Miss Moe's Missionary Memoirs: FELIZ NAVIDAD y AÑO NUEVO!!

Querido Familia y amigos,

I HOPE YOU ALL HAD THE MOST FELIZ NAVIDAD EVER!!!! cause i sure did. i never thought i would love talking to my family SO MUCH! i jsut ate up every second. and 40 minutes IS NOT ENOUGH! man.... did you all know i have the greatest family in the whole world ever? cause i dooooo...... my parents, my siblings, my step siblings, THEY ARE ALL AWESOME! i talked to taylor and tyson, who i havent talked to IN FOREVER! and dad and heidi, AND MIKE!!! that was dads christmas gift to me. i have an awesome dad and an awesomely supportive boy friend YES he is STILL WAITING! and we are going strong! go team mike and moe. and i talked to my dear sweet beautiful mother. she is still so white as ever. i love her. i love it when she says HHHH ermana gonales. emphasis on the h. which in spanish is siletn. heheheeh funny huh. she is so cute. i love her. and i met the whole farm and the little girls intrudiced me to all of their chickens, ducks, bunnies and dogs. wow. will i be coming home to utah or to wyoming coutry farmland..... not sure..... but i love them all. my familiy is doing so well. made me cry to hear their voices and to share my experiences. BEST CHRISTMAS EVER! 4

also, earlier that same day, we MCd our planned talent show for the mission. and it was A SUCCESS!!!! see blog for pix. (and videos of plaza de armas) and it was so funny. the talent show was very entertaining. full of a variety of talent and skits and the spirit of christmas. hermana downs and i did not put our selves in cause everyone already knows we like to sing. so we were wrapping up the show and everyone startedn chanting "¡canta! ¡cantan!"..... so we did our Plaza de armas song, venid y adoremos for them all. it was cool . i felt pretty special. and loved. i love music! i love to sing! happy sister gonzales. after we had a very spiritual christmas devotional about the savior, and who he is and what he did for us. and a testimony meeting. of course, i was an emotional sister missionary ,crying out of gratitude for my savior and i shared my testimony. this has to be the most spiritual christmas i have ever had (next to savior of the world the musical) i have learned so much, felt so much, and IT IS THE BEST FEELING EVER!

All the missionaries got gifts from president and his wife. get this.... greatest gift EVER! we all got temple clothing envelopes with the Trujillo temple sewn into it. its soooo classy and something we will use the rest of our lives! so cool! very creative president. props.....

it was a beautiful christmas. full of peruvian traditions, music, and the spirit.

on a more spiritual note:

i did some study about the Holy Spirit of Promise. this to me, is like as deep of doctorine as Kolob.... ill never understand the concept of Kolob....cant handle it. but, after me deep studying and praying, i decided that i would not get too worried about it. it is a desire of my heart and so i will show it through my actions. i will live in a way that i can always be worthy of the spirit. hermana marler once told me, never do anything with out first having the spirit. she said that is how you raise kids. i decided, since i dont have kids, i will apply it to my companions and inecstigators. and i feel it working. i have been repenting DAILY. not just when i need something, not just when i feel like my sins have been adding up, but DAILY and there is a difference. i am more patient, i am sympathetic, and it is like a breath of fresh air. yes i still have my moments, but i am learning to control them. like you said, life in a way that i can be at peace. that if i died today, i would die and be ok cause i have been acting in faith, and repenting of my sins. and doing my absolute best. cause that is when we use the atonement. and the atonement is real.

this sunday we were asked to speak in church, i chose the topic Perseverar haste el TEMPLO (persevere until the temple) for our ward. and i did some study, but as i was sitting listenting to hna downs talk about the atonement, i felt like i need my topic to go in a different direction. and thats exactly what happened. i feel really good about what i shared for the ward. about the spirit of temple work that is in elbosque. the ancestors are preparing the members and our invesetigators so that in 2015 their temple work can be DONE! and we all need to tune into that spirit that is here. we need to repent, use the atonemet and prepare to go the temple.
sometimes, i just LOVE being a missionary. its so AWESOME!

our area is doing good. we are doing a lot of finding now. our ward is great! we set goals for 2014 in consejo del barrio for our next temple sealings and members to prepare for the temple. im excited! the spirit is strong AND IT IS HERE!

thats the latest and greatest. had the most spiritual christmas EVER! i feel like i have grown more in the last 7 months spiritually than i have in my whole life. i love being a missionary.

con amor