Alexa Jean Crofts: Week 15: Dona Ana Ward, Las Cruces, NM

Merry Christmas!!!

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!!!

This week started off good. We attended the baptism of Philip in a different ward, but I have met him before so it was awesome. After he was baptized he said he wanted to do it again and when he was confirmed he said he saw his dad smiling at him, it was so cute

We had some lessons with Gabriel this week. He has been taught all three beginning lessons and believes it all basically, the problem is meeting with him in person, sometimes that's the struggle of teaching people from Facebook.

Facebook is great, but sometimes there are A LOT of interesting people on there. 😶 It gets a bit exhausting haha.

We had a good lesson with Jose this week. We keep asking him to pray about baptism, and he never does. I believe it's because he is scared of the answer he is going to get. I know God will tell him he needs to be baptized.

We also met with Laura and Evan. It went with the usual confusing questions, but then I read a story from the Bible and bore my testimony and there was the spirit there. It was awesome, and I love feeling the spirit so much in lessons. I don't always feel it, and I've realized that sometimes it comes in waves. I want to keep working to feeling it more.

We went over to Sijas and she has a day old lamb! It's so cute and she has another one that's older.

We also finally passed off Josh to Elders. I think they might be able to help him better and plus he is closer to them.

We had our ward party Friday and we invited a lot of people like we always do to events and church. Jose and Ramon came, and also this less active family and this other less active. It was awesome. We also got to meet Santa, which was pretty uneventful haha

Then this Sunday we sang at church again! Two Sundays in a row. One of our friends Wesley, decided to call us the singing sisters. Haha it went well.

Jose came and Leo and his two daughters came! It was awesome and at the end he said that this was the place he needed to be. His daughters also made fast friends in the ward.

Laura came to church to watch us sing! It was so sweet of her, and we are going to go support her at her church Friday. It was a great Sunday, and we even got more people to watch zoom too. Even though some of the Sunday school lessons can be interesting, I'm glad that people feel the spirit and some people's weird comments go over their head. It's a blessing.

Oh yeah, so after the Christmas party they had 6 big pans of enchiladas, beans, and rice. Wee have so much left we need to finish off--they are really good. I have realized how enchiladas should taste now, New Mexico knows how to make them.

Also, I'm red, if any of you know what that means haha

Oh yeah, I promise this is the last thing, we went shopping with a member this week to buy stuff for our friends who weren't going to have any Christmas gifts. It was super fun and people in our ward are so generous.

Feliz Navidad! I love you all, and more importantly Jesus Christ loves you. Because he loves you, we can all change, our past doesn't need to define us and our future can hold infinite potential. I'm so grateful for our personal savior. He is love.

Merry Christmas!

Love Sister Crofts