Christmas, best present ever, teaching, more to come in 2014...

Well...this is it.... the last time I will talk to you guys this year.... :O 2013 has come to an end.... time for 2014!! Crazy!!! I can't believe it! Where has the year gone?!?! Well it's been a really awesome year with lots of crazy adventures that's for sure!! And more to come in 2014!! So get ready for an amazing year!! It's been a great week! Christmas of course!! :D I just love Christmas and it was super weird to not be home with all of you but it was still super fun! It was definitely a different Christmas...but one that I will never forget! I am so grateful I was able to see and talk to all of you for a little bit! :) That was the best!!! It's such a great time of year to be a missionary! What better way to spend Christmas than representing my Savior Jesus Christ and being able to spread the gospel with those that don't have it! And people have been really nice with the holiday season so that has been really helpful too :) 

Monday we had a great pday! I chopped my hair :) well just five inches :) haha so that was exciting! We spent our pday getting haircuts and then a little shopping on Maine Street! We had dinner with some members in the ward...the Bankheads and then we did a fun family home evening with them! We talked about the Christmas story and how there was no room in the inn. We talked about how we need to make room for the Savior in our lives and how we can do that and always remember Him. and then we made gingerbread houses :) it was super fun! Then we went to the Gardners and did the same FHE with them :) so double fun! :) 

Tuesday was Christmas Eve!!! We didn't go to the soup kitchen but I heard it was closed because of all the ice and snow :/ instead we went and had a big Christmas brunch with the elders and a few families in the ward! Then we all went to an old folks home and we sang Christmas carols with them!! It was so fun! :) We didn't really do much after that.. we still did mormon.org time and had some adventures just walking around town! We ended up just having dinner at our house because our plans didn't really work out.. haha long story short but we had a nice french toast dinner together :) then we moved our beds downstairs so that we could sleep by the Christmas tree! We read Luke 2 together even though we've read it a million times already the past couple of weeks :) and then we tried to go to sleep!! but of course Christmas Eve... we couldn't sleep!!!

Wednesday was Christmas!!!! We woke up and opened presents!!!! Then the elders came and picked us up and we all went to the Jones' for breakfast! We had fun spending time with them and then we went to the Hubbards! We watched Mr. Krueger's Christmas and Joy to the World with their little 7 year old Victoria...well mostly we just watched her ride her new hello kitty bike round and round the living room :) haha we had lunch with them and then we went to the Rainey's and got to skype our families!!! That was the greatest!!!! :) :) :) of course that hour went way too fast but it was the greatest hour all day! I loved seeing all your cute smiling faces!! oh technology! isn't it wonderful?! i'm definitely very grateful for it!! :) After that we just visited with the Rainey's for a little while :) then they took us home and we just had a little bit of time to write in our journals...eat chocolate....take funny pictures...just the usual :) it was a great Christmas!

Thursday was a little slow... we had district meeting which was really good! Oh and yes! our district won the 12 days of Christmas challenge!! :) yup we're awesome! :) then it snowed almost all day! But we went tracting anyways! haha :) that was about it that day... just lots of walking...and shoveling :)

Friday we did weekly planning...then we went out to Bowdoin and we were able to see some investigators the Jacksons who we don't see too often because they always cancel on us! They have lots of health problems though...so I was glad we could see them finally :) We contacted some referrals out there and then we came back to Topsham and had a fun dinner with the Smiths and Brother Eldredge!! 

Saturday we had a good lesson with Brother Frost! He's trying to read the scriptures everyday and is finding that he really is coming to understand them better!! it's so awesome to see him improving and coming back to church! He called us a little later that day to tell us thank you for coming over and he was so grateful that we had come over and read the Book of Mormon with him and he just wanted to thank us for helping him to understand it :) Then we went and visited some other less actives :) We saw Sandy and Michael who is progressing very well!! We had a good lesson with him! He is keeping all of his commitments he is reading and praying! He really wanted to come to church but his ride slept in :/ so next week we will definitely get him there!!

Sunday we had church!!! All three hours!!! yay!!! :) The Flaggs made it! Corey was still planning on getting baptized this Saturday but since we haven't been able to get out to see them because of all the snow we had to tell him that we still have a few things to teach him! So it won't be this saturday but it will be soon!!! :) We had a good lesson with Greg yesterday... still trying to help him to have the desire to commit... he can do it... maybe 2014 is his year! i think it is... we'll see! :) 

Well I think that's about it!! I hope that you all have a great rest of 2013!!! I love you all!!! Happy New Year!!! :)

Love,

Sister Tait

Best Christmas present ever!!! :)

The holiday door block :)

here's me and Sister Rainey after skyping with the fam...

