A Winter Wonderland

Hello everyone!

I hope you have all had a good week! It has been great here as well! The weather was nice the beginning of the week and then the snow decided to come. We woke up on Friday to a beautiful winter wonderland outside! Luckily the roads weren't bad so we were still able to go to zone meeting. It snowed that whole day and has been snowing on and off since then. It is cold...but I am coping well. I mean, snow isn't really anything new...I have lived in Utah my whole life.

This week started off great with us having a lesson with our new investigators, Mitch and Kourtney. They were former investigators that we contacted last week on our exchanges. We talked a lot about the Book of Mormon and how we came to know that it is true. They had a lot of questions and Mitch wanted proof that the Nephites and Lamanites actually lived here. We testified of the holy Ghost telling us the truth and the spirit was definitely there. Kourtney said that she doesn't know if it is true or if she will be able to know as much as we do. She mentioned how our faces light up when we talk about it! I think her realizing that made her be able to see how important this book really is. We are meeting with them again tonight. There is so much potential there, I just hope they can continue to feel that spirit!

We worked a lot with less-actives again this week. Most of these people had such a strong testimony of the gospel at one point. It is so sad to see how Satan can worm his way into people's hearts and make them forget or deny the truth! There are a ton of less-actives here, so there is plenty of work to do! We have noticed that something that helps them invite us in is to have a plate of cookies in your hand for them! We took some cookies to this in-active sister and was not going to let us in. She looked annoyed that we had come by...and then we told her we brought her some cookies! She invited us in to chat for a couple minutes...an hour later we were leaving! She is going to another church right now and doesn't really think she has a testimony. She doesn't think she will ever come back to church but doesn't want her name taken off because she says "stranger things have happened." Moral of the story, cookies work!

We had a cool experience at church yesterday! We were going to class when the Elders came up to us and told us that a non-member was at church! So we gathered up some people to come to the Gospel Principles class. Him and his wife are looking for a church for them and their family to go to and his wife sent him to check us out. He stayed for all 3 hours. He seemed pretty interested. He said he wasn't ready for missionaries yet but the Elders gave him a Restoration pamphlet and their phone number. I think he will be back!

Well, that's about all for this week! I hope you have a wonderful week and that as Christmas grows closer, remember the reason we celebrate Christmas! Try your very best to serve as many people as the Lord puts in your path this week! Like it says in Mosiah 2:17, "when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God."

Love you all!!

-Sister London