Email from 1-20-14

 Hola familia! I cannot believe it is already monday again! Crazy!

Well, to start off, our baptism on tuesday was so wonderful! Ah. Olga (his wife who just got baptized a few weeks ago as well), Hna Scheu and I all spoke and it was just so wonderful to baptize Ridel and know that Olga is already baptized and that they already have the goal to go to the temple to be sealed in exactly one year. I wish you could have seen the look on Olga´s face as Ridel came up out of the water. It was so special to see. They are wonderful. Olga gave me this beautiful pearl bracelet that night to thank me for bringing the gospel into their life and so that I have something to always remember them by. Although I definitely dont need a bracelet to help me remember them it was so sweet of her. 

Other super wonderful news is that Javier have a baptismal date!!!!! February 8th!!!!! I have told you all this before but really I have not met someone so sincere with such an incredibley strong desire to follow Christ and do what God wants him to do. We are just so excited for him. He has parents and sibligns that live in the states and two of his sisters are members back in his country. We are just so happy. A cool story is that we had a lesson with him Friday morning and the whole lesson was just on the Book of Mormon because he just LOVES his bible and reads it faithfully everyday and has had a harder time understanding and gaining a testimony of the Book of Mormon but we brought a recent convert of about 3 weeks with us who was just like him who didnt leave the house without her Bible and now doesnt leave her house without her Book of Mormon and Bible to help us in the lesson. It was such a powerful lesson and al final de esta leccion we invited him to be baptized on a specific date and he just kinda put his head down and smiled so big and said yes. Then he left and said that as he was walking down the street he started to get really nervous and was thinking oh shoot what did I just say yes to when he looked up and there was a banner hanging on a building that said "todo estará bien" which means "everything will be ok". He took that as a sure answer from God that what he just said yes to was true and that this is the camino correcto. Miracle happen every day in this work and I am just so humbled to be a part of it!

haha so this probably isnt going to be funny to you guys but Hermana Scheu and I quote it at least 3 times a day. So we were making some visits to less active members and usually when we timbre the door (everyone lives in pisos and outside of the piso is a timbre thing where you ring their door and over an intercom talk to them) we say buenas, somos las hermanas "Hi, we are the sisters" (which sounds so awkward in english but I promise it is not awkward sounding in spanish jajaj) adn they usually respond with, ohhhh uhhh uhhhhh ok come up. or uhhh we are just about to leave come back later, or something like that. Well this guy we had never met, jsut knew his name was Luis and so we rung and said hola somos las hermanas anad he said SUPER EXCITED, "las hermanas??? Que guay!!!!" jajaja.Which means, the sisters??? COOOL! You defintely probably have to be there and be a missionary where you get doors closed in your face several times a day to think this is awesome but we think its pretty hilarious! It was just such a change from every other person we timbre. Needless to say he invited us up and gave us cookies and hot chocoalte as we sat out in the hallway because he lives by himself and shared a message with him. 

Ok gotta go, Adios! I hope you all ahve a great week! Thank you for everything! 

LES QUIERO!

Hermana Heims

ps, I am sitting here in jeans right now. SO WEIRD! This is my third time wearing pants in my whole mission since I left home 7 months ago! We are going bowling today so we get to wear jeans! 

Email from 1-13-2014

Happy birthday mom!!! I dont know why but here they say felicidades "congratulations" instead of feliz cumpleaños. Pero, MOM! Happy birthday! I love you so much! I will write you an individual email as well but I just wanted to start my letter by telling you how much I love you and how much I have thought about you this week. All of my investigators know it is your birthday today too! And they all say Felicidades! 

This week was such a good week! The change that I am so blessed to see in the lives of my investigators is just unreal. Nothing compares to it. Although Satan has just been so darn annoying in some of these changes recently, I know that these people have been prepared by Heavenly Father and little by little will come to know the truthfulness of this gospel. Because let me tell you, this gospel is tue! I had no clue I could have a deeper testimony of this before I left on my mission because before I left I had not a single doubt in my mind but now, its just even deeper and I know with a surety that this is the true, and only church of Jesus Christ on the earth and that it was restored to the earth again through the profet Jose Smith. How blessed are we to ahve this knowledge?! Last night we did a passby to a family that we met in the street alwhile ago but we have yet to actually teach them much besides a spiritual thought here and there and last night only the two kids were home so we taught a little bit and then helped the girl with her english homework before we headed out and man, this family just has no love and hope in their life. It is the most saddest thing to walk into their house and just feel no love between them and no love for life or anything. Last night it truly broke our hearts. We are hoping to bring some love, hope, and peace into their home and teach them about the infinite and perfect love of our Father in Heaven and Jesus Christ. 

