Merry Christmas!!!

Hello All!

It Christmas "Adam"! Then tomorrow is Christmas Eve, and then Wednesday it's CHRISTMAS!!!

I love Christmas.

This has been a CRAZY week. Crazy as in busy. We had the opportunity to go to the temple (SO nice) and we had an all-mission conference where Alex Boye came! He is amazing speaker and singer and it was really great to hear and see!

We also had two Christmas parties (since we work with a ward and a branch) that we just HAD to go to! It was actually super nice because members brought their friends and we got to meet a lot of new people. And eat a lot of good food :)

We have had very little time for actual work (aka lessons with people) this week. I love the stuff we have been doing (temple and parties and everything) but at the same time I miss working with people! Missionary work has turned out to be a lot more fun than I thought it would be. Let me work!!

We have a lot of appointments on the 24th and 25th and so we will hopefully be very busy! The ward has really reached out to us. We have members giving us food, gifts, and letting us call our families in their homes. I love this area. I can't believe how nice people are!!!

Highlight of the week: a ward member gave us food for breakfast this entire week! I have NEVER eaten this good on the mission! Don't even know what to do with myself.

I love this time of the year. Our focus as missionaries is to really think of Christ this month. It's hard to describe what Christ means to me, but I do want to say that I know that Christ is my Savior, and that is why I am out here. Nothing else would get me to serve for 18 months besides a solid and deep knowledge that Jesus Christ atoned for me, loves me, and that I can return to him. That is what drives me to do what I do. I cannot hide what I know and I want to share it!

Have a wonderful Christmas! Choose the right and know what you stand for!

Love,

Hermana Reed