Ilumina El Mundo!

December already!

Another good week. On Saturday night, we had a Spanish Christmas Devotional concert in San Diego. My companion and I went and sung in a choir with tons of other missionaries. It was a lot of fun, I got to see a ton of missionaries who I served with before. 

We got a free Christmas tree from the thrift store we volunteer at (also where the lightsaber pictures were taken haha). Christmas is in the air down here! There's no snow or anything, but when you remember the reason for the season it feels very Christmasy. The church has been doing a really cool #LightTheWorld campaign on social media this year. It's a really uplifting way to spread joy online, I'd recommend checking it out if you haven't already seen any of the posts! Just search the hash tag. For yesterday's Light the World prompt, I shared a picture of our family cutting down our own Christmas tree. Albert, one of the recent converts here (who I gave my tie to a few weeks ago) replied to it and said "wow enserio amigo?!" He thought it was just crazy, so that was pretty funny.

I have 4 Christmas ties, and I've decided I'm going to wear only those until Christmas. 

The transfer ends next week, so I could get shipped somewhere else a week from today, or I could stay and finish Elder Jezik's training. Not sure yet!

Here's an excerpt from Jesus the Christ, a book written by an Apostle. He is talking about a woman sick with disease who had heard of Christ's healing powers. She believed that if she touched His robe, she would be healed. She did, and she was!

"True, her faith had already been in part rewarded, but of greater worth to her than the physical cure of illness would be the assurance that the divine Healer had granted the desire of her heart, and that the faith she had manifested was accepted by Him."

How cool is that? 

Have a good week! 

Elder Pettit