Well, this week has been the craziest, most eventful week of my mission! It was so wonderful to witness 2 baptisms, 1 confirmation, and 5 recent converts attend the temple! Add on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and whoa. The work is on fire. Plus we have achieved our mission goal of getting 100 recent converts to the temple this month with their own family names!
So Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were the greatest! We had a baptism on both days and we went out to a specialty pizza place with the Williams (a senior couple serving in our ward) on Christmas Eve. I loved it. PIZZA. Afterwards they drove us around town to drop off gifts in the pouring rain to our investigators. Bless their hearts. On Christmas Day we had dinner with the Benjamins and their friends. I got to play Christmas Carols on their super nice grand piano and everyone sang along. It reminded me a lot of home. :) Later we visited a lady in our ward who lives in a nursing home, and I'm glad we did because she was pretty lonely. So yeah, all in all, it was the best Christmas of my life :) Skyping home was so great and I love you all. Missionary Christmases are the best Christmases.
To prepare for the temple trip on the 27th we helped multiple people get on FamilySearch and build their family tree. On Friday we went over to the DeLaRosa's house and helped Sister DeLaRosa find names to bring to the temple the next day. We started from scratch (her and her husband were the ONLY names when we started) and we started inputting her parents' names and so forth. When we inputted one of her grandfather's names we found a link! And all of a sudden her tree BLEW UP. There were names all the way back to the 1800s all ready to be taken to the temple! And even more amazingly, we found that some of the ordinances were already done. Someone in her family is doing the work in the Dominican Republic. She was so excited and started yelling at her mom (who speaks NO English) "Mama! We have family Mormona!" Haha. It was such a great experience and the Spirit of Elijah was VERY alive and well. I hope to invite the grandma to take the discussions in Spanish next time we are over there.
The next day at the temple was absolutely wonderful. I got to see Hermana Heileson (my last companion) along with Rodrigo and some other peeps from Bridgeport. I just love them so much. Our recent converts had such a great experience and many of them were in tears throughout the day. Since the Boston Temple doesn't usually get 300 poeple in the baptistry in 5 hours the laundry was SUPER backed up, so we got to serve in the Laundry Room for like 4 hours. It was the BEST. :) Haha, I'm serious. Plus, I learned the celestial way to fold towels ;)
Anyways, gear up for more miracles in the upcoming months because the MBM is gonna baptize THOUSANDS! Our goal is to baptize 500 people as a mission in the first 6 months of 2015. Then if they all take multiple family names to the temple we will baptized thousands :) Sister Batschi and I are so stoked and we would love your support and prayers. Have a great week and know that we are working HARD.
I love you all! If you haven't thought about a New Years Resolution, now would be a good time to think of your "weapons of rebellion" that you need to bury like the Anti-Nephi-Lehies. Have a great week! Happy New Year!
Con Amor,
Hermana Frei
Pic 1: Glamour Shots on our walk from the bus stop to the temple. Working that public transportation like you wouldn't believe
Pic 2: The DeLaRosa's family tree. Loco.
Pic 3: Baptizing thousands. It's a lifestyle.
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