Buddhist Temple

Our area is super spread out, so it always feels like we spend a lot of time in the car. We have been getting really tired of hymns lately (which is the only thing I've been able to listen to for an entire year. They get old after a while) so we have started listening to Christmas music. Is it a bit early? Well, no, actually it's not. Because Christmas music is great and Christ is important all the time!

We have been teaching Mary and she is doing great! She has a hard time understanding the scriptures when she reads them, so we showed her the children's Book of Mormon on the Gospel Library app. She started reading from that and she LOVES it!

Mike and Hong are doing great. Their church attendance has been more and more consistent, and this week in Gospel Principles class they both made comments and contributed to the discussion, which they have never done before! Then we had an AWESOME lesson with them. We asked them how they liked General Conference and they said they really enjoyed it (Mike watched almost every session, including the Priesthood session!) Apparently President Monson said something in regards to "hot drinks" and Mike ended up looking up what that meant and discovered the Word of Wisdom (which we had not taught them yet.) He asked us about it and we ended up teaching it to them as our lesson, and they committed to living it. It is amazing to see how they have progressed. Their faith has grown so much since I have met them. Little things that they both used to have problems with aren't issues any more. It just goes to show that the little things they have been doing, like praying and reading from the Book of Mormon, can make a huge difference. At the end we all knelt down and each of us said a prayer. It was so powerful!

Last Monday we went to see the Buddhist temple that is out in the mountains. Who knew there were so many random things to do in Tehachapi?

Here is our humongous zone:

Love you all! Have a great week!

Sister Daelemans