Merry Christmas!

Okay we had the best week ever! And we have already decided we are going to have the best transfer ever!! I love my companion so much, she is just as great as I remember actually even better. We had Paula's Baptism and the Mission Christmas Party already and there is still: actual Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, New Years, MLC, going to the temple with one of her recent converts for his endownment who I knew too because we taught him in Pampa, and get this, Elder Bednar is coming on January 15th (a surprise visit, and the whole mission is coming together all 250 missionaries, that has never happened), and so much more awesome stuff! I am dying I am so excited!!! Also we laugh the whole time and she loves to work soooo hard too! We have already been seeing miracles like crazy! I wanna stay with her forever!

Paula's baptism was amazing! Paula is amazing! She says she just feels so full now, and that before her and Larry had good lives but now they are so much better ( I said I can totally relate because that's how I feel about this whole mission thing :) ) They are the sweetest and the cutest couple! She says she can't believe the changes in Larry and I can't either (the man wore slacks to her baptism and he only wears jeans to everything!!!) They love church and Jesus and the scriptures and learning. Man I just love them + their 11 dogs sooo much!! Well maybe not their dogs as much but it's a package deal. Which funny story the other day we were teaching them with Bro. Hoffman and he said "What is the two most precious things that animals give us?" And I answered, "Well Milk!" Yeah his answers were, "loyalty and love" So I'm thinking I was kind of on a different page but it was hilarious!!We are still teaching Bernie, I don't know if I have actually mentioned him, he has a ton of medical and legal problems that need solving. But we bring the Gospel which truely is the solution to anything! But anyway I just wanted to throw it out there that he has 2 wolves, not dogs but wolves in his front yard! That we have to walk past every time, yeah I have to breathe really slowly every time before we begin the walk. Also we teach him in his underwear hahah because he can't put on clothes and he is a talker! I have now heard of how President Bush and Bin Laden have been family friends for 3 generations and they used to hang out in California and all of the conspiracy theories about 9/11 but I still love Bernie!!! He's a hoot! We had the Christmas Party yesterday The Jingle Jam 2014 with the whole north part of the mission (150 missionaries) and it was sooo funn!! Basically we watched a whole bunch of talents, ate some great food, then watched the Saratov Approach!!! Listened to President Heap (which is my favorite part of everything) and got our Christmas gifts. It was the best!!! Reunion with all of my past companions! So much laughter and oh just the best times! I decided I wanna be a missionary next Christmas too because it's just that fun!! Welp things are amazing here! Merry Christmas!!!

xoxo

Hna. Slade