Christmas Eve and our french toast dinner

Christmas Day

All snuggled up in our new favorite blankets that my amazing mom made us!! and our cute hats that sister jones made us :)

rudolph the red nosed reindeer!! :) what we did with the rest of our Christmas... :)

Christmas is coming!, more snow & new investigators

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you believe it's really here!!! AHH!!! two more days!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D : D :D :D :D  I'm just a little excited :) Well before I get too carried away let me tell you about our week! Monday night we got to have a fun Christmas dinner with two of the families in our ward and with the elders. It was all fun and decorated and we sang Christmas carols and had hot chocolate and cheesecake :) then we shared a lesson with them from Luke 2... The part that has really stuck out to me this year is Luke 2:9-12 and especially verse 10. I love this part when the angel appears to the shepherds and tells them "Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to ALL people." and just thinking about how it really is for all people. The gospel is for everyone. Our Heavenly Father has a plan for each and every one of us. We have a Savior who was born for you, for me, for everyone! He died for us and he lives and loves us all! I know that this is true! 

After dinner we went to our apartment and we had a little exchange meeting and then I went with Sister Lundahl to Damariscotta and Sister Huefner stayed here with Sister Hoffman! I was a little worried when the member that was driving told me I should probably pack extra just in case because there was MORE snow on the way.... lovely. So I packed extra and we headed to Damariscotta! We had a really good day on Tuesday! The 12 days of Christmas challenge was to contact 5 former investigators! So first we went and saw two of their investigators and had a good lesson with them! It went really well and I was able to have a cool experience listening to the spirit! We were talking and answering some of their questions and a scripture just popped into my head! So I opened up to it and it went perfect! I am so grateful for the spirit! You can definitely tell a difference when the spirit is there or not. I am so grateful for the promptings that I receive and for the good that comes when we act on our promptings! I know that the spirit really does bring all things to our remembrance and as I study each day I am able to come to know the scriptures more and that's how I was able to think of that perfect scripture at the right time! so wonderful :) We were able to contact lots more than 5 of their former investigators and even gained some potential investigators by doing that! Our district still has a perfect score for the 12 days of Christmas and just two days left! umm yeah... we're gonna win :) 

So we went to bed that night watching all the snow fall and thinking that I would probably be staying another night!  When we got up there was a little over a foot of snow! :O I think we're all set now. we don't need anymore!!! But... now it's really true.."the field is WHITE already to harvest..." ;) haha :) So we got ready and did our regular studies and then went out to shovel ourselves out! They postponed district meeting for a little later in the day so that we could make it safely... By 11:30 we got it cleared out and were able to drive to Topsham for district meeting! I was a little disappointed that we had exchanges on Tuesday because we had plans to see Meredith!!! and it was the last time before she goes home for Christmas!! But it's okay... Sister Hoffman and Huefner got to see her and said the lesson went really well! They answered more of her questions and she wants to keep reading! :) They also taught Jessica...who is a new investigator!! We met her street contacting the other night when we were giving out the two bibles! We talked to her and she said she had the missionaries when she was growing up! They were able to stop by and teach her about the restoration and she wants to learn more!! :D Then they also taught John who we met at the soup kitchen a couple of weeks ago! So I came home to two new investigators!! that was pretty great!! :) 

Thursday we had kinda a slow day...we just tried to see some potential investigators... did some tracting...and that was about it! Friday was another slowish day because the challenge was a car fast... So of course the car fast happens on the day that we're supposed to have the car.. haha oh well... so we were walking all day...did some tracting! made rice krispy treats and went caroling to some member's houses :) It was fun! :)

Saturday was a really good day! We got 2 more new investigators!!! We stopped by a potential investigator Shawn that we had tracted into about a month ago. A few weeks ago we stopped by again and he wasn't home but his sister was. So Saturday we stopped by and they were both home!! Shawn is in college and Megan is in high school. He doesn't have a faith in God at all but Megan has a really strong faith in God and has her own beliefs but has been to our church before with some of her friends in the ward! So she actually helped us to answer some of Shawn's questions! It was awesome!! We had a really good lesson with them and we are going back after the holidays!

