Good Morning My beloved family and friends hope you have all been doing well and that you have been enjoying the Christmas season!
This week was a little but of a slower one so I'm just going to go by the day and go from there
Tuesday,
We had our District Council today with was pretty good, we've had a little bit of a change to the district because of emergency transfer and now we have 3 companionships not including us in the district and all of them are different, which is weird to have to get to know 3 new sectors in the middle of the transfer, but it's going well were doing well and seeing success. We also had some people over to fix our apartment. We no longer have to shower with a hose and we have hot water again, which is pretty nice. But other than that today we had to drop a few of the people we were teaching and hope that they will progress a little later.
Wednesday
Not too much happened today besides we were finally able to do a service project which was super fun, usually we aren't able to do service projects but this day we went to a school and cleared out one of the playgrounds for the younger kids. It was some good excercise and we definitely were able to grow closer as a zone. Besides that today's was mainly focused on finding and progressing new people so wasn't too eventful
Thursday
Today was a pretty awesome day because we were able to see our recent converts Ana y Felipe and we prepared them for the temple this Saturday. Just a week before this they got baptized and 2 days before this they got confirmed. Felipe got the Priesthood which was awesome and they already have the plan to go to the Temple with the ward this up coming Saturday. Basically their lives did a full 180 in about 2 weeks and I've loved seeing the progress and journey.
Friday
Today we had another service project which is even crazier cause now we had too big service projects in just a week so we're doing well. We were constructing benches today with liter basically, liter is a pretty big problem so what they were doing is stuffing juice and soda bottles with this liter then using them as supports for benches with concrete surrounding them. So had the job of finding, cutting, and clearing out rusty nails of their scrap wood for the guide to these bunches. It was pretty fun and we ended up getting a good reference from a member that was helping us. After that we had a few good lessons and then play soccer with Juan Camilo who will be confirmed this Sunday
Saturday
Today was another amazing day like all days, we were able to get into more houses but we also gave a lot of blessings to the Hermanas which was some good practice and nice and spiritual experience, then we had some lessons with friends and contacts with members. We ended the night of with a noche de hogar with some members and learned how to actually play Pokémon which was weird cause I just kinda though you collected the cards. But I might be addicted now we'll see 
Sunday
This was another amazing day, Juan camilo got confirmed and his mom came along to see. She ended up crying the entire sacrament meeting and a little bit in the classes so we are hoping that she recognized the spirit and will continue progressing so that Juan can baptize her in the future. Then we ended up heading off to La Calera to go sing in a mall which was super cool because Ana y Felipe showed up to support and so many people listened to the music. We also got to talk with Santa AKA el viejito pascuero and got some fire pics with him.
Over all this was a pretty awesome week and can't wait to see what the next one has in store. For a spiritual thought I want to talk about Christmas, we often think of Christmas as the gifts, the trees, decorations, and being with family. And all of these things are great, but we also need to remember that we are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. Because of that we should be looking for ways to give him a gift, to show him appreciation for what he did for us and to show him that we care. So the invitation is to go about your Christmas season with the thought of, "what would Jesus do" and then actually do it. Help someone who might not be having the best Christmas, give a gift to someone who might not receive one, look to serve God's children and as we do, we will show God and Jesus that we really appreciate them.
I love you all so much and hope you have a great week, let me know if I can help yall in any way always here for you! 
Elder Nelson (Hunter)
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