Hey Mom! 

Yeah I am not too focused on my money although it is always nice to have hah like I thought we were actually going to get more money this week but turns out we didn't sooo we have nothing hah. But it was really great for me to be able to talk with everyone and being able to see you guys. The mission has been a blessing so far and some days are tough but recently I feel I have had such a spiritual boost to just share it with everyone. I'll tell a story at the end. 

I can not believe he (Michael Moon) is home! It seriously feels like just the other day we were all over playing that and wow now here I am 6 months in my mission. That's super awesome. I know that had to be such a blessing to have him (President Kendrick) as a mission president. 

 

Gosh I haven't had any normal meal like that in foreverrrr. Haha rice and beans with some sort of meat is basically it but it's super good honestly.

Christmas dinner was good! We had some special El Salvador soup and other stuff which was really good. That family actually ended up getting all of us ties also which was so nice of them. They love the missionaries so much. It's the M family is their name. We all sang and just had a good time. And yeah I got everything from their place. Oh! Lol so everyone loved the peanut butter balls and I still have more cause I don't want to eat them so quick but President R was wondering if he could get the recipe so his wife can make them lol. He loved them a lot. 

I love those quotes and especially about prayer. I definitely had a miracle happen. So that little girl that bit me finally got out of the hospital and so we went over the day for an appointment. They have lots of family here who are members from the Dominican Republic who are awesome ha so it has been fun but anyways. She started freaking again and literally talking about how she just wants to act for herself and won't do certain things and it's crazy. So she wouldn't get calm so they had her and tried to get her to pray and she started but just couldn't do it so they had me pray. I just felt something so strong come over me and had such faith I felt when I prayed. So I basically prayed just telling her to be calm and other things I don't remember too much but right after and during that she all of a sudden went completely calm and went upstairs and fell asleep. It was such a miracle to me and I just have a testimony of prayers and that God answers prayers but we just have to have the faith and believe he will. This was definitely a week of miracles. Another I would say was we were coming in and I just had a very strong feeling to go see this one family. Idk why but I was like we gotta go but Elder Park was saying it was too late but I was like look we need to go so he said alright if you are feeling that way we will go. So we did and basically helped their daughter's testimony grow because she did not want to meet with us anymore but now she does and also we found two new people that are interested. So just listen to prompting always. That is one thing I always think about with President Monson because he never does not listen ever. So that was great. Also the baptism went well with P! Also we are going to start working with L again. We are helping her move this week as well and we will see what happens. 

We (He and Elder Hillstead) are loving serving together and Christmas morning we walked to the store to get some juice for us and we were just talking about things and he was telling me how good my Spanish has gotten even though I'm like yours is better hah. He has a better accent for sure but it is cool to see how much we have grown from the MTC. We have an awesome district here for sure. Everything is going good and we are just going to continue to work hard! Well I appreciate all the presents, food and everything a lot! Just keep me updated on everything. I'll be up at the church today so I'll send pictures. Well I love you mom! And talk to ya soon! If ya have any questions just ask me. 

Love, 

Elder McArthur