#31 - #LightTheWorld

This week was so great!!

Fresno fog is so real
[Her dad says this isn't fog]

Making candy cane pass along cards while watching the District

 Starting the first of December, this initiative to help people serve started, called #LightTheWorld. There was a young women in the english ward who was in charge of building a float for the Kingsburg parade and we helped her out with it. The pictures will probably explain it better than I can, but we tied a bunch of candy canes to light the world cards, we put up a fireplace and Christmas tree, and there's this beautiful picture of the nativity on the back. Then all the missionaries in our zone came up to be in the parade. It was really weird to actually sit on a float instead of marching, but I got some pictures with some of the youth in their band! It was so much fun though! We sang Christmas carols and passed out cards and it was the perfect way to start the Christmas season. And Kingsburg is our area so we're excited for all the referrals!

The Float

I'm with the band!

Afterwords we rushed over to the branch Christmas party - it was FANTASTIC! There were so many non members there. Even some of our investigators who we thought had sort of disappeared because we haven't been able to teach in a few weeks came. And they brought friends! The little kids did the nativity and at the end I got to lead them in singing "Mandó su Hijo" (He Sent His Son). What really made me smile was watching all the other missionaries interact with the people there. There are a few investigators whose husbands aren't very supportive who came, and I kept seeing the other elders laughing and having a great time with them. This district is seriously fantastic! 

Nativity at church party

Tonight there's a sisters' retreat at the mission home, and then all the sisters in our zone are going to spend the night and then go to the temple tomorrow. 

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Hope you all are doing well! I am so excited for this Christmas season. I know that God did send His Son to come and be an example, teach, perform miracles, sacrifice and live again, and I am so grateful for the opportunity to help share that light with people here. Go and #LightTheWorld as well! 

Love,

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Hermana Marin Fisher

California Fresno Mission

1814 N Echo

Fresno, CA 93704