catch up time!!!!!!

Nov. 29

Hi family!

Okay so this week was great!  Last night was Ambassador night at the visitor center.  That means a bunch of important people come, such as Ambassadors, and have a program and they turn on the lights.  Elder Nelson was also there.  As missionaries we were not allowed to approach anyone, but if they asked us questions we were to answer them as information, no inviting.  I really liked Elder Nelson's talk.  It was good to feel the spirit with him and cool to see how he tied the Book of Mormon and modern day revelation into all of it.  

Well, I love you all and have a great week!

Love, Sister Wankier

Nov. 22

Happy Thanksgiving!  Yesterday us missionaries got to do a service project with a bunch of organizations in the DC area to feed the homeless.  It was super fun.  The people were all so nice and grateful.  For Thanksgiving we get to go to a member's property and have a big Thanksgiving dinner with games and a talent show.  Then later there will be dessert at the member's home.  It's going to be fantastic!  We're all getting ready for Christmas time.  We had a meeting this morning about Festival and how we'll be super busy and it will be super fun.

We just got five new sisters yesterday.  They're great and I'm excited to get to know them.  From now on we're going to be getting more and more sisters.  It's an exciting time!  We had transfers, but I'm still in Kentlands with Sister Welch, so it'll be fun!

Thanks for writing!  I love you all, have a happy Thanksgiving and eat lots of food and have lots of fun.  Love you so much!  Love, Sister Wankier

Nov. 15

Dear Family,
This has been a great week.  Kentlands is very ritzy and I love it all!!  The people here are so great.  I really love Kentlands!  Our investigators are doing good.  We're getting all ready for Christmas.  December is almost here and it's the most exciting time of the year!  The temple exhibit and 'I'm a Mormon' exhibit are both finished at the Visitor Center and it looks fantastic!  We've got some Christmas trees up and more to be decorated and put up.  There is an exhibit for Christmas that is being put up that is Nativities from all over the world.  It's so good!
Well, family, I love you.  The church is true!



Hi everyone!  Everything is going good.  We have been teaching a lady and her son and daughter.  We taught them the restoration.  Then the next time we taught them the plan of salvation and we asked if they would be baptized and they said yes!  Another lady we were teaching came to church for the first time a couple weeks ago and no one fellow shipped her so she said she didn't see any point of meeting with us anymore.  Later we got a call from the senior couple in our area.  They said that she went to the Sacred Grove and prayed.  Apparently she had a good experience because after that she went and talked to a missionary that was there.  They talked for a long time and then she called the senior couple and told them that she wants to come back to church.  So that's awesome!

We actually had our first real snow today.  I don't think it will stay for very long, but on the other hand it's only about 27 degrees.
Love, Philip