Merry Christmas From Florida! A Week of Miracles

This week was crazy! As a missionary you feel every emotion possible 5 times a day. So there is no possible way to generalize a day as a good or bad day. However, we saw lots of miracles this week!

We have this really sweet investigator named Fatima. We invited her to be baptized and she said that is definitely something she wants to do but she wants to wait a little to learn more which is totally natural. I am still way excited. She brought her son and his family as well as her
neighbors to our ward Christmas party. I about fell over when they walked in! Then she told us that she read all of 1 Nephi and loved it!!!!! That's when I started to cry. They all told us they were coming to church on Sunday. Honestly, my lips could not smile any bigger!

The party was a ton of fun! Spanish people are the funnest people in the world. When I say party I literally mean party. There was Spanish dancing and food and Santa clause. Everyone is there
having a ton of fun. The party was still in full swing at 9:00 when we sadly had to leave to be home on time.

Sunday we anxiously waited for our investigators to come to church.  Then we got a text message saying they were at the hospital for an emergency with her daughter-in-law. Crazy stuff!

Saturday we also knocked doors for 4 hours. It was pretty hot so we were very sweaty but tired but the hard work paid off because we found 3 new investigators! One of them is Patricia and her husband is actually a member and served a mission. She has read some of the Book of Mormon and knows a lot about the church. She attends church with her husband but has just never gotten baptized. Well guess what. This Hermana is going to fix that! She is a super sweet woman and wants to go on a temple tour with us!  Hopefully we can get her baptized so they can be sealed as a family.

Thanks for the Christmas package.  I BAWLED as I opened it.  I just cry all the time now!!!!! Remember how I was so not a crier before I left? Well I literally cry all the time. Remember the sloth video with Kristen Bell and how she's says she has a small emotional zone and if she leaves that zone either happy or sad she cries? Yeah. That's me. The elders in the CCM made fun of me because I cried so much. Haha. Trent would be shocked with me because he used to tease me about how I was “heartless" haha. I honestly just felt so much love from home and was so happy. :)

Ok I want to tell you guys the power of social media. We share the churches new Christmas video with everyone that will let us and so many times they say after “oh I saw that on Facebook and wondered what that was about". These are people who don't know about the church but have seen that video! So pretty much I just want to encourage you to continue sharing the gospel through social media. I have seen the impact it has and the people it reaches and it is truly miraculous.

I hope you all have a very merry Christmas this week! If you haven't seen the Churches Christmas video go watch it! Enjoy time with family and remember the reason for the season. I love you all and want to thank you for your support and prayers. :) Merry CHRISTmas!

Love,

Hermana Kent

 

Panda Bear socks my family sent me:)
(My nickname is Panda Bear)

Enjoying my package from home:)

Our little dining area

Hermana Brown in front of our tree

O Tannenbaum

Our front window with a candle my mommy sent me.
Family traditions in Florida!

Hogwarts Castle at Universal.  The most I
will get to see of it on my mission.  Ha Ha:)

Our investigator Fatima (in blue) and her family at the
Ward Christmas Party

Another family from our ward that we visit

The neighbors of one of our investigators pays
for a truck to come blow snow on their yard
every year and they have a party.  So we took
pictures with some of the leftover snow.