Christmas Time is Here!


Olá! It's Christmas (eve)!!!! 

I am so excited to Skype and talk to you all tomorrow! We will be calling around noon my time, I'm not actually 100% sure what the time change is. The family we are skyping from has two computers, so I might not call until 12:45 or so my time. I don't know what my Skype name is either, sorry. Oh and please have some questions if you can! I'm pretty good at talking, but I want to talk about things you want to hear about! I am so excited to see your faces!

The libraries are all closed today so i am emailing off my companions phone! There was some worry for a second because we couldn't figure out how to add my email, but we figured it out! I was thinking about you guys and Christmas Adam yesterday! How fun! Our Christmas service was awesome! We had some good musical numbers and wonderful talks and the spirit was one of love and excitement! Dwight is getting the priesthood next week too, and then we will be able to go do baptisms with him! We have shown him family history and he is so excited about it! He and Karen also took us out to lunch the other day and it was so nice! They got us gifts and Karen gave us hugs! It's incredible how the Lord can soften people's hearts.

We have some fun plans for Christmas! We are going to a really great family's house for dinner tonight and going to spend some time with a member who is alone for Christmas this year tonight. The members have been absolutely loading us up on cooking and candies! Our kitchen is full of sugury stuff! They take such good care of us. One of the members must have realized how much junk we were getting, because one of their kids ran up to us and handed us a veggie tray! We ate it up so fast! I am so excited to open up my presents! Thank you so much for them! Please tell the Midgleys thank you for me too! I don't have their email. They sent me some gifts as well. 😊 

I am going to see you all tomorrow, so I am not going to write more this week. I love you all!
🎄sister hardy

Pictures will come in a little bit, the internet is kinda slow. It will come with the whole email again too, so sorry.



Hi Dad!


Hi dad! Thanks for the pictures! I and so excited to talk to you all tomorrow! Tell Lizzie to keep it up with her reading! The book of Mormon is so great! I don't have much more to say since i will see you all tomorrow! But I hope you all still watch it's a wonderful life tonight! I love thinking of you all and all of our fun traditions! Tell the poops that they can fall asleep if they want, but they better sit down there with the family! Oh! One thing i kept forgetting to put in my emails! You would be so proud of me! I am not even in a foreign country yet and I have already been eating everything that is put in front of me! Stuff isMr really that crazy here, but I have had some not so great tasting food, and eaten spicy food and fish and coconut without complaint! It doesn't taste any better than it did before I came out, bit for some reason I haven't had too much trouble at all cleaning my plate! God really does take care of his missionaries! Not just with food though. The other night we were walking In a neighborhood and we saw a German shepard in a yard with a fence he could have easily jumped over. As we came near the fence he started parking like crazy and jumped at the fence. We were so scared he would jump over and attack us, he easily could have, and we were all nervous because a German shepherd had almost attacked us a few weeks ago too. But he didn't jump over. He followed us barking all the way past his yard, but he left us alone. The people we were going to visit told us that that dog was a particularly mean and dangerous dog and next time we came we should be sure to park somewhere we wouldn't have to walk past the dog. We were all so grateful that the dog had not jumped over the fence. It may be a small thing, but it felt like a miracle to us! I'm so glad I'm an obedient missionary! Ok, I will see you tomorrow! Love you!

Sister Hardy



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