It's been an awesome time of year! I LOVE THE HOLIDAYS AS A MISSIONARY!!!! Sooooooooooooooo much fun!! I've grown to really love this area and the people here. I'm starting to understand how haaard it is to leave an area and be transfered to a new one. When you really give it all you've got and serve with your heart it feels like you're being ripped away from home (even though you know that it's right and needs to happen). I LOVE THESE PEOPLE. I can only imagine how hard the end of my mission going to be. I'm soooo grateful for it!

It's been a really great week for our companionship! It's the end of the first six weeks (TIME HAS FLOWN!!)we have together in the training program. We'll for sure have one more transfer together and we're gearing up for it. We've taken the time in our companionship to really reevaluate where we stand. We've set really great goals and found more productive ways to measure our progress than we have been doing. I feel like I'm finally starting to understand how to train! haha. We've kind of taken a just do it approach to training (because that's all I knew to do at that point) and now, after SIX WEEKS, I feel like I fiiiinally have a clearer direction as to how to do things. We've broken things down into specifics and know how we're going to accomplish training and get Sister Wood where she needs to be at the end of the 3 months. And we've really looked at what we need to do to help the people in our are progresss!!! We've looked at our weaknesses and where we're really lacking and we're targeting those areas. All of this has created a great excitement for the new transfer! We have a lot of hope and I KNOW there's going to be A LOT of progression for each of us indiviudally, us as a companionship, and the area!

And shout out to Jennifer Brewer for my amazing package!!! ;) I LOVE YOUUUUUUUUU!!!!!