Luis and Anna are progressing!

hey family! MERRY CHRISTMAS! i´m so so so grateful i get to be on a mission this time of year. i don´t think christmas will be the same after the mission. i feel like i´m a lot closer to my Savior and my Heavenly Father this year. the material things just really don´t matter. i know i´m giving the people here in chile the best gift they can receive here on earth...and it´s a gift that can change their lives. there´s NOTHING of greater value. let us all be grateful for the gift that we have in our lives...the gift of knowing we have a Father in heaven who loves us so much that He sent His son to be our Savior so that we can return to live with Him someday. when He came, there was no room for Him in the inn, but i hope  there is room for Him in our hearts this season and always.

so remember luis and anna? yeah they started progressing A TON last week. it was so fun to see...and then guess what happened? they moved. we were really REALLY sad! we didn´t even get to say goodbye either...but i know they will keep progressing and one day have the gospel together.

this last week we found a lady named paula that´s just super sweet! i love her so much! she´s had a pretty rough life...it´s been hard to get her to open up. pray for her! she came to a relief society activity we had on saturday and she really enjoyed it! the sisters were super great with her too! we could hardly talk to her because all the members were. we are excited to work with her.

on thursday we had a zone activity for christmas! it was lots of fun! we went into the busy part of the city and sang christmas hymns for like 2 hours! it was super fun. this week our district (which is us, the zone leaders and district leaders) are going CAROLING! i´m super excited!! i just love the christmas hymns!

so we´ve started having ward counsel every week. its been good but there are always a lot of leaders missing. yesterday the bishop starting yelling at everyone because the ward is doing nothing to help us with missionary work...so that was a little rough. all i know is that when we´re upset or angry or even stressed out it´s almost impossible to have the spirit...and without the spirit, the work of salvation doesn´t happen.

anways, i´m REALLY excited to see you all this week!! i love you all so much!!

merry christmas! hermana steele