Spanish Land

Family and friends!

Hey y'all! It's your girl here in Washington again! This week flew by so here it is:

Monday: Nothing too exciting. We had some good lessons that night but that was pretty much it.

Tuesday: We had a ton of lessons! We met with some of our friends and those lessons went pretty well. They are both part of a religion that is really open to learning about other faiths so it's kind of hard to teach them. But then we met with some awesome members later that night.

Us and the Hermanas

Wednesday: We had district council and it was way fun! Most of us went to a pizza place after. It's just so fun being with other missionaries. After district council we had a lesson with Sis Davis and when we were leaving, our friend Renee knocked on the door! She was having a piano lesson with Sis Davis which was pretty neat. Then later that night we had a lesson with Renee and it went so well! We talked about the Atonement and Faith in Jesus Christ. In the middle of the lesson, I asked her how she was feeling right then and she said she just felt so calm. Usually she says she feels overwhelmed so that was super awesome! She's just killin it! Then we exchanged with the Hermanas and I headed off to Spanish Land with Hermana Penrod!

In Spanish Land with Hermana Penrod

Thursday: EXCHANGE! It was so awesome! I was able to meet some of the branch members and man these people are so nice and loving and just always want to help. I got to see a whole other side to the mission and it was amazing. I also learned how to pray in Spanish and then Hermana Penrod had me pray over our dinner....it was really rough haha. Oh and I got to go to Costco for dinner! I was so pumped! One of my favorite places, just saying. But I had so much fun and I learned a lot from Hermana Penrod.

COSTCO!!!

Friday: We went to the zoo and helped them with some things. No snake attacks or wolf encounters this time. Later that day, we had an awesome lesson with our friend Lee! He asked us at the beginning of our lesson what is a good day to get baptized! We were like "okay then!" Haha! That night we helped at a Winter Wonderland Walk thing that the town does at Washington Park. It's an activity where different organizations set up booths in the campsites and people just walk around and take pictures. Well, one of our wards had a booth with a sleigh and a snow machine and man people went crazy for it! There were so many people wanting to get their picture taken in the sleigh. So we took pictures of people for 3 hrs. It was pretty fun, but pretty cold.

The Sleigh

Saturday: We had another Christmas breakfast for our other ward and that was really fun. After that we just did our studies and weekly planning and then helped at the Winter Wonderland Walk again. We layered up this time!

Sunday: We only had one friend at church but, that's better than none! Sis VanDenakker gave a super awesome talk in the Mt. Erie ward. We then had a bunch of meetings after church and then went to a members home for dinner. You should have seen this member's house though!! It was crazy! She had so many Christmas decorations it was insane! She was showing us stuff for a half hour and it was only some stuff! It was pretty crazy!

Well that was pretty much the week! I hope you all had the best week! A scripture that I have really been thinking about this week is Isaiah 41:10
"Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness".
I love this because there really is nothing to fear because the Lord is with us. If we put our trust in Him there is nothing to fear because He knows all and He will be there to pick us up when we fall. Well, I love you all and hope you have the best week! And Merry Christmas!!

Kia Kaha,
Sister Twede

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