Merry Christmas!

Today y'all get a lovely email from my companion sister Zollinger because I was too lazy to write one and I do not have as good of eloquence as she does. So enjoy this week from my companions point of view :)

... also I'm out of time. Merry Christmas 

Sister Plumb

Hello from California, which from what I hear is much warmer then

where y'all are.

This week... lots of biking, but that's not new!

Tuesday we had our Relief Society Christmas party and that was nice. The theme was angels among us and we got an angel ornament at the end. Wednesday we biked our legs off again and burned every calorie we'd ever eaten. I would tell you where

we biked but since y'all aren't here it wouldn't be as impressive. We

biked up all of the hills and then back to the bottom, then back

to the top, then halfway down, then back to the top, then to the

bottom where we live. And we hiked up the Wall again. Why someone

would live up there....well, it has an amazing view but other

than that.... it is a frightening road.

Thursday we helped a slightly crazy former investigator tract for his

phone. Apparently he had accidentally thrown it on the roof, and he

needed our help to figure out which house it was and ask them to get

it down. So we helped! It took us a couple house but we found it. Then

we biked  to the stake center and practiced singing away in a manger

for our zone conference the next day. Then we did some weekly

planning.

Friday was zone conference! And our sort of Christmas party. That was

fun. For the first 2 hours President Villanueva and his wife talked to

us, as well as our stake president. Then we had lunch. Then we read

luke 2 and each district took turns singing Christmas songs between

the verses in the languages of each district. Mine speaks Spanish and

english. There was one who had people who spake Armenian, English,

Korean, and Spanish.

Saturday...we had a lesson with Black, one of Neil's friends, who's

getting baptized on Saturday! He's doing super awesome and his English

is getting a lot better. As is my Chinese. I learned how to say merry

Christmas this week! shèngdàn kuàilè！圣诞快乐！then we met this guy named

José in our parking lot, and we taught him a bit and got his number.

Then we did some more planning. Taught a few lessons. Then we went to

dinner and helped them decorate their tree. Then we went back to the

church and met with José again. He seems super cool! Except he says

he's always really busy on Sunday's. We'll have to work on that.

Sunday was great. We went caroling that night with the youth and

stopped by a lot of less actives. The. Cool things. So, we have been

trying to contact this less active but that hasn't been working, but

we got a hold of a less active member's son and last week he had invited us to come back.

We showed up last night and he was super awesome! We taught the

restoration and he gave us presents! Who does that? They were in gift

bags and there was one for each of us and the member that came with

us. They were selfie sticks:P then he gave us each a pastry. It was a

good day.

And today, I'm talking to y'all, so all in all a good day.

I love y'all and hope you are doing well! I know that this is the

season of miracles and as we open our mouths the Lord will fill them

and we will be able to be his tools in bringing the children of God

closer to His love. This week, we were just going to leave José to his

skateboarding, but we stopped and talked to him instead. Because of

that, we are now teaching him the gospel. We wouldn't have found

Joseph if the name Joseph hadn't been stuck in Sister Plumb's head. We

wouldn't be teaching him if we hadn't shared our message despite the

fact that we had been looking for someone else. I know that in our

lives as we have the faith that God has placed people in our path so

that we can touch their lives, we will find those who are being

prepared to receive the gospel. Every member a missionary!

Sister Zollinger and Sister Plumb