Sunday we had an ice storm and were worried that church would be canceled but they still had sacrament meeting!!! I'm so glad!! It was so good :) the other meetings were canceled and after church we weren't allowed to drive because it was so icy out! But we had lunch with some members and then around 4 we had to stay in our apartment! We had some time to study I found so many good things!!! ahhh!! i'm running out of time!!!! i have so much more to tell you all!! ahhh!!! well!! i'll have to tell you later!! But John 3:16 is one scripture I've been thinking about! Especially at this Christmas season! God the Father gave His son, and Jesus Christ gave us the Atonement, the greatest of all gifts and all giving. Remember the reason for the season!!! I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!! I love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Sister Tait

uhh yeah... that's our car under all that! i thought i was gonna be stuck in Damariscotta! This happened on exchanges so we almost missed district meeting! but they postponed it and we made it! So it all worked out! just took some time to shovel ourselves out! 

here's sister lundahl and I! shovelin! :D

oh and here's a random pic of sister hoffman and I today! :)

Snow, shoveling, it's beginning to look A LOT like Christmas!!

It's beginning to look A LOT like Christmas!! :D All week everyone was preparing us and telling us to get ready...we're gonna have a wicked snow storm this weekend! So we waited and waited...went to bed Saturday night and woke up to a foot of snow!! and there's more on the way they say... ahhh! haha so we've had some fun in the snow! and have been doing lots of shoveling! 

Yesterday church was cancelled because of the snow so we weren't really even sure what we were supposed to do! haha... there was a baptism still happening so we thought we should probably still go to that and support this family in the ward! So we did our regular morning studies and then we grabbed our shovels and headed out the door! We shoveled one driveway and then after that we decided we should probably start our trek to the church! It's only about two miles from our apartment and we figured we'd just shovel our way there! :) haha... so we got like a fourth of the way there and then Sister Jones called us and asked if we were coming to the baptism and if we needed a ride! So we said we were on our way! :) haha we had heard that if we weren't allowed to drive then we weren't allowed to get rides from members either... (don't worry we've cleared it up now so we will no longer walk to church in a blizzard... :) so she came and picked us up and we went to the baptism! Good thing we made it because none of the four pianists were there so they needed someone to play! So I was glad I could help with that! :) 

Our investigator's baptismal dates are coming up...but we need our investigators to come to church though so they can still happen!!!! kinda hard though when church gets canceled... we'll get them there next week though!! After that the Rainey's took us to their house and we had lunch and coordination meeting! Then we went home and did some shoveling around our neighborhood and that was about it! It was a really weird sunday!! We weren't able to even see most of our investigators this week because we usually see them on Sunday when we have the car...but we couldn't to get out to Lisbon where they all live :/ 

We did see Michael though! On Saturday we went and saw Sandy and Brother Rainey came with us! We weren't sure if we would be able to meet with Michael because earlier in the week Sandy called us and said he had some concerns with some of the things we believe and he didn't want to meet with us again... But we went and talked to Sandy and then we saw him getting his mail and invited him to come in so he did! And we addressed his concerns and hopefully it cleared things up a little bit! He has some things he said he would pray about and he told us he would still come to church! :) So that was really good! We weren't able to see Meredith because she had so much going on with finals and lots of homework.. but we are going to meet with her tomorrow morning before she heads home for the break! She has lots of questions again so it will be really good! 

On Friday we had zone meeting and interviews all day! It was really good! Our zone has three districts in it and we are having a little competition for the 12 days of Christmas! We have different things we are supposed to do everyday and if we do it we get a point for our district... like Friday we had to make one baked good and give it to a member! So we made cookies and gave them to members! the next day we gave out 2 bibles! We were pretty busy all day Saturday and we didn't know if we were gonna get it done... so at 8:00 we went out to Maine street and we found two people and talked to them and gave them the bibles and a Book of Mormon and we got a return appointment! 

Yesterday was give out 3 Christmas dvds so we gave one to the Rainey's neighbor and then took cookies and the dvd to two of our neighbors! It was super great! Today is kinda tricky we have to share 4 messages from Luke 2! We're gonna have to make our way to Maine street so we can spread the Christmas joy to everyone! :) haha so that's been fun! our district is pretty competitive so we're planning to win this...! :)

After interviews we had our ward Christmas party! So that was a lot of fun! We had a nice turkey dinner and there were lots of non members that came! So we talked to lots of people! oh and one of the little boys that we were sitting by told us a good joke so I'll tell you.. What do you call an alligator wearing a vest?? ........... an investigator!!! :D haha! good one huh? haha :) We invited Pat and Ken to the party but they weren't able to come...but they did let us come in and talk to them for a little while the other night and we answered some of their questions about the sacrament and other things about church! It was great! So we've had some really good things happening even though it was kind of a slow week! More good things and miracles to come!!! Hope you all have a great week! Stay warm!!! :) Love you!!! 

