December 22, 2014: Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas!! Hope you are all doing well! The Christmas spirit (Aka the spirit of Christ) has been going around here in Surrey and its been awesome! 

This week Noheel had his baptismal interviews and he is all clear to baptized on the 27th! Noheel is awesome! And so cute how he wants to serve God and keep his commandments so faithfully. After we taught the Law of Chastity he asked if it was okay to hug his mom.... Haha we were like "Yes, please hug your mom!" and clarified things more. It was pretty funny. :) But we went over his service and he wanted us to do a musical number... Well me and sister McKee dont have the best voices around... So we were looking around the ward for a violin for Sister McKee to play. Turns out one of our member's son is a concert violinist and had an old-cheap one that Sister McKee can borrow! Blessings! Too bad we don't have a concert cellist in the ward...

We have another investigator named Janet. She is only like 22 but has 3 kids!! Which are all not fully in her custody... But she has a desire to be baptized! We threw out her coffee and tea and had a hot chocolate party with her. And she has quite smoking! But there was a baptism in the other ward we really wanted to to come too. But things came up and she would have been really late taking the bus and we tried so hard to find member who could drive her over... But we couldn't find anyone willing.. But she took a taxi even though she doesn't have a lot of money! So that was awesome! Unfortunately so wasn't feeling good so she didn't make it to church... So we will have to move her baptismal date back a bit. But she is awesome! 

Yesterday was an awesome day! It was one of those days where we didn't have anything planned... But one of our investigators, Curtis, works with a recent convert who has become less active since I have been here in Surrey. The recent convert has been having a rough time and asked us to stop coming over like a month ago. Which is sad because her kids are getting ready for baptism. they are just waiting for their dad's heart to be soften to let them be baptized. But our investigator, Curtis, got a ride from her to church! And she let us come over after so we had an unplanned lesson with her and her kids! The yeaterday, We were dropping off Christmas cards for the families in the ward and we were dropped one off to Sister Tanner, who lives with her inactive son and his nonmember wife. Her son and daughter-in-law haven't been open in the past but they let us in and we shared a message. They were even engaged in the lesson. It was awesome! We talked about Christmas and about Christ. The spirit of Christ is awesome! We could really see the spirit working in them., And they fed us dinner! So it showed that they liked us! So it was another awesome unplanned lesson. Blessings! 

Its been awesome here in Surrey! We are so happy for Noheel! Its been a while since someone has been baptized in the ward. What an amazing gift to give the Savior this Christmas. I hope you are all doing well. Thank you so much for the love and support!! Merry Christmas!!!! 

Love,

Sister Lofthouse 

We love cats. 'nough said.

A recent convert in the ward, Teri, saw these Lofthouse cookies and had to buy them... Unfortunately they were not regular Lofthouse cookies and were not very good. Stick with the classic.