Christmas is Coming

We made gingerbread houses at the senior couple’s home. We bought already put together ones and just decorated them but it was fun. She made the best one, but I didn't get a picture of it.

After decorating and having dinner, we went to see the family we've been teaching. I didn't think they had been praying because we had trouble seeing them all week since inviting them to pray together—but they have been! They said they can really feel the difference it's made and feel the peace it brings. We read Enos with them, and invited them to read every day and they said they would. :]

We got a referral from someone in Oakland via text to bring a Spanish Book of Mormon and a Joy to the World DVD to a woman. We found out that the woman didn’t speak much English and we didn’t speak much Spanish, but we tried. She was very kind and invited us in. Although her husband belongs to another church, her sister's family is all members in California and she wants to come to church. My planner is in Spanish because we didn't have another English one—ha, ha. Mind you, our conversation was mostly in Spanish with a lot of gestures and hand motions, but it was a good lesson and she invited us back. She said her arms were open to us. :]  Then we helped at the Relief Society dinner. It was great!

On Wednesday, we went with the senior couple to an investigator’s home to help her quit smoking. There's this cool stop smoking program that involves 15 steps for 7 days. It includes a lot of cinnamon flavored things because food causes people to want to smoke but if you finish every meal with brushing your teeth and cinnamon mouth wash it confuses the heck out of your mouth so you don't have a desire to smoke. She slipped the first night, but she started over the next day and she's been going strong!

We had fun buying colorful Christmas sweaters at the thrift store for our "Ugly Christmas Sweater" contest. And I won!! Also, I found out that I'll stay in Dodge for another month, so I'm glad I'll be here for the holidays, although when January rolls around, I'll be ready to get to know a new area of Kansas. Unfortunately, my companion has been ill, but hopefully, she'll feel better soon.

That's it from Kansas!