WEEK 14: Achievement Unlocked: Sploosh

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 Whats up everyone! 

I hope you all are having a good week especially because its finally December! I got my christmas package on friday and it had some christmas decorations in it so our house is starting to look a lot more festive lol. 
This week we had 2 baptisms! I had the opportunity to baptize one of the people and I cannot describe the absolute joy and peace I could feel afterwards. It is super awesome to see people that you have been teaching accept the invitation to be baptized. We should have another 3 baptisms this saturday as well!
This week has been the start of all of us decorating for christmas. We bought a christmas tree and I got a package from my family with some decorations in it too which is awesome. 
This week I also hit 100 days in the mission! its so crazy how fast the time has gone by. I also have like 600 more days left in the mission lol. BUT I know it will go by fast as well, and im trying to live in the moment every day. 
When my time at the MTC ended we took a language test and I got a 3.8. If you get a 7 you are fluent and the highest score you can get is a 10. I retook the language test after 2 months and I got a 5.5! which is super super good. I almost increased my score by 2 points and my spanish has started getting a lot better lately and its easy to explain things in spanish. Its still tough understanding people though. I can kind of follow along but sometimes I zone out or I just can't understand lol. 
Spiritual thought: Mosiah 2:22 
"And behold, all that he requires of you is to keep his commandments; and he has promised you that if ye would keep his commandments ye should prosper in the land; and he never doth vary from that which he hath said; therefore, if ye do keep his commandments he doth bless you and prosper you"
I love this scripture because I know god wants to help us in our lives. But, in order for him to help us we need to put in some work. All he asked is that we follow his commandments and we can prosper in all things, Physical and mental things. 
I love you all so much! make sure to join the photo album. (By the way, every missionarys google photo album says that is has 1700 TB of storage out of 100 TB of storage so until that gets fixed i cant add anything to my google album)












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