wow, another week has flown by and now we´re almost in december! Christmas is definately in the air here! This week was a good one :)

We finally had a zone conference with President Torgan. They came out with a new curriculum for all the missions in September, I think, and in the new curriculum we only have interviews and zone conference every three months, instead of every transfer. So it feels like forever since we had had a zone conference with President. He talked about how we can open our eyes (spiritually of course) and gave us a step by step process of conversion- for us and also for our inveestigators. Desire, which comes from our testimony, leads to obedience. From that comes faith and repentance- feeling the remorse of sin and changing. As we make and keep convenants, we have the company of the spirit, which gives us spiritual power. As we act with power and open our hearts we will be able to open our eyes as well, and be truly converted. It was really interesting everything that we talked about, and the scriptures he shared. I don´t have my notes with me to give the scriptural references, but you can study them out and find them :) But the conference was good.

On Thursday was Thanksgiving! Our ward is all brasileiros that don´t do anything for thanksgiving, so we didn´t have any invites to eat with members. So, us and the elders in our ward had our own thanksgiving lunch. They actually made (and bought) almost everything, which was really impressive! We had chicken, mashed potatoes, stuffing (it was real homemade stuffing!) and rolls...not too shabby! It was fun to celebrate, even if it was just us. I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving as well.

On Saturday we had a baptism- Maria José, who´s an older Portuguesa. She started to learn about the church a year ago, but decided not to be baptised. The irmãs had just started teaching her again right before I got here. Whats neat is that one of the elders who started teaching her a year ago returned to this area for his last transfer right now before he goes home. So he got to baptize her. She was really excited when he returned, and it is so neat to see that really each of us has a purpose in being where we are! We´re teaching another friend of her´s that will be baptized this next Saturday, and also her cousin. She´s really great :) The baptism was really special and had a sweet spirit.

So, those are the highlights of the week...I can´t believe that we´re almost in December, before you know it Christmas will have already passed! So we just have to take advantage of every day that we have :D Hope you all have a great week and remember I love you!

Love,

Irmã Geiger

ps- to any who are planning to send packages\cards or something- the mission christmas party is on December 21 and is when we will get all the stuff that is sent to the mission office. It normally takes 8-10 days for things to get here, so it would be a good idea to send items in the next two weeks :D