Happy New Years Everyone!!! This week was absolutely fantastic and oh my lanta i can't wait to tell you all about it. Here are my Top 5 from this week.

1.NEW YEARS EVE: So basically the whole world parties on this night but when you are a missionary you have to go inside at 7. But you still wanna do something special so you make cinnamon rolls and hot chocolate...then you give up and go to bed at 8 and have the longest sleep you have had in 10 months. That was my night and it was perfect. 

2.NEW YEARS DAY: The first day of 2016 was spent at District Meeting. Where we ate food and then practiced a skit for our fun zone conference thing this Tues. and its gonna be fabulous and then we had dinner with a member and her two adult daughters (one lives with her and the other was in town for the holidays) they are half Chilean and half French so they are amazing and oh my lanta the food was delicious! Fist we had whole artichokes dipped in olive oil and lemon juice ( not a fan) and then we had this  chopped up chicken cordon bleu and fresh green beans and a Chilean potato salad. And peach upside down cake for dessert. Fantastic family and oh my lanta here is the crazy/best part about them.....ready for this....they have....no joke....46 CATS!! I am not even kidding they have 46 cats but only 25 of them are indoor cats and the rest are outdoor cats. I really want to find them 4 more cats so they can have 50! That has got to be some kind of record. Basically i made friends with all the cats and it was soooooo fun!!!!!

3.CLARION: So yesterday we decided to go tracting in a small town in our area called Clarion...Its actually not small...well it is but its bigger than Webster. Anyways we spent the afternoon there and we got to teach TWO lessons in Spanish!! Woot woot!! It was awesome!! Haven't taught in spanish in 3 weeks and boy did it feel good! My spanish has gotten sooo much better!! Yay!!! 

4.PAM: Ok so Pam is a member that is from Laos and she has two daughters that are the cutest things in the whole wide world!! One is 8 and we are teaching her the lessons so she can be baptized and the other is 2 and oh my lanta i just wanna squeeze her chubby cheeks and keep her forever she is sooooo cute!!! I can't stand it!! And Pam is the funnest person so be around. She is a blast and she makes the best food!!! We had dinner at the house last night and oh my lanta it was amazing!!! We had sticky rice ( i could eat buckets of that stuff) and steak strips that were spicy but perfect and had the most perfect flavor and oh my lanta we ate so much it was soooo gooood!!! I am legitimately in awe at how amazing her food is!!! I could go on forever!! Basically Lao food is the bomb!

5.INVESTIGATOR UPDATE: We have three main investigators that we are working with Rafael, Lizzy and Jose. They are all awesome but oh my lanta the holidays are the WORST for missionary work cause everyone is out of town and with family so missionary work kind of pauses. We just focus on the members more but now that the holidays are over (YAY!) we got to get right back into business and work our tails off and its awesome!!! WOOHOO!!! Yay for missionary work!!!! Stay tuned next week for even more investigator updates! 

Well ya'll that was my week! It was fantastic and i hope everyone else's was just as fantastic!! As always LOVE AND MISS YOU TONS!!!!!! xoxoxoxoxo Hermana RIce