Staying in San Fernando

Christmas week was good for visiting, but slow for lessons. We have started teaching the law of the fast again, and have asked the members to pray and fast for someone to come to mind that we could teach. We also want to start house meetings, where the members invite friends and neighbors over and we share a message or a video and have refreshments. We hope this will be a good way to share the gospel with more people.

One of our investigators will be getting baptized on January the 18th! We are so excited for her. She truly is amazing and so prepared to hear and accept this gospel. I know that the gospel will bless her life tremendously, as it has mine! I am so excited for her!

We got our transfer assignments on Friday and transfers are this Wednesday, but Sister Herrick and I weren't effected. I already love our new senior couple, the Batemans. They are from Levan, Utah, I wonder if Grandpa knows them. They are really sweet. We helped them clean when they moved in to their apartment, so last night they had us over for dinner to repay us for our help. It was good to have an American home-cooked meal...other than turkey and ham that is ;) 

I hope you all had a great Christmas and a wonderful New Year!

Love ya lots!
Sister Bratt

The Joys of Christmas

We are really looking forward to talking to our families tomorrow! How blessed we are to be able to not just call, but to video chat as well! We will be meeting for a Christmas meal and taking turns talking to our families at home. We are so blessed to have the truths of the gospel in our lives! What a joy to be able to share those truths with others! I hope everyone is having a joyous Christmas season!

Love,
Kelsie

The Message of the Restoration - One of the greatest gifts we can give!

Are you enjoying your Christmas break yet? I know it has started here, so now more people are home during the day, hopefully that will help us to meet more people who will listen to the message of the Restoration. The gospel truly is one of the greatest gifts we can give to our friends and family for Christmas. It is the only thing that will bring us true and eternal happiness. That sounds like a great idea that the missionaries are doing in your area! We will have to try something like that here to get the members involved. 

Our new senior couple is moving in this week. We are excited to meet them and to work with them. 

We have a small, foot tall, Charlie Brown Christmas tree in our apartment that our investigator gave us. We cut out some paper snow flakes for it and added on the ornaments that we made yesterday when we helped in primary. They were little kits that they had for the kids to make and there were extra, so we each got one. It is made of red and green foam with a place to write the year and a place in the middle where we made a little finger-print reindeer. They're cute. 

Hope you are enjoying the Christmas Season!

I love ya lots, 

Sister Bratt  

                                                              Christmas Message - Christmas Treats

Serving brings the Christmas Spirit

We had the opportunity to do some service this week for a couple of investigators that helped to put me in the Christmas spirit. We scraped paint off of a wall so that they could repaint it as well as helping another lady prepare things for a kids Christmas party she put on for less-fortunate children.

Our investigators who have baptism dates are doing amazingly well. They were both at church this Sunday. One of them already wants to join the choir and asked the relief society president if she could help with the newsletter because she is good with graphics. We love her so much and can't wait for her to be baptized.

We had a fantastic ward Christmas Party on Saturday that had a great turn out. There were about 150 people total, more than the bishop says he has ever seen in that building. Everyone seemed to have a great time; there was just enough food, the program was fun, and the kids got to see Santa. For the program, each group (relief society, elders quorum, yw, primary, seminary, ysa, etc.) did a little presentation. Sister Herrick and I sang with the yw and the relief society, as well as the choir at the end for the nativity skit. It was a fun night. The primary was really cute. They acted out the Christmas Carol, and did an amazing job. Also, a little boy about 2 years old sang a song called "put Jesus in your Christmas" and "We wish you a merry Christmas." He was SUPER cute!

I love you all and hope you have a great week! 

Sister Bratt

Happy December!!!!

Happy December!!!! I am adjusting well to Trinidad. We are still working with our amazing investigator who has a baptism date for the 28th of December. We also have the husband of a member in the ward who we are working with. He has been working with the missionaries for a while now, but is finally close to baptism. His date is the 28th as well. He is determined to be baptized by the end of the year. One of the elders' investigators was just baptized with her 9 year old son on Saturday after being taught for many years. It strengthened my testimony of never giving up on people, and trusting in the Lord's timing. We may not be the one to baptize the people we teach, but we are still making a difference.

I love you all!

Have a great December!

Sister Bratt

Thanksgiving was wonderful!! We were spoiled!!