Also this week was a bit of a long week just becuase one of the other Hermanas in our ward has been sick for weeks now and finally her body just was worn out and the dr told her to stay inside for at least 4-5 days so we did a lot of intercambios to get her comp out of the house and also so that they could still be able to teach their lessons throughout the week. So there were quite a few days this week where I stayed in with her for a few hours while my comp and her comp were out teaching. I finally made a pretty good dent in Jesus The Christ (the book that is just about 800 pages long) and holy cow I am loving this book! This book is incredible. Although it is no easy read my any means, I am learning a ton and coming to understand and know my Savior even more. 

We were so so blessed again this week to have several of our investigators come to church again and wow it was SUCH a great sunday! The talks and the lessons seriosuly could not have been more perfect. I love our ward. We are so excited for this coming week and the following to hopefully start seeing some real progression with these people that have been coming to church the past few weeks. Oh and one neat thing that happened yesterday at church was in sacrament meeting we were about to start and we had our investigators pretty spread out throughout the congregation with different members and such and hna Scheu and I were sitting right in front of our beautiful family (andriana y enrique) and their little girl victoria was sitting up with us and a guy comes in and squeezes next to me. I chat with him for jsut like two minutes before we start adn get his story because I had never seen him before and he is from some African country, came here about 3 months ago, has no clue why he is here just that he felt like he should up and move to spain. So a last week he was praying before he left his house that morning for some guidance on why he is here and what he is supposed to be doing here. He was in a taxi later that day and drove by the church and saw the words "Jesucristo" and knew that that is why he came here... to go to that church. So he showed up on Sunday and just loved every minute of it and said he just felt so much peace and happiness being in the chapel. Adn that we wants to learn more. So so so awesome right? Too bad he lives outside of our area so I have to pass his reference on to other missionaries, but as long as he gets taught then I am happy! He was such a neat guy! And sucha testimony that Heavenly Father is preparing so many epople right now. 

Jaja one funny thing that happened this week... hna Scheu and I were walking down the street to our lesson and just after we crossed a street we walk by two small pigs walking behind their owners. We walked passed and both stopped dead in our tracks turned around to do a double take and yep, sure enough two pigs just walking right behind their owners. Jaja we laughed pretty hard! I was bummed I didnt have my camera with me. 

Ok well I love you family! Thank you so much for your love adn support! WE are excited to have Ridel´s baptism this tuesday so next week Ill ahve pics from teh baptism! He is so ready and so is his sweet wife. He came out of his baptismal interview yesterday just beaming! 

Les quiero muchisimo! 

Con amor, Hermana Heims

Email from 1-6-14

Feliz dia de los Reyes familia! este dia es mas grande que Navidad! Las personas aqui reciben hoy sus regalos de los reyes! Entonces, Papa Noel no trae los regalos, pero los reyes! La semana pasada, en vez de Papa Noel, habia muchos reyes en los centro comerciales donde los niños pudieron visitar y decirles que querían! Gracioso! Pero bueno. 

Happy Day of the Kings family! Today is a bigger holiday than Christmas. The people here receive their presents today from the kings (the 3 wisemen). So, Santa Claus doesnt bring gifts for Christmas, but the kings bring the gifts on the 6th of Jan. The past week, instead of Santa Claus, there were tons of Kings in the malls where the kids could go and visit and tell them what they wanted. Funny huh?! Granted, there are TONS of South American people here and this is not in South America so many families still do it our way where Santa brings the gifts and what not back in December, but the Spanish tradition is that the 3 kings bring the gifts on the 6th of January. So today the whole country is a ghost town, everything is closed and everyone is with their families. 

Although I LOVE holidays and the Christmas Spirit and the family love that is all around still, I am not going to lie, I am ready for the holidays to be over. Literally the past 4ish weeks have been so so slow work wise because when there is a holiday here everything just shuts down, no one can meet with us, and they just party till their hearts are content. So since before Christmas, until about another week, work has just been sloooooow. Everyone we contact on the street, several of our investigators, ward members, and just everyone tell us to not bother them till after the holidays. jaja. But, that being said, it was such a good week this last week! here is a quick run down...

