christmas Eve, we had P day from 5-9 and we spent most of that with other missionaries playing games and stuff so that was fun. For Christmas, we went to a beautiful church meeting, came home shoveled the driveway since we got 8 inches of snow Saturday night, ate, and then got to skype our families. It was so nice to be able to see and talk to my family. We spent the rest of the day with some families in our area and ended the night playing monopoly. All in all a great Christmas.
    Probably the greatest gift I got this year though was from our mission president. We had interviews with him on Wednesday and he walked up to me and said "Hey I got you a car. You need one in your area." And then he walked away. We got a brand spanking new 2017 red Toyota RAV4. It had 53 miles on it when we got it and it is fun to drive. First time driving since I left home and man does it feel good. I hope everyone had a great Christmas this year and everyone has a happy new year too! Love you all!