I get an extra week on my mission

This week was a really fun one!

First off, some news...so the MTC has made it so that missionaries who will serve in their native language will now spend 3 weeks in the MTC instead of 2 weeks like it has been done recently. Which means, missionaries will be coming into the field a week later than planned. This will effect our mission in the month of March, so my last transfer is now going to be 7 weeks instead of 6. So basically, I get an extra week on my mission. I AM PUMPED. I was so excited when Sister Heap and the Assistants let me know. So my new return date is March 30th, I'm pretty sure about that. I'm not too sure how that is all going to line up with Lindsey having a baby on April 2nd, but I'm sure we'll make it work! 

Annnyway, we had a much better week! We were seriously all over the place. Tuesday we had Zone Training in Borger, which is always the best! I think I did alright in my instruction. It kinda came out really harsh, whoops! Who knew ditsy me could throw down the hammer. But I ended it with love, so hopefully it was alright! Then I went straight from there up to Dalhart with Sister Moore for exchanges! That was such a fun exchange! I met sister Moore exactly a year ago when we were serving in neighboring towns in New Mexico. And it was so amazing to see how both of us had changed so much. We also got to go knocking on a bunch of mansions! That was intimidating, but we actually met some really cool people. Who knew there were millionaires in little Dalhart, TX of about 10,000 people...

When I got back to Pampa, we had plans to stop by really quick by an elderly woman who we do service for from our ward before going to an appointment. We walked up and she said, "hey sisters! I'm going visiting teaching, y'all comin'?" So, my lovely companions decided to send me with her on splits to do some visiting teaching while they went to the lesson. I was a little worried about it, with her being so old, but man that was one of the funnest hours of my mission! We went to visit a woman in the ward who is 92. I laughed the entire way through. They have the funniest and most amazing stories. And I learned so much. By the time my companions came back to get me, they were so jealous they had missed out!

I am loving celebrating the Christmas season here in Pampa. The lights are slowly being put up, and we even have a little (like really little) tree now! We were able to watch the Christmas devotional last night at our bishop's home with some recent converts and investigators. It was such a successful night! Elder Bednar's talk about the light at Christmas time was amazing. Christ truly is our light and our life. If you didn't get a chance to hear it, go look it up! It will change the way you look at Christmas! And speaking of, we have spent lots of time using the new Christmas initiative. It is such a wonderful and easy way to do missionary work. You can look it up at christmas.mormon.org.

I love you all and hope you have an amazing week and wonderful Christmas season!

Love,

Hermana Peck