Ridel... I am not sure if I have ever mentioned him in my emails but he is the husband to Olga (la mujer that just got baptized a few weeks ago) and way back when we first started teaching Carlos and Reinier and Duglas he was always there and would chat with us but the second our lessons started we would leave. Then, Olga became our investigator and todavia in the beginning he would leave. But, then after a few lessons, we would stay in the tent when we would teach but he would just be in the background (but I knew he was listening and often times we would prepare lessons more for him and not necessarily for her bc we knew he was in the background listening) and then we had a temple tour with the both of them back in the beginning of Diciembre and wow! since then things have changed a ton with him. He started to listen in on the lessons. He would never participate but would always come over and listen in. THEN! her baptism is what really did it! Ever since her baptism the 21st of decimber he has been so much more open with us and we have had some really great discussions with him. Well, on tuesday we just felt so strongly that he is ready for baptism so we had a lesson with just Olga and Ridel (we taught them eternal marriage) and we asked them to come to the chapel instead of meeting in Sol in the tent and we invited Ridel to first become an investigator and second to be baptized and his response..."I know this church is true, I want to be sealed to Olga for eternity, I want to have an eternal family, so yes I will be baptized. I have already thought about it and I want to be baptized the 14th of January, Olga´s birthday!!" To say the least we were super emotional and super excited! So we are preparing him to be baptized the 14th of January and we couldnt be happier. Olga of course is beyond happy as well. But at the very end of our lesson she looked at me and said, Hermanita, when do you go home? I told her December of 2014. She started crying and said, you wont be able to come to our sealing on January 14th, 2015 will you??... Yeah, about broke my heart right in half. This might be the hardest thing about serving a mission outside of the states is that coming back for big things like this just isnt as easy. Makes me so, so sad. but I am filled with so much love for them and I am just so happy that they already have a goal to be sealed exactly one year from his baptism. There is just nothing better than serving a mission. Ahhh, all of these people are so special to me. 

And speaking of all of these people being so special to me.... ME QUEDO!!!!!!!!!! Wahoooo!!! I did not get transfered. Hna Scheu, Yo as you all call her and I are staying together here in Barrio 5. We are both so so happy! Although of course I would have gone where ever I was sent and I would have loved it and I am so so feliz to be staying here for one more transfer. Because.... Family, I LOVE THESE PEOPLE! The past few weeks I have gotten so close to a few of the ward members and all of my recent converts and investigators are SO wonderful I couldnt have imagined leaving quite yet. I feel so blessed to be able to serve here for 6 more weeks. But, this probably means that next transfer when I will for sure be leaving it will probably be harder to leave, but it will be worth it! 

Yesterday at church we had several of our investigators come and it was just such a special Sunday! We felt so blessed to have so many people at church. Our BEAUTIFUL family, Enrique, Adriana, y their kids came and let me just tell you, they are wonderful. They came late because they have a car and there was an accident that they got stuck in so they only came for the last two hours but thankfully they made it for Sacrament Mtg and it was so good! Fast and testimony is such a wonderful sunday for people to come! Javier also came for the 3rd week in a row and although we have to go super poco a poco with him, we are sure that soon he will have a baptismal date as well. He is so great and has one of the most sincere desires I have ever seen to follow Christ and do what God wants him to do. 

And to answer everyone´s questions about new years eve... just a normal day of lessons and what not and in bed by 11! haha! Sounds like I stayed up longs than the Iversons though. jaja. But I serve in Sol, which is like the New York of Spain so here is where they have their big stuff, comparable to teh ball drop at time square, so the metros and buses aroudn my area closed early so we jsut made all of our appointments close-ish to home so we could just walk everywhere. And our last lesson was with Jessica and her boys. And we knew that they dont have family here so we brought over Mac N Cheese (hne scheu got it for Christmas) and made it with the boys and ate mac and cheese (the boys LOVED it!), salad, and some other food that Jessica made! It was so much fun!!! Hahah A fun tradition that they do here and in practically all south american countries is that they eat 12 grapes at 12 oclock. They ring a bell twelve times and at each rign you eat a grape, one grape for each month to bring you good luck throughout the year. So the week before grapes sales and signs and stand were everywhere! haha. Also, their new years festivities BEGIN at 12! haha they dont end at 12! So at twelve they do their whole "time square" thing and then they eat a huge meal and stay up dancing and partying all night long. So for example, the JAS (YSA) activity/dance started at 11pm and ended at 8am the following morning! And speaking of dancing, have I ever mentioned how I SO wish I could be latin so I could dance like them?! I love the way they dance!!!!!!

