Sis. Kemmerer and Sydney

 MMmmm! Pie!

 Those are slippers, Sis. K, not mittens. :)

 They are so soft!

 These are the other two sisters that share the apartment.

 No Sis. K, they aren't ballet slippers either!

 Sis. W was so surprised to see that someone had a left a Christmas tree on their doorstep!

 How nice!

Hi Everyone!

Sounds like you all had an awesome thanksgiving! well a whole week of it!  Sweet pictures you sent!  The Nat'l Guard jump thing looks super fun! Everyone looks awesome!  All the Aunts and Uncles!  I Like the beard, uncle scott!  And Aunt Louise Looks Great!  Okay, and Logan, Mitch, and Isaac have grown a ton already!  Y'all are gonna be huge when I get back, i dont even know if i'll recognize you!  That's okay though. :)  Man, I miss you boys.... write me letters when you can! :)  I'm happy school is going well for everyone!  Logan, 12 days of highschool left...  YOU CAN DUUUU IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT! ;) push through it all!

My week was pretty good! Crazy as usual!  Tuesday we had district meeting and b/c i was new the zone leaders told me to introduce myself.  We were talking before and there is a Samoan in my district. Get this.  He was born in American Samoa, lived there for 8 years then moved to Maryland. You'd think he'd know at least a BIT about his heritage... but no.  So b/c of this, the ZL told me to introduce myself in Samoan. And i did. it was hilarious. no one knew what i was saying, and the elder was rolling his eyes at the ZL b/c he knows everyone teases him about how i know more about his culture than he does. Kind of funny :)

Tuesday we were also surprised to find out that we were being handed another ward!  So now we are over the Stone Crest and the Montelena Ward.  No, they aren't 'near' each other. they are about 3 miles or so apart.  Sis. Kemmerer and I are what they call "white-washing" the ward.  basically it is just whenever both missionaries are new to the ward at the same time.  we are both figuring it out together.  The Montelena ward is great actually. and the reason we got this ward is b/c they did ward splits (meaning they realigned all of the boundaries of the wards in this stake) last week - our stake now has 11 wards! WHAT?  I'm sure there will be a stake split here within the next year.  Anyway the Montelena ward is definitely more wealthy than the StoneCrest ward, BUT both wards have their pros and cons.  Both Bishops are great, poor bishop alleman of the montelena ward. he was called a week ago to be bishop, and he starts a new job today! talk about a lot going on! oh and he has 6 kids ages 17-3! We told him if there was ANYTHING We could do to help to just give us a call. great man though!
 
THANKSGIVING.  i'm not gonna lie. it was probably THE MOST AWKWARD THANKSGIVING I'VE EVER HAD.  We had to proscelyte (spelling?) that day. so we sent out a sign up of members that wouldn't mind having us stop  by for a half hour or so b/c we didn't want to interupt their thx-giving. We had several stops throughout the day visiting various members of the ward.  Some had out-of-town, non-member families that we tried to talk with.  It was pretty awkward for us because we are both new to the mission field and new to this ward so we don't really know anyone.  Everyone was kind and let us in so that was good.  We did have a nice Thanksgiving dinner at noon that lasted for three hours! Talking, eating, talking, eating... you get the idea. Overall it wasn't a bad day, just different.

SO much happened this week i can't fit it all in with the time restraint.... so here is the highlight of sunday..... we had church form 9-3 then prepared our lesson for one of our investigators.  long story short... we get there last night. he has a ton of questions, we go in cirlces because he isn't understanding that he has to read the BOM and pray about it to know it is true, and then he can know that JS is a prophet... so we go in circles all night. THEN he asked sis kemmerer if she was married b/c of her CTR RING she said no. then he  asked me, i said no (no CTR ring) and during the lesson we caught him staring at me and wasnt listening when sis kemmerer was testifying to him!  (we had suspicions before but they were now confirmed.)  and when we left he gave both of us hugs!!! (Mayday mayday mayday!) we both tried to avoid it, but it was so awkward. WE get to the car and both freak out a bit. sis k said -He has a crush on you! i said, i know! then we tried to figure out what to do. in the long run we handed him off to the Zone Leaders.....! AH! what? how does that happen!? i was telling him to read the BOM and to pray! man, what a mess.... i'm glad you all don't have moments like this!


miracle for the week: Another of our investigators, Adam... we were thinking of dropping him because we didn't feel like the desire was there. he works a ton, and is hard to get a hold of.  BUT friday night we get a call from the lady (LessActive) he lives with - he calls her mom. she calls us and says that next friday we are going to see the xmas lights at the mesa temple and that he still wants to be baptized!!!!!! he needs time, but the desire is still there! woop woop!
 
so out of time.... :(

LOVE YOU ALL!!!!
-Sister Camilletti