Sister Tait

p.s. Here's some pictures of the snow :)

I love being a missionary!!! The church is true!! Expect miracles!!

Ask me how much I love being a missionary... never mind...don't ask..I'm gonna tell you anyways!!!! haha :) Oh my goodness! I LOVE being a missionary!!! :D So it's been another amazing week! Miracles miracles miracles!!! Things are really starting to get going here in Topsham!! :) It's so awesome!!! :) Alrighty so let me tell you all about this wonderful week we had... Monday was p-day! We're trying to do better at doing fun and exciting things..so i'm trying to come up with some good stuff.. haha but it was pretty much a regular pday! But we did go out into the cold and decided to walk Maine street! (We do this like every night - street contacting... but we decided it might be fun to actually go inside the stores! haha) so since I've walked Maine street for six months now we actually went inside the stores for my second time! haha it was quite exciting :) 

Tuesday we went to the soup kitchen... haha oh man that was so great! We walked in there and the volunteers were so cute they were so surprised to see us both there! The old ladies there are so cute and they were so excited when we said we were both staying another six weeks! They said they wanted to write our "head leader" and tell him "thank you thank you thank you" for keeping us! :) haha so we had fun serving at the soup kitchen! then we did some tracting and we had some good success!! We talked to lots of nice people and there were only one or two where they shut the door on us and all the rest they talked to us for a while! we had some good conversations and found a potential investigator! There was one man just standing outside his house smoking but we went and talked to him and he said he would like to hear more and said we could come back! 

Wednesday Sister Smith drives us around and takes us to see people so we went to his house but he said that he had forgotten that we were coming... and he said he was working everyday but he said he wanted to come to church on sunday! So sister smith said that her husband could pick him up! So yesterday Brother Smith went to pick him up but he had to go to work so he wasn't able to come... but then last night we went to the church to go watch the Christmas devotional and guess who was there?! Brother Smith and he was giving Ryan a tour of the church!!! :D So we talked to him for a second and he said he would be at church next week! Hopefully we can teach him sometime this week and he will be a new investigator!! So good things do come from tracting and talking with everyone!!! 

Wednesday was Brother Hersom's funeral... There were so many people there!!! He has a huge family and tons of people that love him! Brother Hersom is such an amazing example he was just always so positive and happy and doing things for others! and always cracking jokes! Once when we went over there he wasn't feeling very well but he still had us come over and visit of course! and you knew he wasn't feeling very good if he didn't comb his hair...haha so once we said to him "Brother Hersom you must not be feeling good you didn't do your hair!" and he said "well it looks just like yours" :) haha it was a really nice funeral though and he loved music so there were three musical numbers! Sister Hoffman and I got really lucky and got to sing "I am a Child of God" in front of hundreds of people... oh man that was rough...I didn't know if I would be able to make it through since apparently my mission is turning me into a cry baby... but we made it through without tears! :) The spirit was so strong there and I am just so grateful for the plan of salvation! I know that families can be together forever and that Brother Hersom is not in pain anymore and that we will see him again! Ahhh!! I love this gospel!!! The church is true!!!! 

So after the funeral Sister Smith took us out to lunch and then that's when we went and saw Ryan! We tried to see a few less actives after that and then we went home for dinner... then we had BOM class and Brother Eldredge was there of course.. and also Sandy came!! She hasn't been in a while so it was so good to see her! I don't think I've talked about her much... she's a recent convert/less active and has been going through some really hard times but things are getting better for her! It was so good that she came and then she shared some exciting news with us! She told us that she met her neighbor that lives above her and was so excited that he has a chihuahua... haha and now their chihuahuas are boyfriend and girlfriend...haha oh goodness...but he noticed that we come over every Saturday and so she was telling him that we're missionaries and what we do and she told him that we could stop by his place if he wanted us to.. So! Saturday (guess i'm skipping to Saturday now...haha) well Saturday was a really good day! It was sister hoffman's 21st birthday so we had to make it good! and it was a quite a success! :) We started off with some tracting...then we went out for lunch, then we headed to Lisbon...and saw a few less actives...so we get to Sandy's house and she lets us in and we're sitting there visiting with her and she tells us how her neighbor Michael said we could stop by after seeing her! So we thought awesome a referral! And then there's a knock at the door... she gets up and opens it and guess who it is?? Michael!! So he comes right in and has a seat and as we pull out our Restoration pamphlets Sandy starts telling all about Joseph Smith and the restoration! haha it was awesome!! :) So we taught him the first lesson..gave him a book of mormon and he said he would read it!.. and.... then we invited him to be baptized and he said yes!!!! he said he wanted to come to church so yesterday he came with Sandy and he was asking lots of questions and it was so great! So we have another baptismal date!!! :D He's preparing for February 1! Soooo awesome!! He is definitely prepared and it's just so cool to see how everything just falls into place and happens how it needs to :) we told him that next week we could talk to him about the plan of salvation and he said "oh that sounds perfect! just what I need! i know there's a purpose and i've been trying to figure that out!" :D 

