MErry Christmas eVe!!

Hello Everyone!! Hope you all are having an excellent week and enjoying the wonderful spirit of christmas :) I miss you all and love you so much!! I miss the snow and the mountains of Utah but I am so happy that I can be a missionary at the christmas season I feel so blessed!!

beautiful sights in decatur

This week was super crazy busy which was so awesome.We always have so much to do everyday and we literally don't know how we are going to get to everything and Heavenly Father some how makes it so that we can do everything!! Its actually the coolest thing. It was so cool to be able to share christmas messages with people these last couple weeks and hear their testimonies of Jesus Christ and how important he is in all of our lives. Jesus Christ literally is everything to us and I am so thankful that we have the christmas season to remember his birth!

Tuesday

-On pday I bought mini bananas and they were so good!!

a mini banana

-also we had dinner with a member on monday and they had the cutest dog ever it was so huge and it was so nice it literally bad my day to pet it haha AND they had two guinea pigs!! they were so strange and everytime we touched them their like jumped and ran away

me and sister sullivan 

-We had exchanges today and I was with sister Sullivan shes awesome!! it was so great to get to know her better

-I met someone today from Brazil and she was baptized by someone with the last name of butterfield and I was like NO WAY because my grandpa butterfield served in brazil but it turns out she was living in a different part of brazil than she lived in but still I thought it was pretty cool haha. 

-we taught a lesson at mcdonalds and it was awesome we did a book of mormon read and that was great stuff!!

-We planned our skit before we went to bed and it was super funny because here we all all these missionaries dancing around in baptism suits planning a very strange skit haha

Wednesday

-Today was zone conference!! we woke up super duper early to be able to make it to ofallon in time and we were so sleep haha

-The sunrise on the way to zone conference was incredible!! I took a thousand pictures of it because it kept getting prettier and also I got to see the sun come up on the horizon because its so flat here and also the sun look so ginormous!! it was awesome

early morning selfie on the way to zone conference!!

AMAZING SUNRISE!!!!!

another sunrise pic because it was so gorgeous

-Zone conference was great we got to here a lot of messages about jesus christ and I got to share one!! It was from 2 Nephi 25:26. In the MTC our teacher had us change the word "of" in that scripture to "like" and its super cool!!

my mother and my grandmother 

-we played white elephant and I got my present stolen like ten times haha it was a tragedy

Weird nuns that are also a music box that the elders gave us

-our skit was pretty short but we thought it was hilarious. We danced to white christmas in baptism suits because our mission president said we should have a white christmas baptism wise, it was kinda funny. Also the elders in our district wore baldcaps and taped flashlights to sunglasses and wore president batemans tags and pretended to be him and then they said "thats not approved" it was an interesting time haha

Outfits for our skit

-there was another skit that literally make me laugh sooooo hard and everyone was staring at me instead of the skit because I was laughing so much and it felt amazing to laugh super hard

-we got thai food for dinner and it was so yummy!! I love asian food

Thursday

-we taught Angelina about the restoration and we also started teaching her daughter!! We invited her to be baptized and she said that she would want to it was so awesome!!

comp selfie

-it was super rainy and cold today which i love 

-We went tracting and found so many awesome people that we can hopefully start teaching!! but also this one lady opened her door and look at us and said hi and then closed her door right after like as she was saying hi and it cracked us up for some reason

-we had a book of mormon reading and a bunch of people came which was great!! also Jerrys son came it was super cool to meet him.

Thrift store with birds in it!

-We helped sister bard make salsa because she wanted to give people a christmas gift but she couldn't do it on her own and we were so happy that we could help her out. She didn't have enough money left to buy jars to give the salsa to people so we called the elders and asked if they had any and they were doing service at the time and there was a bunch of jars there that were perfectly sized so that was a huge miracle because we got sister bard all the jars she needed for like five dollars it was amazing.

our beautiful Christmas tree

Haha well lots more stuff happened but I ran outta time love you all hope you have a great Christmas!

-Sister Butterfield