Ok, I hope you all enjoyed the novel! jaja I came to the locutorio this morning thinking, shoot this is going to be a small email, I dont have anything to say this week. jaja. 

Thanks you family and friends for everything! I am so thankful for each one of you! Les quiero muchisimo!

And fam, can you please tell these few people how truly grateful I am so them! There are so many that have emailed me and sent me things so I almost dont want to mention names in fear of forgeting someone and as a result hurting them but a few people that I jsut truly appreciate..... 

-Debbie Wanless... every two weeks I get a little note from her! Love it! 

-Cara Meidell and Jenni Amundsen email me every once in a while with an update about their family and to say hi and both of their emails make me so happy! I am so thankful for both of them. 

-Jenny Clark, I recieved her Christmas package this week and she is just so wonderful!!! How did our family get so blessed to have her and Pete as part of our family??

-Grandmere, with out fail I have a few emails every week from her telling me how much she loves me, what she has been doing, and how much she has been praying for me, my companion, and each one of my investigators. 

-Dev Dev! She emails me also all of the time with updates and to say hi. You all have no clue how much those small emails me to me on the mission!

-Natalie! You all know everything about her but man I love her so much! 

LES QUIERO!!!! 

LOTS of fun pictures! And a few new emails below too!

Merry Merry Christmas from Madrid

This has been the best Christmas ever! I love you all so much! This last week was so so so so so good and it is paining me to not be able to write all about it this week becuase I dont have time but here is a little about the baptism of DANNY Y OLGA! 

Fam, Saturday was one of the best days of my mission! Danny and Olga were baptized and everything went perfectly! I cannot describe in words the happiness we felt that day! Ah, it was so perfect. They were just both so ready and so filled with excitement to be baptized! I have not seen that kind of happiness in Danny ever! It made my heart happy. 

Then Sunday they received the Holy Ghost and it was so perfect. They are both so happy! Then monday we had a lesson with Danny and after our lesson he asked where we were headed to and we said another lesson and he siad, awesome, can I come now with you, since Im a member now?! haha and he siad it with a huge smile like he was just so excited to be a member! I can not explain the happiness in my heart when he asked us this! So he came with us. Our lesson ended up failing us which was pretty darn sad but it was still so neat to see his enthusiasm to share his testimony and help us! Then today we got a text saying feliz navidad and that he is available to come to a lesson with us tonight if we want! So so so so awesome! 

ok real fast another thing.... this is part of my email to my president today.... 

"Merry Christmas President Jackson!

Thank you for the devotional last night! It was wonderful! That was so great to have the Bishop and Sister Whitchurch there! They are amazing. I worked close with both of them when I was in their ward and they are just the best. 

We had Danny and Olga´s baptism on Saturday and it was one of the best days of my mission so far. There is nothing like seeing your investigators in white. I can only imagine what it will be like to see them in white in the temple one day. Danny is already helping us in lessons and has such a desire to do what is right. 

Hermana Scheu and I received one of the best Christmas presents last night. On Friday we had a lesson with one of our investigators named Javier. His desire to follow Christ and do what Heavenly Father wants him to do is one of the most purest I have ever seen. He just wants so badly to do what is right but he is so confused on what is right. He feels like all churches are good and so he just doesnt know which one is the right one. So the lesson on Friday was SO good and we resolved so many of his doubts and the best is that he finally prayed to end the lesson. But, then that night we received a text that said, "no voy a seguir con ustedes, lo siento. gracias por todo." We were absolutely devastated and had no clue what happened and what to say back. We prayed and felt like we should let him sleep on it and we would call him in the morning. Well, long story short it that we called and he said he would be willing to meet with us one more time to explain what happened. We met him yesterday morning in Mcdonalds with a member and he told us that is pained him to send us that text but he is just so confused right now and just is overwhelmed and didnt know what to do. We testified a ton, read several scriptures and told him to pray that night to know if he should continue meeting with us. Well, we recieved a message from him last night when we got home from the devotional and he said "quiero seguir escuchandolas"! Hna Scheu and I literally jumped up and down with excitement! It was such a great Christmas present!"

Ahhh we said that that text was just a happy as anything else we got for Christmas! WE love Javier and are so excited that he is willing to keep meeting with us! 

Ok I love you fam! I love you SOOO much! Thank you for everything! It was SO GREAT skyping with you! It was so wonderful to see your faces and hear your voices! 

 

Les quiero muchisimo! 

Con amor, 

Hermana Heims

Miracle week!