We also have another new investigator that we met a couple of weeks ago just while walking Maine street and his name is Jason! Last week we were supposed to meet with him but he never showed up... so we got a hold of him on Friday and ended up teaching him that afternoon! He said he would read the Book of Mormon and if he came to know for himself that it was true than he would be baptized! :) he wanted to come to church but didn't make it this week! We are teaching him again this tuesday so maybe next sunday he'll be there! We're gonna have a whole row full of investigators at church!! :) 

This week we weren't able to see Corey but this week for sure!! He's still preparing for January 4! :) And our other miracle...Meredith! We texted her just asking how her thanksgiving was and she said that she has made it through 1 Nephi!! She's busy now with finals but said she'll read more over the break! and then she asked if we could meet with her before the break so this Saturday we're meeting with her!!! :) oh man... what did I tell you.. I'm just gonna expect miracles and they're gonna happen... well they're happening!!! :D Get ready for another week full of miracles! Especially at this Christmas season! I love it!! :) nothing better than going around and spreading what this season's really about!! :) I hope you can all see the miracles that are happening everyday in your own lives and look for those missionary opportunities! Such a good time to spread this joyful message!! I love you all so much!!! 

Love,

Sister Tait

here's what you get in Maine! A Christmas tree made out of lobster traps!!! :)

here's my adorable companion on her birthday!! 21!!! breakfast for dinner is her favorite so i made her a pancake cake for dinner! :) haha

  

The groundhog didn't see his shadow haha...

Well...the groundhog didn't see his shadow...looks like six more weeks in Topsham!!! Crazy crazy!! We waited and waited to get the transfer call... and then nothing! haha I'm staying here another transfer!!! Can you believe it!?!? And can you believe it's December!?!?!?!! I can't! haha! Well let me tell you about this great week... monday was p-day! nothing too exciting... just the usual...shopping, emails, cleaning, writing letters.... then Tuesday we went to the soup kitchen... and we told them all that transfer calls were saturday so we thought we would probably be at transfer meeting so we told them we wouldn't be there this week... and since I have been here for six months we were sure that I was being transferred... so the cute little old ladies at the soup kitchen were all so sad that it was my last day and they made an announcement and told everyone that it was my last week... haha so we're gonna surprise them tomorrow when we're both there! :) yay!!! haha I love serving at the soup kitchen! 

Tuesday we did that, tried to see a few potentials, had mormon.org time, went to ward council, and then did some street contacting! Wednesday we had district meeting, then we met with a less active Brother Frost! He was baptized four years ago but hasn't been coming to church for a while now... we've been meeting with him for a couple of weeks now and just read the Book of Mormon with him, trying to help him to understand it better. He has kind of a crazy work schedule because he works all night and then sleeps during the day usually... he makes doughnuts!! :D His parents used to own Frosty's doughnuts which is the famous delicious doughnut shop here but they sold it and now he just has his own little doughnut place... so it's really great teaching him because we read the Book of Mormon and then eat doughnuts :) but he keeps telling us he doesn't have an excuse but doesn't come to church...but guess what yesterday he came!! So that was a miracle! :) He told us if we prayed hard enough maybe he would come...we told him he should pray hard too... looks like it worked! he came! :) but he only came to sacrament he wouldn't stay for the rest.. he said he didn't promise that so we'll try for next week :) that was super awesome though! 

