Livin' the Life in Oregon

Hello, hello!

How is everything going? Anything new with work? That’s fun that you all got together for Danny's birthday! Wish I was eating some of that Oreo ice cream :)

This week wasn't super eventful! New Years Eve we had to be in at 7:00 so we made cookies that night!  The yummy salted caramel ones you sent me! During the day on New Years we went over to a members home and there were some less actives there as well.  We made pupusas with them. They are a yummy food that they make in El Salvador. They weren't super hard to make either. We talked about making goals centered around Christ with the less active family.

We visited Javier and Adrianna but her brother that is interested was at work every time that we visited them and Javier is in Mexico for a couple weeks. They didn't come to church because Adriana said she only wants to go if her whole family comes :( one day!

Maria had a friend pass away this last week so as a catholic thing they go for a week of mourning. So we weren't able to teach her. We will go back later this week when her mourning is finished and teach her the plan of salvation :)

Now that our ward is at 9 we wake up at 5:30 on Sunday’s for ward council, party! We take turns going into ward council since there are so many of us missionaries in the ward so I went in from our companionship on Sunday. It went super well. I was super nervous because they tend to make fun of new missionaries Spanish.  But they didn't!  I said the things I wanted to say and they understood! My Spanish improves a little every day so I am grateful for that!

We spent a few hours on Sunday tracting going door to door trying to find new investigators because we are in need for people to teach!  That is going to be one of our main focuses this week to find more people!  Overall the work is coming along!

Have a great week! Love you!

Hermana Gifford

​Here's the beautiful cookies haha!