Elder Preston Bruner

Merry Christmas! I hope you are all having a great Christmas today! Celebrate it well with the family and friends and all who are around you, and keep looking for small acts of service for those in need! If you do so, you'll feel a happiness unlike any other in this time of year! This week we've been sharing #LightTheWorld as much as we could! It's really a great way to show the world Christ's example, and help them to become more like the Savior! For a couple of the days, we delivered baskets of goods to people in need, and it was a great experience! It's great to see the smiles on people's faces as they receive a gift. Giving is one of the great ways to become more like the Savior! This week we also had our Christmas Lunch during a Multi-Zone conference. We had Angus Beef cheeseburgers (with lettuce!) and then cookies and icecream as some Christmas music played on speakers! It was a great day, and for a second I felt like it was snowing outside as we ...

Well, it's the week before Christmas! I hope you all are having a great time preparing for the festivities and fiestas and all the joy that comes from this time of year as we remember Jesus Christ! This week has been good! We had a baptism this week of Mayri! She was able to be baptized this past Saturday, and her mom and sister came as well! We had to wait a week for her confirmation, which will be this Sunday, but it's always great to see how someone accepts the gospel of Jesus Christ and applies it in their life and chooses to get baptized! I know that small decisions like that can make grand changes in our lives! We also had a special meeting with President and the elders this week to help with some of the common problems that an Elder might face on the mission. It was a great meeting! President really knows how to help everyone and do it in a good way too! Every meeting with him and his wife is great. On the way to that meeting, I saw a Little Ceasar's Piz...

Hope you all are having a great time preparing for Christmas! Only 14 days more until the day remembering the birth of Christ! I hope you all are already remembering and thinking of the Savior. This time of the year is so great. Sometimes we may get caught up in thinking of gifts and decorations, and that's not always a bad thing, but let's remember as well the real reason we have Christmas, which is to celebrate and remember that day when the Redeemer of us all was born. The Savior was a perfect example of service. He was born literally homeless. There was no inn that had room for Him. Even though that was the case, he served the poor in spirit and the poor temporally his whole life. I am glad that the Savior was born, because without Him, there would be no purpose to coming to earth. Without Him, none would be able to return to God's presence. But we know that He lives, and He loves us, and this is the perfect time to remember Him in all that we do. This week for me ...