Fantastimagical News!

Thank you so much for all the support! I received your package and Ludlow and I immediately put up the tree in our room along with the present under it! Yay! I love Christmas! We also put the lights around the apartment along with some other strands of lights and now it's all decked out! That story was also amazing! Thank you Thank you

So this week Ludlow and I did a lot better! We taught about 15 lessons this week, which is more than he has ever taught the last 5 months of his mission! Yeah, we're making progress! Hopefully we can keep this up... last week was exhausting! The weather is getting very BITTER and in Lancaster, people like to refer to it as land-scatter because of how WINDY it is. We have found that any direction that we are riding our bikes the wind is always blowing against us in our face. We must be in a tornado or something... Last week we were going to meet the Spanish elders to knock some doors with them and it took us 45! Minutes to rendezvous with them! Crazy wind. Too bad we are only getting STRONGER! Ha-ha. We just laugh because there is nothing else we can do about it.

Anyways, also this weekend was the Christmas Creche Festival! A huge celebration where all religions in the community come together to worship Christ. Everyone brings Nativity scenes to display them from all different religions and countries! It was so cool! I took some pictures of some way sweet and creative ones that I will have to send to you. We spent a lot of time up there answering any questions that people had as they walked around. Oh! And get this, they had some nativity scenes all the way from Chinese ones that use the heat from lit candles to operate the nativity scene to things as simple as white chocolate and Lego ones... and even HALO!!! Yeah, Halo. The coolest Nativity scene I have ever seen in my life.

So we visited with the Castillo's again this week (like usual) and we shared a message from the Ensign this time mix things up, nothing too special, but then she started crying! We helped her out and we then started talking about her baptism and how important it is and she is so excited! We then started to figure everything out like what songs ect. She wanted at her baptism. Then we asked her who she wanted to baptize her and we assumed it would be her husband, but then he said he couldn't... so she then she looked up at me and said" Will you baptize me?" and I just hit a brick wall and couldn't believe it! The spirit hit me so strong and of course I said yes and we were all excited! I am so happy to do this for Erin Castillo, she is so awesome I am thrilled and honored to perform such a sacred ordinance for someone I love. MISSIONS ARE THE BEST!

Love,

ELDER BRADY

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