¡Cena Navideña y casí el tiempo de Navidad!

Well, hello there!

This past week was pretty cool. We had a "Cena Navideña (Christmas Dinner)" this past Friday in Quito. We had the chance to receive vaccines for a sickness going around, listen to Elder Walter F. González (of the seventy), and put on skits for all there. We also recieved a gift of little Nativity figures from the Mission President. 

I also had the chance to listen to every talk by Elder Jeffrey R Holland this week. There's 52 (plus one my older brother sent me so 53) and it adds up to less than 30 hours. I expected to here a lot about the Atonement, but it was more about families and Mothers and Fathers and the fact that we can return to a state of love from any place. I wrote down the ones that stood out to me, and would like to share them (though all of them are awesome):

• Sanctify Yourself
• The Other Prodical (that ones really cool)
• "Within the Clasp of Your Arms" and "The Hands of Fathers"
• Look to God and Live
• Miracles of the Restoration
• Our Priesthood Legacy
• "Because She's a Mother" and "Behold Thy Mother" (both great and about mothers)
• "Personal Purity" and "Place No More for the Enemy in My Soul"
• The Tongue of Angels (another cool one)
• None were with Him (very powerful)
• Safety for the Soul
• Because of Your Faith
• We Are All Enlisted
• Laborers in the Vineyard (another very powerful and cool one)
• The First Great Commandment (Great as well)
• "Lord, I Believe"
• Like A Broken Vessel (about depression)
• Tomorrow the Lord Will Do Wonders Among You
• Be Ye Therefore Perfect-Eventually (makes me feel better)

(I plan to do the same with more of our leaders)

  

I feel good. I actually want  to pray my Heavenly Father. I love long prayers, and have tried to make each one different (as to not be boring ;p). Our investigators are progressing, even if it is slowly. Christmas seems to have slown progress a little, but it's still fun. My Spanish is good enough to converse, but there are those days when I'm less patient and feel like I can't speak it, hahaha.

  

I hope y'all's week is great!

  

¡Feliz Navidad y Prospero Año!
Élder Sharp

  

I forgot the stanza for the month of December last week, so:
"Hurrah for Israel! Six months have now passed!
In the service of Him who is both first and last!
I've grown so much;and though I'm a debtor,
I pray and strive every day to be better."