HELLO! DECEMBER 3, 2018

Hello!

Only a few more weeks until I get to talk to you guys! I can't wait! I miss you guys a lot! I just have the best family!! :)

On Tuesday and Wednesday, it snowed like crazy! On Wednesday we got a call from our Zone Leader and he told us to not go out that afternoon unless we had to. We didnt have anything scheduled until the evening so we stayed in our apartment until then! It was a long day Haha we wrote on Pass Along cards and made "Light the World" things while watching Meet the Mormons and Finding Faith in Christ. It was probably good that we stayed in for our safety anyway, they are good about plowing the main roads but every other road was awful. Good thing Sis Paskett is from Utah and knows how to drive in the snow

We moved our District council to Thursday and that was great as always.

Mike is having a hard time quitting smoking. He's cut down a ton but hasn't quit quite yet. He wants to move his baptism date back. The Elders Quorum President gave him a blessing yesterday at church and afterwards he said. "That was awesome!" And had a big smile on his face! And we hardly ever see him smile! So that was good. He's so cool. We really hope he can quit soon! Please pray for him.

Thursday night we went to a Relief Society activity. It was cute. We hoped some women we were teaching would come, as they said they would, but none of them showed up. Bummer. 

We had good lessons with Ian this week. He is excited to be baptized on Saturday! He has his interview with my 

District Leader, Elder Call, on Tuesday and then we are good! We are excited for him!

We did some tracting this week but didn't really find anyone. We met this cool lady who seemed really promising, we talked with her for a long time and left her with a Book of Mormon. We set up to come back yesterday afternoon but she didnt answer the door. We later got a text from her, in all caps, very upset that the book we gave her was not the exact same as the Bible and that she did not want to see us again. We had explained that the BoM was not the Bible but apparently she didn't get it. So we will not be going over there again...

Oh and yesterday we locked ourselves out of our apartment. And, therefore, our car as well. We tried to break in but to no avail lol. We had to call and wait a while for somebody from the management to come unlock it and then we had to pay them $25! It stunk. We were an hour late to our dinner appointment, we tried to just say we would come another time but they insisted we still came. So we did, they had already finished eating lol it was awkward but they were a super duper nice family. The dad is in the Stake Presidency too! So anyway, yeah that was wild. 

Saturday was the Day of Service. We just cleaned the church building lol. It was good to support the ward and eat donuts too!

Aleksey, the cute old Russian man, won't accept the Book of Mormon either. He believes so strongly in the Bible which is awesome but he says it just can't compare with it and he won't believe it. He loves visiting with us though apparently. Idk what we will do about him. We tried to teach Plan of Salvation or Gospel of Jesus Christ but he won't let us move on from the BoM lol he is funny.

We drive past this cute chocolate store almost every day and last Monday we decided to go in! It smelled just of chocolate in there and it was heavenly! And we bought cute little boxes of chocolate and it was delicious!! Really good quality chocolate too! Kind of expensive though, so that will probs be my only trip there haha :)

I decided to read all of Pres Nelson's conference talks since becoming an apostle and one he gave in 1990 was about the name of the church! It was very interesting to read, seeing his focus lately and his talk this conference!

We also have exchanges this week, 2 days and we are blitzing our area which means I am leading out the area for 2 days! Yikes! Pray for me.

Ah it's snowing again!! And we dont have anything scheduled for tonight - no one has gotten back to us about coming over lol so looks like we are tracting in the snow tonight!

I love you all SO MUCH! I hope everything is going well. I hope to hear from ya this week! Happy December!! :) Have a great week! 

Love, 

Sister Bakes 🎄

5500 Copper Dr apt 201 Erie, PA 16509