Aren't you so impressed with my language skills? I'm getting pretty good at Canadian too A.
But how was your Thanksgiving?!?! Are you 89lbs heavier? Haha its funny because Thanksgiving wasn't actually that bad for us. We only had one dinner appointment to worry about, and we didn't even eat that much, but now that its over we are getting everyone's leftover pie... So we have like 3 different pies in our fridge and we don't know what to do with it... except eat it for every meal...
And before we ate
dinner on Thanksgiving we had a big Turkey Bowl with some of the zones
from our mission. (For the nerds like me who didn't know what that was, a
Turkey Bowl is a football game on Thanksgiving.) The zone leaders did a
draft and Sister Roundy and I were put on different teams... which was
sad. But what was even more sad was that my team didn't win ANY
games!!!! We split the football field in half shortways and two teams
played against each other on each side. And out of the 5 matches that we
played my team lost all of them hahaha, but its ok, because we had fun
anyways... and I got to repeatedly let my anger out by pushing elders to
the ground when they went after our quarterback... Just kidding. But I
did accidentally backhand an elder in the face REALLY hard... I don't
think it did anything, but I felt bad because he was on my team... and
it probably hurt... I guess I was just missing Ethan right then.... Then
after we were done playing football we played soccer. I don't really
know how to play soccer, but Sister Roundy does and she is super good,
so she has been teaching me some cool moves during our morning workouts.
So I am pretty much going to be a professional soccer player when I get
home...
Well for the rest of this week we have been
visiting a lot of less actives. We have seen some miracles come of it,
but it is still a little bummy because we don't have that many
investigators at the moment. We have dropped a lot who aren't
progressing and then baptized the others, so now it is like we are
starting all over from when we got here. But we did teach the super cool
family we found last week! Their names are Steve and Samantha, and they
have three cute little boys! Their youngest is three, but he reminds me
so much of Johnny when he was younger! He even has his front tooth
missing!
Can I brag about our recent converts for a
minute though??? Chris and Alexis are progressing in the gospel by LEAPS
and BOUNDS!!! It is so amazing to see them still accepting everything
and flourishing in the church! Chris called us randomly on Thanksgiving
and said, " So I have been being obedient for a while, and I can't see
anything in the next few days that would prevent me from continuing to
be obedient, so what's the next step?" WHAT?!?!?! CHRIS IS SO AWESOME!
He continued by asking what else there was to work on in the gospel, and
we told him that the next step for him would be to get the priesthood
and then get some names to go to the temple with! and guess what? He had
his priesthood interview with bishop yesterday and is planning on
getting it this week! We also started on his family history work, and
have already been able to connect a line in! He was soooo excited and
called his grandmother the next day to get more information to put into
his family tree. Then he also called us yesterday to tell us a miracle
that happened with his mom, (because even though we told him to invite
her, apparently she had no idea that he had gotten baptized and was a
little upset about it) and then said that he was pulling into the gas
station to get some food. We were like "Chris! Why are you buying food
on Sunday!!" And he said "What?? What do you mean why am I buying food
on Sunday?! I want some snacks to keep me awake in the car!" Apparently
he had forgotten that it was part of keeping the Sabbath day holy to
prepare before hand so we don't have to make purchases on Sunday. But
GUESS WHAT?!?! The second we explained it to him, he said he was pulling
out of the gas station!!! He didn't even hesitate or get mad or
anything!!! He just got back on the freeway and kept driving!!!
WHAT?!?!? He is probably going to be a prophet someday. Just kidding but
he is still awesome.
Then guess what Alexis did?!
She came to church yesterday to the first two hours even though she was
ordered by a doctor to stay on bedrest until her surgery! She came all
the way to church to take the sacrament and stay for as long as she
could! She is so impressive!!!!! I mean when I was home, sometimes I
would stay home from church just because I had a slight tingle in my
throat and a pain in my head. This woman has herniated discs in her
lower back that she has to get surgery to help and has a billion other
health issues and she STILL makes it to church! She is way cooler than
you are!!! Just kidding. You are all very cool. And I love you all. I am
so proud of her though. I pray we can all follow these wonderful
examples of souls that have truly been converted to the Lord! ...However
Alexis did end up going to the ER last night.... so maybe don't push
yourself too hard... haha but at least she got the SACRAMENT!!!!
Ok,
juan more miracle. We went over to visit a family that we hadn't seen
in a while, but we wanted to see her before we considered dropping her
completely. She invited us right in and we started teaching her the plan
of Salvation. Well, shortly after the lesson began, her husband who she
had previously said wasn't religious at all, came in and sat down. So
we began to include him in the lesson as well, and the spirit was SOOO
strong! As we went through, they kept saying "that makes so much sense!
I've always wondered about that!" Then close to the end, we asked the
husband if Jesus Christ were standing in the room right then, what would
he ask Him. He said that he would ask Christ if he would ever see his
parents again. We asked him to pray about that tonight and ask that
question in his prayer and he said he would! Then we were able to
testify to him as representatives of Jesus Christ Himself, that he would
see his parents again! It was such an incredible moment! I am so
thankful for the Holy Ghost!!!!
Well,
everyone says that it is usually a lot colder in winter by now, but for
the most part the weather has actually stayed fairly nice for it almost
being December! *she types as she knocks on the wooden table* We haven't
gotten any snow yet, and it feels like it is just starting to get cold,
so hopefully that means that Heavenly Father is having mercy on me and
won't turn me into a popsicle quite yet...
I love you all so mucho!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Thank you so much for your prayers because Heaven knows I need
themmmmm!!!!!! Please don't EVER give the missionaries pie. They are fat
enough as it is... unless you move to somewhere like Russia... Then you
can probably give them pie. How do you say pie in Russian?
MUAH!!!! 
Love,
Sister Baine
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