(sorry it's late, Charissa's mom got overwhelmed this week)

From Jan. 5, 2015
This week was fantastic! Thanks to everyone who wrote me for my birthday! It made my day today! I love you all so much! I hope this blog helps you feel a part of the spirit I get to feel while I'm here serving. It's the best feeling in the world. I wish everyone could feel it! And they can! If we follow the commandments we have a promise from God that we will feel the comfort of the spirit!

This week was awesome! We met with a couple really great less active members, I hope that they'll begin to feel the blessings of the gospel again by participating! 

Since it was New Years it was kind of hard to meet with people but it was a lot of fun with the few people we did meet with. 

We had a really great district meeting this week about the power the Book of Mormon has in conversion, it's so key and so wonderfully true!! I love that book so much. It helps me feel the spirit and know that we really have the priesthood on the earth!

So basically even though this week was slow my birthday did not disappoint, mainly because I have the best companion in the world but... also because the members here are honestly AMAZING! So in the morning I received a lot of phone calls from friends from the MTC and from President and Sister Jackson, it was so great to hear from all of them. Then we had a medio dia meal appointment with a member named Annie, she made an awesome cheesecake and we had a ton of fun! Then we had a lesson with Monica about how we have a living prophet. Then we had a lesson with our recent convert (the baptism from December) and she bought me a cake!!!!! Oh man it was the sweetest thing ever! Then we had an appointment fall through so we gua gua contacted for a bit.

This week church was really good we had a wonderful fast and testimony meeting and I really felt the spirit and learned a lot. 

This week is "Reyes" aka the day that only Spain celebrates when the 3 wise men come to bring presents... it's a bigger deal than papa noel. So it might be a couple days of no appointments and no people on the streets again but that's okay. I love this work!

I hope you all are doing well and staying safe and warm! 

Love 

Hermana West