It's December Already?!?

 Hola mi querido amigos y familia :D This week was seriously SO GOOD so lets get to it! Im going to write about the week backwards (keew eht tuoba) now that thats out of the way (hopefully someone gets the dad joke) my week was great! To start, Sunday was so good! 

 Sun- was probably one of the most spiritual sundays of my life! We had 3 people come to church and testimony meeting was sooo rad!! Right when the bishop turned the time over to the congregation to bear their testimonies like 15 people automatically stood up and walked to the pulpit! The whole meeting people were waiting to bear their testimonies and the meeting went 20 min over because so many people were waiting, eager to share their testimonies. It was one of those meetings where the spirit was so strong you could literally feeel it in the air if that makes sense haha. It was awesome! It takes courage to share your testimony, but it brings so much light to other people. I invite you to share your testimony this week whether its on Instagram with light the world, or to a random person who at work or school! I promise you the more you share your testimony, the better you will understand Gods love for you and want to share that love and light with others! Anyways church was great and I felt spiritually filled this fast sunday  

To make sunday even better, the christmas devotional from the first presidency was SO good! If you didnt get the chance to watch it (alone or with your fam) I invite you to watch it! I watched it alone in English (bless up) and it really put the christmas spirit into motion for me, and made me feel so extremely grateful for my savior Jesus Christ. He came down from a throne, the right hand of God, to the most humble circumstances (in a legit manger) to be rejected, scourged, and crucified FOR YOU because he loves YOU! He KNOWS you. He wants whats BEST for you. He knows exactly what you need in this moment to make you a little bit more of what HE knows you can BECOME. He is a GIFT for all of us and I hope this christmas season (and always) you guys can feel of his love for you, and recognize He is the most important gift, in this season and our lives!

The rest of this week was also SO good- one of my fav weeks of my mission. This week my goal was to just live in the present and enjoy every second. I struggle sometimes looking forward (maybe a little too much to pday) wishing away my time or looking back about things in the past that I wish I had done different... WELL this week I changed my mindset and wanted to just look for the little good things in every day and stay in the moment no matter how things went. Im happy to report that this week looking back on the days I can only see good things, the week flew by, and I had so many cool experiences! A few good things this week-

We had a bunch of great lessons, got to know a bunch of ward members, had tonss of service opportunities, I got to help people with english (thats been a great door for finding people to teach actually), had exchanges w hna refugio and learned a lot, laughed the hardest I think I've ever laughed on the phone w my mom, listened to english christmas music in the stores wahoo, grew my relationships w my district, the hermanas we live w and my comp this week (I have the coolest friends and comp here haha) and idk this week was just SO good! A bunch of days this week at the end of the day I felt exausted from hard work and I felt overwhelmed with peace and emotion bc I felt Gods love so strong! Gods work is moving along and I'm glad to be a part of it! 

Also I forgot to mention, Diego's on date for baptism Mario and Hector are reading and praying ab the BoM (so please keep them in your prayers) and GODS SO GOOD if youve forgotten :)) 

Love and miss you all! Its kinda wierd I thought Id miss home more this holiday season, but I'm SO happy where I'm at!! If you want to enjoy something for me heres some selfish things I miss a little, please enjoy doing these things and dont take them for granteddd

-walk bare feet on carpet (miss that stuff)

-give your family a biggg hug and just chill with them (friends are cool but c'mon family is better) 

-take your dog on a walk and give them a treat

-enjoy a jazz game with your gma 

-eat chick fil a w lotsss of sauce (or barrys for the real ones)

-listen to christmas music in your car and sing as loud as you can

-watch the cheesy christmas movies (theyre good even if you deny it)

-freeze (enjoy snow and the cold) and cuddle up w a warm sweater or hoodie and burn your tongue on some coco

-go to the arc and grind watching the snow fall outside 

-enjoy the laughter of friends and family

Anyways love you all and I hope you are having the best time of the year! This is probably a stressful week for a lot of you with finals or a busy work schedule before christmas, but take the time to enjoy yourself, your family and friends and most importantly remember christ- the real meaning of christmas- and show your gratitude through service and prayer!!

-hna Stone

Pics 

-exchanges w refugio (we helped organize old records for a member and found some beatles:) 

-the best call of my life w my mom 

-squishing in a car w the hermanas 

-got the mexican version of a ding dong for my dad :)

-the sun is bright and shining allll the time 

- we found a hugeee tiangues and it was a bomb sunset (x2 blessed)

-pizza night

-burgers for estradas bday w the APs, ZL, DL y my comp!