I cannot even believe it is already Christmas week. The Christmas season has flown by this year, but I have truly loved every second of it! And I cannot wait for all the fun things planned this week. We will be well taken care of here in Pampa:) We have 2 dinners Christmas eve and also breakfast, lunch, and dinner on Christmas day with so many of my favorite people! Plus, this is probably my favorite part of the entire thing...our investigator asked us to come over on Christmas and share a message with her entire family that she hasn't really talked to in 5 years! She came to church on Sunday and felt like she needed to work on her family relationships and felt like we should come and help with it! Christmas miracles are real. This gospel does so many wonderful things, but one of the best parts is it's ability to heal families through the Atoning sacrifice of our Savior, Jesus Christ. And we get to take a part of that on the day we celebrate His coming into the world! It is truly magical and I am so excited.
This week was so amazing too. We taught like 10 times the amount of lessons we were teaching at the beginning of the transfer. And we are finding such amazing people to teach! Including this one man named Scott. He was a former investigator that we met while out knocking. He is so excited to learn more, he ended up setting a baptismal date! That itself was a HUGE miracle...one of our sisters was asking questions about inviting people to be baptized, and it was exactly what we needed to study to really prepare Scott to accept the invitation. Tricia is still doing well. She is really progressing and is determined to get her answer! Just pray that she comes to church!! Also, our investigator that got out of jail and we found miraculously is now off the grid again, so that's sad, but our ward mission leader saw him yesterday still in Pampa, so I have faith that we will find him again! I seriously just love Pampa so much. We are so blessed, I am learning so much, and I am growing through the challenge of teaching these very faithful people. I love being an instrument to the Lord in bringing all His children to the fulness of the gospel and to the most happiness we can ever imagine!
Yesterday, we were able to go to our mission Christmas party, which was so much fun! The entire party was wonderful! We had a talent show of funny stuff to start and I loved hanging out with so many of the missionaries that I love! After was a lunch and then we had a more spiritual talent show. Our mission is seriously so talented!! I loved it. And I decided that I really need to develop some perform-able talents. But that wasn't even the best part. At the end, we watched this old movie called It's A Wonderful Life. It felt really weird to watch a real movie...but President had such a wonderful purpose in showing that one. Basically, the movie is all about this man discovering how important and wonderful his life really is. I loved what President Heap shared, so I wanted to share it with y'all! Our lives are truly wonderful. We so often think that what we are doing means nothing, but according to the world's view, the life of Jesus Christ wasn't much. Yet, His life influenced the life all of us individually and eternally. I cannot even imagine life without Him. And it is the same for all of us! Our lives are worth so much. And I know that life would be so much less wonderful without each of you!
I love you all and hope you have a very merry Christmas! Have a marvelous week and I am so pumped to talk with all the family this Friday!
Love y'all!
Hermana Peck
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