Good Tidings Of GREAT Joy!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!! 


(Prepare yourselves, this ones kinda long, lol) 


☆☆ And the angel said unto them, FEAR NOT: for, behold, I bring you GOOD tidings of GREAT JOY!! which shall be to ALL people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a SAVIOUR which is Christ the Lord ☆☆
(Luke 2:10-11, emphasis added) 


Oh my goodness golly gee, what a time to be alive! Christmas as a missionary is the BEST! But also really hard too. That's a given. But people are so kind to us. It's been a busy week and a half. We had zone conference which was AMAZING. It was like a spiritual talent show (which sounds kinda lame, lol) but it was actually so so good. By far my favorite zone conference. There were lots of really good musical numbers, my zone is super talented ❤ I did a painting of the stars/christmas star, cuz I pretty much got my testimony from the stars. How could there NOT be a God when there are things so beautiful and breathtaking like the stars. And how could He NOT love us?? Oh my goodness, my heart is always full whenever I look at the stars and I just know that Heavenly Father loves me. He didn't have to make everything beautiful, but He did ❤ 
Anyway, this week has been up and down. Yesterday we stopped by the house of one (of the two) people we are teaching to give her and her family a Christmas gift (thanks for the stockings, mama) and she sent her daughter to answer the door basically to say she couldn't talk to us, its Christmas eve... it was awkward and really sad cuz we kinda decided then that we needed to drop her. Which is heartbreaking cuz we know the gospel can give her the peace and security she is looking for, and it's so hard to have the thing she needs and to not be able to give it to her. Anyway so Rob is the only person we're teaching now. GO ROB!!!! Hes awesome. But the stakes are high. Our last lesson with him was fantastic! We taught the restoration, and he used to be totally against Joseph Smith but he said he'll pray about it and give it a chance! It's crazy how far hes come. And he told us he knows hes being pulled to our church, that God is leading him here, and he said "it's either cuz I need to join your church, or you need to join my church." Robbbbbb. Nooooo. So yeah our next lesson with him will be the determining factor on if we need to drop him. So fingers crossed!! We also had our ward christmas program!! And it was so good!!!! Rob brought his whole family!!! And he bonded with bishop a lot. And then and then and THEN, we went christmas caroling last night and we stopped at Bishops house, and he showed us a text from Rob saying how much Rob was grateful he was led to our church, and just all these blessings that have come, and it was so cool!!!!!! Me and sister G definitely needed that... yesterday was rough, lol. 


Anyway JESUS WAS BORN TODAY!!!! (Not really but you know) and what a blessing it is to share this good new with people! 


Matt 1:23
"Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us." 


GOD WITH US. Is that not the absolute COOLEST, most sweetest thing you've ever heard ❤❤❤❤❤ God literally came down to earth, "descended from his throne divine" to be with us, to atone for us, to run to us, to LOVE us!! And he is still with us today. Alma says it perfectly, 


"Who could have supposed that our God would have been so merciful as to have snatched us from our awful, sinful, and polluted state?" 


Anyway, I just love Jesus and Heavenly Father. They're the best. 
And THANK YOU TO ALL YOU AMAZING PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT AND LOVE ME!!!!!! I ADORE YOU GUYS!!!!! ❤❤❤ 


Love Syd 


Pics not in order
Weekly cat photo 
Funny things from the thrift store we volunteer at
My painting 
Presents for our people ❤
The rest are just various pictures from the week





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