Cristiaaaannnn

Hola everyone! Hope you all had a great Halloween!

So I am officially a mom/trainer now! I got to meet my hija on Tuesday. She is Hermana Stone and she is perfect! She is from Washington State and she's 19 too and she goes to BYU too! We get along so great and we know we are gonna have a blast during our 12 weeks together.

Halloween is supposed to be pretty sketchy here, so all the missionaries in our mission were told to be in our apartments by 6pm on the 30th and the 31st. I loved it because we got a ton of time to just chill in our apartment and talk and feel like normal 19 year old girls for a while. It was awesome!

It's getting super cold here. Yesterday it was like 45 degrees all day. I've been trying to put off wearing heavy coats for as long as possible because I felt like wearing heavy coats was like admitting that it's actually winter. Last night I finally caved and wore my heavy winter coat because we are in a walking area and it was freezing!!! But we also know that it's gonna get much worse in the coming months... this California girl is gonna struggle! Pray that I don't get frostbite!

Also CRISTIAN WAS FINALLY BAPTIZED YESTERDAY!!! After working with him for about two months and a sad setback when he didn't show up to his own baptism last week, we just had to have faith that it would all work out... and it did! He texted us this week saying that he felt horrible for being too nervous and skipping his baptism. He said that no matter what he would be ready this time. When we got to church yesterday he was already there waiting for us. After church quite a bit of people showed up to his baptism which he didn't love because he's pretty shy and doesn't like getting a lot of attention. But all was well and the baptism went smoothly! He was baptized by our new Bishop, Obispo Ernest. When he came out of the water he put his hands together and did a cute little bow (he's really into yoga so that was totally the type of thing we would expect from him). Afterwards he was talking to me and thanking me for changing his life and telling me how what I gave him was priceless and I may or may not have teared up a bit (or a lot). He said that the only thing that would've made it better would be if Sister Galvan could have been there. It was really sad that she coudn't be there since she's in her new area now but I called her afterwards and told her all about it.

Happy November!

<3 Hermana Harris