Hola familia! 

what a day! We spent the whole morning trying to get Hna Scheu´s package that her mom sent her for Christmas that was stuck in customs. Fam.... Hna Jackson told us... when you send a package DO NOT write everything that you send and the price. write "mission supplies" "20 bucks". y ya esta, nothing else. jaja. Poor Hna Scheu had to pay 80bucks to get her package this morning. 

Well, this week was a super good week. I could literally go on and on about all the miracles we saw and how many times the Lord put us in the right spot at the right time to be able to help someone or share the gospel with someone. But, I will just write a few...

Intercambio day should just be called miracle day. Seriously every intercambios we do we just see miracle after miralce. Hna Scheu is the Hna Trainer still so every week I still do intercambios while she is doing them. This last week I was with Hna Frost. She is actually in our ward too and just came down this transfer from the North. She is wonderful. She was in my area so it is always just a tad more stressful when I stay in our area and an Hermana comes to me. I obviously know my area super well and everything but it is jsut a little more stressful because most often than not they are sad to have to leave their area and investigators for the day so I try and make our day super fun and eventful. But this day with Hermana Frost was rough. We had a few lessons fail us, it was raining, freezing cold, and I could not for the life of me find someone to stop by and have a lesson with. I was calling every investigator, less active, recent convert I could think of and no one was answering. So, our option was to go out in the freezing cold and contact for the rest of the night until we had to meet our companions to switch back. We were both kind of bummed but I kept remembering what President Jackson had recently told us "people only fail you for 2 reasons, either you are disobedient or you are needed somewhere else". I was thinking, well we arent disobedient so we must be needed somewhere else. We said a pray to be guided to where we were needed and we hit the streets. And man. The first hour we had 0 luck. Literally no one was stopping, no one would even make eye contact with us, it was rough and we were both kinda annoyed. Hna Frost knew that her companion and Hna Scheu had super awesome lessons planned for the night so she was extra bummed. jaja. but then we knocked on a members door just to quickly go inside where it was warm for a second and use the bathroom. When we got there there gave us hot chocolate and we decided to just share a quick mormon message with them and then head out. Well, turns out that the younger brother had a friend over who watched the video with us adn after we were all discussing it and he said he wants to meet with us and everything. We got his number and headed out. We were so thankful that Heavenly Father had guided us to exactly where we needed to be. We also ended up having another lesson with one of our investigators that has been having a hard time progressing and the lesson went so so well  and we committed him to be baptized once he knows that this church is true and he finally committed to come to church (which he did yesterday and liked it alot!). 

Then, yesterday the same thing happened, we had a few lessons fails us but then we ended up being in the right place at the right time to teach someone else (this lady´s name.... Dorka. yes you read that right! haha. we had to keep hard from laughing!) Ahh, I jsut love this work and I am so so so thankful for the Holy Ghost! I feel truly blessed. 

Well, Danny and Olga ahve their interviews this week and then they are getting baptized Saturday. Them and us could not be more excited. Danny bought a suit this weekend for it! haha. ahhh.... fam, I so wish you could be in one of our lessons with Danny. I SO wish you could meet him. His testimony of this gospel is simple but so pure. 

Well, tonight we have our Programma de Navidad! We are excited! We are praying that all of our investigators, recent converts, ward members, and anyone come! Although oh man so we had our practice last week and Hna Scheu and I about died laughing the whole time.... ok so we both cant sing but we have to memorize these songs in spanish so we have been singing them a ton and there are all songs that we know in English like Hark the Herald Angels sing, Joy to the World, Silent night and a few others. But we ar eboth so tone deaf that the tunes that we memorized were so off. jajajaj. the words were right but the tunes were not even close! hah. And ok, I have gotten so many emails the last few weeks about how you guys want to hear more about funny, random, day to day things that happen instead of only about my investigators. I will try adn add more random things in but the truth is is tha tmy investigators are the most important things to me and my lessons with them and all about them is what I am constantly thinking about and what brings me the most joy so that is wha tI want to share with you all. I know you dont knwo them at all but I hope you feel a special love for them. I have such a deep love for each one of them. Seriously, it is the craziest thing how it happens but no matter what, even just all of the random people I talk to on the street that dont give me their number, I LOVE so much. And it is not just cheesy or lame, it is a serious, deep love for them. It is one of the most greatest things I have ever been able to experience. Anyways, a few random things that I can remember from the week...

