Delivered Flowers

Written December 17, 2012.

Hey there family

Well, I can't believe that another week is done already. I feel like my companion and I just made plans for the last week and here we are making plans for a whole new week. I wish the time could just slow down a little bit. I feel like there isn't hardly enough time to do it all. It sounds like everyone will be home for Christmas again this year?! That would be cool to talk to everyone again at Christmas time. Oh about that we will be talking Christmas day I think early afternoon for you guys. I will get all the little details figured out this week and then next Monday I will let you know exactly what time and everything!! Mom I am super excited about you and your calling and that you are loving it! I have never heard you talk about you callings like this and it just makes me that much more excited!! I hope that everything is slowing down for you a little bit since its Christmas time and all. But tell everyone Feliz Navidad from me! 

This last week I just want to tell you really quick since I don't have much time that we had a really cool lesson with our investigators in the church. Since this couple has never gone to church we decided to do something different and surprising with them. We decided that we were going to take them to the church without telling them. We planned it out that our branch President would meet us in the church so that we could give them a tour and let them get to know the church on a normal day so that they didn't feel so uncomfortable in the church on Sundays. Well, before the lesson we called to see if leaving the house was even an option but we said nothing about going to the church. Isabel said that is would be totally fine and so we showed up to the house excited and almost giddy to take them. As we started to talk about leaving they understood us wrong and thought that maybe were kidding or  something or that we were going to have the lesson right outside their house. When we told them that we were going to leave the house and the area they kind of freaked out. Isabel and Gerardo grow and sell flowers and had to wait for a few clients that were coming to buy. We thought...'oh no..we have to get them to the church today.' Well something amazing happened and Gerardo...who normally is pretty closed about the church...jumped into high gear, found some scissors and went and picked the flowers so that we could deliver them and then go to the church. In the end we finally got there...on hour later...sorry President, but we walked them through the church and showed them everything!! Then we had a little lesson in the office of the branch president and everyone left with a smile on their faces. Isabel said that she felt really peaceful in the church which was amazing because there quite a few people there practing singing and doing lots of other things. 

When we left the church they asked us if we had ever done any thing like that before and honestly we hadn't. The left with big smiles on their faces in a taxi and we walked home super content. But the only thing is that they have major challenges getting to church on Sunday. Oh these people.....how I love them..and get frustrated over them! 

Well, I have to go!! See you all next week. Tell the Bridges thank you from me!! That is super nice of them!!!

Hermana Thacker