FELIZ AñO!

It is 2016 and what a great year it is to be a missionary!

We found a bottle of sparkling cider in,our apartment! That's what I call luck. 

Caroling with the district! I'm the one behind the tree.

My goals for this year are,

1. Finish the Book of Mormon in Spanish 4 times.

2. Become even more focused and completely lose myself in the work. ( I think I'm doing pretty well, but there is always room for improvement.

3. Learn to love and earn the trust of members.

Things are going great! We are going to dinners with members now and gaining their trust. Honestly as missionaries its not the food that matters, but getting to know the members! They dont mind feeding us, we just have to ask them at chruch to sign up on the calendar! Then they do it.

Templo!

We went to the temple today and it was the best as usual. It was my companions first time going to the San Diego temple and it was POURING RAIN, so the pictures werent very good. Its okay though, a picture is a picture. I also got really scared when we were driving back because I was driving (and you know how I am), but we made it back to Chula Vista in safety!

Car selfie
Because we lack pictures 

This past week was a pretty good one. We had some really funny situations and a lot of elderly men were trying to flirt with me. It was funny. We have some investigators that are preparing for baptism that will hopefully get baptized soon. We have had some really spiritual lessons where they just really opened up to us. 

I have a sad story. We have this investigator who told us she was going to get married. Well we went to see her after the wedding was supposed to be and she told us that the church is no longer a church. I think she forgot to book the place and when they went, they found out it wasnt a church anymore. I thought that was some crazy story you don't hear anywhere else but on a mission.

Somone called el niño (look it up on google) and he came to town. It has been raining so hard. 

The other morning I didn't want to ruin my shoes because it was raining pretty hard so we made a little obstacle course where we ran from the bedroom out to the porch and back again. It finally stopped raining so we got to go on our run.

I read presidents email that our mission goal for this year is 1,000 convert baptisms! It is definitely going to be a good year because goals are inspired. I said a little prayer becuase president told us to tell him our own personal goal for the year and I told him 20 (Thats 2 baptisms a month, not shabby.) It is the greatest to be able to be a part of this mission and to push ourselves to talk to everyone. This week for district meeting we talked about street contacts and this really helped me and my companion! We have been talking with so many people and it gets us some great stories as well that I just do not have time to type. But it has been great to just plant a seed with people in the street and share just a little bit of the gospel with them. 

I have just seen the change in myself and it has been amazing to see the change in my companion! I feel very privleged to be able to train another missionary and to see her grow. I have been able to see so many miracles these past few weeks as well. 

Well, my time is running out! Keep on keeping on and don't forget to pray!

Love,

Hermana Lapp