jajaja so in Sol (the tent of Carlos, Duglas, Reineir, Olga, etc) it is always just an adventure when we are there. Cubans have the worst accent to try and understand. Literally, I did intercambios a few weeks ago with a girl from teh states but her parents are from south America so she grew up speaking spanish in her house but def speaks english better than spanish but even she siad there are plenty of times where she cannot understand CArlos and REinier and Duglas. Dont get me wrong, I LOVE these people but they talk like they have a golf ball in their both. It is casi impossible to understand them. Anyways, so Hna Scheu and I just have fun when we are there and try to understand the best we can. and they understnad that we dont understand everything adn they are super patient so it is all good. But the other night when we were just about to start our lesson some random cubans that live here in madrid stopped by to meet them and say hi (this happens on a daily basis I feel) and they all got talking and talking and it was in cuban spanish and super fast so Hna Scheu and I just tuned out about 2 seconds into the convo and were like shoot, haha so what do we do now?! They had just fed us sandwiches (that someone had given them the night before and they had two extras so they saved them for hna Scheu and I... soooo nice! They literally are always thinking of us and do things like that all of the time) so we had tin foil from the sandwhiches so we rolled them up into balls and gave each other tin foil back massages. jaja may sound lame but seriously our backs were killing us that day and tin foil balls make the best back massage things. haha. But dont worry, we did our work too and ended up sharing our message with this cuban couple as well adn got their contact info to teach them another time! 

Another random thing,,, actually this is just too nice and cute to not share... so the other day during our lunch we headed up to the airport to try and get Hna Scheu´s package from custums. We got off the metro adn had no clue hwere to go so we asked a random older guy for directions. He gave us the dirrections and off we went. We had been walking for a good five minutes when we hear a guy running behind us. We turn around to find this old guy (mid seventies we would guess) running after us to tell us that he told us the wrong bus number to get on. He was so out of breath he could barely talk. Seriously, do you get any nicer than that?! He had originally told us bus 214 but remembered after that it was bus 205 so he ran after us to tell us the right bus number. Made our day. So so nice. 

Ummm... I cant really think of anything else to share that just happens throuhgout our day.... ohh... haha so yesterday I forgot my scarf after medio dia and by about 8pm it was so so so cold I was dying. Hermana Scheu had a really long, super ward scarf so we wrapped it around her neck and then around mine neck. Literally, every single person we were passing was staring and laughing. We had no clue it would attract so much attention. But it was worth it because it is so cold here especially in the streets at night. 

Ok gotta go! I love you all! I hope you ahve a great week! 

Oh and para que sepan.... no it does not feel like Christmas here. There are a few lights aournd but definitely not the Christmas feel like in the States. 

Love, Hermana Heims

Getting ready to sing for Christmas

hello fam!

This week was great! We just got back from a 3 hour music practice with all of the misisonaries here in Madrid. Next Monday night we are putting on a program with singing and videos and what not. We are inviting EVERYONE. Members, investigators, all the people we talk to on the street everyday, literally everyone. We are hoping to pack the chapel full of people. We are super excited. Itwas a long practice though. So, I dont have much time to email today and I wont have much time next week to email bc it is the program and we´ve gotta be there at 5pm. BUT, the following week we get to SKYPE! wahoo!

Anyways, this week was good, long, hard, fast, and funny. But nothing too crazy happened. 

Poor Danny, he is just struggling so bad this last week. He smoked a few times, has gotten tons and tons of crap from his family and friends about choosing to be baptized and a lot of other stuff that has left him with tons of doubts and worries. We have been telling him that it is all from Satan and that Satan is working so hard on him right now because obviously Satan does not want him to get baptized. Its been a crazy week with him but we obviously have all of the faith in the world in him so I know he will be able to get through this. But, because a a few things, we all felt that his date needed to be moved back a week. So he will now be getting baptized the 21st of december, the same day as Olga. The good news is that we had an incredible lesson with him last night and he told us it was just what he needed and that it helped a lot. So, no baptism this coming Saturday, but that is ok. We are so excited for the 21st! 

Vale, gotta go! I hope you have a great week! Sounds like everyone (except Winter in az) is enjoying the snow! I love you all so much! 

Oh and real fast about the skype... I am not sure about the time but I know it will be super early for you guys... around 7-8AM. Since our pday moved to Christmas day we have pday but then our pday ends at 6:30 so we need to be done skyping by then and we have to make sure that if any technical problems happen, we have time to fix them and still get the whole hour to skype and be ready to get to work by 6:30 so we will have to skype earlier in the day so super early for you guys. I will be skying in an internet place hear so I should decent but not super great connection. 

Les quiero mucho! 

Hermana Heims