1. We went to Music and the Spoken Word on Sunday! It was so good, it was also the last performance in the Tabernacle until the beginning of January. With all the people that come to Temple Square and with how busy the Christmas season is, Music and the Spoken Word gets moved to the Conference Center for December. It was so amazing, they sang two of my favorites - I Feel My Saviors Love, and Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing. And I saw a friend from my study abroad there! So that was fun too!
2. Christmas Assignments - wow they're crazy. It's been a little weird though, the Square has been pretty busy, but no where near as packed as it was the first day or the second. We think it's because it's still November and people don't have their full time "Christmas" on yet, we think it will start to get busier pretty soon. My favorite assignment is definitely GP, it's a video presentation called God's Plan for His Family that you see after you go the Christus, and it's all about the Family Proclamation to the World and about how our Heavenly Father expects us to work together in families to come back to live with Him again. My other favorite assignment is just being at the Christus statue itself, or pulling people into one of the Theaters to watch one of the videos. Christmas assignments are so fun!
3. Our investigators are all doing really well, we have a lot of "Dry Mormons" or people that really should be baptized members because they're more active than most of the ward. We're really hopeful that they all get baptized this month. We really think it could happen, we'll just be praying a lot haha. Mo is one of my favorite people, he's super sweet and is currently making the Muslim to Mormon jump. He loves to talk to us about how amazing it is to now know that Jesus Christ is His Savior, and that there is someone who loves Him so much. He keeps all of his commitments and he's seriously the golden of the goldens. He's also really funny, because we met him through mormon.org chat, he knows our first names. With time he's realized that we go by Sister, and has started calling us Sister Courtney and Sister Dominik. It's really funny, we love him.
4. Christmas Scarves! We have scarves that all the Sisters wear to help us and security find each other. It's fun, we get quite a few comments and questions about why we're all matching though. Sadly, there is no religious significance to all of us wearing the same scarf. But people ask.
5. I really want to just bear my testimony to all of you about the reality of the love of our Savior and of our Heavenly Father. They know us perfectly. There are so many times in my life when now looking back I can really see how I was guided to be where I am today. I am so grateful for the opportunity I have to serve the Lord on this mission, it's such a special privilege to get to represent our Savior for this short time in my life. It's already been 100 days! A couple hundred more and they'll make me take my name tag off - but I don't have to think about that yet. I still have a couple hundred more days ;) In all seriousness though, it's really a short time that I'm here on this mission and a short time for all of us to be here on this Earth. We are so lucky to get to be able to represent our Savior and help those around us come to a knowledge of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon and of the divine love our God has for us. I love my Savior, and I love being one of His missionaries.
I love you all and hope you have a great week!!! Also! If you aren't familiar with the Light the World campaign, go watch the video on my Facebook (English or Spanish) and then click on the calendar link! Light the World is great way for us to give service to others in preparation for the Christmas season!
--Sister Black
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