Feliz Ano Nuevo

so christmas as a missionary is awesome i think!!!! :) it was the coolest! i got to skype my family and it was soooooooooooo good to see them again! definately the highlight of my year! :) and people are so nice to missionaries! we got sooooo much stuff! i dont know what i am going to do with all of it! ;)  and it was soo cool because we went to eat dinner with this family and they weren't at their house but we were a little early so we gave it some time and right as we were about to leave, their son walks out of the house across the street and says that we should go over there! and this neighbor is DEEPLY religous and is a southern baptist and has a ton of preexisting notions about lds missionaries! and the members family had been trying to work on them for a long time!! and we had talked with (the baptists) before just casually and it went really good but this was only the 2nd time we had seen them so we knocked on the door and the mom opened it and invited us in and fed us a huge meal and we all just talked. thats it. but it was soooo good because it is helping the dad lower those barriers about the lds church! and let me tell you if he was a member he would be stake president material! and so god places these things in our way that we dont see coming and so we just have to have the faith to know that god will lead us in the right direction! :) in other news, for christmas elder sanfords family sent me and him nerf guns so on christmas it was war with the other elders which was fun!!! haha ;) and i also went on another exchange with our district leader and learned a lot! we even got a flat tire in the car and figured out that we could probably be in nascar cuz we changed that pup real quick! haha ;) oh and guess what Nana?!! he is way into the essencial oil stuff too!!!! haha ;) so that night we had a yoga session and oil therapy stuff! :) so love yall and hope that you all had a great christmas! and if you had any stories from that i would love to hear them! :) the church is true and i am so glad to be out here on a mission! hasta proximo semana! :)

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Love Elder Jones