It's the Christmas Season! mormon.org/christmas :) (from November 19. 2012)

Dear family,
We've had a good building week. A bit of super happy news is that two of our recent converts went to the temple to do baptisms on Saturday!!!! They both loved it :) One of them, Fernando, also blessed the sacrament for the first time on Sunday :) He's progressing really well. We also got in contact with a couple of our recent converts (there's a lot :)) who we've been trying to meet with for a couple of weeks, so that was awesome.
Unfortunately, neither of our progressing investigators made it to church. Otherwise they are doing well. Diego stopped drinking coffee this week! and has felt better physically. We were able to sit down with Adriana AND her boyfriend! He asked us what we thought about them not being married, since Adriana had told him that she couldn't get baptized until they were married. He doesn't have much desire to get married right now, but it's a step that he asked and we were able to clear up that Adam and Eve were married. And she has been keeping the word of wisdom since she heard it. We are praying hard for her.
We have started to teach a referral from Fernando--Carlos. He's one of Fernando's best friends. We're excited to teach him. His biggest challenge will just be getting up the desire to act. As we taught about how we have a prophet today he said he wanted to look him up, so there's promise! and he is willing to read and pray.
We also have a couple of Christmas finding ideas that we are excited to try out. One is a new sub-page of Mormon.org which will be running from now to Dec. 26th. The other is a Living Christmas Card where we will sing some hymns and recite a few scriptures and give the person a christmas card written by their member friend. I can't wait to try it! It's Christmas caroling to the max! :)
We've got a lot of good things going and as we reach higher and trust deeper and talk to everyone we'll find those in our area who are ready. We're especially hoping to find more families. :)
I love you all so much! And I'm so grateful for my family--you all :)
Love,
Hna. Cottam