Then we went and saw Brother Eldredge and decided that that was our for reals last time to go see him regularly. We talked about gratitude and told him how grateful we are for him and that he's come back and how his testimony has grown! It was sad to tell him we couldn't come every week but he said he'll still be at Book of Mormon class! :) Thursday was Thanksgiving!!! We didn't really do much in the morning... we walked outside and it was so quiet!! Nobody was out so there was no one to talk to... haha so we went on a nice walk to see Sister Wallace who was in the hospital! We also got news that Brother Hersom (who is sister wallace's brother and Brother Rainey's dad) passed away Tuesday night :( So sad but we know that he doesn't have to be in pain anymore and he is in a better place! We talked to Sister Wallace about the temple and she said it was so amazing and she is so happy she could go :) Now hopefully we can work with Sister Hersom and help her to get to the temple so she can be sealed to Brother Hersom! It is so sad but I think a lot of good things will also come from it...he has such a big family with lots of non-members and less actives so we will talk to more of them at the funeral this week. I'm grateful that I can be here another transfer and be here for this amazing family that I love so much!! The Hersoms and the Raineys are so amazing!! :) 

So we just visited with Sister Wallace for a while and then after that we walked home...did a few things around our apartment and then headed out to walk over to our Thanksgiving dinner appointment! Good thing we didn't have the car so we got lots of walking in so we could eat lots of delicious food :) We had lots of fun we got to go to the Gardners house and have dinner with their cute family and also the Bankheads! It was a party with 8 adorable little kids :) so that's pretty much all we did! Ate food, played some games with their family and then after that... we did some more walking :) 

Friday was really good! We did our weekly planning and then at 2 we went to Damariscotta for an exchange! Sister Huefner came back with me and we had an exchange full of miracles!! :) I'm really learning that if you expect miracles then they will happen....! We just decided that we were going to have miracles and then hey guess what?! We did! :) so first off we picked up the car from the elders and i got to drive for the second time in forever..haha that was fun and we went and contacted a referral and it was this cute old man and we gave him a book of mormon and he asked how much it was and we told him it was free and he was so happy! We tried to go and see him yesterday and he said he doesn't have time to learn right now and he's not really interested but we told him to just keep the book and read it and we'd stop by again another time... so then we went to dinner at the Johnstons and it was super fun! We read the Book of Mormon with their family they're trying to finish by the end of the year and they're in 3 Nephi! So that was super fun and then we sang all of the Christmas songs in the hymn book and that was so great :) Then after that we stopped by the church to drop off our trash and we were wondering what all the cars were doing there so we went in and it was the stake dance! So we got to talk to some of the youth there and Sister Huefner got to see some young women from her last area that she probably wouldn't have been able to see ever again on her mission so that was a miracle! And we got some delicious cookies.. haha then we went and saw a potential investigator and it was a miracle that she was home and answered her door! We've been trying to contact her forever and she finally was there :) We talked to her for a little bit and then we just did some street contacting but nobody was really out.. it was pretty cold! So then we went to 7 eleven and got some hot chocolate and the cashier saw us and said "Sisters!" like she knew us or something.. haha but we didn't know her and then she said "are you nuns??" and we said nope! we're missionaries!.... she got a piece of paper, wrote her name and then said hot chocolate's on me! and gave us her name and her daughter's name and asked us to remember her in our prayers! so then we gave her our number and a mormon.org card and she said she would definitely check it out! :) So free hot chocolate and a potential!! :) 

Saturday we did some tracting and didn't have much luck but we did talk to some nice people! :) Then we exchanged back then Sister Hoffman and I went and saw some less actives.. then came home for dinner and we went to Orange Leaf to celebrate our 6 month mark since we were so sure I wouldn't be here on the actual day to do it! haha but maybe we'll just have to go again anyways :) Then we did some street contacting and then came home and waited and waited for the phone to ring! and it didn't! no call!! haha 

Sunday we went to church and everyone was so suprised to hear that I'm staying another transfer! :) And both the elders are staying too! Crazy! So it's going to be a transfer full of lots of miracles! That's what i'm gonna expect...so that's what's gonna happen! :) I'm so excited that i'll hopefully be able to be here for Corey's baptism! We went and saw them yesterday and got to help them decorate their Christmas tree and then had a little lesson! We talked about the word of wisdom and he said he would try his hardest to live it! He said the closing prayer and it was so good! He is continuing to progress and you can see his desire! It was so fun to hear them talk about how they told their family at Thanksgiving how he had set a date! So I know that he will continue to prepare! So exciting!! :) 

So there's our week! pretty exciting stuff happening here so i'm so lucky I get to stay!! :) it's gonna be a good transfer! Love you all and hope you have a great week! :)

Love,

Sister Tait

p.s. here's our district! :) and we're all staying together for another transfer!!