Dec 15, 2014

Dear Family,

oi! what a week, we found two new investigators this week, and one of them is an artist, so i am just absolutely in love with his home! he is building a kayak right in the middle of his LIVING ROOM!! and he has tons of paintings on his walls, other than his amazing home he is a pretty amazing person. a few months ago, like when we first got here we contacted him on the street gave him a book of Mormon and heard nothing more from him, until one of our investigators, grant, who we are no longer meeting with on a weekly basis referred us to his neighbor the craigs. so we went over and what do ya know?? its the man we met on the street!! he has been reading the book of Mormon and he had a lot of questions, the amazing part is he already received some anti material and strait up told us he had but that he was willing to put that aside and still listen to what we have to say, and that was only the first visit him! we see him again this week. i am so excited!!

i am excited for this week period. mostly because we had a great experience with our branch setting up and spending time speaking to people and singing for people at the Nativity. it was such a great experience to get to know them through sharing with the community the birth of the savior and we had around 28 different cultures expressed through these nativity's it was absolutely incredible. and mom everyone loved the wassil, at one point we ran out so everyone said "sister hadley we need you!!!" and i said "me?" and they "said yes! we need you to make more wassil." i said "i dont know how to do that!", their response was, "its your moms recipe!"

so i went and called the woman that i wrote it down for because she was at home resting from her chemo and i got the recipe and made it but boy oh boy did they ever love that stuff.

this week we have our Christmas zone conference actually tonight we travel into Toronto area which is about a 3 hour drive ya... but itl be worth the drive i love Christmas zone conference!! this is my companions last zone conference and tradition is to have all the missionaries that will leave before the next zone conference to have them bear their testimony about their mission and i love listening to them, there have been a few that have helped me make changes in my mission. i am excited to listen to what she has to say, also my last companion will be doing the same thing, and few other people i know. 

 we have a bunch of appointments set up with members and less active members this week and we have our Christmas dinner party, as to which we have invited the whole community too..not really.. but just about. so we will be really busy constantly learning how to get to know serve with and find through the members of our branch. 

here are some pictures from last week because i forgot my cord last week.

love sister hadley

ps mom i made cinnamon applesauce (definitely not the same as yours) with potatoe pancakes (also not the same as yours) and it was so good, i dont know if  i said but we have been trying to get to know each other so we did our favorite food and this is one of mine!